I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying

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Released18 November 1996[1]
GenreRock, country rock
Length4:00
LabelA&M
"I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying"
A photo of Sting with his hands intertwined and covering his face
Single by Sting
from the album Mercury Falling
Released18 November 1996[1]
GenreRock, country rock
Length4:00
LabelA&M
SongwriterSting
ProducersHugh Padgham, Sting
Sting singles chronology
"I Was Brought to My Senses"
(1996)		 "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying"
(1996)		 "On Silent Wings"
(1997)
Music video
"Sting - I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" on YouTube

"I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" is a song written and recorded by the English rock singer Sting, which featured on his fifth album, Mercury Falling (1996). The song was also released as a single in November 1996, by A&M Records, and reached No. 94 in the US. Sting also recorded the song as a duet with American country music artist Toby Keith for Keith's 1997 album Dream Walkin'; this version reached No. 2 in the US Hot Country Songs charts and No. 84 in the US Billboard Hot 100 charts, giving Sting his only country hit.

Sting began composing the song as a rock song, but the lyrical content pushed the song in a country direction, and it evolved into a country-rock shuffle.[2] The song begins in the key of E-flat major, before modulating a semitone upward to E major in the final verse.[3] Its lyrics concern a father whose wife has left him for another man and taken their two children. After a cynical beginning, he has a revelation about the connectedness of life and the universe, and finishes the song truly 'so happy he can't stop crying'. The music video for the song was directed by Lol Creme.

During the Mercury Falling tour, Sting would often invite audience members up onto stage to sing the song along with him.

Critical reception

Larry Flick from Billboard magazine described the song as "a country-flavored ballad that shows the artist at his most tender and engaging." He added, "It's kind of odd at first to hear Sting's reedy tenor amid the twang of a slide guitar, but it ultimately works."[4]

Track listing

  • US edition
  1. "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying"
  2. "This Was Never Meant to Be"
  3. "Giacomo's Blues"
  4. "Beneath a Desert Moon"
  • German edition
  1. "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying"
  2. "Giacomo's Blues"
  3. "Moonlight"
  4. "La Belle Dame Sans Regrets"

Charts

Toby Keith version

References

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