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• Tappan from ArizonaAlthough I have no evidence for this besides my own ears, I am certain Mark McGrath wrote this after listening to (and possibly singing it along with) Chad & Jeremy's 1964 hit "A Summer Song" (which has its own page here on Songfacts). If you try it yourself, you'll find that you can match most of the lyrics line-for-line (with a little shuffling here and there). The songs not only share similar chord progressions, but a similar sentiment, of remembering a lost summer love on a rainy day. For example:
  
  Trees
  Swayin' in the summer breeze
  Showin' off their silver leaves
  As we walked by
  
  Someday
  When my life has passed me by
  I lay around and wonder why
  You were always there for me
  
  But the giveway, for me, is the last stanza, which specifically mentions hearing "a song from another time":
  
  And when the rain
  Beats against my window pane
  I'll think of summer days again
  And dream of you
  And dream of you
  
  Someway
  When the sun begins to shine
  I hear a song from another time
  And fade away
  And fade away

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