Background
Adam Duritz said, about this song: "I read this book in college when I was at Berkeley called ''Henderson, the Rain King''. And the main character in the book was kind of this big, open-wound of a person, Eugene Henderson, he just sort of bled all over everyone around him. For better or for worse, full of joy, full of sorrow, he just made a mess of everything. And when I wrote the song years later, it didn't really have anything to do with the book except the book had kind of become a totem for how I felt about creativity and writing–that it was just this thing where you just took everything inside of you and just sort of unny noisesprayed it all over everything, and not to worry too much about it. You try and craft it but not to be self-conscious about it, in any case. And, it's sort of a song about everything that goes into writing, all the feelings, everything that makes you want to write, makes you want to maybe pick up a guitar and do it, and express yourself because it's full of all the doubts and the fears about how I felt about my life at that time. And also the feeling that I really deserved something better than what I had accomplished up to that point. I think it *is* sort of a religious song about the sort of undefinable thing inside you or out there somewhere that makes you write, makes you create, makes you do any kind of art form, you know? And makes me the rain king, sort of."Track listing
# "Rain King" – 4:16 # "Anna Begins" (BBC Radio 1 Session 6 Apr 1994) – 5:30 # "Round Here" (BBC Radio 1 Session 6 Apr 1994) – 6:14Charts
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{{Authority control 1993 songs 1994 singles Counting Crows songs Song recordings produced by T Bone Burnett Songs written by Adam Duritz Songs written by Charlie Gillingham Songs written by David Bryson