She Cares Too Much — An adult woman carrying groceries, plants and letters accepts help from friends on a warm sunlit Merced sidewalk

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She Cares Too Much

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

A tribute to an exceptionally caring woman becomes a mariner's story of danger, shipwreck and rescue. Her compassion is imagined as a song powerful enough to calm a storm and bring the travelers into harbor. The narrator's gratitude connects everyday kindness with the feeling of having been brought back from the edge.

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3 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.

Lyrics

She Cares Too Much

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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SHE CARES TOO MUCH

She Cares Too Much, She Cares Too Much
She's always helping someone or another
She gives you her hand with a sweet loving touch
She knows in her heart we should all be lovers
She sang in a choir when she was a child
The sun in her eyes and her hair blowing Wild
Enraptured as Rainbows appear in the Sky
She has tears in her eyes, and I think I know why

Heaven sent her here to reach out her hand
One fallen Angel from The Promised Land
I don't think anyone can understand
What makes a woman and what makes a Man
There is a river between you and I
A current forever, a tear in your eye
A silver winged messenger from up in the sky
Let me just sing you a new lullaby

CHORUS
She cares more than anyone I've ever known
She prays for the lost ones to find their way home
We are together even when we're alone
Even when my heart was cold as a stone
Somewhere out there at the edge of the Bay
I left something secret there, hidden away
The things I would need for my last getaway
I knew we were coming to the end of our days

I once had it all, then it all blew away
Thunder and lightning, the wind and the rain
Exciting and frightening all at the same time
In the chill of the night, we crossed over the line
Does the will of the wisp still shine through the trees
Where the evergreen forest is right by the sea
Mischief and Evil from Pandora's box
We were driven ashore and shipwrecked on the rocks

We set up a beacon and  shot off a flare
A fireball streaking right up in the air
Waves on the water, you'd better beware
Oh my lord, please, let somebody be there
Taking on water, we start to go under
Seeking some shelter for me and my lover
A moment of calm in the eye of the storm
Sailor beware, and widow be warned

I knew in a minute, we’d lose everything
That's when my siren just started to sing
The wind and the waves subsided somehow
We found ourselves saved in a Mariner's town
Last thing I remember, we’re up on the shoreline
Our ship wouldn't make it till morning
I pray that we just have a little more time
That our souls are all saved by the warning

The moon in the skies, our ship started to rise
The wind and the rain began to subside
We had survived where others had died
The Will o’ the Wisp was gone with the tide
We both caught a glimpse of the other side
Our ship was a wreck but our flags were still flying
By the end of the night, there would be no denying
That we’d carved our names on the belt of Orion

We came into harbor to make our repairs
Red Sky at morning, so sailors beware
She was a vision with long golden hair
An angel from heaven who honestly cares

CHORUS
She cares more than anyone I've ever known
She prays for the lost ones to find their way home
We are together even when we're alone
Even when my heart was cold as a stone
She cares too much, she cares too much
Feel me and heal me with your sweet gentle touch
If this is the real me, I can't thank you enough
I love you, my darling, because You Care Too Much
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