Lyrics

I feel it

It's coming

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

Album

Erotica

Something To Remember

Single

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).

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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'.

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'.

Rain made a comeback on the Sticky & Sweet Tour as a video interlude between the Old School and Gypsy sections. However, only part of the chorus was used in combination with the Eurythmics hit 'Here Comes The Rain Again'. The giant screens portray a CG animation of a fairy witnessing the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly in the rain. Meanwhile, the Hamutsun Serve dancers perform a Japanese choreography, adding to the atmosphere.