What good is that happy lie All you wanted from the start was to cry girl It looks like another fall Your friends don't seem to help at all When you're feeling kind of cold and small Call on your rainy day man It does you no good to pretend girl You've made a hole that's much too big to mend And it looks like you lose again, my friend So call on your rainy day man Now rainy day man he don't like sunshine He don't chase rainbows He don't need good times Grey days rolling Then you'll see him Empty feeling Now you need him All those noble thoughts don't belong You can't hide the truth with a happy song And you knew where you stood all along Call on your rainy day man Now simple pleasures they all evade you Store-bought treasures none can save you Ask for signs to ease the pain Ask again Go on and pray for rain It looks like another fall Your friends don't seem to help at all When you're feeling kind of cold and small Call on your rainy day man From Tom Rush Columbia Records