Save It for a Rainy Day :: The Jayhawks

It was probably 2004 when I first became acquainted with the Jayhawks. It was in the summer of my year with the Lutheran Volunteer Corps, and my housemates and I were looking for something cheap to do one hot, muggy night. There was some sort of free art and music thing in the theaters downtown, so we went down there to check it out. I coaxed them into going to see Brenda Weiler and some other guy, Gary Louris. Brenda Weiler was good, but Gary Louris blew us away. He is the singer for the (now-defunct?) Jayhawks, an alt-country band from Minnesota. Anyway, he is a magnetic performer live. After that show, I got a bunch of Jayhawks CDs from the library, and for the rest of the summer I drove my housemates nuts playing them on repeat.

Save It for a Rainy Day

Pretty little hairdo don't do what it used to
Can't disguise the living
All the miles that you've been through

Looking like a train wreck
Wearing too much makeup
The burden that you carry
Is more than one soul could ever bear

Don't look so sad, Marina
There's another part to play
Don't look so sad, Marina
Save it for a rainy day
Save it for a rainy day
Save it for a rainy day

You neve make your mind up
Like driving with your eyes shut
Rough around the edges
Won't someone come and take you home

Waiting for a breakthrough
What will you set your mind to?
We stood outside the Chinese restaurant
in the rain

Don't look so sad, Marina
There's another part to play
Don't look so sad, Marina
Save it for a rainy day
Save it for a rainy day
Save it for a rainy day