Don't Cry Me A River [SSC9, Blow Us Away]

✍🏻 WRITTEN & POST-PRODUCED BY EME LATINA (2025-2026) ------------------------------------------------------- 🎷 The theme: Make a song where a brass or woodwind instrument takes the lead. Flute, saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, or anything else with breath behind it. Any genre works. 📅 The schedule: Sept 7 - 13: Submissions open Sept 14–27: Listening and blind voting October 2: Live finale and results ------------------------------------------------------- ------------- ABOUT: ------------- Consider this your breakup anthem if ever you needed one. After spending too long questioning herself, she reaches a point of clarity: she isn't angry or heartbroken anymore—she's simply done. This song is ultimately about self-respect, closure, and realizing that walking away is an act of strength. ------------- LYRICS: ------------- Hold on (Hold on!) Hold on You did me so wrong Hold on (Hold on!) Hold on You did me so wrong What good is it if you feel pain? It doesn’t take away the tears I’ve shed You begging, pleading is in vain; I still wake up to aching in my head… Tossing and turning in my bed; My thoughts in need of pencil lead, to transcribe the damage you said was all made up crazy in my head (Ohhh) It must be easy to be you! You act before you speak, You speak before you think, You think without much thought So if you think that now all is well… That I bid you a swell farewell, You must be the crazier one To think you hurt me and it was (what?) fun?! Hold on (Hold on!) Hold on You did me so wrong [Chorus] Don’t cry me a river, no Old feelings won't regrow All the love you never meant won't fix what wasn't there... Don’t cry me a river now, you ran this love straight into the ground; You did me wrong, Took me too damn long to recognize I could be strong [post-chorus] Don’t cry me a river, babe, you made your bed now lie in it Don’t cry me a river, no I ain’t mad and I ain’t sad (No more) Leave or stay, good grief! (No more) I’m resolute —we are done (No more) You gotta know you ain’t the one No no no, no more You did me so wrong (so wrong) [Chorus] [Post-chorus] [background vocals] I don’t want you to cry I want you to go... (Down down down) I ain’t mad and I ain’t sad You gotta know (you gotta know) you ain’t the one… No no no (no no no) No no no (no no no) no more… [outro] You did me so wrong (so wrong) It's farewell, so long... Don’t cry me a river, babe, you made your bed now lie in it (lie and stay there) You gotta know (you gotta know) you ain’t the one… No no no no no no, no more (no more) (no more) (no more)