“rain” tells the story of Maia deciding where to move after her brother graduated college in Brooklyn, with the added weight of her mom’s cancer diagnosis, as she explains on TikTok:
There was one song I wrote, I think it was the third song on the record, called “rain”, and it was about that feelin...
[Verse 1]
Window-shopping houses up on Clinton Street
I'm dancing down the block with the autumn breeze
Bright Eyes in my ears, I forget my fears
It's the first day of my life
[Pre-Chorus]
And it's so sad to think
That I won't be here forever
Going home, going home
But I'll always remember
[Chorus]
When I'm sitting in the sun, I think about the rain
And the snow on the window pane
When I'm cruising down the 1, dreaming I'm back east
'Til I end up in Long Beach
'Cause I said I'd go back home, but I don't really know
Where to go 'cause
When I'm sitting in the sun, I think about the rain
I think about the rain
[Verse 2]
I'm feeling pretty small among the redwood trees
I wanna count the rings deep inside of me
'Cause Brooklyn made me young, so I said goodbye
Now I'm growing old in Oakland
[Pre-Chorus]
And it's so sad to think
That I won't be here forever
Going home, going home
But I'll always remember
[Chorus]
When I'm sitting in the sun, I think about the rain
And the snow on the window pane
When I'm cruising down the 1, dreaming I'm back east
'Til I end up in Long Beach
'Cause I said I'd go back home, but I don't really know
Where to go 'cause
When I'm sitting in the sun, I think about the rain
I think about the rain
[Post-Chorus]
(I think about the rain)
(I think about the rain)
(I think about the rain)
[Pre-Chorus]
And it's so sad to think
That I won't be here forever
Going home, going home
But I'll always remember
[Chorus]
When I'm sitting in the sun, I think about the rain
And the snow on the window pane
When I'm cruising down the 1, dreaming I'm back east
'Til I end up in Long Beach
'Cause I said I'd go back home, but I don't really know
Where to go 'cause
When I'm sitting in the sun, I think about the rain
I think I know I'm not the same
rain was written by mxmtoon & Chloe Kraemer & ROSIE.
rain was produced by Carrie K & Chloe Kraemer.
I thought I would live my whole life in California until I moved to New York in 2020. Four years later I was hit with deciding if I wanted to move back to my hometown, and initially I thought I would. “rain” was about navigating the feeling of not being ready to give up what you just discovered.
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