[Intro: rain, fretless bass and a soft saxophone line, spoken male] Seven fifteen Queen's Road Central Ring in my pocket [Verse 1] Three months I planned it, window table on the Peak, the harbor down below Told the waiter, when I touch my collar, have the piano play it slow Then every phone on Queen's Road buzzes all at once, black rain, the sky comes down And the Peak Tram stops, the taxis vanish, and the whole of Central drowns [Pre-Chorus] So we run up Gage Street laughing With your good shoes in your hand To a noodle stall, a plastic tarp And the rain on top like a marching band [Chorus: female answers] Rain date (rain date) All my plans are running down the road Rain date (rain date) Plastic stools, a bowl of noodles, nowhere else to go They say wait for better weather There's no better weather than you [Verse 2] One bare bulb, a cloud of steam, and Auntie sets two wonton soups down Then she spots the box inside my jacket, and she points her ladle at the ground So I kneel down on the wet concrete, and I open up the box for you And you stop laughing, and you cover up your mouth, and say, oh no, not you too [Half Chorus: female answers] Rain date (rain date) All my plans are running down the road They say wait for better weather There's no better weather than you [Verse 3] Then you dig into your handbag, and you set a box down next to mine The Star Ferry, you say, tomorrow night, the eight o'clock lights, you had it timed Auntie bangs her ladle on the pot, somebody say yes, the soup is getting cold So we both say yes at once, the whole stall cheers, and the old man next to us lifts his bowl [Bridge: drums drop out, fretless bass and saxophone, sung soft] Two rings on a folding table Steam rising through the rain You'd have had the harbor, I'd have had the mountain We got Gage Street, and I'd pick it again [Final Chorus: female answers, full band] Rain date (rain date) We set the wedding for the wettest week in June Rain date (rain date) Plastic stools, a bowl of noodles, Auntie in the front row too They say wait for better weather There's no better weather than you [Outro: rain and fretless bass, sung soft, female answers] No better weather than you (I asked first) No better weather than you (Eat your soup)
