Un-break her heart

I'm playing various favorite MP3's on the computer while I play solotaire, and "Un-break My Heart" starts playing. This has been one of my favorite songs since the first time I heard it. It's so smooth and passionate and Toni Braxton sings it SO well. But tonight it was a whole new song to me - as though I'd never heard it before. Tonight, it became personal, an emotional song that makes my chest tight with restrained emotion. It sounds like my mother's lament. And I realize that this is just like the opera heroines who sing glorious high C's just before they die of tuberculosis. This is not a song that could be sung in "real life." It would have to be wept.

Don't leave me in all this pain,

Don't leave me out in the rain,

Come back and bring back my smile,

Come and take these tears away,

I need your arms to hold me now,

Nights are so unkind,

Bring back those nights when I held you beside me

Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again

Un-do the hurt you caused when you walked out the door

and walked out of my life,

Un-cry these tears I've cried so many nights

Un-break my heart

Take back that sad word goodbye,
Bring back the joy to my life,
Don't leave me here with this tear,

Come and kiss this pain away,

I can't forget the day you left,

Time was so unkind,

Life is so cruel without you here beside me.

Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again
Un-do the hurt you caused when you walked out the door

and walked out of my life,
Un-cry these tears I've cried so many nights
Un-break my heart