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Old 03-03-2006, 07:45 AM   #1
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The song on COLD ON THE SHOULDER, "The Soul is the Rock" has the line "big rain coming, big rain coming this way". I like it but I'm not SURE what it means. A soul cleansing?
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Old 03-03-2006, 07:45 AM   #2
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The song on COLD ON THE SHOULDER, "The Soul is the Rock" has the line "big rain coming, big rain coming this way". I like it but I'm not SURE what it means. A soul cleansing?
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Old 03-03-2006, 10:41 AM   #3
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Something like that. I think you have to look at it in Biblical terms of the Great Flood (cleansing of humanity's sins), and Dylan's "It's a Hard Rain Gonna Fall".
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DQ,that's what I thought, too.
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Old 03-04-2006, 06:24 PM   #5
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It just means a big change is on it's way. "Rain on the rock" is a metaphor for washing away the past or maybe even the now irrelevant.

Sort of like how Bob Dylan said,"It's A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall!"
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