Dave Stewart shared in The Dave Stewart Songbook:

I’d been out on 46th Street and bought an early Casio keyboard, about 20 inches long with very small keys. It was an overcast day. Annie was sitting in my room, and I was playing some little riff on the keyboard sitting on the window ledge, and I was playing these little melancholy minor-ish chords. I kept on playing this riff, and Annie was looking out the window at the slate grey sky above the New York skyline and just sang spontaneously, ‘Here comes the rain again.’ And that was all we needed. You see, like with a lot of our songs, you only need to start with that one line, and that one atmosphere, that one note, or that intro melody. And of course that starts the whole song. And the whole song was about that undecided thing, like here comes depression, or here comes that downward spiral. But then it goes, ‘so talk to me like lovers do.’ It’s the wandering in and out of melancholy, a dark beauty that sort of is like the rose that’s when it’s darkest unfolding and blood red just before the garden, dies. And capturing that in kind of oblique statements and sentiments. And the rest of it was like a puzzle where we needed to just fill in the missing pieces. So it’s kind of a weird course.

The genre of Eurythmics usually falls into one of these three genres: Dance rock, new wave, and synth pop. The release date for this song is January 12th, 1984.