This song was inspired by the common social convention of keeping friends. It describes the dynamics metaphorically using rain and snow to signify that just as snow can be brushed of so can friends that turn on you or forget you if you keep them at a distance but if the same people were soaked into you like rain then you care too much about the loss of your friends. I prefer to keep friends of snow than of rain.
lyrics
Rain, Rain, go away
(Ame, ame, Kieru)
Don’t come back to me
(Ore ni modottekonai)
Don’t come back
(Modottekonai)
My tears are lost inside the rain
(Ore no namida ga ame no uchigawa ni ushinawa re)
This rain has come to isolate me
And I can’t hold its weight.
Soak through me
(Ore tooshite hitaru)
Drench my heart
(Bishonure ni kokoro)
(x2)
Rain has come to isolate
(Ame ga bunri suru ni natte kita)
It is done
(Sunda)
But it still falls
(Shikashi, sore wa mada sagaru)
I hoped it was snow
(Sore wa yukidatta kitai sa)
It’s cold embrace
(Samui Hooyooda)
So cold but it warms
(Son’nani samuku soreha atatame)
Snow fell down on top of me
(Yuki wa ore no ue ni taoreta)
Gently stroking my face
(Yasashiku kao o naderu)
See the warm is harmful
(Attakaiga yuugaide mi)
Love the cold
(Kaze o aisuru)
Rain fell down on top of me
Soaking my skin and freezing my thoughts
When all is drenched you’re gunna see
You can’t just wipe away heavy rain
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