Here Comes the Rain Again

Here Comes the Rain Again is a song by British pop duo Eurythmics. It was written by group members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart and produced by Stewart. The song was released as the third single in the UK from the album Touch and in the United States as the first single. It became Eurythmics' second Top 10 U.S. hit, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. "Here Comes the Rain Again" hit number eight in the UK singles chart, becoming their fifth consecutive Top 10 single in that country. The track is similar in musical style to past Eurythmics singles and its melancholy lyrics draw a comparison between the painful and tragic feelings of unrequited love with falling rain. Notably, the group adorned the recording with the composition and arrangement skills of Michael Kamen, resulting in more natural feel to the overall finished product (versus the heavily synthetic aesthetic of the Sweet Dreams album and its singles). During Eurythmics reunion "Peacetour" they performed an in-studio concert for the A&E Network in the U.S. Dave Stewart revealed that the lyrics to the song came into being after an argument between himself and Lennox while they were doing some songwriting in New York City's Columbus Hotel. The basic melody had already been written and Lennox looked out the window after their fight and noticed it was starting to rain. She announced, "Here comes the rain again." The running time for "Here Comes the Rain Again" is in actuality about five minutes long and was edited on the Touch album (fading out at approximately four-and-a-half minutes). Although it was edited even further for its single and video release, many U.S. radio stations played the full-length version of it. The entire five-minute version did not appear on any Eurythmics album until the US edition of Greatest Hits in 1991. Music video The music video, featuring Lennox and Stewart, opens showing The Old man of Hoy on the Island of Hoy in the Orkney Islands, with Lennox walking along the rocky shore and cliff top and later entering a derelict cottage in a nightgown, holding a lantern. In many scenes the two are filmed separately, then superimposed into the same frame. The result is that the viewer may perceive one as being a ghost in the world of the other. Dave Stewart shared in The Dave Stewart Songbook: I’d been out on 46th Street and bought an early Casio keyboard, about 20 inches long with very small keys. It was an overcast day. Annie was sitting in my room, and I was playing some little riff on the keyboard sitting on the window ledge, and I was playing these little melancholy minor-ish chords. I kept on playing this riff, and Annie was looking out the window at the slate grey sky above the New York skyline and just sang spontaneously, ‘Here comes the rain again.’ And that was all we needed. You see, like with a lot of our songs, you only need to start with that one line, and that one atmosphere, that one note, or that intro melody. And of course that starts the whole song. And the whole song was about that undecided thing, like here comes depression, or here comes that downward spiral. But then it goes, ‘so talk to me like lovers do.’ It’s the wandering in and out of melancholy, a dark beauty that sort of is like the rose that’s when it’s darkest unfolding and blood red just before the garden, dies. And capturing that in kind of oblique statements and sentiments. And the rest of it was like a puzzle where we needed to just fill in the missing pieces. So it’s kind of a weird course. The genre of Eurythmics usually falls into one of these three genres: Dance rock, new wave, and synth pop. The release date for this song is January 12th, 1984.

Eurythmics Lyrics Here Comes The Rain Again From The Album Touch (1983) Here comes the rain again Falling on my head like a memory Falling on my head like a new emotion I want to walk in the open wind I want to talk like lovers do Want to dive into your ocean Is it raining with you? So, baby, talk to me Like lovers do Walk with me Like lovers do Talk to me Like lovers do Here comes the rain again Raining in my head like a tragedy Tearing me apart like a new emotion (Ooh) I want to breathe in the open wind I want to kiss like lovers do Want to dive into your ocean Is it raining with you? So, baby, talk to me Like lovers do Walk with me Like lovers do Talk to me (Ooh) Like lovers do So, baby, talk to me Like lovers do Ooh Ooh, yeah Here it comes again Ooh Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Here comes the rain again Falling on my head like a memory Falling on my head like a new emotion (Here it comes again, here it comes again, ah) I want to walk in the open wind I want to talk like lovers do Want to dive into your ocean Is it raining with you? (Ooh, here it comes again) Here comes the rain again (I said) Falling on my head like a memory Falling on my head like a new emotion (Ooh, ooh, yeah) I want to walk in the open wind (Mhm) I want to talk like lovers do Want to dive into your ocean Is it raining with you? Here comes the rain again Falling on my head like a memory Falling on my head like a new emotion Writer(s): David Allan Stewart, Annie Lennox Release Date January 12, 1984