You'll never walk alone

I can see clearly now

After the driest spring on record, it is time for the clouds to gather, 

For the sky to draw up water from the sea.  For the light to fade, and the temperature to drop.

The land needs refreshment,

Let's just say that after years of metaphorical drought, a little rain isn't going to hurt.

No matter how dark the skies become.... 

It is only temporary. It is only passing clouds.....

And here it comes....

I raise my eyes to the sky, wondering if I will be soaked,

And find that I don't really care.

Indeed, it is welcome.  Life had become parched, and had withered like the plants in the dry fields.  

So when the sky lightens and the clouds begin to break up, I can see clearly....

And, like the symbols they have become, scarlet poppies wave across the resting fields,

Ox-eye daisies open up to face  the sun,

Under blue, sunny skies,

And I feel like singing (to myself.....)

Walk on through the wind

Walk on through the rain

For your dreams be tossed and blown

Walk on, walk on

With hope in your heart

And you'll never walk alone

You'll never walk alone

Richard Rodgers and 

Oscar Hammerstein II

I think I can make it now the pain is gone

All of the bad feelings have disappeared

Here is that rainbow I've been praying for

It's gonna be a bright (Bright), bright sun shiny day

I can see clearly now; the rain is gone

I can see all obstacles in my way

Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind

It's gonna be a bright, bright sun shiny day

It's gonna be a bright, bright sun shiny day

Johnny Nash

I Can See Clearly Now

What A Wonderful World.....

And I think to myself.....

I see trees of green

Red roses too

I see them bloom

For me and you

Yes, the human beans are back in the field.... And all is rosy. Nothing could be finer (than to be in a care home diner....)

All this lock-in/up/down we have been yearning for the things we missed. And now, perhaps, we can see clearer. Yes we....

 can see clearly now the rain is gone

I can see all obstacles in my way

Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind

It's gonna be a bright (bright)

Bright (bright) sunshiny day

It's gonna be a bright (bright)

Bright (bright) sunshiny day

Johnny Nash

It's a glorious morning....

And it's so good to bee

A live....

[Comma]

Even in the dark woods

Where the nettles blow

And old chestnuts die

Who would be a Red Admiral?

Or a Marbled White?

A Small Skipper?

A gatekeeper?

Or even a Large White?

[Size isn't everything....]

It's too much to swallow....

But it's better by far,

than being in a car.....

Or in some fairy shanty town....

Please don't be a teasel....

Give us a rye smile....

And move over darling.....

The colors of the rainbow

So pretty in the sky

Are also on the faces

Of people going by

I see friends shaking hands

Saying, "How do you do?"

They're really saying

"I love you"

Yes, I think to myself

What a wonderful world

Oh yeah

[Written by Bob Thiele and George Weiss]

Oh, yes I can make it now the pain is gone

All of the bad feelings have disappeared

Here is that rainbow I've been praying for

It's gonna be a bright (bright)

Bright (bright) sunshiny day

Look all around, there's nothing but blue skies

Look straight ahead, there's nothing but blue skies

Johnny Nash

Oh Yeah!

Thanks Louis!

I remember, in 1971, I was on a train, and I saw a discarded newspaper with the headline Louis Armstrong dies.  It was 1971.  I was 20, you were 71, and no more.....  

It was a wonderful world