ENYA - TRAINS AND WINTER RAINS

TRAINS AND WINTER RAINS

ENYA

SONGWRITER: ENYA & ROMA RYAN

COUNTRY: IRELAND

ALBUM: AND WINTER CAME…

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: NEW-AGE

YEAR: 2008

 

         Enya Patricia Brennan(Irish: Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin/ˈɛnjə/; born 17 May 1961) is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician. Born into a musical family and raised in the Irish-speaking area of Gweedore, County Donegal, Enya began her music career when she joined her family's Celtic folk band Clannad in 1980 on keyboards and backing vocals. She left the group in 1982 with their manager and producer Nicky Ryan to pursue a solo career, with Ryan's wife Roma Ryan as her lyricist. Enya developed her sound over the following four years with multitracked vocals and keyboards with elements of new age, Celtic, classical, church, world, pop, and Irish folk. Thus far, she has sung in ten languages, most notably English, Irish Gaelic(Gaeilge), Latin, and Welsh.

          Enya's first projects as a solo artist included soundtrack work for The Frog Prince(1984) and the 1987 BBC documentary series The Celts, which was released as her debut album, Enya(1987). She signed with Warner Music UK, which granted her artistic freedom and minimal interference from the label. The commercial and critical success of Watermark(1988) propelled her to worldwide fame, helped by the UK number one and international hit single "Orinoco Flow". This was followed by the multi-million-selling albums Shepherd Moons(1991), The Memory of Trees(1995), and A Day Without Rain(2000). Sales of the latter and its lead single, "Only Time", surged in the United States following its use in the media coverage of the September 11 attacks. Following Amarantine(2005) and And Winter Came...(2008), Enya took a four-year career hiatus before she resumed in 2012 and released her eighth studio album, Dark Sky Island(2015).

        Enya is Ireland's best-selling solo artist and second-best-selling overall behind U2. Her discography has sold 26.5million certified albums in the United States and an estimated 75 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. A Day Without Rain (2000) remains the best-selling new-age album, with an estimated 16 million copies sold worldwide. Enya has won numerous awards, including seven World Music Awards, four Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album, and an Ivor Novello Award. She was nominated for na Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for "May It Be", written for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001).

       "Trains and Winter Rains" is a single by Irish musician Enya, the first to be taken from the album And Winter Came.... It premiered on the BBC Radio 2 show Wake up to Wogan on 29 September 2008. The song features Agnus Dei, a Christian verse commonly heard in churches.

City streets passing by

Underneath stormy skies

 

Neon signs in the night

Red and blue city lights

Cargo trains rolling by

Once again someone cries

 

Trains and winter rains

No going back, no going home

Trains across the plains

And in the sky, a star alone

 

Every time; it's the same

One more night, one more train

Everywhere; empty roads

Where they go, no-one knows

 

Trains and winter rains

No going back, no going home

Trains across the plains

And in the sky, a star alone

 

Trains and winter rains

No going back, no going home

Trains across the plains

And in the sky, a star alone

 

Trains and winter rains

No going back, no going home

Trains across the plains

And in the sky, a star alone

 

Trains and winter rains

No going back, no going home

Trains across the plains

And in the sky, a star alone.