When you really depend on someone in a relationship for your emotional needs, their decision to dump you can be the most devastating thing imaginable. You beg them, tell them things will change, that you know that you can make them happy-- and none of it works. Your friends and family will tell you that you need to move on, but you feel like you can change the other person's mind if only they knew how much you love them, and how deeply they have hurt you. Of course, it won't.

The Streets song "Dry Your Eyes" documents this dialogue; the verses talk about the break-up:

In one single moment your whole life can turn 'round
I stand there for a minute starin' straight into the ground
Lookin' to the left slightly, then lookin' back down
World feels like it's caved in – proper sorry frown
Please let me show you where we could only just be, for us
I can change and I can grow or we could adjust
The wicked thing about us is we always have trust
We can even have an open relationship, if you must
I look at her she stares almost straight back at me
But her eyes glaze over like she's lookin' straight through me
Then her eyes must have closed for what seems an eternity
When they open up she's lookin' down at her feet

The chorus advises the dumped man to:

Dry your eyes mate
I know it's hard to take but her mind has been made up
There's plenty more fish in the sea
Dry your eyes mate
I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts
But you've got to walk away now
It's over

This song rings very true, and captures the bewildering sadness and confusion of a break-up you didn't see coming.



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