Something In The Rain Lyrics - Singles - Tish Hinojosa

Mom and Dad have worked the fields 

I don't know how many years 

I'm just a boy but I know how 

And go to school when work is slow 

We have seen our country's roads 

Bakersfield to Illinois 

And when troubles come our way 

Oh yeah, I've seen my daddy pray 

There's something wrong with little sister 

I hear her crying by my side 

Mama's shaking as she holds her 

We try to hold her through the night 

And Mom says, ?Close you eyes, mijito 

Dream of someplace far from here 

Like the pictures in your schoolbooks 

Someday you can take us there? 

There must be something in the rain 

I'm not sure just what that means 

Abuelita talks of sins of man 

Of dust that's in our hands 

There must be something in the rain 

Well, what else could cause this pain 

Those airplanes cure the plants so things can grow 

Oh no, it must be something in the rain 

Little sister's gone away 

Mama's working long again 

And me, I think I understand 

About our life, about our land 

Well, talkers talk and dreamers dream 

I will find a place between 

I'm afraid but I believe 

That we can change these hurting fields 

'Cause there's something in the rain 

But there's more here in our hands 

'Buelita's right about the sins of man 

Who's profits rape the land 

And the rains are pouring down 

From the growers to the towns 

And until we break the killing chains 

There's something in the rain