The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) by Ryan Bingham, Music Lyrics and Video
The Weary Kind (full title “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)”) is an Academy Award-winning country song written by T-Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham for the award-winning Crazy Heart, a 2009 film directed by Scott Cooper starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Colin Farrell and Bridges perform renditions of the song in the film. Bingham and his Dead Horses serve as Bridges’ backing band in the film as well.
Ryan Bingham, the rodeo bull rider turned singer/songwriter, wrote and performed two songs for the soundtrack of the movie Crazy Heart, including “I Don’t Know,” and the theme song, “The Weary Kind.”
On January 17, 2010, Bingham was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for “The Weary Kind” at the 2009 Golden Globe Awards. The song won Best Original Song at the 2009 82nd Academy Awards.
You can listen the song here, Ryan Bingham performing live “The Weary Kind”, from the soundtrack for CRAZY HEART.
Ryan Bingham - The Weary Kind Lyrics
Your hearts on the loose
you rolled them sevens with nothing to lose
and this ain’t no place for the weary kind
you called all your shots
shooting a ball at the corner truck stop
somehow this don’t feel like home anymore
(chorus)
and this ain’t no place for the weary kind
this ain’t no place to lose your mind
this ain’t no place to fall behind
pick up your crazy heart and give it one more try
your body aches
playin’ your guitar
sweatin’ out the hay
the days and the nights
all feel the same
the whiskey has been
a thorn in your side
it doesn’t forgive
the highway that carves your heart inside
(chorus)
and this ain’t no place for the weary kind
this ain’t no place to lose your mind
this ain’t no place to fall behind
pick up your crazy heart and give it one more try
your lovers one kiss
is to damn far from your fingertips
you are the man that ruined the world
Your hearts on the loose
you rolled them sevens with nothing to lose
and this ain’t no place for the weary kind
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March 13th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Sadly, this song reflects my life. I hope they play it at my funeral.
May 4th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
My four older brothers were cowboys and one was a bull-rider in his younger days. Hearing that Ryan Bingham is/was a bull-rider did not surrise me as the Cowboy Poet is well-known just about everywhere out West. Ryan Bingham in my opinion has written a song that is sraight from the heart and twenty miles past the soul, and that a lot of people relate to. And I agree with David L. Smith and hope they play it at my funeral too.
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:37 am
hey …what a great song this is .
magic.
going to learn to play it straight away.