Train’s live performance of their song “Sweet Rain”, which was recorded at the Workplay Theater in Birmingham, Alabama, and included in the album “Train: Alive at Last”, took the mood of the original version of the song and amplified it. In the live performance, lead singer Pat Monahan repeats lines like “come down on me”, and holds notes for a longer period than in the original, which plays on the longing and weight expressed throughout the song. The last verse is also modified in the live version in order to flesh out the speaker’s relationship with his “brother” and the struggles he has had to endure. For example, Some words are more stressed than others, like when pat emphasizes the “love” in “and how I love you” and the way he says “I had to grow in ways I didn’t want to know” with apprehension. Lines that were not in the live version, like “everybody knew that she was just too much for you”, “I know everyone here wants you”, and “I know everybody here thinks they need you” helps the audience focus on the relationship the speaker has with this person instead. Overall, I think that the impact of the live version is greater than the original because of the live crowd. The original version is still sung passionately, but there are empty spaces that hang around the speaker’s words. In the live version, the energy of the crowd is infused into Pat, so the words seem to come alive, and any “gaps” are filled.

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