Songs for a Rainy Day

It's been raining a lot lately.  It makes me want to make a playlist.  My rain songs are not necessarily about rain; they just sound like rain, but different varieties of rain.  For instance,

• Warm summer rain at sunset:  Slow and Steady by Of Monsters and Men
• Heavy drops that create steamy city streets:  Navy Taxi by Kate Nash
• Drizzle outside your bedroom window after a long day:  Wise Up by Aimee Mann
• A light shower that escalates into a torrential downpour for a beautiful moment:  Keep Breathing by Ingrid Michaelson
• Thunderstorm with intermittent hail:  Apres Moi by Regina Spektor
• Furiously sharp drops racing to the ground as if on horseback:  John the Determinist by Jeremy Messersmith*

Clearly I underscore my life entirely too much.  Or clearly it rains too much.  Or both.

But one more--when it's all over finally:  "Somewhere over the Rainbow" (tie between Harry Nilsson and Ray Charles/Johnny Mathis)



*Also the only track that doesn't use piano.