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"What Hurts The Most" Lyrics

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I can take the rain
On the roof of this empty house
That don't bother me
I can take a few tears now and then just let 'em out

I'm not afraid to cry every once in a while
Even though going on with you gone
Still upsets me there are days every now
And again I pretend I'm okay, but that's not what gets me

What hurts the most, was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away

And never knowing, what could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was trying to do

It's hard to deal with the pain of losing you
Everywhere I go, but I'm doing it
It's hard to force that smile
When I see our old friends and I'm alone

Still harder, getting up getting dressed
Living with this regret but I know, if I could do it over
I would trade give away all the words that I saved
In my heart, that I left unspoken

What hurts the most, is being so close
And having so much to say (Much to say)
And watching you walk away

And never knowing, what could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was trying to do

Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh
Oh-Oh, Yeah-Eh-Eh
Whoo!

What hurts the most, was being so close
And having so much to say (Much to say)
And watching you walk away

And never knowing, what could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was trying to do

Not seeing that loving you
That's what I was trying to do
Ooh-Ooh-Ooh-Ooh-Ooh-Ooh-Ooh-Ooh
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LanguageEnglish
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Duration00:03:34
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Copyright ©BMG Rights Management, 3 RING CIRCUS MUSIC, Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING
WriterJeffrey Steele, Stephen Paul Robson
Lyrics licensed byLyricFind
AddedJanuary 5th, 2006
Last updatedAugust 26th, 2023
About"What Hurts the Most" is a song written by American songwriter Jeffrey Steele and English songwriter Steve Robson.

Initially recorded by country music artist Mark Wills in 2003 on his album And the Crowd Goes Wild, it was covered by Bellefire a year later. However, the first version to be released as a single was by pop singer Jo O'Meara in 2005, from the album Relentless. Later that year, country band Rascal Flatts covered the song as well, releasing it as the first single from the 2006 album Me and My Gang, topping the U.S country and adult contemporary charts with it. German band Cascada later had international chart success with the song in 2007. It was also covered by Eden in 2008.

Jeffrey Steele co-wrote the song with Steve Robson, with whom he also co-wrote Rascal Flatts' 2002 single "These Days". Robson presented Steele with an unfinished track, and Steele decided to come up with lyrics to finish the track. Originally, he had wanted to write a song about the loss of his father, but instead went with a more universal theme of lost love. After singing the lyrics, he decided that he liked how sad the song sounded, when Robson suggested that it be recorded in a higher key to sound more emotional.

Mark Wills was the first artist to record the song, doing so on his 2003 album And the Crowd Goes Wild. Jo O'Meara, a pop singer, released the song in 2005 and had chart success with it in the United Kingdom. Faith Hill had also intended to include the song on her 2005 album Fireflies, and although she had recorded the song, her version did not make the final cut. Rascal Flatts then recorded the song as well, and per producer Dann Huff's suggestion, it made their album Me and My Gang. Wills' rendition of the song, though never a single, peaked at number 51 on the U.S. Hot Digital Songs charts in 2006 in the wake of Rascal Flatts' success with it.

In 2006, country music trio Rascal Flatts released the song as a single from their album Me and My Gang, and it became their fifth number-one single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It also peaked at number 6 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's first top 10 pop hit. In addition, the song reached number one on the Adult Contemporary charts. Rascal Flatts also performed the song live with Kelly Clarkson at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2006.

Rascal Flatts' recording earned two nominations for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, in the categories of Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, and Best Country Song.

As of the chart dated January 30, 2010, the song topped the 2 million mark in paid downloads. This makes Rascal Flatts the first country group to top the 2 million mark with two songs. As of the chart dated April 16, 2011, the song has sold 2.28 million in the US.

Music video

The music video starts with a young girl crying over the loss of her boyfriend. She expresses anger for her father who she blames for making her boyfriend leave, ultimately resulting in him dying in a car crash. The girl's very hurt mother watches her daughter's anger for her father and cries as she feels helplessness over the situation. Over the course of the video, there are scenes of the band playing, flashbacks of the couple, and the girl trying to go about her life. A scene in which with the girl is vomiting in her bathroom and holding her stomach implies that she became pregnant right before her lover's death. The video ends with the girl running up to the boy's wooden cross memorial on the side of the road, to kneel down and say that she saw him, answering his question asked earlier in the video "What do you see?" when they were talking about the future. The music video was directed by Shaun Silva in early 2006.

Song information

Rascal Flatts' version of the song is in the key of F minor, with a vocal range of E♭3-C 5. The main chord pattern is Fm-D♭-A♭-E♭.

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