Here Comes the Flood

After my last post I got thinking about great “rain” songs either metaphorical or literal.  On the literal side there are gems such as Willie Brown’s “Mississippi Blues” and Doc Watson’s “Deep River Blues”.  The great metaphorical songs are fixed in my mind as Jackson Browne’s “Before the Deluge” – especially as it was interpreted by Moving Hearts – and then there is this one: Peter Gabriel’s “Here Comes the Flood”