When It Rains

Have you ever heard of Paramore? Yeah, that great band whose singer has red hair! :) Well, Paramore is one of my favorite bands. They are from Franklin, Tennessee, USA, they formed in 2004, and they play Alternative Rock. Their lyrics talk mostly about love, and as i said, the singer (Hayley Williams) has red-orange-blond hair, very weird but for lots of people very cool. In my opinion, it looks great on her, but you have to be brave or famous to dye your hair like that! By the way, she has a beautiful and powerful voice.

The song I want to talk about today is called "When It Rains". It is a sad song, but i love it because it is beautiful.

I think it talks about a relationship that is ending (as many other songs, i know), and one of the two has done something bad to the other person (probably he/she cheated on her/him). But i doesn't have to be a love relationship, maybe it's another kind of relationship. And the person who writes the song is asking for an explanation but looks like the other one just gave up. But at the same time it seems to me that this other person (the one who is not singing) is also depressed, because the lyrics say: You made yourself a bed at the bottom of the blackest hole. Convinced yourself that it's not the reason you don't see the sun anymore. But i'm not sure.

Personally, my favoriest part is the chorus. It says: Oh oh how could you do it? /  Oh I - I never saw it coming / Oh oh I need an ending / So why can’t you stay long enough to explain?

For me it is what i said before, the realtionship is ending because one of them did something bad, and the other one is like "ok, go away please, but before that give me an explanation". This is probably why I like it, it is something that happens nowadays, someone for some reason you will never know decides to hurt you. But don't misunderstand me, I didn't mean to say that I like doing that, just that I like the song.

I wish I could ask Hayley Williams, Josh Farro and Zac Farro (the composers) what they wanted to say when they wrote "When It Rains", but I think I got the message. Don't you think?

Link of the song & lyrics: http://www.paramore.net/music/when-it-rains-3/