It's Raining In Love Analysis

I don't know what it is,

  but I distrust myself

  when I start to like a girl

  a lot.

It makes me nervous.

  I don't say the right things

  or perhaps I start

  to examine,

  evaluate,

compute

  what I am saying.

If I say, "Do you think it's going to rain?"

  and she says, "I don't know,"

  I start thinking : Does she really like me?

In other words

  I get a little creepy.

A friend of mine once said,

  "It's twenty times better to be friends

  with someone

  than it is to be in love with them."

I think he's right and besides,

  it's raining somewhere, programming flowers

  and keeping snails happy.

  That's all taken care of.

BUT

if a girl likes me a lot

  and starts getting real nervous

  and suddenly begins asking me funny questions

  and looks sad if I give the wrong answers

  and she says things like,

  "Do you think it's going to rain?"

  and I say, "It beats me,"

  and she says, "Oh,"

  and looks a little sad

  at the clear blue California sky,

  I think : Thank God, it's you, baby, this time

  instead of me.