Please excuse my recent hiatus from WordPress, but I went on an impromptu vacation for four days with my daughter Katherine Rose to Melgar, Tolima – jungle country, not too far from here – Bogotá, Colombia. Oh and also forgive my French in the video below. I was doing a Nathy Peluso voice impersonation. ;-P
I heard today’s featured song at the gym last week at the end of ‘Integral’ class. I knew it was Enya, but I wanted to know the title which the Instructor kindly showed me. I know Enya is not everyone’s cup of tea, but given the right moment like in the warm down of last week’s class, almost nothing surpasses the experience at least to my musical senses. It’s in the Rain is the fifth song to be presented here from Enya after her previous entry – Only Time in November, 2023. The song is the second European single and the third track from her sixth studio album Amarantine (2005). Enya performed the song at the 2006 World Music Awards.
The following was extracted from the second Wikipedia reference below:
Amarantine was recorded in Ireland with Enya’s longtime recording partners, arranger and producer Nicky Ryan and his wife, lyricist Roma Ryan. It is her first album not to include a song in Irish and her first to include songs sung in Japanese and Loxian, a fictional language created by Roma. Amarantine received mixed reviews from critics, but it was a commercial success and reached No. 6 on the Billboard in the United States, where it sold one million copies in its first month of release, and No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart. In 2007, the album won Enya her fourth Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.
[Verse 1]
Every time the rain comes down
Close my eyes and listen
I can hear the lonesome sound
Of the sky as it cries
[Chorus]
Listen to the rain
Here it comes again
Hear it in the rain
[Verse 2]
Feel the touch of tears that fall
They won’t fall forever
In the way the day will flow
All things come, all things go
[Verse 3]
Late at night I drift away
I can hear you calling
And my name is in the rain
Leaves on trees whispering
Deep blue sea’s mysteries
[Interlude]
[Verse 4]
Even when this moment ends
Can’t let, go this feeling
Everything will come again
In the sound, falling down
Of the sky as it cries
Hear my name in the rain
References:
1. It’s in the Rain – Wikipedia
2. Amarantine (album) – Wikipedia
“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”- Michel Legrand
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I can’t think of a better reason to take a hiatus from blogging than to go on a vacation with your family. Just check with me first next time!
On a more serious note, I absolutely love Enya’s 1988 “Watermark.” Sadly, it’s the only album by her I currently know. “It’s In the Rain” sounds good to me. Hopefully, I can carve out some time to take a closer look at “Amarantine”.
I’m still on a high from the holiday with my daughter.
Yes ‘Watermark’ was a game changer. I also like the album and title track – ‘A Day Without Rain’ and some of her stuff with ‘Clannad’. I don’t think I have heard the ‘Amarantine’ apart from this song.