Have a good cry on me
Sep 19 '00
Heartbreaks come in all forms. Some are small. Some are large. Not all are related to being jilted. If you ever need a good cry, check out some of my top 10 heartbreak songs.
Everybody Hurts by R.E.M.
When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
when you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on.
Don't let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes.
Everybody Hurts first appeared on R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People in 1992. The first time that I heard this song, I found myself crying. Sometimes, it’s not the big heartbreaks that touch you. It’s the little ones. There are days when one thing piles into another can be so hard to handle. Now, after one of those days, I turn off the lights, crank up this song, and just cry. It hurts, but I always feel better afterwards.
I Started A Joke by the Bee Gees
I started a joke which started the whole world crying
But I didn't see that the joke was on me. Oh no
I started to cry which started the whole world laughing
Oh If I'd only seen that the joke was on me
I looked at the skies running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed hurting my head from things that I said
'Till I finally died which started the whole world living
Oh If I'd only seen that the joke was on me
I first heard this song on Bee Gees Greatest Hits album. The song was originally released in 1969 and was one of their first big hits, though I didn’t hear it until many years later. This folk tune bears little similarity to the most popular songs that the Bee Gees recorded, but I feel it is one of their most memorable. I like this song for those days when it feels like the whole world is laughing at me. Certainly, it reeks of self-pity, but it’s comforting nonetheless.
Love Hurts by Nazareth
Love hurts, love scars, love wounds
almost any heart
not tough or stong enough
to take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
love is like a cloud
holds a lot of rain
love hurts......ooh, ooh love hurts
I’m young, I know, but even so
I know a thing or two
and I learned from you
I really learned a lot, really learned a lot
love is like a flame
it burns you when it’s hot
love hurts......ooh, ooh love hurts
some fools think of happiness
blissfulness, togetherness
some fools fool themselves I guess
they’re not foolin’ me
I know it isn’t true, I know it isn’t true
love is just a lie
made to make you blue
love hurts......ooh, ooh love hurts
ooh, ooh love hurts
I first heard this song back in 1976, when one of my older brothers was suffering from his first broken heart. I would sit in my room next door to his and listen as he replayed Nazareth’s Hair of the Dog album over and over. Little did I know that I would be playing it myself ten years later, after suffering from Cupid’s demise myself. The heavy metal influence makes this a classic. God forbid anyone ever try to remake it!
That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be by Carly Simon
I hear my mother call "Sweet Dreams"
I’ve forgotten how to dream
Their children hate them for the things they’re not
They hate themselves for what they are
And yet they drink, they laugh
Close the wound
Hide the scar…
You say that we can keep our love alive
Babe, all I know is what I see
The couples cling and claw
And drown in loves debris
You say we’ll soar like two birds through the clouds
But soon you’ll cage me on your shelf
I’ll never learn to be just me first
By myself
There are so many parts of Carly Simon’s That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be that I’m left considering quoting the entire song! The song was released in 1971 on Carly Simon’s self-titled first album. I first heard this song in 1973, years after it’s initial release. At the time, I was just beginning to really notice that my parent’s marriage was Hell on Earth, and the poetry and sentiments in the song spoke to me. The song expresses the feelings of a woman who is considering commitment. She lists all of the things that tell her to avoid relationships. It was almost as if my mother could have been singing the words, because every one echoed what I could feel from her. OK… so the song may have traumatized me more than it helped me. But I still enjoy the peaceful tune.
What about me? by Moving Pictures
Take a step back and see the little people
They might be young
but they're the ones that make the big people big
So listen as they whisper:"What about me?"
And now I'm standing on the corner
all the world's gone home
Nobody's changed, nobody's been saved
And I'm feeling cold and alone
I guess I'm lucky, I smile a lot
But sometimes I wish for more than I've got...
What about me?
What about me?
What about....me?
Great for another dose of self-pity, What About Me laments why some people seem to get everything while others get nothing. I first heard this song in the 80’s, when it appeared on the original release of Moving Pictures’ Days of Innocence album. Since then, it has been re-released a couple times. I like to listen to this song when my efforts seem especially futile.
Alone Again (Naturally) by Gilbert O’Sullivan
To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to who wouldn't do
The role I was about to play?
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about God in His mercy
Who if He really does exist
Why did He desert me?
In my hour of need
I truly am indeed
Alone again, naturally
Although the tune for this song seems light, it is probably the darkest selection on my top 10. The song, which became a hit for Gilbert O’Sullivan in 1972, talks of the many ways in which the singer feels that he has been left alone. In the first verse (not quoted here), the singer talks about wanting to throw himself off a tower after he was jilted by a lover. In the middle verse (quoted here), he talks about feeling that God has abandoned him. In the last verse, he talks about his heartbreak after losing his parents. This song is truly depressing! The song can still be found on The Best of Gilbert O’Sullivan CD as well as on a number of “Best of” 70’s anthologies.
A Broken Wing by Martina McBride
She loved him like he was
The last man on Earth
Gave him everything she ever had
He'd break her spirit down
Then come lovin' up to her
Give a little, then take it back
She'd tell him about her dreams
He'd just shoot 'em down
Lord he loved to make her cry
"You're crazy for believin'
You'll ever leave the ground"
He said, "Only angels know how to fly"
And with a broken wing
She still sings
She keeps an eye on the sky
With a broken wing
She carries her dreams
Man you ought to see her fly
Who says that someone with a broken heart has to be trapped forever? Martina McBride’s A Broken Wing was released on her Evolution CD in 1997. The song tells the story of a woman who has been neglected and emotionally abused by her man. Rather than give up on her dreams, the woman runs away and goes after her dreams anyway. I love the message of the song, but I can’t help but appreciate Martina McBride’s vocals. What a voice!
If Life Is So Short by The Moffatts
Isn't it funny
How times seems to slip away
So fast
One minute you're happy
The other you're sad
But if you give me one more chance
To show my love for you is true
I'll stand by your side
Your whole life through
If life is so short
Why won't you let me love you
Before we run out of time
If love is so strong
Why won't you take the chance
Before our time has come
If life is so short
If life is so short
Love is a word that explains
How I feel for you
And when you're in my arms
All my dreams come true
And when you're not around
You can't hardly see
These tears that I'm crying
Now are for you to be with me
If life is so short
Why won't you let me love you
Before we run out of time
If love is so strong
Why won't you take the chance
Before our time has come
If life is so short
If life is so short
If Life Is So Short appears on The Moffatts’ 1999 CD Chapter I: A New Beginning. This song reminds me of how quickly things can change and of the need to cherish every day as it comes. Life contains lots of little heartbreaks. The secret is to not let them overwhelm me. The tune is upbeat, and I enjoy the guitar work on the song. However, if I let things get to me too much, this song can bring me to tears just as easily as the rest.
Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit lonely
And you're never coming round
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit tired
Of listening to the sound of my tears
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit nervous
That the best of all the years have gone by
Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit terrified
And then I see the look in your eyes
Turn around bright eyes every now and then I fall apart
Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart was released in 1987 on her Faster than the Speed of Night album. Tyler’s raspy vocals, intermixed with Rory Dodd’s background pleading “Turn around”, break my heart every time I listen to this song.
You Were Mine by Dixie Chicks
I can give you two good reasons
To show you love's not blind
He's two and she's four and you know they adore you
So how can I tell them you've changed your mind
Sometimes I wake up crying at night
And sometimes I scream out your name
What right does she have to take you away
When for so long you were mine
No matter how many times that I listen to this song, I cannot get the visual of two little kids, standing at the door and waiting for daddy, out of my head. The vocals from Natalie Maines scream of the sadness and heartbreak of a dying marriage. These are backed up with some beautiful violin work. You Were Mine was just one of the smash hits on 1998’s Wide Open Spaces.
BONUS TRACK: Angel by Sara McLachlan
Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always one reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty
and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
In the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there
It is impossible for me to listen to the quiet power of Sarah McClachlan’s Angel without crying. Although it has become an extremely popular tome for funerals, it also speaks of the heartbreak of failure. For a more extended cry, listen to the rest of the Surfacing, the CD on which Angel first appeared.
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