Rain

Background
Dodie performed Rain as her first song to start off her YouTube career back in 2011. It has gained over 480,000 views as of June 7, 2019 and is still climbing. Who would know that this would be her big debut in her career?

As quoted from her Genius lyric page about this song: "'This is the first original song and video on Dodie Clark’s Youtube channel, 'doddleoddle.' The song is about how, while Dodie finds comfort in the rain, she finds it much easier to express her negative emotions whilst it is raining. The song has a somber tone and, compared to the softer singing in her later songs, is sung in a strong way.'"

Story
From what the lyrics tell, this song seems like Dodie is talking about bottling up your feelings and keeping them inside. In public you don't want to let out all of your anger in public so that you could be under control, but while it's raining you can go all out since the rain roars over the world. She talks about how much she wants to see thunder and how much she sees lightning, which references her original topic of the song about letting out your feelings instead of bottling them up.

In 2014 she revisits Rain on doddlevloggle in which she calls it "so like [an] angsty 14 year old." Perhaps she is hinting at this being the age that she was when she originally wrote the song? (This is just speculation!)

Lyrics
[Verse 1]

I'm so angry, I'm finding it hard to breathe

To control myself

I just want to scream out loud

Show the crowd I'm so angry

But while it's raining, I can cry

'Cause no one will know if they're tears or from the sky

So I say rain, rain on

[Chorus]

Rain, rain harder

I wanna see lightning

I wanna hear thunder

[Verse 2]

It's so infuriating bottling it up

Hiding it away with a smile on your face

Oh they have no idea what's behind that grin

Till you go outside cause you can't keep it in

And it's raining

Thank goodness for the roar

As it comes pouring down

I can kick, I can scream, I can shout

Let it rain on

[Chorus]

Rain, rain harder

I wanna see lightning

I wanna hear thunder

[Bridge]

Why do people complain

There's nothing wrong with the rain

It washes everything away

Clearing my mind

I'm no longer blind

I can see

[Chorus]

So I say

Rain, rain harder

I wanna see lightning

I wanna hear thunder

Yeah, oh

Rain, rain harder

I wanna see lightning

I wanna hear thunder

[Outro]

I wanna hear thunder