* One More Minute
I'd rather rip my heart right out of my rib cage with my bare hands
And then throw it on the bare floor and stomp on it til I die
Than spend one more minute with you
* You Don't Love Me Anymore
Oh, why did you disconnect the breaks in my car?
That kind of thing is hard to ignore
Got a funny feeling you don't love me anymore
1988
*During the filming for this video Etheridge met her long-term partner, who would later cheat on her with kd lang, and then decide she wasn't gay.*
Somebody bring me some water
Can't you see I'm burning alive
Can't you see my baby's got another lover
I don't know how I'm gonna survive
Don't you think I know there's so many others
Who would beg, steal and lie, fight, kill and die
Just to hold you hold you like I do
1989
*Looking for another crappy relationship?*
I got bad intentions on the soles of my shoes
With this red hot fever and these chromium blues
And I will feel another lovers wheel
And drive for miles and not look back
* She found one! 1990 is when Julie Cypher left Lou Diamond Phillips for Melissa.*
Burn the pictures break the records
Run far away to a northern town
Sell your fear and leave me standing here
With no souvenirs
1993
Please baby can't you see
My mind's a burnin' hell
I got razors a rippin' and tearin' and strippin'
My heart apart as well
1994
Nothing fills the blackness
That has seeped into my chest
I need you in my blood
I am forsaking all the rest
Just to reach you
I will crawl through my past
Over stones blood and glass
In the ruins
* She can also sing the hell out of everyone else's heartbreak songs*
Janis Joplin's
Joan Armatrading's
Bruce Springsteen's
*2000 is when she and Cypher broke up, and Etheridge wrote her memoir.*
2001
*Which makes it all the more poignant that after allll those tortured songs, she went on to write something like this. She told Dolly Parton: I made this wishlist, and I got it all. In 2003 she got married.*I have wrestled with my demons
And woke up with only me
I have been around the block
Three times maybe four
And I think I deserve just a little more
2005
*And now she's helping others. Happy ending.*Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some
Tell me why you want to lay there and revel in your abandon
* Etheridge re. going through cancer treatments:
"I couldn't have done it without her. She was the best, most loving, completely dedicated... I lived for weeks in our bedroom, and she knew the days she couldn't make any noise because it's so painful that noise hurts. But even when she had to be completely still, when she couldn't watch television, even tap the keys on a computer - she would just sit and read and turn the pages quietly, just to be in the same room with me. And now there's nothing in the world that can come between her and I."
Let's hope so!
