Description
There is a silence that sounds louder than any siren. In it, a voice trembles, as if trying to hold on to something that is already slipping through its fingers. The love here is not like in the movies - no fireworks or hugs in the rain - but the kind where it hurts to breathe, yet you still can't let go. The music flows like a memory of warmth that can never be returned to. And in this simplicity lies all honesty: sometimes even the strongest person collapses when the one for whom it was worth holding on to leaves.
Associate performer: Adele Edkins
Producer, sound engineer, studio musician: Fraser T. Smith
Sound engineer: Beatrice Artola
Sound engineer: Isabel Zeelig-Morley
Studio musician: Rosie Danvers
Studio musician: Amy Stanford
Studio musician: Ash Soan
Studio Musician: Eleanor Matheson
Studio Musician: Emma Owens
Studio Musician: Hayley Pomfret
Studio Musician: Jane Oliver
Studio Musician: Jenny Sasha
Studio Musician: Joe Allen
Studio Musician: Kotono Sato
Studio Musician: Lucy Shaw
Studio Musician: Natalie Bonner
Studio Musician: Rostom Pomeroi
Studio Musician: Stephanie Cavie
Studio Musician: Steve Price
Music Publisher: Harry Fox Agency
Music Publisher: CMRRA
Music Publisher: Chrysalis Music Publishing Ltd
Music Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Ltd.
Music Publisher: BMG Rights Management
Composer and Lyricist: Adele Edkins
Composer and Lyricist: Fraser T. Smith
Arrangement: Rosie Danvers
Lyrics and translation
Original
I let it fall, my heart.
And as it fell, you rose to claim it.
It was dark and I was over.
Until you kissed my lips and you saved me.
My hands, they were strong. But my knees were far too weak.
To stand in your arms without falling to your feet.
But there's a side to you that I never knew, never knew.
All the things you'd say, they were never true, never true.
And the games you play, you would always win, always win.
But I set fire to the rain, watched it pour as I touched your face.
Well, it burned while I cried 'cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name.
When I lay with you
I could stay there, close my eyes. Feel you here forever.
You and me together, nothing is better.
'Cause there's a side to you that I never knew, never knew.
All the things you'd say, they were never true, never true. And the games you'd play, you would always win, always win.
But I set fire to the rain, watched it pour as I touched your face.
Well, it burned while I cried 'cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name.
I set fire to the rain and I threw us into the flames.
When it fell, something died 'cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time. Sometimes I wake up by the door.
That heart you caught must be waiting for you.
Even now, when we're already over.
I can't help myself from looking for you.
I set fire to the rain, watched it pour as I touched your face.
Well, it burned while I cried 'cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name.
I set fire to the rain and I threw us into the flames.
When it fell, something died 'cause I knew that that was the last time, the last time.
Oh, oh no. And it burned.
Oh, and it burned.
And it burned.