Aerosmith - Cryin | Lyrics, Video and Review

Aerosmith - Cryin

Cryin’ by Aerosmith, Music Video, Lyrics and Review

“Cryin’” is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Taylor Rhodes. It was released in the summer of 1993 as the third single from the hugely successful album Get a Grip.

Aerosmith - Cryin Lyrics

There was a time
When I was so broken hearted
Love wasn’t much of a friend of mine
The tables have turned, yeah
Cause me and them ways have parted
That kind of love was the killin’ kind
Now listen
All I want is someone I can’t resist
I know all I need to know by the way that I got kissed

I was cryin’ when I met you
Now I’m tryin’ to forget you
Love is sweet misery
I was cryin’ just to get you
Now I’m dyin’ Ã”cause I let you
Do what you do - down on me

Now there’s not even breathin’ room
Between pleasure and pain
Yeah you cry when we’re makin’ love
Must be one and the same

It’s down on me
Yeah I got to tell you one thing
It’s been on my mind
Girl I gotta say
We’re partners in crime
You got that certain something
What you give to me
Takes my breath away
Now the word out on the street
Is the devil’s in your kiss
If our love goes up in flames
It’s a fire I can’t resist

v I was cryin’ when I met you
Now I’m tryin’ to forget you
Your love is sweet misery
I was cryin’ just to get you
Now I’m dyin’ Ã”cause I let you
Do what you do to me

Cause what you got inside
Ain’t where your love should stay
Yeah, our love, sweet love, ain’t love
If you give your heart away

I was cryin’ when I met you
Now I’m tryin’ to forget you
Your love is sweet misery
I was cryin’ just to get you
Now I’m dyin’ just to let you
Do what you do what you do down to me, baby, baby, baby

I was cryin’ when I met you
Now I’m tryin’ to forget you
Your love is sweet misery
I was cryin’ when I met you
Now I’m dyin’ cause I let you
Do what you do down to , down to, down to, down to
I was cryin’ when I met you
Now I’m dyin’ to forget you
Your love is sweet
I was cryin’ when I met you
(fade)

Aerosmith - Cryin Review and Song Info

The song can be credited also as the song that really broke Get a Grip into the mainstream. The song had a long chart-life, spending 20 weeks in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 (the most for any Aerosmith single). It peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100, #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart (where it remained for five weeks), and #17 in the UK.

The video for the song features the first appearance of Alicia Silverstone in the band’s videos, as well as the band performing in a church in Fall River, Massachusetts. The song flashes back and forth between the band and Alicia Silverstone, who plays a teen who has a falling out with her boyfriend (played by Stephen Dorff) after catching him cheating.

After having her purse stolen by another young man (played by Josh Holloway of Lost), she chases him down and knocks him to the ground. The video then cuts to her standing on the edge of a bridge, contemplating jumping. Her ex-boyfriend arrives on the scene, along with numerous police officers, encouraging her to come down from the overpass. She jumps, but is then revealed to be attached to a bungee-style harness, which arrests her fall and leaves her dangling over the freeway, laughing at Dorff’s character. The video ends with the dangling Silverstone looking up at Dorff and giving him the finger.

The video was a smash success on MTV, becoming one of the most requested videos in 1993, and earning the band several awards at the Video Music Awards.

Released 1993
Recorded 1993
Genre Blues Rock
Length 5:08
Label Geffen
Writer Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Taylor Rhodes
Producer Bruce Fairbairn
Certification Gold