Darius has a one in a million voice. The band formed when these guys attended the University of South Carolina at the same time I did. The song is not about infidelity it’s about alcoholism. Darius wrote this song based on his own experience but, he was the alcoholic not the girl, he just flipped the roles for the song.
I know the feeling literally, and now i'm gonna die from it, why? Cause i ruined my body with years of abuse, frankly i'm surprised everyday, when i wake up...
I saw Hootie and the Blowfish in concert in the 90s during the height of their popularity! The had mega-hits! This was one of my favorite songs by them! The girl in the song has a substance abuse problem and he feels helpless! Darius Rucker, the lead singer, is in country music now but still tours with Hootie… at times!❤️❤️
Used to see them in bars back in South Carolina before they got big. Knew all the guys in the band. I had a friend in the Navy that went to high school with Darius and was really good friends with him. We used to talk music all the time. It was really fun watching them go from playing in bars to getting their first record contract and then Superstars
This song takes me back to the 90's when the world was a simpler place and music was actually about talent and not a popularity contest. Great reactions!
The song isn’t about cheating. It’s about a relationship. The man wants to love the girl but the girl has such a toxic addiction that he has to “let her be” to save himself.
Saw Hootie in Houston years ago at the Cynthia Woods Pavilion. It was the best concert I've ever been to and I've been to concerts all over the US including US Festival in California.
Read the lyrics, it helps. He's in love with a woman who is a little messed up and parties too much. But, he's so hooked on her that he can't walk away like he knows he should. So, he stays and wishes she would leave if he can't. Wishes he could and just Let Her Cry. I believe it came from his own life when he was into one too interested in partying and not being a good boyfriend.
I'd only been sober for a couple of years when this came out, so it was hard to listen to without falling apart. With over 26 years clean & sober now, it's wonderful. The lyrics are beautifully written, and Darius' voice is (omfg!) perfect.
I can’t believe you guys didn’t fully get the song. The last verse: “Last night I tried to leave, and cried so much I could not believe she was the same girl I fell in love with long ago.” “She went in the back to get high. I sat down on my couch and cried yelling, help me! Won’t you hold my hand and just let her cry.” This story is about being in a relationship and being in love with someone who has an addictive, self destructive personality. Drugs, sex, booze. Whatever will ease her pain. A pain she is struggling with with, which likely stems from childhood trauma. You can’t usually help these people. You have to “let her go” In the end, they have to help themselves. Period. That being said, Lex has an interesting and intuitive mind. The way that she can connect with memories she hasn’t had through music is absolutely unique. Hang on to her, she may save your life one day, Brad.
I chased my daughter for 18 yrs as she went from drug to drug and loser bf to loser bf. She's still fighting her way back but she's surviving. That's really something with her.
One of my all time favorite songs. My mom went through it with my dad and then I repeated the cycle and went through it with a significant other that I stayed with and tried to fix. Despite the fact that the song speaks to me and should bring up bad memories since the lyrics are something I’ve lived, hearing it still puts a smile on my face. It isn’t about cheating per se; its about loving someone and having them turn to drugs/alcohol and you trying to stay and help them because you reminisce on how things used to be and you yearn for that. You know they can only help themselves but you can’t bring yourself to let go, so you stay in the misery and enable them. Cheating can indeed be a ramification of that cycle, but it’s incidental to the meaning of the song.
Yeah. Shit. I'm sorry you went through that. Me too. I was at a grocery store, when the full weight of this song's meaning, as you described, hit me like a fist to the guts. I had to compose myself. Was it him or me that had to cry? We both do. He'd never get well no matter how much I exhausted myself. Hell of an epiphany to have then and there but I have this song to thank for that.
Went through the same with my ex. Stayed because I thought I owed it to her to put up with the lies, stealing, and cheating. She got hooked on pills and meth. I divorced her but I helped her through rehab. She engaged now but that's ok. My boys and I went through therapy and we working on ourselves.
I understand, it was one of the toughest decisions I ever had to make after my wife of 15 years walked out on our son and I. It wasn't until after she left that I found out about her years long and well hidden coke addiction. I was devastated on multiple levels but the bottom line was she wanted a divorce. I reminded her that we were married "through sickness and in health" and that I couldn't grant her wish while she was sick (addicted). My son and I begged that she go to rehab and tell me with a clean and clear mind that she still wanted a divorce and I would agree, but she never did. She died of cancer complicated by her drug and alcohol abuse 13 months later, estranged from her only son. The death grip of addiction is incredibly cruel to loved ones.
This song still hits my heart, every dang time. Once dated a lady, "The one that got away", and I wont go into the details. But there was some sincere likeness to this song.
This song was on Hootie’s debut album from the mid-90’s. It had a ton of radio airplay. Almost too much. I finally had to change stations when it came on because I’d heard it 200 times. 😵💫
"She went in the back to GET HIGH". I don't think it's about alcohol or cheating. She's an addict and it's destroying him as well. Anyone who's ever been in love with an addict knows this all too well. The song, written for Bonnie Raitt, was inspired by The Black Crowes' "She Talks to Angels." "Dad's the one she loves the most" (John Raitt is also a famous singer), "but Stipe's not far behind" (Michael Stipe, lead singer of REM).
I always interpreted the song as him singing about having the strength to just let her handle her business and do what she needs to do, figuring out how to support her while not getting to the point of crumbling himself.
Darius Rucker recalled that he had just listened to the song "She Talks to Angels" by the Black Crowes for the first time and was listening to a record by blues singer Bonnie Raitt and "in one stream of consciousness" wrote the lyrics to the song.[3]
Cracked Rear View was the top-selling album of 1995, and to date has sold over 21 million copies, making it one of the best-selling US releases of all time. “Let Her Cry”, the song that tells the story of a relationship with a woman who struggles with drug and alcohol abuse. It finds meaning in trying to be patient, to remember the love that the two first shared, and stay by her side through these hard times. Stripe was a popular street drug/ acid and sometimes 1995 - 2000 same name stripe was a kind of Heroine. This girl in the song has alcohol and drug problem.
God just brings back so many memories in the 90s I was into all types of music the 90s was the best decade for music the best rap, grunge was everywhere which I loved Alice In Chains and STP and metal was All about Pantera for me but I loved all types of music in the 90s
Hi Brad And Lex, I hope you and yours are all well. Hootie was a Phenom. I found his voice to be outstanding. Hootie was this band. I only wish he made more Music!
Ah this brings back memories of the pizza hut jukebox. My family used to go there once or twice a month. I would play bon Jovi hootie and the blowfish and Genesis. While were there.
Old Crow Medicine Show. Originals My husband played this way before Darius made popular. Just giving props to original artists. We've listened before it was mainstream, my kids knew the lyrics♥️
This is the song in the 90s that you played full blast when that girl broke your heart... driving 90mph down a back road drinking a beer crying "I loved her man!!"
Interesting band, they came out of nowhere and sold tons of copies of that album by their next album they were already on the way out, by the album after that, everyone had already forgotten about them and they were playing small town food festivals.
Great reaction! Darius Rucker has a very recognizable and distinctive voice. Hootie and the Blowfish has a very successful run of hits and albums back in the day. Darius left the band for a solo career as a country singer and has had several hits in that genre.
In 1995, Hootie & the Blowfish contributed the song "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" to the Encomium tribute album to Led Zeppelin. Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin is a tribute album by various artists dedicated to Led Zeppelin, released by Atlantic Records on March 14, 1995. Many of the appearing artists were signed to Atlantic or an affiliate at the time of the release.
"I slipped and a scrunchie saved my life" is the best opening line to a story since, "Everything was fine until the cops showed up ..." If you like this, check out Indigo Girls ' Romeo and Juliet" (written by Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U0Sz6h9uyBk.html Speaking of great opening lines - Todd Snider "The Devil You Know" ... "Helicopters over the house again ... "
Darius Rucker wrote this song after hearing She talks to Angels by the black crowes. He meant it to compliment that song, like another perspective of the same girl.
Darius sat at a bar one night, and heard someone playing The Black Crowes' She Talks to Angels and thought to himself "I want to write that song." So he wrote Let Her Cry.
I always just thought of their relationship as being pretty much identical to Forrest Gump and Jenny. I could be wrong, of course, and I never looked up anything about it, but that's just how it hits me just listening to it.
When a significant other -- boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse -- is out of control with their drinking &/or drugging, you have no control of the situation. This song is about that. Wrestling with the powerlessness the situation has thrown in your lap. Loving someone who's self-destructing right in front of you, and your pained search for answers.
I’ve listened to and sung along with this song since 1994, but never really thought about the lyrics that much… it is definitely about substance/alcohol abuse… when a drunk starts crying you don’t console them, you let them cry… when they start drunk singing and dancing you let them sing, when they get obstinate and walk out, you let them go… because it’s the drugs or the alcohol… then in the morning you don’t lecture them, you just them be…
@@dennissurface8111 Bob Dylan wrote it for the soundtrack to Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. It was never used, but years later Old Crow contacted Dylan and asked if they could use it. He said they could and Old Crow added a verse. This is common knowledge. I would ask how you didn't know this.
Ketch Secor if OCMS wrote the 3 verses and composed most of wagon wheel. Bob Dylan had a one-off drunken outtake of the chorus of wagon wheel, so technically he's a co-writer. But, it's really an OCMS/Dylan co-written song, not a cover.
@@medinadg Agreed. Dylan did write one verse, the melody, and the chorus, although OCMS discarded the Dylan verse as far as I can figure out. Dylan quite often just sang a song into a tape recorder rather than write it down, which he did with this. He also sang Knockin' on Heaven's Door into a recorder so the record company would have a copy of it. I think that version is on Biographe. Note both songs were for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
Lex you both got it right she's an addict and he's so in love that he can't leave to lex's thing of near death as an addict every dose is a near death experience
Darius is my fave male vocalist of all time. From Hootie to his country career. But i liked him best in Hootie. I played Hootie and the Blowfish at my mom's funeral, actually. I played "I'm Going Home", for my mom.
Hootie is the Wife and I's favorite band! We've been married for 32 years so that'll give you a time frame. I about beat the crap out of a few punks who refused to get out of our view during their concert in the woodlands.
