Country Music Herald

So it’s been a rough week for me, and I feel this song really sums up how I’m feeling about some things right now. Jo Dee Messina is really speaking to me this weekend with her song My Give a Damn’s Busted, so go ahead an enjoy these lyrics–I’m taking the day off!

My Give a Damn’s Busted

Well, you filled up my head with so many lies.
You twisted my heart till somethin’ snapped inside.
I’d like to give it one more try,
But my give-a-damn’s busted.

You can crawl back home, say you were wrong;
Stand out in the yard and cry all night long.
Well, go ahead and water the lawn:
My give-a-damn’s busted.

I really wanna care.
I wanna feel somethin’.
Let me dig a little deeper:.
No, sorry: nothin’.

You can say you’ve got issues, you can say you’re a victim.
It’s all your parents fault,I mean after all you didn’t pick ‘em.
Maybe somebody else has got time to listen:
My give-a-damn’s busted.

Well, your therapist says it was all a mistake:
A product of the Prozac and your co-dependent ways.
So who’s your enabler these days?
My give-a-damn’s busted.

I really wanna care.
I wanna feel somethin’.
Let me dig a little deeper:.
No, still nothin’.

It’s a desperate situation, no tellin’ what you’ll do.
If I don’t forgive you, you say your life is through.
C’mon, gimme somethin’ I can use:
My give-a-damn’s busted.

Well, I really wanna care.
I wanna feel somethin’.
Let me dig a little deeper:
No, Man sorry.
Just nothin’, you know.
You’ve really done it this time, ha, ha.
My give-a-damn’s busted.

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Well, her give a damn must not have been busted this past weekend. Jo Dee Messina, along with her brother Vincent Messina, ran the Chicago marathon on an extremely hot Sunday in the Windy City. In fact, the marathon was shut down early due to a runner collapsing and later dying from heat exhaustion. The unseasonably balmy October day didn’t seem to phase Messina, who was actually able to finish the race in about 5 hours and 45 minutes.

A seasoned marathon runner, Jo Dee competed in the 2006 Boston Marathon finishing that course in about the same amount of time as the Chicago Marathon. She finished the Boston race with a knee injury sustained sometime in the middle of her marathon run. There were no injuries reported this time around.

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