April -- Deep Purple

April is a cruel time  Even though the sun may shine And world looks in the shade as it slowly comes away Still falls the April rain  And the valley's filled with pain And you can't tell me quite why  As i look up to the grey sky Where it should be blue   Grey sky where I should see you Ask why, why it should be so  I'll cry, say that I don't know Maybe once in a while I'll forget and I'll smile But then the feeling comes again of an April without end Of an April lonely as they come  In the dark of my mind I can see all too fine But there is nothing to be done when I just can't feel the sun And the springtime's the season of the night Grey sky where it should be blue  Grey sky where I should see you Ask why, why it should be so  I'll cry, say that I don't know  I don't know This song is about the month of April. A Ritchie Blackmore/Jon Lord composition, the first section is played solely by Lord and Blackmore; Lord plays piano and organ; Blackmore plays electric and acoustic guitars. The second section, orchestrated by Lord, uses flutes, clarinets, a string section and other instruments; the third section adds vocals. As the band wrote in the liner notes, "As a whole we hope April hangs together as a personal evocation of a beautiful, but sad  month."                                                                 (songfacts.com)

                                               April is the Cruellest Month (from The Waste Land)