CAN'T CRY ANYMORE

 SHERYL CROW

SONGWRITERS: SHERYL CROW & BILL BOTRELL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: TUESDAY NIGHT MUSIC CLUB

LABEL: A & M

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1993

"Can't Cry Anymore" is a 1995 single by Sheryl Crow from the album Tuesday Night Music Club released on A&M Records. The song reached number 36 on Billboard's Hot 100, becoming Crow's third straight top 40 hit. In Canada, the song fared even better, reaching number three and becoming Crow's third consecutive top-three hit, following the number-one singles "All I Wanna Do" and "Strong Enough". Elsewhere, however, the song had limited success, reaching number 33 in the United Kingdom and number 41 in Australia.

Sheryl Suzanne Crow(born February 11, 1962) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and actress. Her music incorporates elements of pop, rock, country, and blues. She has released ten studio albums, four compilations, two live albums, and has contributed to a number of film soundtracks. Her songs include "All I Wanna Do", "If It Makes You Happy", "My Favorite Mistake" and the theme song for the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. She has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. Crow has garnered nine Grammy Awards (out of 32 nominations) from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Took your car

Drove to Texas

Sorry, honey

But I suspected we were through

And I can't cry anymore

Since I left

Been feelin' better, cause that's

What you get when you

Stay together too long

And I can't cry anymore

Refrão

Wouldn't it be good if we could hop a flight to anywhere

So long to this life

So much for pretending

Bad luck's never-ending

And now I know that

Money comes is

But the fact is

There's not enough to

Pay my taxes

And I can't cry anymore

Well, got a brother

He's got real problems

Heroin - no

There's just no stopping him tonight

And I won't cry anymore

Refrão

It's never ending

It could be worse

I could've missed my calling

Sometimes it hurts

But when you read the writing on the wall

Can't cry anymore

Refrão

And too much time I've been spending

With my heart in my hands

waiting for time to come and mend it

I can't cry anymore.

TILL I GAIN CONTROL AGAIN

EMMYLOU HARRIS

SONGWRITER: RODNEY CROWELL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ELITE HOTEL

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1975

Elite Hotel is an album by country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1975. Elite Hotel was Harris' second album to be released in 1975, preceded by the widely acclaimed Pieces of the Sky. Elite Hotel surpassed it on the Billboard charts, becoming Harris' first #1 country album. The album yielded two #1 country singles: "Together Again" and Harris' version of the Patsy Cline hit "Sweet Dreams", and "One of These Days" made it to the #3 spot. A performance of The Beatles' "Here, There and Everywhere" entered the pop charts at #65. Harris' eclectic musical tastes were reflected in her choice of material by Hank Williams, The Beatles, Gram Parsons and Buck Owens. Harris' vocals on the album earned her the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female.

Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2018 she was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Her work and recordings include work as a solo artist, a bandleader, an interpreter of other composers' works, a singer-songwriter, and a backing vocalist and duet partner. She has worked with numerous artists.

Just like the sun over the mountain top

You know i'll always come again

You know i love to spend my morning time

Like sunlight dancing on your skin

I've never gone so wrong as to telling lies to you

What you've seen is what I've been

There is nothing I could hide from you

You see me better than I can

Out on the road that lies before me now

There are some turns where I will spin

I only hope that you can hold me now

Till i can gain control again

Like a lighthouse you must stand alone

Landmark the sailor's journeys end

No matter what sea I've have been sailing on

I'll always roll this way again

Out on the road that lies before me now

There are some turns where I will spin

I only hope that you can hold me now

Till i can gain control again.

SOUTHERN MAN

NEIL YOUNG

SONGWRITER: NEIL YOUNG

WHERE: CARNEGIE HALL – 2014

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: AFTER THE GOLD RUSH

LABEL: REPRISE

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1970

"Southern Man" is a song by Neil Young from his album After the Gold Rush. The album was released in 1970. An extended live version can be heard on the Crosby Stills Nash & Young album 4 Way Street.

The lyrics of "Southern Man" are vivid, describing the racism towards blacks in the American South. In the song, Young tells the story of a white man (symbolically the entire white South) and how he mistreated his slaves. Young pleadingly asks when the South will make amends for the fortunes built through slavery when he sings:

"I saw cotton and I saw black,

"tall white mansions and little shacks.

"Southern Man, when will you pay them back?"

The song also mentions the practice of cross burning referencing the Ku Klux Klan.

Young was very sensitive about the song's message as anti-racism and anti-violence. During his 1973 tour, he canceled a show in Oakland, California because a fan was beaten and removed from the stage by a guard while the song was played. 

Southern man better keep your head

Don't forget what your good book said

Southern change gonna come at last

Now your crosses are burning fast

Southern man

I saw cotton and I saw black

Tall white mansions and little shacks.

Southern man when will you pay them back?

I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking

How long? How long?

Southern man better keep your head

Don't forget what your good book said

Southern change gonna come at last

Now your crosses are burning fast

Southern man

Lily Belle, your hair is golden brown

I've seen your black man comin' round

Swear by God I'm gonna cut him down!

I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking

How long? How long?

DARLIN’

BEACH BOYS

SONGWRITERS: BRIAN WILSON & MIKE LOVE

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: WILD HONEY

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK AND ROLL

YEAR: 1967

Wild Honey is the 13^th studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released December 18, 1967 on Capitol Records. It was the group's first foray into soul music and was heavily influenced by the R&B of Motown and Stax Records (artists such as Stevie Wonder). Lead single and opening track, "Wild Honey", became a minor hit with only a short chart stay. Its follow-up "Darlin'" reached the US Top 20. The album itself reached number 24 in the US and number seven in the UK.

The album's sessions began immediately after the abandonment of Lei'd in Hawaii, a failed live album, and the release of Smiley Smile, their previous studio album. Like Smiley Smile, Wild Honey's core instrumental combo consists of organ, honky-tonk piano, and electric bass. The Beach Boys were inspired to regroup as a self-contained rock band, partly in response to critical assertions that they were "ball-less choir boys". The production was once again credited to the group rather than Brian Wilson alone, who gradually abdicated the band's musical leadership following the difficult sessions for the aborted Smile LP. At Brian's request, his younger brother Carl began contributing more to the recording process, a trend that continued on subsequent albums.

Ohh! darlin'

My darlin' you're so fine

Ohhhh!-hhh!-hhh!

Don't know if words can say

But darlin' I'll find a way

To let you know what you meant to me

Guess it was meant to be

I hold you in my heart

As life's most precious part

Oh! darlin'

I dream about you often my pretty girl babe

(Darlin' you're so fine)

I love the way you soften my life with your love

Your precious love uh! huh!, oh!

I was living like half a man

Then I couldn't love but now I can

You pick me up when I'm feeling sad

More soul than I ever had

Gonna love you every single night

Cause I think you're too outta sight

Oh! oh! darlin'

I dream you often my pretty girl babe

(Darlin' you're so fine)

I love the way soften my life with your love

Your precious love uh! huh! huh!

Woah oh! oh! oh!

Every night oh darlin'

Gonna love you every single night, yes I will

Cause I think you're too doggone outta sight

Oh! darlin'

I dream about you often my pretty girl babe

(Darlin' you're so fine)

I love the way soften my life with your love

Your precious love uh! huh! huh!

Oh!