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After the Rain

by Jim Chorley

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Hampshire is a county of contrasts. It contains thousands of acres of forest, beaches, hills and rivers that flow through huge cities into industrial ports. Jim Chorley’s music is steeped in the county’s rural beauty while also possessing an equally urban edge.

‘After the Rain’ comes on with a measured strum, underpinned by the tap of a Cajon. Contrasting with this folk setting is an over-driven guitar picking out a riff that dazzles like traffic lights through a wet windscreen.

Lyrically we’re in a bucolic reverie, contemplating the changing seasons and the irresistible cycle of life. Jim observes that “nothing stays the same after the rain” and the implication is that it’s better to roll with it than push back. Furthermore, feeling the wind blowing over us and the river flowing round us will “heal our sorry souls”.

Eastern philosophy tells us to bend in the wind like a tree because if we resist we’ll be broken. Hampshire philosophy delivered by the songs of Jim Chorley seems to be telling us the same thing.

Pete Harvey
Sofa City Magazine

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After the Rain

1, Between midnight and the dawn

the wind it weaves her song
and it sings for the summer dead and gone

I hear the winter calling
Through the cracks and through the walls
Through the windows, through the doors

In the woods I hear the barn owl call
It’ll soon be morning,
It’ll soon be morning…


Chorus, After the rain,
the tears stop falling

Everything has changed, without warning
Nothing stays the same,...
After the rain…

2, Now after winter comes the spring,
when it all begins again
and the World is woken from a dream

I hear softly stirring

In the warm and gentle earth
In the dark and fertile dirt
Spread your wings my pretty bird,
You’ll soon be soaring, soon be soaring…

chorus, After the rain
the tears stop falling

Everything has changed,
without warning
Nothing stays the same,...
After the rain…

3, Go and dig your hole
plant your seeds and sow
plant them deep and they will grow

like Eden’s garden
want to feel the four winds blow
let that river flow
it will heal your sorry soul
It’ll soon be morning...
It’ll soon be morning…


3, After the rain
the tears stop falling

Everything has changed,
without warning
Nothing stays the same,...
After the rain…


Words and music Jim Chorley
2020

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released September 5, 2020
Words and music Jim Chorley 2020

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Jim Chorley Southampton, UK

Jim Chorley is an Acoustic/Folk singer-songwriter from Southampton (UK)

His songs, lyrics and recordings are honest and from the heart. Down to earth and real. Telling of wild woods and Welshman's Daughters, sing along Sea Shanties on the high rolling seas. Romantic meetings on the cobbled streets of a midnight city and the magical, mystical, mysteries of love and nature. ... more

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