It Will Rain

Album

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (soundtrack)

Label

Elektra Records

Genre

Stage & Screen

Composer(s)

Bruno Mars,P.Lawrence,A.Levine

Entered Chart

Oct 15, 2011

Peak Date

Dec 10, 2011

Released

September 27, 2011

Recorded

2011 Studio Levcon (Los Angeles, California)

Catalog #

Summit.Chop Shop/Elektra Digital

The song's accompanying music video was directed by Phil Pinto and Mars.[48] It was set to premiere on the night of October 26, 2011 exclusively on MTV, followed by a "special live-stream event" on MTV.com.[49][50] However, two days before its suppose release, Mars announced, via Twitter, the music video had been delayed for some weeks, "Hey guys, I'm still working on the 'It Will Rain' video. The MTV premiere will happen in a couple weeks."[50][51] It premiered on November 9, 2011 exclusively on MTV.[52][53] Filming for the video took place in London, England, United Kingdom[53] and features Mozambican and Portuguese model Vanessa Martins.[54] In the video Mars reminisces about the moments spent between him and his "brunette vixen" girlfriend in an "sparsely" decorated apartment.[55][56] Throughout the video, the singer expresses his emptiness and devastation recurring to solo shots in which he stands "around looking sullen" and by using "faded lighting" in order to convey such sentiments.[4][57] Flashes of the two of them kissing, snuggling and pouring out romance are shown, as the singer apparently misses their relationship.[56][55][57] After the opening sequence, Mars holds a private screening of "Breaking Dawn" to please her, the couple kiss in front of a cinema projector lights, while romantic scenes from the Breaking Dawn: Part 1, including the honeymoon and the one where Edward, played by Robert Pattinson, sweeps Bella, portrayed by Kristen Stewart, "off her feet and into their new home", are projected on the wall.[4][56][57] As the video continues, the couple begins to fight, leading to more "heated arguments and lonely nights".[55][57] At this point, Mars, possibly, writes a song to persuade her to stay with him.[57] Nevertheless, MTV's, Jocelyn Vena stated "we see that the song Bruno wrote while his lady was asleep turned out to be romantic enough to win her back."[57] In the final shot the singer is alone as rain pours down and hits the window behind him

This ballad is the lead single from the soundtrack to the movie The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and is performed by American Pop singer Bruno Mars. He penned the tune whilst out on the road and produced it with his Smeezingtons production colleagues, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine. It was released exclusively on iTunes September 27, 2011. Mars had already started on the song before he got the call to contribute to the film's soundtrack. After seeing the movie, he thought that it would be "a perfect fit." Speaking to Billboard magazine, Mars explained that "the Twilight movies, "for me [are] a love story. But it's a dark love story. And I think the best way to describe the song is: it's the darker side of love. I think that pretty much sums it up. 'It Will Rain' started off with me and the guitar, and I just had this melody in my head and basically laid it down after I saw the film." According to an interview with AP writer Ryan Pearson, Twilight music producer Alexandra Patsavas chose Mars as the film centered on a wedding and, "Who more appropriate than Bruno Mars to write a timeless, classic wedding song?" Bruno Mars literally turned off the radio when he first heard this song because of his displeasure with its final mix. "I felt like I was a mosquito singing," he told Billboard magazine. Director Phil Pinto shot the music video in a converted London pub, which finds Mars in a complicated, though non-vampire, relationship. His girlfriend was played by a Portuguese Maxim model, who had trouble warming up to the artist because she was nervous. Mars gave her guitar lessons between takes to make her feel more comfortable. During the volatile scenes, she opted to swear at him in Portuguese because she kept ruining takes by laughing at her own English. The clip also features bits of footage from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1. It actually didn't rain in the video. The "rainwater" on the window was achieved by a guy with a hose.

If you ever leave me, baby
Leave some morphine at my door
'Cause it would take a whole lot of medication
To realize what we used to have
We don't have it anymore

There's no religion that could save me
No matter how long my knees are on the floor (oh)
So keep in mind all the sacrifices I'm makin'
To keep you by my side
To keep you from walkin' out the door

'Cause there'll be no sunlight
If I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies
If I lose you, baby
Just like the clouds
My eyes will do the same if you walk away
Everyday it'll rain, rain, ra-a-a-ain

I'll never be your mother's favorite
Uh, your daddy can't even look me in the eye
Ooh, if I was in their shoes, I'd be doing the same thing
Sayin', "There goes my little girl
Walkin' with that troublesome guy"

But they're just afraid of something they can't understand
Ooh, but little darlin' watch me change their minds
Yeah for you I'll try, I'll try, I'll try, I'll try
And pick up these broken pieces 'til I'm bleeding
If that'll make you mine

'Cause there'll be no sunlight
If I lose you, baby
There'll be no clear skies
If I lose you, baby
Just like the clouds
My eyes will do the same if you walk away
Everyday it'll rain, rain, ra-a-a-ain

Oh, don't you say (don't you say) goodbye (goodbye)
Don't you say (don't you say) goodbye (goodbye)
I'll pick up these broken pieces 'til I'm bleeding
If that'll make it right

'Cause there'll be no sunlight
If I lose you, baby
And there'll be no clear skies
If I lose you, baby
And just like the clouds
My eyes will do the same if you walk away
Everyday it'll rain, rain, ra-a-a-ain