Got out of bed about 3 PM thought it was a holiday   Then my boss called just to tell me   I'm late and he's giving my job away   Well I took me a walk to the liquor store   so I could drink away my blues   Spent my last ten bucks, then I dropped the bottle   and I broke it all over my shoes   So I got home to find the power's shut off,   there was someone knocking at my door   It was my landlord serving an eviction notice   'cause my checks are bouncing off the floor   I pounded my head up against the wall   thinking what else could go wrong   But this was only the beginning to a real bad day,   it wasn't gonna be a lot of fun      I knew I should have never gotten out of bed   'Cause of the rain cloud above my head   I'm down on my luck and it's plain to see   So tell me why does this happen to me?      When it rains it pours, when it rains it pours on me   When it rains it pours, and there's a storm moving in on me   When it rains it pours, raining down on only me   When it rains it pours, when it rains it pours      I drove across town to go see a friend   when I heard a siren on my tail   It turned out I had a warrant for my arrest   and I couldn't even post the bail   So I'm sittin' in a cell for 48 hours   keepin' company with thieves and drunks   I'm free to go but my car's impounded   and I'm thinkin' 'bout becoming a monk   So I'm wandering aorund in a catatonic daze   now barely a shell of a man   I look like I live out of a shopping cart   and I'm picking up aluminum cans   I staggered my way to an overpass   and fell to the dirt asleep   I figured out tomorrow is a new day   and maybe I could buy myself a life real cheap