This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I have seen the rain
I have felt the pain
I don't know where I'll be tomorrow
I don't know where I'm going
I don't even know where I've been
But I know I'd like to see them again
[Chorus]
Spend my days just searching
Spend my nights in dreams
Stop looking over my shoulder baby
I stopped wondering what it means.
Drop out, burn out, sold your home
Oh they said I should've been more
Probably so if I hadn't been in that crazy damn Vietnam war
I have seen the rain
I've survived the pain
Oh I've been home 30 years or so
And I'm just stepping off of the plane
[Chorus]
We have seen the rain together
We survived the pain forever
Oh it's good to be home again
It's good to be with my friends
Oh it's good to be home again
It's good to feel that rain
I have felt the pain
I don't know where I'll be tomorrow
I don't know where I'm going
I don't even know where I've been
But I know I'd like to see them again
[Chorus]
Spend my days just searching
Spend my nights in dreams
Stop looking over my shoulder baby
I stopped wondering what it means.
Drop out, burn out, sold your home
Oh they said I should've been more
Probably so if I hadn't been in that crazy damn Vietnam war
I have seen the rain
I've survived the pain
Oh I've been home 30 years or so
And I'm just stepping off of the plane
[Chorus]
We have seen the rain together
We survived the pain forever
Oh it's good to be home again
It's good to be with my friends
Oh it's good to be home again
It's good to feel that rain
Lyrics submitted by Cut~Up~Angels
I Have Seen the Rain [Hidden Track] Lyrics as written by Jim Moore
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Gooood Emotional Song =)
This song is so great, although it's not actually Pink singing the lead, it's still really brilliant! It feels like Pink to me because it's another issue that she's trying to show us, it's less blatant as her other songs like 'dear mr president' showing me it means alot to her personally. I also think the way she has to explain this song to us before it starts illustrates this. Pink you rule! sad song (--) but still kwl (^^)!!
This has meaning to anyone who knows of someone who was in the Vietnam War. Like, my uncle served in it and died. It's sad to hear "It's good to be with my friends, it's good to be home again" when that never happened for him. However, this gives you a glimpse at how soldiers feel because Pink's dad wrote this while he was serving in Vietnam.
I thought it was 'and I'm just stepping off of the plane' not 'I'm just stepping up for the blame.'
Also, if he wrote it while he was there how come he says, 'I've been home 30 years or so'?
yeah, ilikeGOODmusic23002, the plane one makes more sense, but maybe someone has proof of their lyrics? idk. He is probably looking to the future, like people sometimes do in songwriting, when he says he's been home 30 years. It's probably better like that, because it adds more of a story to it and even more power.
it makes you just close your eyes and think. its sweet in the melody and powerful in its lyrics, the perfect combination x
This is going down on my list of my favourite songs ever, it's really beautiful. Pink and her dad should be incredibly proud of this.
This woman's voice is like warm rain on my skin, absolutely pleasant and beautiful!
All I can say is amazing