Addicted
This song was inspired by a converstion with her sister who was trying to decide if she should stay in a relationship.
The man comes by less and less, but the woman doesn't want to call it off. At first, things were great, but now things are getting worse. The woman thinks she's addicted to a real bad thing. She wants to call it off, but she can't.
Dan Seals recorded this song and it hit #1 on the Country Music Charts.
Not bad for her first album.
The Dan Seals' version is missing the last verse of the song. Here is what Cheryl had to say about why that happened:
I doubt that was Dan's call, I think it was Kyle Lehning's and I think it was a good one.
When I was writing that last verse, I remember feeling it was making the song too long, but it was a very emotional song for me, about my sister, and I cared more about saying what I felt and what I thought she felt than doing what might have better served the song.
When I heard Dan had recorded it, and especially that it was going to be a single, I expected a verse would be cut out.
Kyle is a great producer with excellent instincts for radio and hit records. He produced lots and lots of hit records with: England Dan and John Ford Coley, Dan Seals, Randy Travis, Baily and the Boys and many others I'm not remembering. Happily for me, "Addicted" actually went to #1 and I doubt that it would have if that last verse had been there.
Lyrics
- Addicted
- Words And Music By:
- Cheryl Wheeler
- She says she hates to sleep alone but she'll do it tonight
- She wants to grab her telephone but she knows it ain't right
- So if he won't call she'll survive
- And if he don't care she'll get by
- Climb into bed bury her head and cry, cry
- From the beginning he was all anyone could have been
- They were delirious with love, they were certain to win
- Now he's breaking plans more and more
- And he's leaving notes on her door
- 'took a trip out of town, couldn't turn this one down'
- He said 'I guess I should have told you before'
- (Chorus)
- She says she feels like she's addicted to a real bad thing
- She's always sitting, waiting wondering if the phone will ring
- She knows she bounces like a yo-yo when he pulls her string
- It hurts to feel like such a fool
- She wants to tell him not to call or come around again
- He doesn't need her now at all the way that she needs him
- She's on the edge about to fall from leaning out and in
- And she don't know which way to move
- She wants to be fair, she couldn't say he was ever unkind
- But if she could bear to walk away, she thinks he wouldn't mind
- 'cause he just keeps himself so apart
- And there's no one else in her heart
- So she's taking a dive from an emotional high
- And coming down hard
- She's determined to try, but she'll still give in when he gives her a call
- And She'll ask herself why, but in the end it won't matter at all
- Sure she could sit at home, stay inside
- And sleep alone with her pride
- And as she walks out her door, she feels as weak as before
- With nothing to hide
- (Repeat Chorus)
- 1/13/84
- (P) May 27, 2003
- Penrod And Higgins Music / Amachrist Music
- ACF Music Group
- International Copyright Reserved
Song Clips
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Recordings
The song Addicted appears on the following 2 albums:
- Cheryl Wheeler
- by Wheeler, Cheryl
- Different Stripe
- by Wheeler, Cheryl
