Tears in Rain
The closing track of the Blade Runner score, which plays under Roy Batty's last speech.
Vangelis, from Blade Runner (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1982)
"Tears in Rain" is the last track of the 1994 album, 3:00 (about 2:41 on bootlegs), and one of four with film dialogue. It plays under Roy Batty's death scene. A breakdown by Reverb Machine, a single secondary source, says the melody is on a Fender Rhodes that Vangelis modified with an onboard graphic equalizer, with chords on a Roland VP-330 string sound and brass swells and descending glides on the CS-80. The speech is 42 words, written by David Peoples and trimmed and altered by Rutger Hauer, who added the line about tears in rain; Hauer said he cut the scripted version the night before shooting. Filmtracks says that with "End Titles" this cue is where the score congeals.
Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch remade it as "Tears in the Rain" for Blade Runner 2049 (2017). We found no live history for the piece, and could not tell which version our upload carries.
Covers and versions
- Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch (2017) "Tears in the Rain" for Blade Runner 2049.
More songs by Vangelis
Sources
- Blade Runner (soundtrack), Wikipedia
- Vangelis Blade Runner synth sounds, Reverb Machine
- Tears in rain monologue, Wikipedia