"I'll Cry Instead" lyrics
"I'll Cry Instead"
I've got every reason on earth to be mad
Cos I've just lost the only girl I had
And if I could get my way
I'd get myself locked up today
But I can't so I cry instead
I've got a chip on my shoulder that's bigger than my feet
I can't talk to people that I meet
And if I could see you now
I'd try to make you sad somehow
But I can't so I cry instead
Don't want to cry when there's people there
I get shy when they start to stare
I'm gonna hide myself away, ay hay
But I'll come back again someday
And when I do you'd better hide all the girls
I'm gonna break their hearts all 'round the world
Yes, I'm gonna break them in two
And show you what your loving man can do
Until then I'll cry instead
Don't want to cry when there's people there
I get shy when they start to stare
I'm gonna hide myself away, ay hay
But I'll come back again someday
And when I do you'd better hide all the girls
Cos I'm gonna break their hearts all 'round the world
Yes, I'm gonna break them in two
And show you what your loving man can do
Until then I'll cry instead
Writer(s): Paul McCartney, John Lennon
This song was meant to be in the film "A Hard Day's Night", but if was left off because the film's director Richard Lester thought that the song "Can't Buy Me Love" would fit better. "I'll Cry Instead" is used at the beginning of the film's 1981 re-release during the opening sequence.
Joe Cocker's cover of this song was his first single in 1964.
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"A Hard Day's Night" (1964)