Grown Men Don't Cry

"Grown Men Don't Cry"
Single by Tim McGraw
from the album Set This Circus Down
Released March 26, 2001
Recorded 2001
Genre Country
Length 3:55
Label Curb
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Tim McGraw singles chronology
"Let's Make Love"
(2000)		 "Grown Men Don't Cry"
(2001)		 "Angry All the Time"
(2001)

"Let's Make Love"
(2000)		 "Grown Men Don't Cry"
(2001)		 "Angry All the Time"
(2001)

"Grown Men Don't Cry" is a song written by Tom Douglas and Steve Seskin and recorded by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released in April 2001 as the first single from McGraw's 2001 album Set This Circus Down. The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart and peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Background and writing

Co-writer Tom Douglas told The Boot about the story behind the song. "I had gone to the grocery store one day, had parked my car and was walking into the store when I saw this woman talking on a pay phone," he said. "She had mascara tears running down her face, and her little boy was weaving in and out of her legs while she was talking on the phone and she looked like an ice cream cone, melting. I went in the store, got my groceries, came back out, and wondered what happened to them. And then I passed by a car, and they were in it. And in the back of the car were newspapers and Chef Boyardee cans. And I thought, what should I do? And I did nothing except get back in my car and go home. And I was haunted by my paralysis and inability to do anything about that. And that feeling started this song when I sat down to write with Steve. I had that first verse, and actually the second vignette was more Steve's life than it was mine ... about putting the rose on the grave and talking to the wind. And then the third verse was kind of a combination of both of our lives, but being tied together by singing, 'I don't know why / They say grown men don't cry.'" [1]

Critical reception

Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song an A grade, and he praised the "combination of the vivid imagery and McGraw’s plaintive vocal performance." He also said that the second verse "is so well-crafted, and McGraw delivers it so masterfully that it always surprises me, no matter how many times I hear it."[2]

Chart performance

"Grown Men Don't Cry" debuted at number 30 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the chart week of March 24, 2001.

Chart (2001) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[4] 25

Year-end charts

Chart (2001) Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 12

References

  1. ↑ Horner, Marianne (10 March 2010). "Tim McGraw, 'Grown Men Don't Cry' - Story Behind the Lyrics". The Boot. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
  2. ↑ CountryUniverse.net Song review
  3. ↑ "Tim McGraw Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  4. ↑ "Tim McGraw Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  5. ↑ "Best of 2001: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2001. Retrieved August 14, 2012.


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