Rain and cry are almost the same verb in French ("pleuvoir" and "pleurer.") "Il pleut dans mon coeur comme, il pleut sur la Ville," run the lines of the Paul Verlaine poem. Remember "The Tracks of My Tears.” Smokey Robinson is undoubtedly cringing amidst the allegations against him. La Cloche Sonne is a composition by another composer, Franz Liszt. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Do rain and tears cleanse cathartically or are you all wet? Just when you think the clouds have parted and hope's in the air, your local Tiresias is there to remind you, the day is young. Apparently it's pleuring in Gerard Depardieu's coeur aujourd'hui, aussi.
listen to The Tracks of My Tears" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles