With its bouncy pizzicato, “Echoes in Rain” sees Enya describe the buoyancy and optimisim towards the end of a journey.
The track premiered on Ken Bruce’s BBC Radio 2 show on October 8th 2015 as the first single from Dark Sky Island. Marking Enya’s return after a 7 year gap, it bears many resemblan...
[Hook]
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah
[Verse 1]
Wait for the sun
Watching the sky
Black as a crow
Night passes by
Taking the stars
So far away
Everything flows
Here comes another new day
[Hook]
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah
[Verse 2]
Into the wind
I throw the night
Silver and gold
Turn into light
I'm on a road
I know the way
Everything flows
Here comes another new day
[Chorus]
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
[Hook]
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah
[Verse 3]
Echoes in rain
Drifting in waves
Long journey home
Never too late
Black as a crow
Night comes again
Everything flows
Here comes another new day
[Chorus]
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
[Hook]
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
[Chorus]
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alle-alle alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
[Hook]
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah
[Outro]
Ah
Echoes in Rain was written by Enya.
Echoes in Rain was produced by Nicky Ryan.
Enya released Echoes in Rain on Fri Oct 09 2015.
No. While containing the word “alleluia”, meaning “praise the Lord”, the song doesn’t have a religious undertone.
Enya has described it as a continuation of “Orinoco Flow” and thus the journey home after such an adventurous trip. The use of “alleluia” merely refers to the narrator’s joy at returnin...
The song has been performed heavily on televisions shows across the world such as the Echo Awards and Zip! in Japan.
A fully live rendition was performed on Live with Kelly and Michael.
It’s like “Orinoco” was a journey — you went to all these places like Bissau to Palau to Peru to Cebu — but this is the journey home. It’s the excitement of that journey. It’s a long journey, coming home, because if you look at it, there’s day time and nighttime; you don’t know whether it’s a year o...
“Echoes in Rain’ was actually the last piece we worked on for this album. Sometimes it happens, it happened with Watermark, the last piece you do is the one that celebrates the music the most… lyrically.
Roma Ryan interviewed in a video on Enya’s YouTube channel