Cold Cold Heart

Posted by admin - 2002-07-16

(Hank Williams)
Acuff Rose Music, Inc. (BMI)

Norah Jones - vocals, piano
Lee Alexander - bass
Adam Levy - electric guitars

I tried so hard, my dear, to show
that you're my every dream
Yet you're afraid each thing I do
Is just some evil scheme

A memory from your lonesome past
keeps us so far apart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind
and melt your cold, cold heart?

Another love, before my time,
made your heart sad an' blue,
and so my heart is paying now
for things I didn't do

In anger, unkind words are said
that make the teardrops start
Why can't I free your doubtful mind
And melt your cold, cold heart?

There was a time when I believed
that you belonged to me
but now I know your heart is shackled
to a memory

The more I learn to care for you
the more we drift apart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind
and melt your cold, cold heart?

commentaires

2007-08-22 06:45:12 - JUAMPI122

Hank was the greatest country songwriter ever! I love his music. Let me say that I like his version better than Norah's... probably not the better place to say this :P, but I wonder if I am the only one...

2006-04-09 09:04:06 - Pleasant

Jag, never again in Nashville will you hear me say that I have a cold heart. I'm sorry...Pleasant

2006-02-16 15:57:21 - jimirx

2006-02-15 - jimirx
hi,
i love norah jones, and today (kinda out of nowhere) cold cold heart really hit home. unforunately this song reminds me of me! i was hurt badly in a past marriage, and now i'm a wonderfull relationship. the woman i'm with is going through some tough times with her teenage son, and doesn't have a lot of time to give to me. but b/c of my previous relationship i'm finding it hard not to take it personal. i cant help but think that norah's (or hank williams actually) words are exacly what my girlfriend is thinking! i realize i still have some residual issues, but it is still difficult to not feel paranoid,, and i'm afriad as much as i don't want to, i may be pushing my girlfriend away! i'm know nobody have to pay for other peoples treatment of me but.....if anyone has any words of wisdom i'm all ears.....thanks for listening

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2004-02-26 06:01:04 - yomichris

This song is soo poignant and hits home...i am not easily trusting though i havent been hurt or anything...thats just how i am so i can visualise a situation where a guy hangs around trying to melt my "cold cold heart" to no avail and eventually giving up.....major thumbs up to Norah

2004-02-06 21:38:40 - lilsarahsue

well, i see that no one has posted on this particular page in almost a month... but i still have to relay my experience just to get it out.

it's funny that i've had this cd for over a year and love all of the songs.. various songs mean different things to me at different times.. this one was never really one that i thought "wow" over until now.. these lyrics... wow, how much they describe the "situation" (not relationship, mind you) that i've been in for the past almost 2 years. i met and became friends very quickly with this incredible guy. now, even i am a little wary when it comes to new relationships (we all are to a degree)... but with this one, i was (and still am) convinced that he's "it". after a while of us "getting to know each other", i was ready to let my past go and see where THIS could go. as we spent more time together, the deeper our conversations got and the more we got to know each other... and i saw that he had some major issues. even with that, i convinced myself that if i just waited, continued to be his "friend", and put up with all his moodiness and crap in general, that it would all pay off in the end. well, now, almost 2 years later, it hasn't. i can't melt his "cold cold heart"... in turn, the hurt that i've suffered from him has made my heart cold and hard and i DON'T want to open up to anyone again. and i'm tired of being ready for him to come around only to have him drift away... so i'm letting go.

i could type for days about how EVERY SINGLE WORD of this song perfectly describes this situation... i know people say that all the time. but let's just say when i first listened to this song after making the decision to let go, i wept at how true it was to my situation. norah's amazing voice brings out an incredible sarcasm in the song, yet the hard, sad truth that she CAN'T melt his "cold cold heart". and that is exactly how i feel.

2004-01-20 20:16:15 - Meg_pie

I posted about a guy being my "lonestar" of course for the song lonestar, and how he has left for college in texas and he has taken my heart with him and he doesn't know... this song perfectly explains how I feel about his past ruining our chances at a future... one that could've been strong enough for the distance... here's to you my lonestar...

2003-12-04 05:02:11 - Crystal Belle

To Jimmy R. , the guy i'm mad of who ignores me because a woman made him suffer in the past . I wish he'll find a way to get over his fears . I would do anything to help him .Maybe he'll look at me one day and simply say hello...

2003-07-07 12:18:42 - bojo*D+A*

This song hits close to my heart. My best friend, whome I have been in love with for 4 years, has a hard time telling me his real feelings. We have been through a lot together, I just wish I could melt his cold cold heart, and tell him how much I love him.

2003-06-29 21:37:57 - lexi_789

it might be slightly strange to some ppl for a person to add a comment about this song when it reminds them of themselves.....but i have this cd and "cold cold heart" is my favourite song, i listen to it over and over again because im in a relationship right now with someone who loves me and im scared to love them back fully, im still thinking of a past relationship and im struggling to make this one work, whenever my doubts control me, i`ll listen to that song and it helps me break away from it, yet im still struggling......

2003-06-14 22:39:09 - riotgirl461

I was recently, and still sort of am, involved with a wonderful guy named Greg. Unfortunately, his ex girlfriend had some issues and, even though he is only a junior in high school, she was picking out wedding rings. Now he has some horrible committment issues, and he is having a lot of trouble accepting the fact that I love him. I read these lyrics for the first time just minutes ago, and it describes things perfectly.
~riotgirl461

2003-06-13 18:55:01 - easat

BILLMOON - life isn't always as it seems. Trust me on this one. You don't know me, but, reach out. Reach out to those that are close. Your thoughts caught me. Reach out for a long distance arm.

2003-06-03 12:53:41 - billmoon

It sounds like she is describing how I will be with my next relationship, if I ever have one. We had a wonderful realtionship last summer and I put my heart on the line. Didn't hold anything back, but then we couldn't be together. Now I'll never be able to be so open again. It hurt way to much. I still think of her every day. I guess my "heart is shackled
to a memory".

2003-06-03 10:45:18 - BabyGirl

This entire CD marks a very significant time for me personally.... We would spend hours just listening to it, over and over... This is the one song, probably the most heartbreaking, that describes us... At the time I could come up with a thousand reasons why we weren't good for eachother, mostly my own and not much to do with his character... So now, much like then, fear sets in and I'm too scared to let him know that a year later, I think of my kindred spirit almost every moment of every day... Kissing on a mountain top... waking up with the rain falling on the tin roof... :)

2003-05-25 21:41:18 - sarbear

i know this sounds vain but when i listen to this i think of sumone singin this to me. i dont have a "cold heart" but i have trust problems nd im scared of love. see my dad cheated on my mom so love strewed them over.and i dont want to end up like that. and for my trust problem...try being a girl in junior/highschool.need i say more?
~sarbear

2003-05-11 01:20:06 - Hadassah*Azar

I've been reading all these comments, and most of them are about Heart-break. And then I relised how much healing Norah can bring. Of corse... the song was written by Hank Williams, but I think Norah really just brings it to life. She has touched my heart.

2003-05-06 07:03:49 - rhoda

I'd like to get in touch with Cager954. Same sentiments as him...

2003-04-16 00:21:59 - lingtjung

to the guy I can't melt his cold, cold heart, and in turn has my heart turned cold.

2003-03-19 08:24:15 - missbean3

this is my all time favourite song by norah, which is truely hard to say, since every single song i have heard by her has done something for me. But this song has so much feeling.

2003-02-27 22:21:33 - PrettyLitlMama

.....to the me that existed before my husband melted the ice surrounding my heart.....

2003-02-24 22:00:25 - noel

to my soon to be ex-husband ..whose heart is still married to soemone else......life is surely sad lived in the past...............

2003-02-24 19:13:36 - Cager954

It's ironic that the lady who introduced me to Norah Jones is the same person that hurt me the most. This is to all the women who say they want a nice guy, but don't know what to do with 'm, when they find one.

2002-11-25 15:03:36 - no_poet2002

to my best friend, who is also married to someone else....

2002-10-25 20:59:49 - Denissita

...to my boyfriend, Cristian...

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