Lyrics to
On Rainy Afternoons

This version of On Rainy Afternoons was released by Barbra Streisand in 1979.

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On rainy afternoons
When memories cloud the skies
The wind is filled
With our goodbyes
On rainy afternoons
We used to slip away
With rain and love
We’d spent the day
What went wrong?
I wish I knew
Was it me, or was it you?
I wonder, you think you’ve said farewell
Because you’ve said goodbye
You walk away, your eyes are dry
But the wind remembers all our favorite tunes
On rainy afternoons
On rainy afternoons

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When you decide to study the lyrics to On Rainy Afternoons, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Barbra Streisand. Some of the lyrics to On Rainy Afternoons have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Barbra Streisand and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to On Rainy Afternoons if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to On Rainy Afternoons" means the words set to the music of On Rainy Afternoons, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Barbra Streisand. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to On Rainy Afternoons and the lyrics to On Rainy Afternoons are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Barbra Streisand who came here looking just for the lyrics to On Rainy Afternoons, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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