Lost Gem: "I Want You to Hurt Like I Do" - Randy Newman (1988)


"And things don't always...
things don't always
go the way we plan."
~ Randy Newman ~

Randy Newman is a singer/songwriter who, when not focusing on his many film scoring projects...takes pleasure in revealing the darker shades of ourselves.

Taking on all comers with a surgeons eye and a Shakespeare's sarcasm...striking a little closer to home than some would like.

His job is to shock...sometimes offend...and hopefully cause the listener to look a little deeper inside themselves. I'm guessing this makes Randy very happy.




Lost Gem:--> "I Want You to Hurt Like I Do"...is a ballad of "anthemic" proportion about media-grabbing grand-standers.

The..."We Are The World" types... who take on a cause...simply for the sole purpose of drawing attention...to themselves.  The self-righteous bleating about all the pain, their particular cause...causes. Unforgettable!

If the words were changed, this song could easily be another "group-hug sing-a-long" for the world...

Randy chose a different course.

Have you heard this gem?


I ran out on my children
And I ran out on my wife
Gonna run out on you too, baby
I done it all my life
Everybody cried the night I left
Well, almost everybody did
My little boy just hung his head
And I put my arm, put my arm around his little shoulder
And this is what I said:
"Sonny I just want you to hurt like I do
I just want you to hurt like I do
I just want you to hurt like I do
Honest I do, honest I do, honest I do"

If I had one wish
One dream I knew would come true
I'd want to speak to all the people of the world
I'd get up there, I'd get up there on that platform
First I'd sing a song or two you know I would
Then I'll tell you what I'd do
I'd talk to the people and I'd say
"It's a rough rough world, it's a tough tough world
Well, you know
And things don't always, things don't always go the way we plan
But there's one thing, one thing we all have in common
And it's something everyone can understand
All over the world sing along

I just want you to hurt like I do
I just want you to hurt like I do
I just want you to hurt like I do
Honest I do, honest I do, honest I do.


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