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Lyrics: No Rain

Recorded at: London Bridge Studio, Seattle (Feb - June 1992)
Released as a single on June 12, 1993
Highest Billboard Pop Singles Chart Position: #20 
Highest Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart Position: #1
Highest Billboard Modern Rock Chart Position: #1

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
I like watchin’ the puddles gather rain
And all I can do is just pour some tea for two
and speak my point of view
But it’s not sane, It’s not sane
I just want some one to say to me
I’ll always be there when you wake
Ya know I’d like to keep my cheeks dry today
So stay with me and I’ll have it made
And I don’t understand why I sleep all day
And I start to complain that there’s no rain
And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
It rips my life away, but it’s a great escape
escape, escape
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
ya don’t like my point of view
ya think I’m insane
Its not sane, it’s not sane
I just want someone to say to me
I’ll always be there when you wake
Ya know I’d like to keep my cheeks dry today
so stay with me and I’ll have it made

"None of us think it's the best song on the album, it was just one of the songs I had on a cassette somewhere...It's out lightest song, but it's like our mascot song!..."
        "I think it's like, the big field has been plowed and we're going to plan our seeds for real now."
Brad Smith (Circus Magazine Nov 1993)

 Brad Smith had written this song about his codependency with a messed up ex-girlfriend.
“She had a hard time with depression,” he explains. “I was telling myself that I was writing it about her: how fucked up she could be, but how intelligent she was and why she was so unhappy and how much she needed me to be happy. And I realized I was writing it about myself at the same time. I needed her just as much.” He called the song 'No Rain' because “she would sleep even when it was sunny outside and she’d complain that there wouldn’t be any rain, because that would give her an excuse to stay in.” It’s strange for Brad that people think it’s about “this cute Bee Girl being accepted.” Although, he says, that’s not the worst. Some people think they wrote it for the flood victims!
Brad Smith (Details Magazine Nov 1993)

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