[New post] Song Lyric Sunday – 24 April 2022 – Dry Your Eyes
Peter's pondering posted: " Jim Adams' Song Lyric Sunday gives us the chance to share familiar, and sometimes not so familiar, songs. This week the prompt is to find a song that may include, or reference: Anxiety, Delight, Emotions, Pain, Pride, Relief suggested "
Jim Adams' Song Lyric Sunday gives us the chance to share familiar, and sometimes not so familiar, songs. This week the prompt is to find a song that may include, or reference: Anxiety, Delight, Emotions, Pain, Pride, Relief suggested by Di of pensitivity101.
If you fancy sharing one of your favourite songs you can find out how to participate, and also listen to all the great entries, here.
The Streets are an English rap music project led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner. They were active from 1994 to 2011 and again from 2017 to the present day.
The song Dry Your Eyes is a song about pain and describes the protagonist trying to cope with his girlfriend breaking up with him. It was released in the UK on 19 July 2004. The song is the Streets' most successful single, reaching number one in the United Kingdom on 25 July 2004, six days after its release. It is the sort of song that may raise the hairs on the back of your neck!
The song is four minutes and forty five seconds long but is mostly heard as the shortened version of three minutes and twenty two seconds, leaving out the bridge and third verse.
Here is the short version (the lyrics in blue are the omitted ones):
In one single moment, your whole life can turn round I stand there for a minute, staring straight into the ground Lookin' to the left slightly, then lookin' back down The world feels like it's caved in, proper sorry frown
Please let me show you where we could only just be for us I can change, and I can grow, or we could adjust The wicked thing about us is we always have trust We can even have an open relationship if you must
I look at her, she stares almost straight back at me But her eyes glaze over, like she's looking straight through me Her eyes must have closed for what seems an eternity When they open up she's looking down at her feet
Dry your eyes mate I know it's hard to take, but her mind has been made up There's plenty more fish in the sea Dry your eyes mate I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts But you've got to walk away now, it's over
So then I move my hand up and down by my side It's shaking; my life is crashing before my eyes I turn the palm of my hand up to face the skies Touch the bottom of her chin and let out a sigh
'Cause I can't imagine my life without you and me There's things I can't imagine doing Things I can't imagine seeing It weren't supposed to be easy, surely Please, please, I'm begging, please
She brings her hands up towards where my hands rested She wraps her fingers around mine with the softness she's blessed with She peels away my fingers, looks at me and then gestures By pushing my hand away to my chest, from hers
Dry your eyes mate I know it's hard to take, but her mind has been made up There's plenty more fish in the sea Dry your eyes mate I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts But you've got to walk away now, it's over
And I'm just standing there I can't say a word Because everything is just gone I've got nothing Absolutely nothing
Trying to pull her close out of bear desperation Put my arms around her, trying to change what she's saying Pull my head level with hers so that she might engage in Look in to her eyes to make her listen again
I'm not gonna fucking just fucking leave it all now 'Cause you said it'd be forever, and that was your vow And your gonna let our things simply crash and fall down You're well out of order now, this is well out of town
She pulls away my arms, tightly clamped round her waist Gently pushes me back as she looks at me straight Turns around so she's now got her back to my face Takes one step forward, looks back, then walks away
Dry your eyes mate I know it's hard to take, but her mind has been made up There's plenty more fish in the sea Dry your eyes mate I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts But you've got to walk away now, it's over
I know in the past I've found it hard to say Telling you things, but not telling straight But the more I pull on your hand and say The more you pull away Dry your eyes mate I know it's hard to take, but her mind has been made up There's plenty more fish in the sea Dry your eyes mate I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts But you've got to walk away now
And here is the full length version which contains explicit language. It is very cleverly done with an unofficial video that ends in an unexpected manner. I do hope everyone is able to view it.
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