Once upon a time in the land
Of misty satin dreams
There stood a house and a man
Who painted nature scenes
He painted trees and fields and
Animals and streams and he stayed
And he didn't hear
The fallin' of the rain
Ah-ah
No, he didn't hear
The falling of the rain
In the forest green lived a girl
Who put her hair in braids
And she sang as she walked all
About the wooded glades
She was glad when the rain came
Falling on her face and she sang
'Cause she did not mind
The fallin' of the rain
Ah-ah
No, she didn't mind
The falling of the rain
Will it always be the
Same as we recall
Does it touch you when
The rain begins to fall
Ah, but I don't want to know
And I don't want to see
Another rainy day without
You lying next to me
High upon a hill far away
From all the dusty crowd
Is a boy with his eyes on the
Ground, his head is bowed
He is a fool and his mind is filled
With hopeless dreams and he waits
But he will not see
The fallin' of the rain
Ah-ah
No, he will not see
The falling of the rain
Will it always be the
Same as we recall
Does it touch you when
The rain begins to fall
Ah, but I don't want to know
And I don't want to see
Another rainy day without
You lying next to me
So now the boy becomes the man
Who sits and paints all day
But the girl with the braids
In her hair has gone away
And it seems that time has brought
Things to an end, nothing's changed
'Cause you can't stop
The falling of the rain
Ah-ah
No, you can't stop
The falling of the rain