Discover the story of the song > The Man Who Couldn’t Cry – Loudon Wainwright III

The song is about a man who can't cry, even when bad things happen to him, like losing his dog, his wife leaving him, and getting fired. He even went to jail and was beaten, but still couldn't cry. However, when he went to a place for people who are insensitive and insane, he finally cried when it rained for forty days and forty nights. He cried so much that he died of dehydration. But in the end, he went to heaven and found his dog, and all the bad things that happened to him were resolved.