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Nolan Randall playing the guitar solo and riff of "No Rain” by Blind Melon from their 1992 self-titled debut album for Capitol Records.

Words and music by Shannon Hoon, Rogers Stevens, Christopher Thorn, Brad Smith, and Glen Graham

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
I like watchin' the puddles gather rain
And all I can do is just pour some tea for two
And speak my point of view
But it's not sane,
It's not sane

I just want someone to say to me,
"I'll always be there when you wake"
You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today
So stay with me and I'll have it made (I'll have it made)

And I don't understand why I sleep all day
And I start to complain that there's no rain
And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape
Escape... escape... escape...

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
You don't like my point of view
You think that I'm insane
It's not sane... it's not sane

I just want someone to say to me (no oh oh oh)
"I'll always be there when you wake"
(Y-yeah, yeah)
You know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today
So stay with me and I'll have it made

(I'll have it made)
Oh and I'll have it made
(I'll have it made)
And I'll have it made
(I'll have it made)
Oh, lord oh no no
You know I'm really
I'm-a really gonna have it made
(I'll have it made)
Yeah, you know I'll have it made
(I'll have it made)
Oh oh oh oh
(I'll have it made)
Oh oh oh oh
(I'll have it made)
Oh oh oh oh
(I'll have it made)
Oh oh oh oh, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

*Song Facts*

"No Rain" is a song by American rock band Blind Melon. It was released in 1993 as the second single from the band's debut album Blind Melon. The song is well known for its accompanying music video, which features the "Bee Girl" character. The music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, received heavy airplay on MTV at the time of its release. It subsequently helped propel Blind Melon to multi-platinum level.

The tune is the band's highest-charting song, reaching number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on both the Billboard Album Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts. It proved to be successful internationally, peaking at number one in Canada and number eight in Australia.

"No Rain" is in the key of E Mixolydian, and has a moderately fast tempo.

Although the song is credited to the whole band, bassist Brad Smith wrote most of "No Rain". He said: "The song is about not being able to get out of bed and find excuses to face the day when you have really, in a way, nothing." At the time, Smith had been dating a depressed woman who slept through sunny days and complained when it did not rain. For a while, he told himself that he was writing the song from her perspective, and later realized that he was also writing it about himself.

The music video for "No Rain" was directed by Samuel Bayer and stars Heather DeLoach as the "Bee Girl". A young tap dancer wearing a homemade bee costume and large glasses, modeled after the Blind Melon album cover. Which is a family picture of Georgia Graham, younger sister of drummer Glen Graham. The Bee Girl's story is intercut with footage of Blind Melon performing in a field against a clear blue sky.

It opens on the girl's tap routine; the audience responds with mocking laughter, and the girl runs off-stage in tears. As the song plays, she wanders through Los Angeles, stopping to perform her dance for whoever will watch, but she still feels alone. Ultimately, at the point in the song where the word "escape" is repeated, she peeks through a gate, which elicits a look of astonishment on her face, then runs through it to join a group of "bee people" just like her, dancing joyfully in a green field.

As a result of the "No Rain" video, DeLoach appeared on the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards doing her "Bee Girl" dance to close the show, and also appeared as the "Bee Girl" in the video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Bedrock Anthem".

The director of the "No Rain" music video Samuel Bayer also directed the impactful music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana in 1991.

Blind Melon didn't always appreciate "No Rain". When they opened some shows for The Rolling Stones in 1994, they left it off of their setlist. Their tour manager, Paul Cummings, explained: "They had become one of those bands that hate their hit - at least at that point. I couldn't understand it, but it's not my call. That probably would have been the only song that crowd would have recognized."

Pearl Jam has a song called "Bee Girl" that they first performed in 1994. With lyrics like, "Bee girl, you're gonna die. You don't wanna be famous, you wanna be shy," the track was seen as a very accurate warning to Shannon Hoon that he was on a path of destruction. The song can be found on their Lost Dogs rarities album.

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