April is a month of renewal, marked by the full arrival of spring and all the beauty it brings. It’s a time of blooming flowers, gentle rains, and longer days, inspiring countless songs across genres. These 21 songs use April in every way imaginable, from romance to riots to the end of the world.
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Best Songs About April
1. “April in Paris” – Ella Fitzgerald
Lyric Sample: “April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.”
This jazz classic is about a first visit to Paris in spring and the unexpected feeling of falling in love with both the city and someone in it, as if the season itself made it possible.
2. “April Come She Will” – Simon & Garfunkel
Lyric Sample: “April, come she will, when streams are ripe and swelled with rain.”
This 1966 folk ballad uses the changing months of the year as a timeline for a relationship that begins in the spring and ends by August.
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3. “April Skies” – The Jesus and Mary Chain
Lyric Sample: “Under the April skies, under the April sun.”
This 1980s alt-rock track compares a relationship that is falling apart to an unpredictable spring rainstorm.
4. “April Fool” – Patti Smith
Lyric Sample: “Come be my April fool, come you’re the only one.”
In “April Fool,” Smith invites a friend to ditch their serious responsibilities and embrace a day of carefree wandering.
5. “April 29, 1992 (Miami)” – Sublime
Lyric Sample: “April 26th, 1992, there was a riot on the streets, tell me, where were you?”
Sublime’s track is a first-person account of looting and anarchy during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
6. “Sometimes It Snows in April” – Prince
Lyric Sample: “Sometimes it snows in April, sometimes I feel so bad.”
In this ballad, Prince ties the memory of a close friend’s death to an April day, turning the out‑of‑season snow into a sign that nothing feels right anymore.
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7. “Taxman” – The Beatles
Lyric Sample: “Let me tell you how it will be, there’s one for you, nineteen for me.”
George Harrison’s 1960s rock tune is an attack on the British tax system, specifically the supertax rate that took the vast majority of high earners’ income.
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8. “April the 14th Part 1” – Gillian Welch
Lyric Sample: “It was the fourteenth day of April, well they closed it down with the sail in rags.”
April 14 shows up repeatedly as “ruination day” in this song, tying together bad luck from Welch’s own life with bigger tragedies on that same date.
9. “April 5th” – Talk Talk
Lyric Sample: “Here she comes, silent in her sound, fresh upon the ground.”
Mark Hollis wrote this 1986 song for his wife, whose birthday falls on April 5th, framing her arrival in the world with the arrival of spring itself.
10. “The April Fools” – Dionne Warwick
Lyric Sample: “Are we just April fools, who can’t see all the danger around us?”
This 1969 Burt Bacharach ballad, written for the film of the same name, is about two people falling in love and choosing to keep going, knowing they might be fools for trusting it.
11. “Rain Song” – Led Zeppelin
Lyric Sample: “It is the springtime of my loving, the second season I am to know.”
This 1970s rock song moves through the seasons as a metaphor for the stages of a relationship, from the warmth of summer to the cold of winter.
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12. “April Showers” – ProleteR
Lyric Sample: “March winds and April showers make way for sweet May flowers.”
This 2011 electro swing track samples lyrics from Teddy Joyce and His Orchestra’s “March Winds and April Showers” about March winds and April showers blooming into June romance.
13. “April” – Deep Purple
Lyric Sample: “April is a cruel time, even though the sun may shine.”
Ritchie Blackmore wrote this twelve-minute prog rock song about his birthday month, describing April as a beautiful but sad time.
14. “In April” – Johnny Flynn
Lyric Sample: “In April, in April, I reconciled with your ghost.”
Flynn’s 2015 folk song is about a man who could not admit his own part in the end of a relationship.
15. “April” – Beach Bunny
Lyric Sample: “April showers, rain starts falling, I wish that you would pick up when you know I’m calling.”
This 2020 indie pop song is about trying to reach an ex who has gone completely silent, still calling the same number from April all the way to October with nothing coming back.
16. “Soft Rains of April” – a-ha
Lyric Sample: “The soft rains of April are over, over.”
“Soft Rains of April” is a synth-pop track about a young man far from home, writing letters and counting down the years left before he can go back.
17. “April Again” – Dean Martin
Lyric Sample: “Oh, if I could live April again, if only I could live April again.”
Martin’s 1968 ballad is about pressing dried flowers between the pages of a book and pretending for a moment that it is April again and the person he loved is still there.
18. “April Love” – Pat Boone
Lyric Sample: “April love is for the very young, every star’s a wishing star that shines for you.”
This 1957 pop song is about the special tenderness of first love in spring, the kind that only comes once and stays with you long after the season is over.
19. “April Sun in Cuba” – Dragon
Lyric Sample: “Take me to the April sun in Cuba, take me where the April sun gonna treat me so right.”
Dragon’s rock hit is about being fed up with city life and wanting to get to Cuba for the nice weather.
20. “April After All” – Ron Sexsmith
Lyric Sample: “The rain has got to fall, it’s April after all.”
Sexsmith’s song is about rain falling on parades and ruining plans, and choosing to accept it rather than fight it, knowing that things will turn around.
21. “April 2031” – Warrant
Lyric Sample: “No more sky and no more trees, April 2031.”
This early ’90s hard rock track is about a future where nuclear fallout has left the sky permanently grey, the oceans gone, and a generation that has never known clean air or blue sky.
Conclusion
April turns up in songs as everything from a month worth celebrating to a date worth dreading. Whether it is the warmth of spring love, a historical tragedy, or a future that went wrong, these songs make the most out of the month.
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