Country Music Breaks My Heart

Erinn Peet Lukes

Country Music Breaks My Heart is a song about two people coming together to commiserate on their heartbreak the only way country music fans know how- drinking, dancing, and getting lost in the music. Country music can be funny, relatable, and light hearted. It can also be incredibly sad and heart wrenching. This song was inspired by a particular

Country Music Breaks My Heart is a song about two people coming together to commiserate on their heartbreak the only way country music fans know how- drinking, dancing, and getting lost in the music. Country music can be funny, relatable, and light hearted. It can also be incredibly sad and heart wrenching. This song was inspired by a particular Nashville country singer with an ache and longing in his voice that will leave you teary eyed, and how hearing sad music can provide catharsis to make you happier. This tension between carefree dancing and real world trauma is exemplified in the song with a lighthearted, catchy chorus mixed in with verses about alcoholism and failed relationships. The half time beat of the song is perfect for dancing, and paints a picture of two friends dancing their problems away to a jukebox in an old honky tonk. At the end of the song, they don’t solve their problems but they do find a way to deal with them together and ultimately make each other feel better.

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