anonymous May 21st, 2006 02:59PM  

I think this song is about robert plant waiting in the rain....as he is waiting, he thinks that his girlfriend stood him up because she is running late. he starts to doubt her and then eventually starts to doubt himself. as he gets panicked, he starts to run and then realizes that he's been standing on the wrong block. it wasnt his girlfriends fault, it was his fault thus making him "the fool in the rain"

anonymous July 2nd, 2007 02:01AM  

Actually, the first person was right. Robert Plant himself said it was literally about an incident where he was left standing in the rain on the wrong street corner waiting for a girl. The breakdown in the middle with all of the whistles and noises is him running to the correct street corner before the girl thinks SHE'S been stood up.

oregoniangal July 24th, 2008 11:27PM  

It is those intense feelings of a crush or infatuation when you first meet someone. Everything is so exciting, but there is also that insecurity. You fumble trying to do the right thing and end up on the wrong street corner...thinking that she stood you up, she thinks you stood her up, when after all, everything will be alright!