"Rain King" is a single by the rock band Counting Crows.

The title is a reference to Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King.

[2] Adam Duritz said, about this song: "I read this book in college when I was at Berkeley called Henderson, the Rain King.

And the main character in the book was kind of this big, open-wound of a person, Eugene Henderson, he just sort of bled all over everyone around him.

And when I wrote the song years later, it didn't really have anything to do with the book except the book had kind of become a totem for how I felt about creativity and writing–that it was just this thing where you just took everything inside of you and just sort of [funny noise] sprayed it all over everything, and not to worry too much about it.