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"
Why'd I have to go and do you like that?
Thought I'd moved on and you brought me right back
To the night you took my kiss away from me
I took yours too, then I lost you
Bring me back to holding hands in the rain
I swear I'd ease your pain
Lift you up so you could finally see
The love you are to me
I've had time and I've had change
I've been broken but still I can't explain
Our July in the rain
Thought I'd moved on and you brought me right back
To the night you took my kiss away from me
I took yours too, then I lost you
Bring me back to holding hands in the rain
I swear I'd ease your pain
Lift you up so you could finally see
The love you are to me
I've had time and I've had change
I've been broken but still I can't explain
Our July in the rain
Lyrics submitted by letsgetnerdy, edited by domaniique
Our July in the Rain Lyrics as written by Trevor Kelly Rachel Taylor
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Pretty self-explanatory. She had a summer love with this guy and now she wants him and the relationship back, even after all the time that's passed, because the feelings are still there.
I agree, but I think that it wasn't necessarily a summer love, it just resembled that kind of relationship, hence the "July in the rain." Does that make sense? It was a summer fling (July) but not during summer (in the rain). Yea?
at first i thought she means it in a metaphor way, like, its been raining on their relationship (back in july), but then i realized she says 'Bring me back to holding hands in the rain', so if it was actually raining, why does she mentioning july? I dont get it :\
Not sure if there are multiple versions but the one I have downloaded has these lyrics:
Bring me back to holding hands in the rain, I swear I'd ease your pain. Lift you up so you could finally see The love you are to me.
I've had time and I've had change I've been broken but still I can't explain. Our July..
Why'd I have to go and do you like that? Thought I'd moved on, then you brought me right back. To the night you took my kiss away from me. I took yours too, then I lost you.
Would you bring me back to holding hands in the rain, I swear I'd ease your pain. Lift you up so you could finally see The love you are to me.
I've had time and I've had change I've been broken but still I can't explain. Our July in the Rain....hey..
Every part of me is broken now I tried to scream but nothing came out drop my pride and I reveal my inside and it all came pouring out.
Would you bring me back to holding hands in the rain, I swear I'd ease your pain. Lift you up so you could finally see The love you are to me.
I've had time and I've had change I've been broken but still I can't explain. Our July in the rain
This melody will never speak all the things that I regret if I could say anything my apologies for the way I ended things see I love you but it scared me, you scared me, you scared me, you scared me, would you please..
Bring me back to holding hands in the rain, I swear I'd ease your pain. Lift you up so you could finally see The love you are to me.
I've had time and I've had change I've been broken but still I can't explain. Our July..oh oh oh oh
Would you bring me back to holding hands in the rain, I swear I'd ease your pain. Lift you up so you could finally see The love you are to me.
I've had time and I've had change I've been broken but still I can't explain. Our July..
The shorter on is the original, they add on