Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson
The source of inspiration for the song, like many other works by Bruce, is William Blake. The music video begins with his stanzas from “Auguries of Innocence”:
The prince’s robes and beggar’s rags,
Are toadstools on the miser’s bags.
A truth that’s told with bad intent,
Beats all the lies you can i...
[Verse 1]
In a country churchyard, I came across a man
He smiled and slowly beckoned me with a trembling hand
Did you come to gamble or did you come to pray?
What's the meaning of your business here on a stormy day?
The raindrops spattered on the tomb from grey and leaden skies
Deny me once, deny me twice, don't look in my eyes
[Chorus]
There is rain on the graves
There is rain on the graves
There is rain on the gravеs
It's just rain, rain, rain
There is rain on the gravеs
But you came to be saved
There is rain on the graves
Let it wash your soul of dying
[Verse 2]
Faithless, he denied the truth that he had come to steal
To kneel before the poet, not the altar or the priest
He's washed himself in misery before he came to pray
He'd hoped in his false penitence, some sympathy he'd sway
[Chorus]
There is rain on the graves
There is rain on the graves
There is rain on the graves
It's just rain, rain, rain
There is rain on the graves
But you came to be saved
There is rain on the graves
It's just rain, rain, rain
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
I am the God of sinners, you are what I have made
You're talking to your likeness and my shadow is your shade
Stand up and face the mirror, it's the image that you crave
But I'll be here when you're long gone, I'll see you in that grave
[Chorus]
There is rain on the graves
There is rain on the graves
There is rain on the graves
It's just rain, rain, rain
There is rain on the graves
Rain on the graves
There is rain on the graves
Rain, rain, rain, rain
Rain on the graves
Rain on the Graves was written by Bruce Dickinson & Steve Harris.
Rain on the Graves was produced by Roy Z.
Bruce Dickinson released Rain on the Graves on Wed Jan 24 2024.
The title is a phrase I’d written down 10 years before I actually wrote the song. I was in a part of England called the Lake District, a very beautiful area that lots of poets and artists lived in. William Wordsworth had a cottage there and wrote a lot of his best poetry there. He’s buried in the lo...