Simone, Nina - I Think It's Going To Rain Today Lyrics

yuck. grating

just perfect <3

Lord, keep me near. - NYC, 12/26/2019

I think that's a picture of Josephine Baker, not Nina.

Beautiful Nina, you're truly singing in the Universe. 2019.♥️

Such a haunting song and TRUE to human nature

I HAVE HEARD THIS BY AHALF DOZEN ARTIST, BUT NINA MAKES IT HER OWN, BY DIGGING DEEP INTO YOUR SOUL

Ice vid

Poverty Earth "yea I hope it's goina rain today yea~"

W❤️W

pure genius. both the vocal and the piano. a raspy billie holiday. compare with the nice, but utterly pedestrian judy collins version.

Scarecrows dressed in the latest styles
With frozen smiles to chase love away
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today...

This crushes my soul....in a good way.

The best version is by The Laurie Bower Singers.

Wow, is this great! Randy's song. Nina's rendition. Sheer magic. (Must be a longer version. Sure like to hear it.)

That part at around 2:30 where she holds "way" with that chord progression kills me!

anyone know about a piano sheet for this song? So gorgeous, especially the tin can part...

Broken (Sean Bean last "mini" series) brought me here

so much the spirit of the singer

Diabolically magnificent.

Harsh version with zero reverence. Yeah plenty of vocal acrobatics but hell, there's fairy piano notes and no real feeling here.

Lonelllllyyyyyy lonnnnnnlllleeyyyy

Love this song far bettet than Bette Midler

Blessed Nina Simone. I wish she was still here to sing more songs in the way that not another soul on earth can touch. Whenever life is handing me its worst, her voice fits right in my heart, as if to say, 'baby, I know how you feel, hang in there.'

I'm hoping this too shall pass... and I know Nina's voice will be right there waiting with just the right number, once again, fitting right into my heart.

the piano in this song is dope af. I need the piano version asap!

Broken!

No one cares why or how you come here unless it's cuz you know what she has talent

Song overflowing with poignancy - "Broken" is like revisiting so much of my past - and all around me are "Broken" lives - we can only keep on keepin' on - finding the beauty is everything.

Broken, another contemporary brilliant Drama, by the BBC, addressing issues that affect real people. Framed in the timeless echo & haunting voice of Niña Simone. Thank you. Rose

terrific song and used for the opening credits too the brilliant broken starring sean bean!! if you not watched this catch it on eye player!!

Great BBC drama "Broken". Research being done on the writer and also the captivating theme tune by the late Nina Simone.

Love her voice. My history teacher introduced me to three of her songs

Anyone here from BBC Broken? :P

Ben Whitehead Hi.
I just screened BROKEN on Britbox. (I'm in the US)
The theme music and opening photography are so evocative of the drama that follows.
Scrolled by this series for ages, not feeling ready to dive into any of the possible storylines related to priesthood--but now I'm glad I did.😀

Yeh. But Dusty Springfields version I remember best!

Yes. Clarity unmatched.

Great choice of musical soundtracks for Father Michael's Broken.

@Jie Lei it ended well tho.

Musical genius. People say those words about so many but Nina was that and more. Uncompromising.

Broken brought me here. But now I'm here I'm thinking of the Griffins meeting Randy Newman...

Whut? Nina Simone singing Randy Newman? How's it possible?

I remember this song from the album, Nina Simone and Piano that came out in 1969. I got a copy in a plain, unmarked sleeve in a record store on Atlanta's Peachtree Ave for 99 cents! Along with Aretha Franklin's "Soul 69" it got me through a a tough year.

Just watched 'Scandal' and heard this. Had to research and here I am. Gorgeous version by the one and only!

the version of this song by Bette Midler is also excellent! I love Nina Simone but I think both she and Bette Midler did this song justice in their own way. Check out the song "alone again, naturally" by nina simone. Man it's amazing. It's on youtube

Tune in Thursday at 1pm est to The Voice of Peace for Nina Simone and other love songs!

a girl smashed my heart into a thousand pieces, before she did she told me she wanted this song at her funeral. I'd still learn it and perform it there if i'm still alive. Love is a crazy thing.

i hear yeah man....good and painful point....

How it was meant.

This is a nice variation of the original...
But, Randy Newman is the best ! The string arrangement is heart tugging, if not heart breaking...

None better.

Surely this is pure perfection

Love for her music brought me here

Scandal brought me here, beautiful serene melody!!!

beautiful! I like the UB40 version too..

thanks to scandal season 2 episode 5-'spies like us', i ended up here.  this song is just so beautiful and Nina Simone just delivers to perfection.  I think the piano accompaniment to her version is probably the best i've heard from all the versions i've listened to

Scandal also brought me hear. GREAT TRACK

Scandal brought me here.

It's just something about Nina Simone's voice and the way she delivers the lyrics to a song that just touches your heart.  I was looking at a past season of Scandal and could hear this song in the "background" of a scene and just had to look it up and enjoy it again, and again and then again...

I listened to Katie Melua's version and I couldn't listen to it all. I guess that's the thing about music different people have different taste. Nina Simone's version seems to speak to that song as no one else's can,...her raspy clinical voice as you put it, made it perfect!

TheReisende so true! I love bette Midlers version. This one is awful.

Scandal!

THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS COVER OF A BEAUTIFUL SONG.

Her delivery was perfectly clear and the instrumental laced her tone precisely... and it is literally raining today in my town today.. lol

try again later..... is dit you tube????????

Utterly awesome. Ditto on Sealy57's comment, And yes, the Earth got thirst quenched on this part of the planet today.

Simone's performance is neat.

Like the original better

This is such a wonderful song. Simone's rendition is too clinical for me but that's her style. So far, Norah Jones does the best job of all the stylists I've heard. That may be an unfair statement since Norah Jones is  just incredible and any comparisons are unfair.

+john manasco Did you hear the recently released Streisand's version?

i agree... she isnt singing the lyrics, she is feeling them

This is a song where personalty comes from the song, not the person. Simone prevents that I think it's gonna rain today.

however her voice in particular and her rendition of the words aren't as poignantly sung as done by Randy Newman, changing the words in this song doesn't do justice to the song.

i agree with you, i think Randy wrote the lyrics perfectly, i don't like the way she changed the word from Smiles to Faces. i often wonder how composers feel when singers do this to their songs, i'm sure they thought long and hard about the words they did choose when they composed their songs.

John from Australia she sounded fantastic in Central Park, had a great band and she is such a terrific piano player. It wasn't like 50,000 people at the concert... maybe a few thousand outdoors on a beautiful sunny summer afternoon in the middle of Manhattan.... It was spectacular.

I agree 100%
It would have been great to see her live in Central Park.Was the sound good?
I'm A 69yo Aussie male & i saw Nina live in a small venue in Brixton,London in the late 60's i think.She was magnificent & i really think she performs or sounds better in a smaller venue.
I wiil never forget that memory as she is just like a godess!

Lovely Beautiful Heart-Felt Caring Decent Sweet Compassionate Empathetic Holy Merciful Righteous and More
Nina sings Randy WOW!

Nina Simone has been my favorite female vocalist ever since I saw her concert in Central Park in 1967 and she absolutely blew my mind... She sings everything so beautifully from Kurt Weil to Bob Dylan to the Beatles.

I shazamed it but thanks pete

Claudine Longet

Nina Simone. Imperfection, perfected

Anyone know what version of this song is in Gilmore girls; a house is not a home?

<3 this version SO MUCH

I'M here for Nina

it would be good .... if she was not black ...hate that about her !!!

😂 Go to hell in peace

I loved this song before Scandal.

I agree 100%

i love nina, but in this case i must say i dont think she captures the essence of the song as newman thought it. why woud she sing "i hope its gonna rain today" at the end?? doesnt make any sense.

Scandal! :)

Saw this on Scandal

Yup.....Scandal got me here too. :)

Love Scandal for helping me discover wonderful music. Always caught between the show and shazaaming :)

Scandal +1
almost made me cry...

me too heard this on Scandal love that show!

Me. Just moved me--how fabulous is this.

Scandal bring anyone else here?

Truly remarkable.

I totally agree with you. Why do people insist on insulting a different taste? I appreciate Nina Simone, but she's just not my cup of tea. I don't bash those that really get into her music. Peopel need to be kinder, don't you think? There is no right when it comes to mucical taste.

This is just magic. Joe Cocker also did a wonderful version of this. Great music!!!!

Nina is/was a phenom but her voice was eclectic and so far a matter of taste; unfortunately one I never got used to.

isn't this song about 'fair-weather friendships' ?

UB40 did a pretty good version..

I was pretty much going to say the exact same thing!

the bleeb do you know? I think he inteted to sing it like he sang it. just... guessing.

Brilliant..............simply

@Sealy57 Finally someone that understands it. I don't know why people like the versions of Bette midler en Neil Diamond so much. They totally rip the meaning out of the song.

Burdon did it before Diamond, I had Burdon's album before i heard of Diamond