MAKE IT RAIN - feat. EMMA DONOVAN & MARLIYA CHOIR

Performance from The Sydney Opera House, in January 2019, for Sydney Festival 2019
The last verse is sung in Yindjibarndi, translated by Michael Woodley of Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation.

Song by (T.A.WAITS/K.BRENNAN)

LYRICS

He took all my money
And my best friend
You know the story
Here it comes again
I have no pride
I have no shame
You gotta to make it rain
Make it rain

Since you're gone
Deep inside it hurts
I'm just another sad guest
On this dark earth
I want to believe
In the mercy of the world again
Make it rain, make it rain

The night's too quiet
Stretched out alone
I need the whip of the thunder
And the wind's dark moan
I'm not Able, I'm just Cain
Open up them heavens
Make it rain

I'm close to heaven
Crushed at the gate
They sharpen their knives
On my mistakes
What he done, you can't give it a name
You gotta to make it rain
Make it rain, yeah

Without your love
Without your kiss
Hell can't burn me
Much more than this
I'm burning with all this pain
Put out the fire
Make it rain, you gotta make it rain

I’m born to trouble (Ngyi warngkarrinha waji)
I’m born to fate (Ngyi wangkarrinha minangga)
Inside a promise (Thurnguga wangka)
I can’t escape (Ngyi burdurdba bamagayi)
It’s the same old world (Nhaa gurdarmba ngurra)

But nothing looks the same (Mirdawa nhawa nyinja)
Make it rain! (Yungu thalumarnma)
Make it rain! (Yungu thalumarnma)

Make it rain…
Make it rain… (Yungu thalumarnma)


Filmed by Dominic Allen.