Un-Break My Heart Lyrics
Don't leave me in all this pain
Don't leave me out in the rain
Come back and bring back my smile
Come and take these tears away
I need your arms to hold me now
The nights are so unkind
Bring back those nights when I held you beside me
[Chorus]
Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again
Undo this hurt you caused
When you walked out the door
And walked out of my life
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many nights
Un-break my heart
My heart
[Verse 2]
Take back that sad word goodbye
Bring back the joy to my life
Don't leave me here with these tears
Come and kiss this pain away
I can't forget the day you left
Time is so unkind
And life is so cruel without you here beside me
Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again
Undo this hurt you caused
When you walked out the door
And walked out of my life
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many nights
Un-break my heart
My heart
[Bridge]
Don't leave me in all this pain
Don't leave me out in the rain
Bring back the nights when I held you beside me
[Chorus]
Un-break my heart
Say you'll love me again
Undo this hurt you caused
When you walked out the door
And walked out of my life
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many, many nights
Oh un-break my
Un-break my heart oh baby
Come back and say you love me
Un-break my heart, sweet darlin'
Without you I just can't go on
[Outro]
Say that you love me, say that you love me
Tell me you love me, un-break my heart
Say that you love me, say that you love me
Tell me you love me, un-break my heart
Say that you love me, say that you love me
Tell me you love me, un-break my heart
Say that you love me, say that you love me
Tell me you love me, un-break my heart
About
“Un-Break My Heart” is Toni Braxton’s 2nd single released via LaFace Records off of her second studio album, Secrets, with Diane Warren as the writer of this ballad. Braxton, however, expressed dislike for this song, explaining that she didn’t want another “heartbreak track” even though it was a worldwide success, and won her a Grammy Award for “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance” in 1997. Producer L.A. Reid was able to convince Toni Braxton in the end to record and feature “Un-Break My Heart” in her album.
“Un-Break My Heart” peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and stayed there for eleven weeks, while achieving similar success on the Hot Dance Club Songs and Adult Contemporary Charts. In 1998, when Billboard celebrating their forty years of charting from 1958 to 1998, “Un-Break My Heart” was declared the most successful song by a solo artist in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
“Un-Break My Heart”, expectedly, achieved success in Europe as well. By topping the charts in Austria, Sweden, Belgium (Wallonia), and Switzerland, and reaching the top number fives in more than ten countries.
The corresponding music video was directed by Bille Woodruff and premiered on September 10, 1996 via MTV. “It portrays Braxton mourning the death of her lover, while remembering the good times they had together.”
Toni Braxton’s live performances of “Un-Break My Heart” include the ones at the Opening Ceremony of the Billboard Music Awards in 1996 and as the closing number of the Libra Tour of 2006.
A Spanish version of the song was featured as a bonus on the album, titled “Regresa a Mi”.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Toni said she did not like the song when she first heard it, I’m glad she did the song anyways, this song is one of the greatest R&B songs ever.
it popped into my head, and I thought, ‘I don’t think I’ve heard that before, that’s kind of interesting.’ I started playing around on the piano with these chords and did a key change, and then I knew, ‘OK, this is magic.’"
Diane also mentioned that, she built this song on the basis of the title, which she had come up with first.
Finally, Diane says that she wrote the song as a ballad and a dance song, since that was the way she saw the song in her mind turning out.
In an interview in February of 2021, she opened up more about the song:
I came up with that title. And I started playing the chorus with those chords.It’s a weird title. It created a word. I remember, Clive Davis, when I played that song, he goes, ‘you can’t rhyme rain and pain’ [because it’s a cliché ].He wanted me to change it. And I go, ‘No, no, it works.’ I thought it’d be a good song for Toni Braxton, and Clive loved it for her. And she didn’t really like it. It happens! Maybe she hates it more now, having to sing it for 20 years.
–via RollingStone (Feb. 2021)
- 4.Un-Break My Heart
- 8.Let It Flow
- 10.I Don’t Want To
- 13.Regresa a Mí
