can someone help me out?

CCRfan · 10-17-2004, 12:47 AM

I am working on a paper and I have to find the meaning of "Have you ever seen the rain" by ccr..I thought it would be easy to figure out but I was wrong...does anyone have suggestions of where I can go to find it out or even better does anyone know the story of the song?

CCRfan · 10-17-2004, 01:17 AM

thanx but I have tried it....I've type in meaning of the song and all that and nothing is showing up

chiron · 10-17-2004, 01:17 AM

Homework.Messageboard.No.

CCRfan · 10-17-2004, 01:19 AM

I just wanted help with this cuz I don't know where to even start looking

Satchmo8101 · 10-17-2004, 02:10 AM

I don't even help my own kids with their homework, but I will give obscure hints.

There is the original meaning of the song and than there is the secondary meaning.

Satchmo8101 · 10-17-2004, 11:08 PM

Was I too obscure for you? I did let you know that there was two meanings. The first and original meaning has been forgotten by most people. Even back when it was released, it quickly came to represent the second meaning.

Ok, another couple hints.

1. Tom Fogerty

2. In Country

Black Dog · 10-17-2004, 11:21 PM

Wait wait wait, is this assignment your choosing? Because I have never heard of a teacher assigning anything like that

NewDawnFades · 10-17-2004, 11:26 PM

Here's a link talking about the song, check it out:

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=1920

Ophelia · 10-18-2004, 01:21 AM

From the allmusic.com website:

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Song Review by Mark Deming
Images of water were a common recurring theme in John Fogerty's songwriting, which held a variety of symbolic meanings, and he often returned to the notion of rain as a portent of troubling events to come. One such example was "Have You Ever Seen the Rain," which first appeared on the group's 1970 album Pendulum, though in this case the rain seemed to represent an unpleasant reality that lurked beneath the surfaces of our lives and our world. "Someone told me long ago/There's a calm before the storm/I know — it's been coming for some time," Fogerty sings with a passion that's cut with sadness, though when he reaches the chorus and asks "I wanna know — have you ever seen the rain/Comin' down on a sunny day?" it's obvious that the rain is always there, but that not all of us choose to see it. In 1970, a time when the giddy possibilities of political and social change of the late '60s had been put in check by the sobering realities of Altamont and Kent State and both rock & roll and the youth culture at large were beginning to move away from idealism and into the self-centered decadence of the '70s, Fogerty was one of the few songwriters grounded enough to suggest the issues had not gone away, but that we had lost the courage and the vision to face up to them. John Fogerty didn't write explicitly about politics often, but when he chose to do so, he spoke with the voice of a working-class populist whose idealism never subsumed his grasp of reality, and if "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" carries its message subtly, it also does so with clarity and a concision that's a testament to Fogerty's remarkable craft (the song manages to conjure up a world of dread and fear in a mere two and a half minutes). The performance on Pendulum is just as subtle and effective as the song itself, centered around the ringing chords of Fogerty's guitar, the firm sonic punctuations of a piano, and sustained organ chords that were the musical equivalent of the clouds looming on the horizon. In 1985, another California band who never lost sight of their working-class roots and their commitment to the politics of the common people, the Minutemen, covered the song on what would be their final album, Three Way Tie (For Last), and if D. Boon's vocal was a shade less commanding than John Fogerty's, it also served as a heartfelt tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival's vision from another band, who, for all their differences, certainly shared their less-is-more philosophy and firm ethical compass.

Satchmo8101 · 10-18-2004, 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Ophelia

From the allmusic.com website: