Rain
Feel it on my finger tips
Hear it on my window pane
Your love's coming down like
Rain
Wash away my sorrow
Take away my pain
Your love's coming down like
Rain
When your lips are burning mine
And you take the time to tell me how you feel
When you listen to my words
And I know you've heard
I know it's real
Rain is what this thunder brings
For the first time
I can hear my heart sing
Call me a fool but I know I'm not
I'm gonna stand out here on the mountain top
Til I feel your
Rain
Feel it on my finger tips
Hear it on my window pane
Your love's coming down like
Rain
Wash away my sorrow
Take away my pain
Your love's coming down like
Rain
When you looked into my eyes
And you said goodbye
Could you see my tears
When I turned the other way
Did you hear me say
I'd wait for all the dark clouds bursting in a perfect sky
You promised me when you said goodbye
That you'd return when the storm was done
And now I'll wait for the light
I'll wait for the sun
Till I feel your
Rain
Feel it on my finger tips
Hear it on my window pane
Your love's coming down like
Rain
Wash away my sorrow
Take away my pain
Your love's coming down like
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun
And I say
Never go away
Waiting is the hardest thing It's strange I feel like I've known you before
I tell myself that if I believe in you And I want to understand you
In the dream of you More and more and more
With all my heart and all my soul When I'm with you
That by sheer force of will I feel like a magical child
I will raise you from the ground Everything strange
And without a sound you'll appear Everything wild
And surrender to me
To love
Rain is what the thunder brings
For the first time
I can hear my heart sing
Call me a fool but I know I'm not
I'm gonna stand out here on the mountain top
Till I feel your
Rain
I feel it
It's coming
Your love's coming down like
Rain
I feel it
It's coming
Your love's coming down like
Rain
Feel it on my finger tips
Hear it on my window pane
Your love's coming down like
Rain
Wash away my sorrow
Take away my pain
Your love's coming down like
Rain
I feel it
It's coming
Your love's coming down like
Rain
I feel it
It's coming
Your love's coming down like
Rain
Step out on a mountain top and wait for you to call my name
Rain
Credits
Written by Madonna and Shep Pettibone
Produced by Madonna and Shep Pettibone
Sequencing, keyboards and programming by Shep Pettibone
Drum programming by Tony Shimkin
This
stunningly beautiful ballad was a break from the controversy surrounding
the Erotica album. It was released worldwide
in the summer of 1993 as fifth single. Though it got a lot of airplay it
only went to #14 in the US and #7 in the UK. It charted better
in Canada (#1), Japan (#2) and Australia (#5). » Buy on Amazon
Video
A
beautiful song deserves a stunning video, and that's what Rain
got. Mark Romanek filmed everything in black & white, then
had it colored manually in blue, a technique used in the early
movie industry. The video shows the making of a video by a group
of Asian technicians. Madonna, wearing a short black wig (!),
walks around on the set and sings Rain, standing next to glass
walls that drip with (fake) rain. The video got two well-deserved
awards at the 1993 MTV VMA: 'Best Art Direction' and 'Best Cinematography'. » Watch the video on our blog
Tour
Beautiful
as it might be, Rain was only performed live on the Girlie
Show. But it certainly was a performance that did justice
to the song. It's one of the best examples of the perfect harmony
between the voices of Madonna, Niki and Donna. The heart-warming
performance also included some lines of the Temptations' classic
hit 'Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)'. At the end there's
a beautiful instrumental outro with the classic song 'Singing In The Rain',
while the dancers do a choreography with umbrellas,
inspired by Gene Kelly's legendary rendition in the
1952 musical Singin' In The Rain, with the Pierrot
fancying one of the butterfly 'rain girls'.