What Hurts The Most

Track 2 on Me And My Gang [Target Edition]

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“What Hurts The Most” by Rascal Flatts was the first single released from their album Me And My Gang, which eventually topped the charts. In an interview with writer… Read More

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What Hurts The Most Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I can take the rain on the roof of this empty house
That don’t bother me
I can take a few tears now and then and just let them out
I’m not afraid to cry every once in a while
Even though goin' on with you gone still upsets me
There are days every now and again I pretend I’m okay
But that’s not what gets me

[Chorus]
What hurts the most
Was being so close
And havin' so much to say
And watchin' you walk away
And never knowing
What could've been
And not seein' that love in you
Is what I was tryin’ to do

[Verse 2]
It’s hard to deal with the pain of losing you everywhere I go
But I’m doin’ It
It’s hard to force that smile when I see our old friends and I’m alone
Still harder
Gettin' up, gettin' dressed, livin’ with this regret
But I know if I could do it over
I would trade, give away all the words that I saved in my heart
That I left unspoken

[Chorus]
What hurts the most
Is being so close
And havin' so much to say much to say
And watchin' you walk away
And never knowing
What could've been
And not seeing that love in you
Is what I was trying to do, oh

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
What hurts the most
Was being so close
And havin' so much to say (much to say)
And watchin' you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that love in you
Is what I was trying to do, oh

[Outro]
Not seeing that love in you
That’s what I was trying to do

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“What Hurts The Most” by Rascal Flatts was the first single released from their album Me And My Gang, which eventually topped the charts.

In an interview with writer Jeffrey Steele, he reveals;

the song was originally inspired by losing my father and I just wanted to express something about it – but I ended up changing the meaning and I made it more of a love song, to be more universal.

Gary LeVox, Rascal Flatt’s songwriter and lead singer and Dan Huff, the band’s producer ended up loving the song and produced the song.

In the music video for What Hurts The Most, the music video provides a small story for a girl who suffers the loss of her boyfriend. Her anger in the video is expressed for her father who she blames for making her boyfriend leave, resulting in his demise in a fatal car accident.

Throughout the course of the music video, there are scenes of the band playing, alongside flashbacks of the couple and the girl trying to live on with the loss of her boyfriend.