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Rise

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When You're With Me

'RISHI’S RAIN’ 

is the first pop song in history to mix
social commentary and protest with ongoing efforts re:
the environment and specifically ‘climate change’.

Over an insistent Lennon-esque beat TOT TAYLOR relates how time is running out 
as our planet becomes physically hotter with each passing year. 
The phenomenon is becoming known (in the UK) as RISHI’S RAIN

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RISHI'S RAIN (Tot Taylor)

I was walking along on a Freedom March 
When another Freedom March marched into my Freedom March
It seemed to me extraordinarily hot for May ...

My whole raison d’être took a bit of a turn
The temperature soared and the sky began to burn
It was “really not of interest” to the government of the day

OH-OH-OH
OH-OH-OH
All because of RISHI’S RAIN
OH-OH-OH
OH-OH-OH
It’s all because of RISHI’S RAIN
(I’ll say it again…)

Well, there were ‘plenty of bees’ in plenty of trees 
But that was long ago in the “swinging sixties”
The pendulum has swung the other way

So there’s nothing to do’s
Cos there’s nothing to lose 
The whole hooman race turned the birdsong to the blues
Finding it hard to find the words to say ...

OH-OH-OH
OH-OH-OH
All because of RISHI’S RAIN
OH-OH-OH
OH-OH-OH
It’s all because of RISHI’S RAIN

It’s raining so hard I can’t think!
I’m in over my head over the sink!
Let me vomit again
And I’ll say it plain
It’s all because RISHI 
(All because of RISHI) 
All because of Rishi’s Radiation …
All because of 
‘Rishi’s Rain’…


In Rishi’s world - where “ ‘Climate Change’ is “good” 
We’re not doing the things that we should 
The days pass by
Still the ink isn’t dry
It’s all because of 
Rishi’s … (all becasue of Rishi’s…)

It seems I’ve out-welcomed my stay
With a song they don’t want me to play
Well … I’m all outta luck
(I’m as) dead as a duck
But I don’t give a XXXX
All because of ‘Rishi’s Rain’…

(If) We don’t follow thru on the that things we do
All because of ‘Rishi’s Rain’

I Let the cat out the bag there ….

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Words & Music by Tot Taylor
Published by Songmatic Music
PRS / MCPS

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