🌧️🌧️🌧️ Raining London 🌧️🌧️🌧️(V2)
female vocals Vocal Style Notes: Contralto, smoky, raw, slightly nasal timbre. Jazz phrasing: sing behind the beat, with playful slurs. Ad-libs: scatting, sighs, spoken inserts. Imperfection welcome: cracks, growls, laughs between lines. Backing: Gospel-soul backing singers on choruses (“oohs, aahs, repeats”).
🌧️🌧️🌧️ Raining London 🌧️🌧️🌧️(V2)
female vocals Vocal Style Notes: Contralto, smoky, raw, slightly nasal timbre. Jazz phrasing: sing behind the beat, with playful slurs. Ad-libs: scatting, sighs, spoken inserts. Imperfection welcome: cracks, growls, laughs between lines. Backing: Gospel-soul backing singers on choruses (“oohs, aahs, repeats”).
Lyrics
© MYRA lyrics
Intro
(Am7 – Dm7 – G13 – Cmaj7 – Fmaj7 – B7 – E7 – Am7)
(Band: upright bass walking, brushed snare, Hammond organ soft, guitar stabs, sax fill)
(Vocal: smoky spoken ad-lib, half-sarcastic, off-beat)
“Mmm… raining London… yeah, you know how it goes, baby…”
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Verse 1
(Am7 – Dm7 – G13 – Cmaj7 – Fmaj7 – B7 – E7 – Am7)
(Band: bass groove steady, trumpet soft background)
(Vocal: husky contralto, slurred phrasing, behind the beat)
I walk the streets (drawn-out “stre-eeets”), reflections in the night
Umbrellas hide the faces (band hit on “faces”), but not the fight
Raindrops on my lashes, tears I won’t explain (slight growl on “ex-plain”)
London’s bleeding with me, singing my refrain [(horn echo riff)]
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Pre-Chorus
(Fmaj7 – E7 – Am7 – D9 – G13)
(Band: horn stabs syncopated, brushed snare accents)
([×~~~~Vocal: playful slides, Amy-style sighs between phrases)]
In the madness (backing whisper: “madness…”), I light a spark
Through the sadness (backing “sadness…”), dancing in the dark (horn stab)
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Chorus
(Am7 – Dm7 – G13 – Cmaj7 – Fmaj7 – B7 – E7 – Am7)
Ω[(Band: full groove, horns on accents, backing singers “ooh / yeah-yeah”)
(Vocal: belt with cracks, improvisation, held vibrato)
Raining London (backing echo: “London…”), wash me clean tonight (horn punch on “tonight”)
Take my pain (backing “ta`∆ke`\ it, take it”) and drown it in your light
Through the thunder (band swell), I hear my soul again (ad-lib: “yeah, I hear it, baby”)
Raining London (horn riff), healing in the rain (long belt “raaaaain…”)
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Verse 2
(Am7 – Dm7 – G13 – Cmaj7 – Fmaj7 – B7 – E7 – Am7)
(Band: guitar comping, muted trumpet fills)
(Vocal: looser phrasing, cheeky spoken inserts)
Broken glass of memories, lying in the street (spoken aside: “yeah, I see it there…”)
Echoes of my madness, tapping to the beat (horn stab on “beat”)
But the water’s writing forgiveness on the ground (soft gospel backing “forgiveness…”)
Mmm, baby, in the storm, my silence finally found (belt on “found”)
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Pre-Chorus 2
(Fmaj7 – E7 – Am7 – D9 – G13)
(Band: drums light shuffle, horn crescendo)
(Vocal: sultry, slide into notes)
In the madness (backing “madness”), I lose the chains (growl on “chains”)
Through the sadness (backing “sadness”), sweet love remains (belt “remains”)
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Chorus 2
(Am7 – Dm7 – G13 – Cmaj7 – Fmaj7 – B7 – E7 – Am7)
(Band: fuller horns, organ swell, gospel backing singers)
(Vocal: stronger belt, cracks welcome, ad-libs “mmm, come on, rain…”)
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Bridge
(Fmaj7 – E7 – Am7 – B7 – E7)
(Band: stripped — only bass + Rhodes. Horns rejoin later)
(Vocal: intimate, smoky, almost spoken, then powerful belt)
Underneath the storm I see (mmm… low and husky)
Every broken part of me (slight scooped pitch, raw)
But the water carries all my shame (falsetto cry on “shaaaame…”)
And I rise reborn again (gospel belt, horns swell, organ hit)
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Final Chorus
(Am7 – Dm7 – G13 – Cmaj7 – Fmaj7 – B7 – E7 – Am7)
(Band: full swing, horns big, gospel choir harmonies)
(Vocal: wild, improv ad-libs, scatting between lines, raw edge)
Raining London, wash me clean tonight (horn punch, choir “tonight!”)
Take my sorrow, turn it into light (backing “turn it, turn it”)
Through the madness, I’m not the same again (scat ad-lib: “bada-da, yeah-ehh”)
Raining London (long belt), I am healed by rain (fade on gospel choir “rain, rain, rain…”)
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Outro
(Am7 – Dm7 – G13 – Cmaj7, ritardando, horns soft)
(Band: bass fades, muted trumpet final note)
(Vocal: smoky whisper, spoken close to mic)
“…Raining… London… still healing, still healing…”