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Old 11th September 2019, 07:22 PM
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Hey guys, just think I just discovered something pivotal about the track RAINBOW.

The line “no rain, can’t get the rainbow.” It always bothered me because it didn’t make a ton of sense to me. First of all, it’s a double negative, or so I thought. I chalked it up to language barrier...

Until I realized I had been interpreting the line wrong all along. It’s not indicating that rain can’t REACH the rainbow. It’s indicating WITHOUT rain there IS no rainbow. Meaning without sorrow there is no happiness. Without dark times, there are no bright times. 雨の日がないと、晴れの日もないよ。

Not sure if anyone else ever caught onto this. But it really solves the mystery of the track for me, and entirely makes the song and it’s meaning all that much better!

Last edited by Zeke.; 11th September 2019 at 07:25 PM.