"Grown Men Don't Cry" | ||||
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Single by Tim McGraw | ||||
from the album Set This Circus Down | ||||
Released | March 26, 2001 | |||
Recorded | 2001 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:55 | |||
Label | Curb | |||
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"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 March 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 chart and peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The song's first verse describes the narrator pulling into a grocery store parking lot. He sees a boy clinging to his mother's legs. Tears of mascara are running down her face like an ice cream cone melting, caused by years of bad decisions. The narrator buys his groceries, comes back out, and returns home. In the second verse of "Grown Men Don't Cry," the narrator describes a dream he had as a 10-year-old boy. In the dream, his elderly father holds his hand. The narrator is comforted by the dream, and reflects on the love and support his father provided during his childhood. When they were talking on the front porch to watch the sunset, he told her that he had a dream that he was a slave to his elderly father's job. Now that his elderly father is gone, he feels like he is still enslaved to that job. The narrator in this story places a red rose on his elderly father's grave. He then talks to the wind, as if his father can hear him. The narrator sat with his wife and children in the third and final verse. They represented everything that he held dear in life. The little girl's parents had gone upstairs and were getting ready for bed. But the little girl said that she hadn't heard her story yet. She lifted her head off the pillows and looked at her father. "I love you, Dad," she said.
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." [1]
"Grown Men Don't Cry" debuted at number 30 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart for the week of March 24, 2001.
Chart (2001) | Peak position |
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US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] | 1 |
US Billboard Hot 100 [3] | 25 |
Chart (2001) | Position |
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US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [4] | 12 |
US Billboard Hot 100 [5] | 78 |
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