Just To Ease The Pain Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Thompson
Just To Ease The Pain
Written and Recorded by Hank Thompson
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To ease the pain that heartaches bring from broken love
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affairs
To many make the same mistake and
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try to drown their
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cares
The liquor flows their money goes and
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teardrops fall like
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rain
One thing for sure this
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is no cure it'
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s just to ease th
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pain
A crowed place a friendly face of one who wears a
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smile
The warmth and bliss from someone's kis
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s will linger for
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while
A drink or two with someone new
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might not be in
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vain
But this won't heal
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a hurt that's real i
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t's just to eas
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e the pain
A broken heart will fall apart when left alone to
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grieve
To ease the pain and hide the shame
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you'll live in mak
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believe
The tears you'll hide but deep inside th
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e torture wil
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remain
There's no mistake th
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e drink you take it
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€™s just to ease
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In every life where pain and strife can hold the winning
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hand
The soul will cry and wonder why the
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things that fate had
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planned
The doubts and fears and bitter tears
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may be an endless
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chain
But living fast won'
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t hide the past it
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€™s just to ease
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Just To Ease The Pain?
- The song Just To Ease The Pain was sang by Hank Thompson.
Who is Hank Thompson?
- Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 - November 6, 2007) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.
Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals.
His backing band, The Brazos Valley Boys, was voted the top Country Western Band for 14 years in a row by Billboard. Thompson pursued a "light" version of the Western swing sound that Bob Wills and others played the primary difference between his music and that of Bob Wills was that Thompson, who used the swing beat and instrumentation to enhance his vocals, discouraged the intense instrumental soloing from his musicians that Wills encouraged however, the "Hank Thompson sound" exceeded Bob Wills in top-40 country hits.
Although not as prominent on the top country charts in later decades, Thompson remained a recording artist and concert draw well into his 80s.
The 2013 game Grand Theft Auto V featured his song "It Don't Hurt Anymore" in the fictional radio show, Rebel Radio.
The 1987 novel Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb was inspired by Thompson's life, specifically by his practice of picking up a local band to back him when he toured. In 2009, Cobb's novel was turned into a successful film directed by Scott Cooper and starring Jeff Bridges in an Academy Award-winning performance.
