Where The Rain Grows.

Band: Helloween
Song: Where The Rain Grows
Album: Master Of The Rings.




Helloween was founded in the mid 1980s, and has been considered the father of the Metal subgenre, Power Metal, reinventing it many times over the course of years.

Where The Rain Grows is a song that describes someone who, for the lyrics may well apply to anyone, had trouble coping with the lies and mistreatements of another, pehaps a lover or simply an important person in their life.

I never look higher
Than I could see
Never gave less
Than you have given me
The more you have taken
You turned into fakes
I finaly know now, why for Heaven's sake?

The first stanza of the song depicts how the person, to whom I will reffer as "Person A," never asked for more than he gave. This is an obvious assumption, as we can see from the lines "Never gave less, than you have given me." However, the lyrics seem to imply that Person A constantly tried to prove or do something, yet unanswered. It may be that Person B, the subject of the song, forgot or left Person A in a shroud of lies and deciet. The last line of the stanza, "I finally know now, why for Heaven's sake?" implies that Person A found the lie, and probably regrets the events.

Don't tell me you did not see that I cryed
Don't act so deaf and blind
Don't think that if someones made dumb to the core
He would stay like before

Here, the song takes a different turn, as it portrays how Person A was feeling, or what he went through. It is, in fact, a very straight forward verse. More and more it seems like Person A was in a corruptive relationship, where he cared for Person B to the extent of pain, a pain that was overgrown by the appearent lack of interest shown. "Don't think that if someones made dumb to the core, He would stay like before," speaks of the way in which, once the damage was done, there was no turning back. Considering the lyrics and the tone, I can assume that such relationship was broken or betrayed on one side, however with the pretence of legitimacy, for any reason possible. The response is of course, that Person A would not feel the same way as he did at the beginning.

So I take my life
Back from where the rain grows
Die to survive
Back from where the rain grows

The chorus is the consequence of what is discussed above. The place "where the rain grows" could well be heaven. This would make sense, as he, Person A, would regret the loss or failure of the relation, thus taking his life away from heaven. In accordance to this, "Die to survive" can mean that, to be able to go one, something had to be sacrificed. Then again, it also goes on with the theme of heaven, as suicide, by Christian standards, is condemned with hell.

Now you call me liar
'Cause you're just the
“Always have right, fool’s majority”
I think that if someone
Start at your side
You'd all turn your back
Won't give any dime

The last part of the song changes its tone, and begins accusing Person B. Person A stands on the idea of morals, where he would consider himself truthful to Person B. This of course would create the conflict, as Person B believes that “always have right, fool’s majority.” What the stanza means is that however much Person A might trust and give away his life for Person B, it would not matter in the end.