Main Entry: 1de·fy 
1 archaic : to challenge to combat
2 : to challenge to do something considered impossible : DARE
3 : to confront with assured power of resistance : DISREGARD <defy public opinion>
4 : to resist attempts at : WITHSTAND defy classification>
Last Saturday night we played an outdoor show on the patio of a local Chapel Hill bar, The Dead Mule. Forcasters called for rain but all day the sun was shining.
We showed up early and started to set up. When we were all set up and about to play the winds started to pick up.
Small particals of dust and debris swirled around and the skies darkened. Lightning was flasing in the distance and we we're not sure if we should just pack up and call it quits or go ahead and start our set.
The crowd cheered us on and we started into the set. As we would play each song it seemed the gods of nature we're pleased by what they heard. The sun would come out and there would be no threat of rain. But then, after every song was over the wind would pick back up, lighnting would strike and it would darken again. We hurry into the next song and the sun would shine again.
About ten songs in, feeling we had figured it out and thinking the worst was over, we broke into "Another Song Ray Hates." We we're almost to the end and that's when it happenned.
The gods had had enough!
Large droplets of rain started to fall, I felt one on my fretboard and saw one hit the keyboard. We all started to feel the rain but did we stop? No! We finished the song where at which point, Matt K killed the power to the patio and we started to cover everything up. Then the clouds burst open and a full sheet of precipitation drenched the entire patio without letting up. People hurried inside to escape it's onslaught but we we're stuck out on the patio trying to pack up what we could and move it inside before all our gear was destroyed.
After everything was protected, we made our way inside to warm up. Drenched from head to toe we had defied the Gods of Nature for at least for 10 songs.