“Thru These Tears” comes as LANY’s first release since 2017’s LANY. According to frontman Paul Klein, the song was finished on January 29th and represents “the worst 45 days of my life.”
He expands on that idea:
I’m so proud of how I walked through that season. I made the absolute most of it. I’m n...
[Verse 1]
This hurts like hell
But I keep telling myself
It's gonna get better
But it's taking forever
I tried to go out
But every time I leave the house
Something reminds me
Of what's now behind me
[Pre-Chorus]
Everyday I let go
Just a little bit more
[Chorus]
In the end I'm gonna be alright
But it might take a hundred sleepless nights
To make the memories of you disappear
But right now I can't see nothing through these tears
[Verse 2]
Control my thoughts
Convincing myself it's your loss
I really mean it
And I'm starting to believe it
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause everyday I let go
Just a little bit more
[Chorus]
In the end I'm gonna be alright
But it might take a hundred sleepless nights
To make the memories of you disappear
But right now I can't see nothing through these tears
Out of sight but you're not out of my mind
So it might take somebody else at night
To make it feel like you were never here
But right now I can't see nothing through these tears
[Bridge]
You said it was over
But when we got closer
You cried on my shoulder
Goodbye
[Chorus]
In the end I'm gonna be alright
But it might take a hundred sleepless nights
To make the memories of you disappear
But right now I can't see nothing through these tears
Out of sight but you're not out of my mind
So it might take somebody else at night
To make it feel like you were never here
But right now I can't see nothing through these tears
[Outro]
Driving home on an empty highway
I thought about you and I hit the brakes
What we had and who we were was so clear
But right now I can't see nothing through these tears
Thru These Tears was written by Paul Jason Klein & Jake Goss & Sasha Alex Sloan & King Henry.
Thru These Tears was produced by King Henry & LANY & Mike Crossey.
LANY released Thru These Tears on Tue Jul 17 2018.
Frontman Paul Klein said the following in the band’s newsletter:
the beginning of 2018 was crazy and kind of awful but also kind of amazing and i threw myself into an environment to write a song every monday thru friday up until valentine’s day. it was the worst of times, it was the best of times…...
“Thru These Tears” was made and produced in May 2018, during the 50 days set aside to write material for the new LANY record.
In an interview with Music News, lead singer Paul Klein said:
It was a real labor of love but we got it there and I’m really proud of it.
I started writing and I didn’t know at the time if it was for album two or if it was just to kind of keep me sane or to help me through this like kind of rough patch I was going through but, I think this was like the fifth song during the process of throwing myself in a room almost every single day...
I knew that okay the song title is “Thru These Tears” and we’re gonna build something lyrically around this idea that everything is going to be alright. So I remember sitting down and knowing like the first line of the chorus was ‘in the end, I’m gonna be alright.’ So we wrote the chorus first and...