Sweet Sunshower by Chris Cornell – this is a great song. Or we think it is, anyway, which is all that counts really…after all, this is our blog!
Sweet Sunshower came to us from the album Euphoria Morning, which Cornell recorded with songwriter Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider (of the band Eleven) in 1999. It was his first solo album, his only work between Soundgarden and Audioslave, and was originally supposed to be called Euphoria Mourning, but a typo screwed it up.
Take a listen.
Sweet Sunshower Lyrics
Dark as roses, fine as sand
Feel your healing and your sting again
I hear you laughing and my soul is saved
On forgotten graves you cry
Crawl like ivy up my spine
Through my nerves and into my eyes
Cuts like anguish
Or recollections of better days gone by
But its all right
When you’re caught in pain
And you feel the rain come down
Its all right
When you find your way
Then you see it disappear
Its all right
Though your gardens grey
I know all your graces
Someday will flower
In the sweet sunshower
Eyes like oceans so far away
A feather trail to a better way
Worried mornings turn into days
Then into worried nights
But its all right
When you’re all in pain
And you feel the rain come down
Oh its all right
When you find your way
Then you see it disappear
Oh its all right
Though your gardens gray
I know all your graces
Someday will flower
Oh in the sweet sunshower
Oh in the sweet sunshower
In the sweet sunshower
I know all your graces
Someday will flower
In the sweet sunshower
And its all right
All you’ll be you are today
Are today
Its all right
All you’ll be you are today
Are today…
Hear Cornell talk about Euphoria Morning right here himself .
Here’s a live version, if you’re interested.
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He meant so much to so many. He will be missed.
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