It Feels Good To Be Out Of The Rain

“Out of the Rain” is part of the lyrics to a song by a band called America. The song is called A Horse With No Name.  The song, sung by Dan Peek, was a huge radio hit in the 70’s and at the time there was a lot of speculation about the meaning of the song. The big question was what was the meaning of the "horse"  Some people thought it was code for some sort of drug, mainly heroine.  Others thought the meaning was some reference to religion.  It really didn;t matter what the horse was or wasn't; the song was a hit.

The song goes, "Well, I've been through the desert on a horse with know name, It felt good to be out of the rain. In the desert you can remember your name, cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain…La, la ... etc.”

In January 2006, Peek, in an interview with Mike Rimmer, talked about how the band became one of the most successful of the period and how, despite all the success and fame, life for the band, and for Peek in particular, was not well.

Dan Peek told Rimmer, “I had bought into the whole materialistic consumer-oriented advertising age theory that if you just have the right car and the right clothes and the right hairstyle and the right shoes, then you would be happy and fulfilled. We were able to attain all of that stuff at a very early age because we were just miraculously and incredibly fortunate. Things just clicked. We had all the success; the hit records and the fame and the material things that came along with it. I think probably the rudest shock of all was to just wake up and think, 'My goodness. I'm empty!' I was still searching for some type of peace and some type of meaning to my life after we ended up with walls covered in gold and platinum albums and the accolades and the praise of our peers and the fans. You just still felt this nagging emptiness. It was very, very frightening."

Peek however has since become a Christian.  In the same interview, talking about his conversion, Peek said, "I finally found out that all of this stuff - the fame, the success, the glory, the records, the accolades - had left me totally empty. So I turned to Christ. I turned to Jesus as Lord and Savior. THAT was the transformation that I had been looking for my whole life.”