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.
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