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The speaker looks back on a life that has included pain, change, mistakes, and public criticism. Rather than wishing those hardships away, she says they helped shape who she is. The mood moves from recalling struggle toward acceptance and faith: she cannot know what life will bring, but she keeps believing that events have meaning.
The โrainโ is a metaphor for difficult experiences, not just bad weather. Saying she would not remove it suggests that hardship brought growth as well as suffering. โMore money, more problemsโ means that greater wealth can also bring new pressures. The speaker also contrasts what appears on television with what is actually true, implying that public stories can be exaggerated or incomplete.
Her belief that โhe is watching meโ may refer to God or another spiritual presence; the lyrics do not specify exactly. Likewise, saying there is โa reason for everythingโ expresses the speakerโs way of making sense of hardship, rather than proving that every painful event has a clear purpose. The songโs acceptance is not the same as saying the pain was easy or good: it presents the past as something she has learned from and can now carry forward.