Sometimes Blue

Wichita Rain
Richard Bicknell, Mike Schulman
© 1993 exocet music/ASCAP

Her mama pushed her
In a wheelbarrow
Ten miles in the pouring rain
The paper said she looked
Like a drowned sparrow
And they came
And took her mama away
Shuffled through
Phony porno foster homes
Baby got in a family way
Thirteen years old
With nothing in her soul
But meanness and the rain
The Wichita rain

Now baby had the baby
And she called her Sadie
Sadie was a haunted child
She had a faraway stare
Sister Ruby declared
That family's always been wild
You could find Sadie
Down by the railroad tracks
Screaming at the trains
It sounds like thunder
And burns like lightning
Cracking through the rain
The Wichita rain

Oh, and can't you feel
The weather change
Oh, keep your eyes
On the weathervane
And you could find Sadie
Down by the railroad tracks
Screaming at the trains
And it sounds like thunder
And burns like lightning
Cracking through the rain
The Wichita rain

I've heard about a singer
Who's pulling on a trigger
Shooting bullets up the charts
And I've heard about a killer
Left a trail through Amarillo
Ripping out human hearts
There's a thunderhead
Up ahead
Someone said
As the trees begin to bend
And the wind it blows
It blows it knows
There's a meanness in the rain
The Wichita rain