It was probably done on purpose.


Indeed, a beautiful song.

And just look how wonderful the lyric is....

Can't Breathe - Cyndi Lauper

Can't breathe, can't sleep
And words are too big for my head
Some words shouldn't even be said
His eyes, his speech
Still rolling around in my bed
Like a ghost waking up from the dead
And it's hard to let go
And it's hard not to show
The fumbling beat of a heart
Repeating itself in the dark

Still laugh, still dream
And bursting apart at the seam
Of whatever i hoped it would be
Little bird on the wire
Little bird from the fire
I'm circling back where you are
Repeating no matter how far

Then time speaks
Through the shuffling feet
And the cold heat
And the soul
Can't breathe, can't sleep
And words are too big for my head
Some words they should never be said

And it's dark
Oo and heart is what you can't give
But you just did, don't you know...

Can't breathe, can't sleep
And words are too big for my head
Some words they should never be said
And it's hard to let go....

It's one of the iTunes bonus tracks.

There are times in life when you want desperately to be wrong. When I first heard "Set Your Heart" and found out Cyndi was working with dance producers I knew her album was gonna be a dumbed-down-record-company-led affair but I hoped I might be wrong. I wasn't. The goal was obviously to get the gay dollar by making the kind of music popular in gay clubs (where her dance remixes have always been popular).

Every album Cyndi's released with Sony over the last ten years has been a novelty sanctioned by "the suits". Christmas albums, covers albums and now a dance album. They won't let her just make a straightforward Cyndi Lauper album. Tracks like this show us what we're missing.

The fact that these gimmicks never work should tell them to just focus on quality instead. You can't second guess the audience anyway, so why not let merit be the selling point. It couldn't be any more ineffective than these gimmicks. Leaving a song like this off the album in favour of trash like "Give It Up" and "High & Mighty" shows that quality was irrelevant to the plan. Still love Cyndi of course, but she'd be better off going independent again, rather than sticking with these bozos at Sony.

That was very nice.

It's a damned SHAME that it didn't make it on the album.

yeah, i really like that one. it's one of my favorites from the entire thing. hits pretty hard.

even though it's not officially on the album, it's still good to have it at all.