HERE
COMES THE RAIN AGAIN
ANNIE
LENOX
SONGWRITER:
LENNOX & STEWART
COUNTRY:
SCOTLAND
ALBUM: MEDUSA
LABEL: DECCA
RECORDS
GENRE:
POP
YEAR: 1983
Ann Lennox(born 25 December 1954) is a
Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After
achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band the Tourists, she and
fellow musician Dave
Stewart went on to achieve international
success in the 1980s as Eurythmics.
Appearing in the 1983 music video for "Sweet Dreams
(Are Made of This)" with orange cropped hair
and wearing a man's business suit, the BBC states,
"all eyes were on Annie Lennox, the singer whose powerful androgynous look
defied the male gaze". Subsequent hits with Eurythmics include "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)"
and "Here Comes
the Rain Again".
Lennox embarked on a solo career in 1992 with
her debut album, Diva,
which produced several hit singles including "Why"
and "Walking on
Broken Glass". The same year, she
performed "Love Song for
a Vampire" for Bram Stoker's
Dracula. Her 1995 studio album, Medusa,
includes cover versions of songs such as "No More
'I Love You's'" and "A Whiter
Shade of Pale". To date, she has released
six solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie
Lennox Collection(2009). With eight Brit Awards, which
includes being named Best British Female Artist a record six times, Lennox has been named the "Brits Champion
of Champions". She has also collected four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video
Music Award. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard
Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard.
In 2004, she received the Golden Globe and the Academy
Award for Best Original Song for "Into the West",
written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Lennox's vocal range is contralto. She has
been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and one of The
100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone.
In 2012, she was rated Nº 22 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music. In June 2013
the Official
Charts Company called her "the most successful
female British artist in UK music history". As of June 2008, including her
work with Eurythmics, Lennox had sold over 80 million records worldwide. As
part of a one-hour symphony of British Music, Lennox performed "Little Bird"
during the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London. At the 2015 Ivor Novello
Awards, Lennox was made a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors,
the first woman to receive the honour. Lennox (and Eurythmics partner Dave
Stewart) was inducted into the Songwriters
Hall of Fame in 2020 and the duo were inducted
into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in 2022.
In
addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social
activist, raising money and awareness for HIV/AIDS as it affects women and
children in Africa. She founded the SING Campaign in 2007 and founded a women's empowerment charity called The Circle
in 2008. In 2011, Lennox was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for her "tireless charity campaigns and championing of
humanitarian causes". On 4 June 2012, she performed at the Queen's Diamond
Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace. In
2017, Lennox was appointed Glasgow
Caledonian University's first female chancellor.
"Here Comes the Rain Again" is a
1983 song by British duo Eurythmics and the
opening track from their third studio album Touch.
It was written by group members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart and produced by Stewart. The song was released on 12 January 1984 as
the album's third single in the UK and in the United States as the first
single. It became Eurythmics' second Top 10 U.S. hit, peaking at number 4 on
the Billboard Hot 100.
"Here Comes the Rain Again" hit number eight in the UK Singles Chart,
becoming their fifth consecutive Top 10 single in their home country.
"Heaven" was covered by Buffalo Tom on their
1990 album Birdbrain, Annie Lennox on the
Japanese edition of her 1995 album Medusa,
Face to Face on their 2001 album Standards
& Practices, Alkaline Trio on the 2004 compilation album Another Year on the Streets, Vol. 3, and Nouvelle
Vague on their album 3,
released in 2009
Here comes the rain
again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
Want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?
So, baby, talk to me
Like lovers do
Walk with me
Like lovers do
Talk to me
Like lovers do
Here comes the rain
again
Raining in my head like a tragedy
Tearing me apart like a new emotion (ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh)
I want to breathe in the open wind
I want to kiss like lovers do
Want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?
So, baby, talk to me
Like lovers do
Walk with me
Like lovers do
Talk to me
Like lovers do
So, baby, talk to me
Like lovers do
Ooh
Ooh, yeah
Here it comes again
Ooh-ooh
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Here it comes the
rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
(Here it comes again, here it comes again, oh-ah)
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
Want dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?
Ooh, here it comes
again
Here comes the rain again (I said)
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion (ooh, ooh, yeah)
I want to walk in the open wind (ooh, ooh)
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you?
Here comes the rain
again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion.
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