It's funny. I recognized the song with the very first few notes and then was surprised to hear voices I didn't know. It is a great and beautiful cover. Almost sounds as it was meant to be.
I hear the drizzle of the rain Like a memory it falls Soft and warm Continually Tapping on my roof in the morn And from the shelter of my mind Through the window of my eyes I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets To England where my heart lies My mind's distracted and diffused My thoughts are many miles away They lie with you when you're asleep And kiss you when you start the day And the song I was writing was left undone I don't know why I spend my time Writing songs I can't believe With words that tear and strain your mind And so you see I've come to doubt All that I once held as true I stand alone without beliefs The only truth I know is you And as I watch the drops of rain Leave their weary pats and die I know that I am like the rain There but for grace of you go I
17/04/2024: "And now it dawns. Drearily light oozes down over this damp jail." to look, fearlessly, through the rain's gaping sluices and to step through, hands in pockets, with a grin wide as the horizon "For within one of these bill-shouting houses, happiness awaits you, happiness, if you can only gulp down your impatience- and here there is sleeping a buxom young girl with one ear lost in her hair; she will come to encounter you some fine day on the street, like a wave of fragrance, looking as though she knew you."