Don't Rain on My Parade Don't Rain on My Parade "Don't Rain on My Parade" is a popular song from the 1964 musical "Funny Girl". It was also featured in the 1968 movie version of the musical. The song was written by Bob Merrill and Jule Styne. Both the movie and stage versions feature Barbra Streisand performing the song. In 2004 it finished No. 46 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. Streisand has sung the song live on many occasions, including during her comeback tour "Barbra Streisand: The Concert Tour" (1993–1994), "Timeless Live In Concert Tour" (1999–2000), "" (2006–2007)
Rain (Madonna song) has a different melody included with it, and the song ends in a group chorus without the harmonies. Lyrically, Madonna compares rain with feelings of love. Just as rain washes away dirt, love washes clean the sorrows of the past, leaving a person and their lover to focus on their feelings of the present moment. Richard Harrington from "The Washington Post" described "Rain" as "an optimistic Peter Gabriel-like ballad in which water is a metaphor for love ('Wash away my sorrow, take away my pain')." According to Stephen Sears from music website Idolator, "the synths turbo-charge at 2:46 into a