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Praying For Rain is an original Afrobeat song written, produced and with lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas with music exclusively commercially licensed to Paul from the album Alkebulan
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You can download the album Alkebulan on all download platforms from 10 July 2026 HERE
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Praying For Rain is a powerful Afrobeat critique of global inequality and climate hardship. Suffering from extreme heat, failed crops, and dried-up wells, a community desperately prays for water. The singer highlights western privilege and political corruption, emphasizing that money alone cannot fix a parched land.
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Praying For Rain lyrics
Everyday the heat keeps getting stronger
Every night I’m praying for some rain
I just can’t stand it any longer
All my prayers just seem to be in vain
Oh Lord please send just one more rainy day
Oh Lord please send just one more rainy day
Day by day my heart is growing weaker
As the wells I find have all run dry
I try to find shade to seek shelter
But all the trees are stripped bare before the sky
I long for just another rainy day
Yes, I long for just another rainy day, rainy day
I look up to the dry skies and I wonder
If it’s like this in any other place?
If they look up and hear crashing thunder
With cool rain blowing so hard in their face?
I’d walk a thousand miles for water to drink
The crops have failed just like the years before
In the West they turn on the tap and don’t think
Of lands that are so dry and so poor
Oh Lord, give us days and days of rainy days
Oh Lord, give us days and days of rainy days, rainy days
Someone said the West sends us contributions
Politicians must be getting very fat
Money is not the only solution
It’s far more complicated than that
All we ask for oh Lord are rainy days, rainy days
All we ask for oh Lord are rainy days, oh rainy days
Everyday the heat keeps getting stronger
Every night I’m praying for some rain
I just can’t stand it any longer
All my prayers seem to be in vain
Oh Lord please send just one more rainy day
Oh Lord please send just one more rainy day, rainy day
Oh Lord please send just one more rainy day, rainy day
Everyday the heat keeps getting stronger
Every night I’m praying for some rain
I just can’t stand it any longer
All my prayers just seem to be in vain
Oh Lord please send just one more rainy day
Oh Lord please send just one more rainy day
Oh Lord please send just one more rainy day
Another rainy day
Paul Robert Thomas PRS No. 497904008 (London)97904008 (London)
PRS Tunecode: 037884QG ISWC: T-341.316.615-7
Audiosparx Catalog ID: 1431051 ISRC: US5UL2659407
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