When did grey skies become more welcoming? When did cold breeze wrap the city in warmth? When did gloomy nights turn into endless laughter? When we came together again without a reason or excuse, Every rainy day was more beautiful than blue skies As we all sat inside telling stories and remembering old times. And I watched from the staircase As I was too young to understand, And to me it was nothing, that we were all together again. But now that I sit here older, with life lessons under my hat I yearn for those days when the rain had kept us in. For a drought has taken over our history and every excuse is like the scorching sun And now I sit on the staircase thinking of those times once again, When it was nothing to me that we were laughing And now it was worth more than any prize.