The skies are grey, the cars cast spray

While raindrops drizzle down

Despite the day we find our way

Around the soaking town

 

Pavement rivers make us shiver

It’s seeping through our shoes

Wind delivers chilly quiver

Compounding winter blues

 

With frozen feet we trudge the streets

Hunched in our heavy coats

Through rain and sleet that falls in sheets

And trickles round our throats

 

Ever onwards, ever upwards

Soaked through and homeward bound

Two steps forwards, one step backwards

Feeling as if we’re drowned

 

The rain has passed, back home at last,

With what we went to buy

Then dried off fast, heat on full blast

Finally warm and dry.