Wrack My Brain

Album: Stop And Smell The Roses (1981)
Charted: 38
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  • By George Harrison


    WRACK MY BRAIN, WRACK MY BRAIN,
    TILL MY HEAD'S FILLED WITH PAIN,
    WRACK MY BRAIN.

    ALL DRIED UP, I'M ALL DRIED UP,
    ALL I HAVE'S THIS EMPTY CUP,
    ALL DRIED UP.

    WHAT I HAVE, YOU DON'T WANT,
    WHAT YOU WANT, I CAN'T GIVE.
    I GOT OUT OF TOUCH WITH YOU AND YOURS,
    THE WAY THAT YOU LIVE.

    I TRY TO DO MY BEST FOR YOU,
    WHILE THE SKY POURS DOWN THE RAIN,
    WRACK MY BRAIN.

    WITH A WILL THERE'S A WAY,
    BUT THERE'S NO WAY I CAN SEE,
    COMING UP WITH SOMETHING YOU'D ENJOY
    AS MUCH AS TV

    ALL THE SAME, I PLAY THE GAME,
    UP AND DOWN OLD MEMORY LANE,
    WRACK MY BRAIN, (wrack my brain)
    TILL MY HEAD IS FILLED WITH PAIN,
    WRACK MY BRAIN, (wrack my brain)
    WHILE I SLOWLY GO INSANE,
    WRACK MY BRAIN. (wrack my brain)



    Writer/s: GEORGE HARRISON
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn November 1st 1981, "Wrack My Brain" by Ringo Starr entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #79; and five weeks later on December 6th, 1981 it peaked at #38 {for 1 week} and spent 11 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #10 in Switzerland...
    "Wrack My Brain" was his twelfth and last record* to make the Top 100; seven of the twelve records made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, "Photograph" for 1 week in 1973 and "You're Sixteen" for 1 week in 1974...
    Ringo, born Richard Starkey, Jr., will celebrate his 75th birthday come next July 7th {2015}...
    * Interestingly, his debut record, "Beaucoups of Blues", entered the Top 100 exactly eleven years earlier on November 1st, 1970; it peaked at #87.
  • Ken from Louisville, KyAnd yes, that IS Barbara Bach in the video playing the woman in the straight jacket. Ringo said that after this was shot, they took the jacket home. He slyly said "What fun!"
  • Kevin from Reading , PaThis is one of Ringo's best, from the "Stop and Smell the Roses" album. The album also featured two pretty good McCartney songs, "Attention" and "Private Property." In fact, these songs were better than some of the material McCartney was producing for himself at the time, namely the "Back to the Egg" album. I think I'm correct in saying that this was Ringo's last Top 40 chart entry.
  • Ken from Louisville, KyThis was also the "sustitue" song for Ringo who was first offered an early version of "All Those Years Ago", written by George specifically for Ringo (before John Lennon's murder). Ringo felt he had already covered the same ground in "I'm The Greatest" so he asked George if he had another song, and George dug this out. This was recorded a few weeks before John's death. Ironicaly, John had a song of his own waiting for Ringo called "Nobody Told Me".
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