Here’s That Rainy Day

The words

Someone who once laughed off talk of hard times finds that the hard times have finally arrived.

The singer looks back at a carefree past when love seemed endless and any thought of trouble could be brushed aside, then admits that the day he never planned for has come. It is a sorrowful ballad about the cost of not saving anything for later, emotionally speaking. Dylan's slow, rueful reading suits a song about hindsight, and his band keeps the arrangement grey and still.

Words by Johnny Burke