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Sheryl Crow - Strong Enough

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Album: Tuesday Night Music Club
Released: 1993

Strong Enough Lyrics

God I feel like hell tonight
The tears of rage I cannot fight
I'd be the last to help you understand

Are you Strong Enough to be my man
My man

Nothing's true, and nothing's right
So let me be alone tonight
'Cause you can't change the way I am

Are you strong enough to be my man

Lie to me, I promise I'll believe
Lie to me, but please don't leave

I have a face I cannot show
I make the rules up as I go
Just try and love me if you can

Are you strong enough to be my man
Are you strong enough to be my man
Are you strong enough
My man

When I've shown you
That I just don't care
When I'm throwing punches in the air
When I'm broken down and I can't stand

Would you be man enough to be my man

Lie to me, I promise I'll believe
Lie to me, but please don't leave

Writer/s: RICKETTS, DAVID / GILBERT, KEVIN / BAERWALD, DAVID / MACLEOD, BRIAN / CROW, SHERYL / BOTTRELL, BILL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, Reservoir One Music, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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The follow-up to her breakthrough hit "All I Wanna Do," this song finds Crow frustrated in a relationship and trying to reconcile it by asking the question, "Are you strong enough to be my man?"

Crow says that the song is autobiographical, but "thematically universal," even to men. Said Crow: "Women will relate to 'Strong Enough,' but everyone has felt sick of their situation."

Crow says that "holding my own amongst a bunch of guys" gave her inspiration for this song, referring to the musicians she worked with on the Tuesday Night Music Club album. The LP was named after the Tuesday night gatherings Crow helped organize among a group of musical friends in Los Angeles. At the sessions, the general rules were:

- Nobody could play their favorite instrument.
- An entire song had to be written.

These are the same musicians who played on the album and co-wrote the songs with Crow. The writing credits on "Strong Enough" go to Crow, David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell, Kevin Gilbert, Brian MacLeod and David Ricketts. Bottrell also produced the album.

In her Song By Song special, Crow said: "'Strong Enough' was really the brainchild of the mood and the vibe of the Tuesday Night Music Club. I love a great country hook, and 'strong enough to be my man' is straight from the book of country."

Along with her song "No One Said It Would Be Easy," this was used in the 1993 Brad Pitt movie Kalifornia. Crow was happy to get the songs placed in the movie, but regretted it after she saw the violent film. "Glorifying these characters for socio-pathological reasons worries me," she told Vox in 1995.

Sheryl Crow - What I Can Do for You

Sheryl Crow - What I Can Do for You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Tuesday Night Music Club
Released: 1993

What I Can Do for You Lyrics

I'm so glad you're awake
That you're not like the others
'Cause they're so straight-laced
And no fun
Gosh that's nice
That lingerie
Makes me feel like
Oh, I don't know

You're a very pretty thing
You remind me of someone
You must have heard
Some awful nasty things about me, but

What I Can Do for You
There's no one else
On God's green earth can do
What I can do for you
There's no one else
On God's green earth can do

Just ask anybody
They'll tell you that it's true
There's no one else on earth
Can do the things that I can do for you

You're never gonna make it
All by yourself
You're gonna need a friend
You're gonna need my help
I have so much to offer
If you just be nice
If you do what I say
And don't make me say it twice

Do you mind if I just
Rub my hand up thus
Come on just my hand
Come on just my hand
You got to understand
I'm gonna be your man
I'm gonna be your man
You're gonna need me

Writer/s: BAERWALD, DAVID FRANCIS / CROW, SHERYL SUZANNE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Reservoir One Music, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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In this song, Crow sings from the perspective of a predatory man offering sleazy come-ons to a woman and offering to help her career if she takes him up on it. "Listening to it you should feel slimy and creepy," Crow explained.

The lyrics are based on real things unscrupulous guys have said to Crow. When she moved from Missouri to Los Angeles and worked as a backup singer, she became a target for some unsavory types in the industry. Crow says she faced sexual harassment every day at this time.

This wasn't released as a single in the US, but was issued as her second single in the UK, following "Run, Baby, Run." It made little impact at the time, but her subsequent singles (especially "All I Wanna Do") did well on the UK charts, so "What I Can Do for You" was re-released in 1995, well over a year after the album came out. This time, the single made #43 UK.

Crow has mentioned Frank DiLeo as one of the sexist industry types she worked with. On the Tuesday Night Music Club track "The Na-Na Song," she sings:

Clarence Thomas organ grinder Frank Dileo's dong
Maybe if I'd let him, I'd have had a hit song

DiLeo, who played the character Tuddy Cicero in the movie Goodfellas, managed Michael Jackson's Bad tour, on which Crow sang backup.