The Sun & The Rainfall

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10. The Sun & The Rainfall
List of A Broken Frame songs

 

The Sun & The Rainfall
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Song The Sun & The Rainfall
By Depeche Mode
Songwriter Martin L. Gore
Produced by Daniel Miller
Depeche Mode
Recorded at Blackwing Studios (London)
Length (mm:ss) 5:02
Tempo 118 BPM
Time signature 4
4
Key G Major
Engineered by John Fryer
Eric Radcliffe
Photography Brian Griffin
Calligraphy Ching Ching Lee
Recorded December 1981 - July 1982
Originally released 27 September 1982
Live performances as Depeche Mode 47 times *
Total live performances 47 times *

"The Sun & The Rainfall" is a song from the 1982 album A Broken Frame by Depeche Mode.

Notes

Andrew Fletcher can be heard singing at the end of this song, the line "All that I'm saying, a game's not worth playing, over and over again". Below is the rear channels extracted from the 5.1 multichannel version of the song where Fletcher's vocal is clearly heard. Other than Interlude No. 2 - Crucified, this is the only Depeche Mode song where Fletcher's vocals can be clearly heard. During live performances of this song, Alan Wilder sings this line.

Lyrics


The Sun And The Rainfall

Someone will call

Something will fall

And smash on the floor

Without reading the text

Know what comes next

Seen it before

And it's painful


Things must change

We must rearrange them

Or we'll have to estrange them

All that I'm saying

A game's not worth playing

Over and over again


You're the one I like best

You retain my interest

You're the only one

If it wasn't for you

Don't know what I'd do

Unpredictable like the sun

And the rainfall


Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©1982 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.

Live performances

Main article: Available recordings of "The Sun & The Rainfall"
Main article: List of dates where "The Sun & The Rainfall" was played