Too Hurt to Dance

Album: Endlessly (2010)
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  • This song is about Duffy's best friend when she lived in Pembrokeshire after her mum split from her dad. "She'd lost her mum aged ten, " the Welsh singer told The Mail on Sunday's You Magazine: "She told me they played 'Unchained Melody' at her mum's funeral. I now realise my lyric comes from seeing my friend at the school disco, shaking, her face in her hands, while the other kids were smooching to this song."

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