Shane Theriot

This little ditty is called "Raining in the Desert" - The idea for this song actually started taking shape years ago, as some songs tend to do.

I remember being on tour and riding through the desert somewhere looking out of the window and wondering what it would be like if it just suddenly started raining. Hmm... sure would have been a strange contrast to what I was seeing at the time with the all the cactus and sandy terrain.

Bam. Song idea. Only took me about 15 years to do something with it!

Yes it's about raining in the desert "the cactus plants are smiling and the ground begins to smile...." but it's actually a metaphor about hope and how a troubled inner city youth finds solace in the rain. 

It's Raining in the Desert (by Shane Theriot)

Walk fast won't last

Hot sand between my toes

I've walked so far way past

where anybody goes

Gotta find my way

In this barren desert land

I could use a friend or two

A friendly helping hand

But hope is

pouring down on me

CHORUS

It's raining in the desert

If only for a while

the cactus plants are laughing

and the ground begins to smile

this whole thing may be a dream

but I don't care if it's make believe

it's raining in the desert

if only for a while

VERSE 2

Like a blues song

I ain't got no shoes on

Livin in this messed up war zone

talking bout  -Big Easy

Voodoo town-

all the bad boys hanging round

But hope is pouring down on me

CHORUS 2

It's raining in the desert

If only for a while

the cactus plants are laughing

and the ground begins to smile

I'm the only sane one left

Been walking all these miles

it's raining in the desert

if only for a while

BRIDGE

ooh rain

make it rain

SOLO

REPEAT CHORUS

Shane Theriot- all Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum programming, percussion, Effects

Mixed by Jack Miele at Dirty Power Studios, New Orleans, LA