{"id":7473,"date":"2025-02-19T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7473"},"modified":"2025-07-13T15:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:36:26","slug":"its-just-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7473","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Just The Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"It&#039; s Just The Rain\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rsPgCzonD98?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/distrokid.com\/hyperfollow\/rickwesthorpe\/cherry-blossom-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"202\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/group.jpg\" alt=\"Buy \/ Stream\" class=\"wp-image-7591\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This song is dedicated to Rachel Stevens, my wonderful friend who died at the end of 2023. The song isn&#8217;t <em>just<\/em> about her, although I did have her in mind for much of it. It&#8217;s really about love, and the gifts we give each other as we weave in and out of each others lives. <br>Some of the faces, names, places, memories, have long since left this world. Some are still here. But all bound to me in the ways they have shaped, guided and inspired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For creating the song itself, I&#8217;m very grateful to Phil Stanton, who helped me with the mixing and gave me the confidence to actually finish it. x<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rachel and her sisters, by the way, created an amazing website chronicling her family&#8217;s history through WWII &#8211; very interesting and well worth a read: <a href=\"https:\/\/rachel8236.wixsite.com\/schrotterfamilystory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Schrotter'Stevens Family Story\"><strong>Schrotter \/ Stevens Family Story<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first time I heard your voice, I knew that you&#8217;d stay in my life<br>Though I could never hold you, the reverse would not be true<br>I felt your feathered touch surround me as you whispered my name<br>A blocky angel, heaven-bound, when will I see you again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the dark of the night, I listen to the wind blow<br>The rain upon my window<br>Sometimes I think of you and wonder where you are<br>Summer bursts into the night, your laughter and your smile<br>Alive again inside my heart, I&#8217;ll hold you for a while<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I know you must go, back into the shadows<br>I listen to the wind blow<br>In a breath I&#8217;m alone, I wonder how you&#8217;ll be<br>Time for us has been and gone, but there&#8217;s no cause for tears<br>It&#8217;s not so complicated my old friend<br>I&#8217;ve loved you through the years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summer comes again my friend, like the darkness we&#8217;ll be gone<br>A speck of dust upon the wind, an echo of a song<br>Spinning, turning, in the light, a breath within a cloud<br>Falling back to the Earth, a whisper in a sound<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you see I could be the rain upon your window<br>As you listen to the wind blow<br>It&#8217;s just the rain<br>It&#8217;s just the rain<br>It&#8217;s just the rain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song is dedicated to Rachel Stevens, my wonderful friend who died at the end of 2023. 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