Why Don't You Break My Heart

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Why Don’t You Break My Heart is less a question than it is a request (hence the absence of a question mark). It’s a request for someone to leave before they get disappointed.

Lead singer/songwriter Joy Deyo: “A few years ago during what was supposed to be the prime of my life, I found myself deteriorating physically from a rare genetic disease I didn’t even know I had.
Along with physical pain, there is a lot of mental anguish that comes with sickness. It feels a little like you’re dying while you’re still alive—mourning parts of yourself that don’t work anymore and longing for the things that you can no longer do with ease.
In grief, I found myself saying things to my husband like, “if you want to leave me and find someone else who isn’t sick, I’ll understand. You didn’t sign up for this.”
Of course, I didn’t want him to. And he didn’t want to either. So instead I wrote a song about it. Songs can speak your fears and the things you hope will never happen just as well as they can speak your dreams. And if you can take that darkness and make it a bop, well that’s just more fun for everyone!

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Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?

You've been so good to me
Even though I know
You've seen the sideshow before

Don't know why you don't ask
You don't have to sit and watch
A slideshow before you leave

Well I know that everything they say is true
Can I give as much as you give me to you?

Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?

I hope that you don't know
That I would understand it
If you wanted to go
I could get over you
if I had a year or two
Or twenty or so

Well I know that everything they say is true
Can I give as much as you give me to you?

Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?

Why don't you break it up?
I can leave with my ghost
I know you love me but
I can love you the most

Why don't you break it up?
I can leave with my ghost
I know you love me but
I can love you the most

Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?

Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?

Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?
Why Don't You Break My Heart?
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credits

released June 30, 2021
Joy Deyo: Vocals, Keyboard
Brian Dishon: Drums
Casey Snyder: Guitar
Adam Nolan: Bass

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Sweet Nobody is an indie pop four piece from Long Beach, California. We’re Trying Our Best, recorded & mixed by Joel Jerome at Hurley Int. Studio is OUT NOW!!!

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