I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying

Infobox Single
Name = I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying


Caption =
Artist = Sting
from Album = Mercury Falling
A-side =
B-side =
Released = 1996 (Sting)
1997 (Toby/Sting)
Format =
Recorded = 1996 (Sting)
1997 (Toby/Sting)
Genre = Country music, rock music
Length = 4:00 (Sting)
4:03 (Toby/Sting)
Label = A&M Records (Sting)
Mercury Nashville (Toby/Sting)
Writer = Sting
Producer =
Certification =
Last single = "I Was Brought To My Senses"
(1996)
This single = "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying"
(1996)
Next single = "On Silent Wings" (w/ Tina Turner)
(1997)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Toby Keith
Last single = "We Were In Love"
(1997)
This single = "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying"
(1998)
Next single = "Dream Walkin'"
(1998)

"I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" is a Sting song from his 1996 album "Mercury Falling". The song was also released as a single, and reached #84 and #54 on the U.S. and UK singles charts, respectively. Sting also recorded the song as a duet with country music artist Toby Keith on Toby's 1997 "Dream Walkin'" album; the duet version reached #2 on the US Hot Country Songs charts and #12 on the U.S. Bubbling Under Hot 100 charts.

Sting started composing the song as a rock song, but the lyrical content pushed the song in a country direction, and it evolved into a country-rock shuffle. [Citation
last = Garbarini
first = Vic
title = Interview with Sting
journal = Guitar World Magazine
date = July 1996] The song lyrics concern a father whose wife has left him for another man and taken their two children. After a cynical beginning, he has a revelation about the connectedness of life and the universe, and finishes the song truly "so happy he can't stop crying."

During the "Mercury Falling" tour, Sting would often invite audience members up onto stage to sing the song along with him.

The video for the song was directed by Lol Creme and featured flying pickup trucks, spaceships, and line dancing aliens.

References

External links

* [http://www.brushwithfame.com/video.php Video of Sting performing "I'm So Happy" with audience member, Ross Viner in Vancouver, British Columbia, 1996]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VsenuJqZP4 "I'm So Happy" music video on YouTube]