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Billy Talent - Rusted from the Rain

"Rusted from the Rain" is the first official single by Billy Talent off their album, Billy Talent III. It was released on May 19, 2009.

Lead singer Ben Kowalewicz has said that the song is very "tin man-esque" and evolved from an "epic Soundgarden-like riff".

The lyrics are about marital breakdown, Kowalewicz told Kerrang!: "Nowadays, I'm seeing a lot of people who got married young are now getting divorced. It seems to be a new fad. Divorce is the new black."

The song was nominated for Single of the Year at the 2010 Juno Awards, but lost to Michael Bublé's "Haven't Met You Yet".

Music video

The video was shot in April 2009 by director Wayne Isham in Los Angeles. The video pans between the band playing in a junkyard and a vagrant collecting junk and garbage in the streets. As the video progresses, it's revealed the man collected the trash to construct a makeshift carousel for a small group of children in the neighbourhood.

The lyrics:

I stumble through the wreckage rusted from the rain

There's nothin' left to salvage, no one left to blame

Among the broken mirrors I don't look the same

I'm rusted from the rain, I'm rusted from the rain

Dissect me till my blood runs down into the drain

My bitter heart is pumpin' oil into my veins

I'm nothin' but a tin man, don't feel any pain

I don't feel any pain, I don't feel any pain

I'm rusted from the rain

Go on crush me like a flower rusted from the rain

Come on strip me of my power, beat me with your chains

And if I'm the king of cowards you're the queen of pain

I'm rusted from the rain, I'm rusted from the rain

You hung me like a picture, now I'm just a frame

I used to be your lap dog, now I'm just a stray

Shackled in the graveyard left here to decay

Left here to decay, left here to decay

I'm rusted from the rain

Go on crush me like a flower rusted from the rain

Come on strip me of my power, beat me with your chains

And if I'm the king of cowards you're the queen of pain

I'm rusted from the rain, I'm rusted from the rain

I'm rusted from the rain

Go on crush me like a flower rusted from the rain

Come on strip me of my power, beat me with your chains

And if I'm the king of cowards you're the queen of pain

I'm rusted from the rain, I'm rusted from the rain

Go on crush me like a flower rusted from the rain

Come on strip me of my power, beat me with your chains

And if I'm the king of cowards you're the queen of pain

I'm rusted from the rain, I'm rusted from the rain

Oh, the sun will shine again, I'm rusted from the rain

I'm rusted from the rain

Oh, the sun will shine again, I'm rusted from the rain