[Verse 1]

You never see it coming, it happens all of a sudden

And when it finally hits you, it's too late

He just sat there in the silence, on his own private island

I wasn't ready for the storm about to break

Yesterday, there was no trace of trouble

Now he's given up more than I can take



[Chorus]

He said hold on tight, it's gonna be a heck of a night

Especially when you hear what I've got to say

And when he said, I don't love you

The first tear broke through

Now it's comin' down

Like a Tennessee rain



[Verse 2]

Nobody showed me, nobody told me

What to do when the story turned out wrong

Or how a heart does its mending, without the perfect ending

The one I always thought would come along

He had his own ideas of where this love was going

He wasn't leaving it up to the hands of fate



[Chorus]

He just said hold on tight, it's gonna be a heck of a night

Especially when you hear what I've got to say

And when he said, I don't love you

The first tear broke through

Now it's comin' down

Like a Tennessee rain



[Chorus]

He said hold on tight, it's gonna be a heck of a night

Especially when you hear what I've got to say

And when he said, I don't love you

The first tear broke through

Now it's comin' down

Like a Tennessee rain



[Outro]

It's comin' down harder than a Tennessee rain