Guess I Ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry Analysis
Unlike most of his songs, "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" written and produced in 1944 was, along with being a jazz standard, also a torch song; which is a touching love song, the term comes from the saying, "to carry a torch for someone", or to keep aflame the light of an unrequited love.
Its about how this individual is suffering from heartache is now in a melancholy disposition as she sings, “Since love is gone can't pull myself together // Guess I'll hang my tears out to dry.”
How she no longer goes out with her friends and struggles to find new excuses to avoid people, how she now sits alone and reminisces of what was and no longer is; reliving each moment vicariously through her vivid memories. Her pain transcends into the heart
Its about how this individual is suffering from heartache is now in a melancholy disposition as she sings, “Since love is gone can't pull myself together // Guess I'll hang my tears out to dry.”
How she no longer goes out with her friends and struggles to find new excuses to avoid people, how she now sits alone and reminisces of what was and no longer is; reliving each moment vicariously through her vivid memories. Her pain transcends into the heart