Friday's Grief Song, 01.19.24

"Cos this hurting feeling is/Oh so good for me"

This week’s song I’ve been listening to on and off for 15 years. It’s an anthem celebrating pain that feels good. That lovely ache. I’ve been thinking about pain a lot recently- the importance of pain in labor as rite of passage and how the medical industrial complex wants to medicate it all away; pain at the end of life and we numb out to our heartbreak at losing a loved one instead of letting tears fall; the pain of hard work; the pain of love.

This week’s song is Susan Cadogan’s heart wrenching reggae cover of a 70s tune Hurt So Good.

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Enjoy!

Hurt So Good
Sung by Susan Cadogan
Album: Hurt So Good
Written by: Phillip Mitchell, 1971

First you take my heart
In the palm of your hand
And you squeeze it tight
Then you take my mind
And play with it all night
You take my pride
And throw it up against the wall
You take me in your arms baby
And bounce me like a rubber ball
I ain't complaining
What you're doing you see'

Cos this hurting feeling is
Oh so good for me
You take my name
And you scandalise it in the street
Oh anything you wanna do
Say it's alright by me

Then you turned me around
And make sweet love to me
So let me tell you
You sure look good to me'
Cos baby these things you're doing, believe me
They hurt so bad
But it's worth all the misery
Don't you know that it's hurts so good
Hurts so good
Ooh boy please don't ever
Take the heat off me'
Cos it would hurt even more
If you'd ever leave
Even though sometimes

It's hard to me to bear
I make myself hold on'
Cos it kills me I don't care'
Cos baby I don't want you to ever quit
Ooh, it ain't no good 'til it
Hurts just a little bit
Don't you know that it's hurts so good
Hurts so good

Written by: Matthew Bair, Carly Jepsen

Album: Hurt So Good

Released: 1975

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