# Song lyrics that tear your heart out, stomp on it, and leave it weeping in the dust.

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**Created:** [June 3, 2000, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-tear-your-heart-out-stomp-on-it-and-leave-it-weeping-in-the-dust/21306 "2000-06-03T18:54:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Suo\_Na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-tear-your-heart-out-stomp-on-it-and-leave-it-weeping-in-the-dust/21306/101 "2000-06-11T08:50:26Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*\*  
> "I wear high heels,  
> I skip and jump,  
> I like to press wildflowers.  
> I put on women’s clothing,  
> and hang around in bars.
> 
> Oh, I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK…"
> 
> (Hey, no one said that “weeping with laughter”  
> didn’t count.) 😃  
> \*\*

Absolutely. In that case, add “Sit On My Face” and “Medical Love Song” to my list.

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**Author:** ![Jo3sh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@Jo3sh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jo3sh)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-tear-your-heart-out-stomp-on-it-and-leave-it-weeping-in-the-dust/21306/102 "2000-06-11T17:37:14Z")

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Back to the OP, though:

The Eagles’ _Desperado_ (the whole album) always makes me a little tight in the throat, since the whole thing is about getting older and looking back at the past, but the song that gets me most is “Saturday Night”:

Seems like a dream now,  
It was so long ago.  
The moon burned so bright  
And the time went so slow  
And I swore that I loved her  
And gave her a ring  
The bluebird was high on the wing.

Whatever happened  
To Saturday night?  
Finding a sweetheart  
And holding her tight  
She said, “Tell me, oh tell me,  
Was I all right?”  
Whatever happened  
To Saturday night?

The years robbed the railroad  
That ran by my door.  
Now there’s boards on the windows  
And dust on the floor.  
And she passes the time  
At another man’s side  
And I pass the time with my pride.

What a tangled web we weave  
Go 'round with circumstance.  
Someone show me how to tell  
The dancer from the dance.

Whatever happened  
To Saturday night?  
Choosing a friend  
And losing a fight.  
She said, “Tell me, oh tell me  
Are you all right?”  
Whatever happened  
To Saturday night?

Whatever happened to Saturday night?  
Sniff.

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