Rainy Day
Written by Dan Peek, ©1971
Found on America and Highway.

Whenever it's a rainy day
I pack my troubles up in my room
I chase all the clouds away
I get myself back to the womb

But I know that you're gonna cry
Tears are runnin' from your eyes
The piece of my life you take
Is one that so often breaks

Whenever you are miles away
I think of you the way you are
Your shining lips, your auburn hair
And then it don't seem quite so far

Well I know that you're gonna cry
Tears are runnin' from your eyes
The piece of my life you take
Is one that so often breaks

Well I know that you're gonna cry
Tears are runnin' from your eyes
The piece of my life you take
Is one that so often breaks

Highway Highlight (from the box set booklet) Peek also muses on thwarted love in the atmospheric "Rainy Day." "It was written while I was in college in Norfolk--very cold, very wintery," he says. "I had gone to the U.S. to be near Catherine, who was my high school sweetheart and is now my wife. We had fallen in love and had plans of marriage, but her parents hated me and did everything they could to keep us apart. I spent many a lonely evening in my dorm room in freezing-cold Norfolk, Virginia, being introspective. I felt inspired, and that song just came out. It's very naive and open and honest. In some ways I cringe when I hear it because of that."