Peak
37
Weeks
20
Score
1,282
Chart Year
2022
This classic tear-in-your-beer breakup anthem finds a heartbroken Michael Ray drowning his sorrows in alcohol while rain lashes down outside. A fiddle and somber steel guitar add to the track's melancholy vibe. When Ray wrote the tune with Jesse Frasure and Josh Thompson he set out to pen a track that harkens back to brooding songs from the '80s and '90s. "I miss story songs that you have to listen to all the way through to understand," he explained. "This song is everything I love about country music - traditional country music, like Tim McGraw and Earl Thomas Conley and I want to bring that back. This is the music I originally came to Nashville to make." Sean Hagwell set out to treat the video as a scene from a '90s-era film. The director explained on his website that he wanted to show "a man who was giving himself one more night to live in the sadness." He found a location in Clarksville (about 40 minutes north of Nashville), which the art department converted into "a '90s-era smoky bar." Hagwell likened Ray's performance and the overall vibe of the clip to Gary Allan's 2003 "Songs About Rain" music video.
It's been a downpour, beating on the tin roof It's been Black Label pouring on ice Made a honky-tonk outta this living room Yeah, swimming through her goodbye Misery loves company Yeah, whiskey and rain coming down, coming down Splash of bourbon in a glass Yeah, pouring something on the pain, let it drown, let it drown Try to wash away the past, oh-oh-oh Since my blue sky, sunshine, whole life Hopped on that midnight train 'Til the bottle runs out or the clouds roll away It's just whiskey and rain It's been nothing but a hangover, tryna get over you But Lord willing and the creek don't rise I'm gonna wake up in the morning feeling brand new Without a single cloud in the sky, oh-oh But tonight it ain't the weather breaking Yeah, whiskey and rain coming down, coming down Splash of bourbon in a glass Yeah, pouring something on the pain, let it drown, let it drown Try to wash away the past, oh-oh-oh Since my blue sky, sunshine, whole life Hopped on that midnight train 'Til the bottle runs out or the clouds roll away It's just whiskey and rain Misery loves company Yeah, whiskey and rain coming down, coming down Splash of bourbon in a glass Yeah, pouring something on the pain, let it drown, let it drown Try to wash away the past, oh-oh-oh Since my blue sky, sunshine, whole life Hopped on that midnight train 'Til the bottle runs out or the clouds roll away It's just whiskey and rain 'Til the bottle runs out or the clouds roll away It's just whiskey and rain Whiskey and rain coming down, coming down Splash of bourbon in a glass
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oct 23, 2021 | 97 | 29 |
| 2 | Oct 30, 2021 | 82 | 44 |
| 3 | Nov 6, 2021 | 81 | 45 |
| 4 | Nov 13, 2021 | 67 | 59 |
| 5 | Nov 20, 2021 | 67 | 59 |
| 6 | Nov 27, 2021 | 75 | 51 |
| 7 | Dec 4, 2021 | 80 | 46 |
| 8 | Dec 11, 2021 | 67 | 59 |
| 9 | Dec 18, 2021 | 61 | 65 |
| 10 | Dec 25, 2021 | 67 | 59 |
| 11 | Jan 1, 2022 | 65 | 61 |
| 12 | Jan 8, 2022 | 64 | 62 |
| 13 | Jan 15, 2022 | 57 | 69 |
| 14 | Jan 22, 2022 | 37 | 89 |
| 15 | Jan 29, 2022 | 56 | 70 |
| 16 | Feb 5, 2022 | 51 | 75 |
| 17 | Feb 12, 2022 | 62 | 64 |
| 18 | Feb 19, 2022 | 64 | 62 |
| 19 | Feb 26, 2022 | 74 | 52 |
| 20 | Mar 5, 2022 | 88 | 38 |