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Tears Don't Fall

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{{Infobox song

| name = Tears Don't Fall

| cover = tears dont fall.jpg

| alt =

| caption = One of the album cover artwork variants

| type = single

| artist = Bullet for My Valentine

| album = The Poison

| A-side = Tears Don't Fall

| B-side =

| released = 17 June 2006{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Bullet-For-My-Valentine-Tears-Dont-Fall/release/797987 |title=Bullet for My Valentine – Tears Don't Fall (CD) at Discogs |publisher=Discogs |date=17 June 2006 |accessdate=1 September 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/tears-dont-fall-2-track-cd-mw0000742572 |title=Tears Don't Fall [2 Track CD] – Bullet for My Valentine | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |publisher=AllMusic |date=17 June 2006 |accessdate=1 September 2013}}

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre = {{flatlist|

  • Metalcore{{cite web|url=https://loudwire.com/top-metal-bands-first-album-21st-century/|title=Top 50 Metal Bands Who Released Their First Album in the 21st Century|date=21 September 2016|website=Loudwire|access-date=19 October 2019|quote=Distancing themselves from the metalcore pool are the U.K.'s Bullet for My Valentine. Breaking into the scene with [metalcore] genre anthems "Tears Don’t Fall" and "4 Words (To Choke Upon)" off their debut record,}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.themicmagazine.co.uk/post/a-ten-song-introduction-to-metalcore-music|title=A Ten Song Introduction To Metalcore Music|publisher=The Mic|last=Longhurst|first=Jake|date=22 April 2022|access-date=15 February 2023}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.maniacsonline.com.au/news/these-top-8-myspace-metalcore-tracks-still-absolutely-slap|title=THESE TOP 8 MYSPACE METALCORE TRACKS STILL ABSOLUTELY SLAP|publisher=Maniacs|last=Harris|first=Brenton|date=18 October 2021|access-date=15 February 2023}}
  • emo{{cite web |url=https://www.readjunk.com/news/music/bullet-for-my-valentine-tears-dont-fall-streams/ |title=Bullet for My Valentine "Tears Don't Fall" Streams |work=ReadJunk |last=Kremkau |first=Bryan |date=18 September 2006 |access-date=20 December 2021 |archive-date=9 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009191845/https://www.readjunk.com/news/music/bullet-for-my-valentine-tears-dont-fall-streams/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=

https://whenthehornblows.com/content//2015/02/8-emo-tracks-for-lovelorn-anti.html|title=8 EMO TRACKS FOR THE LOVELORN ANTI-VALENTINE'S LOSER.|work=When The Horn Blows|date=14 February 2015 |access-date=3 January 2022}}}}

| length = * 5:48 {{small|(album version)}}

  • 4:40 {{small|(single version)}}

| label = * Trustkill{{cite web|author=Bullet for My Valentine |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bullet-for-my-valentine-mn0000865403 |title=Bullet for My Valentine | Music Biography, Credits and Discography |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=1 September 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.100xr.com/artists/B/Bullet_For_My_Valentine.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113010617/http://www.100xr.com/artists/B/Bullet_For_My_Valentine.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=13 November 2013 |title=Bullet for My Valentine Biography, Discography, Music News on 100 XR – The Net's #1 Rock Station!!! |publisher=100xr.com |accessdate=1 September 2013}}

  • Visible Noise{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Bullet-For-My-Valentine-Tears-Dont-Fall/master/232476 |title=Bullet for My Valentine – Tears Don't Fall at Discogs |publisher=Discogs |accessdate=1 September 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7114310 |title=Bullet for My Valentine – Tears Don't Fall PT. 1 CD Album |publisher=CD Universe |accessdate=1 September 2013}}

| writer = Matthew Tuck

| producer =

| prev_title = All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)

| prev_year = 2006

| next_title = Scream Aim Fire

| next_year = 2007

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|9sTQ0QdkN3Q|"Tears Don't Fall"}}}}

}}

"Tears Don't Fall" is a song

by Welsh heavy metal band Bullet for My Valentine. It is the band's fourth single from their first full-length studio album, The Poison. The single was released on 17 June 2006 through Trustkill Records in the US. The song won the Kerrang! Award for Best Single. The song peaked at No. 24 on the Hot Mainstream Rock chart and No. 32 on the Alternative Rock chart.{{cite web |url=http://www.100xr.com/artists/B/Bullet_For_My_Valentine.html |accessdate=2023-04-21 |archive-date=26 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226211838/http://www.100xr.com/artists/B/Bullet_For_My_Valentine.html |title=Archived |url-status=usurped |language=en }} In 2013, the band released a sequel to the song called "Tears Don't Fall (Part 2)" on their fourth studio album, Temper Temper.

Music video

The music video, directed by Tony Petrossian, shows the band playing in a place with heavy rain. The story of the video shows a woman and the man, who are seen doing romantic things with each other but when the woman (Taylor Cole) tries to continue the following day, the man won't let her as he seems to be tired of her. After a while of driving, the car loses fuel. After refueling the car, the woman tries to get close to the man and causes him to drop the barrel of fuel. He pushes her away, but the barrel has emptied, with the fuel spilled onto the ground. The man then gets in the car and drives away, leaving the girl running after the car. The man stops at a hotel, goes in and finds a blonde woman to replace the previous woman he left behind. The previous woman finally manages to walk to where the man is staying. She then enters the hotel room with the barrel he dropped earlier and proceeds to drench the new couple and herself with gasoline to commit murder-suicide by immolation. She then pulls out a lighter and drops it onto the bed but it doesn't ignite. The woman then smiles and blows a sarcastic kiss to the terrified pair cowering on the bed now realizing they were not going to die. The camera then shifts outside to a hose dripping water indicating she had used the hose to fill the barrel with water.

The other video again starts with the band playing in the rain. The story shows a man and woman doing romantic things in the car with the ex-girlfriend watching them in rage and sadness. Heartbroken and in tears, the ex goes to seek help from a voodoo witch doctor who makes her go through a ritual to put her in a blinding trance of anger, before finally receiving a voodoo doll cursed to imitate the man. In rage, she starts stabbing the doll, causing the man to feel the pain, then the doll falls into a pit of fire, which caused the car to explode, killing the man and woman inside.

As of June 2025, the music video for "Tears Don't Fall" has over 270 million views on YouTube.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sTQ0QdkN3Q|title=Bullet For My Valentine - Tears Don't Fall (Official Video)|publisher=YouTube|author=bulletvalentineVEVO|date=25 October 2009|access-date=13 June 2025}}

Critical reception

"Tears Don't Fall" is one of Bullet for My Valentine's most popular songs and is often regarded as one of the band's greatest songs. It was featured in the band's live DVDs: The Poison: Live at Brixton, Rock am Ring 2006, Scream Aim Fire: Live at London Alexandria and Live from Brixton: Chapter Two.

=Accolades=

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! Publication

! List

! Rank

scope="row"| Loudwire

| The 66 Best Metal Songs of the 21st Century

| {{center|–{{cite web|url=https://loudwire.com/best-metal-songs-21st-century/|title= The 66 Best Metal Songs of the 21st Century|website=Loudwire|page=1|date=24 September 2020|access-date=17 December 2023}}}}

scope="row"| Metal Hammer

| The 100 Greatest Metal Songs of the 21st Century

| {{center|35{{cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/best-metal-songs-21st-century|title= The 100 Greatest Metal Songs of the 21st Century|website=Loudersound|page=1|date=16 May 2021|access-date=17 December 2023}}}}

=Kerrang! Awards=

{{award table}}

!Ref.

|-

| rowspan=1|2006

| rowspan=1|"Tears Don't Fall"

| Best Single

| {{won}}

| rowspan=1|{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/aug/25/arts.media|title = Awards and Nominations|date = 25 August 2006}}

{{end}}

Track listings

"Tears Don't Fall" was released as a single in the UK in multiple different formats: two CD singles and one 7" LP single. All three formats were released on 17 July 2006 through Visible Noise Records. The individual track listings are as follows:

CD1

  1. "Tears Don't Fall" – 4:40
  2. "Domination" {{small|(Pantera cover)}} – 5:06
  • An unreleased version of the "Tears Don't Fall" music video
  • A desktop wallpaper

CD2

  1. "Tears Don't Fall" {{small|(live at Brixton Academy)}} – 6:12
  2. "4 Words (To Choke Upon)" {{small|(live at Brixton Academy)}} – 3:53
  3. "Suffocating Under Words of Sorrow (What Can I Do)" {{small|(live at Brixton Academy)}} – 4:01

7" vinyl

  1. "Tears Don't Fall" – 4:40
  2. "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" {{small|(Metallica cover)}} – 6:17

German EP

  1. "Tears Don't Fall" – 4:40
  2. "Domination" {{small|(Pantera cover)}} – 5:06
  3. "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" {{small|(Metallica cover)}} – 6:17
  4. "Suffocating Under Words of Sorrow (What Can I Do)" {{small|(live at Brixton Academy)}} – 4:02
  5. "4 Words (To Choke Upon)" {{small|(live at Brixton Academy)}} – 3:52

Online downloads

  • "Tears Don't Fall" {{small|(CLA radio edit)}}

Charts

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|+ Chart performance for "Tears Don't Fall"

! scope="col"| Chart (2006)

! scope="col"| Peak
position

scope="row"|Finland (Suomen virallinen lista){{cite web|url=https://www.ifpi.fi/lista/artistit/bullet+for+my+valentine/tears+don%27t+fall/|title=Bullet for My Valentine: Tears Don't Fall|language=fi|publisher=Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland|accessdate=13 January 2021}}

| 17

{{single chart|Germany|47|artist=Bullet for My Valentine|song=Tears Don't Fall|songid=215699|rowheader=true|accessdate=13 January 2021}}
{{single chart|Scotland|28|artist=Bullet for My Valentine|song=Tears Don't Fall|date=20060723|rowheader=true|accessdate=13 January 2021}}
{{single chart|UK|37|date=20060723|artist=Bullet for My Valentine|song=Tears Don't Fall|rowheader=true|accessdate=13 January 2021}}
{{single chart|UKrock|3|artist=Bullet for My Valentine|song=Tears Don't Fall|date=20060730|rowheader=true|accessdate=13 January 2021}}
{{single chart|Billboardmainstreamrock|24|artist=Bullet for My Valentine|song=Tears Don't Fall|rowheader=true|accessdate=13 January 2021}}
{{single chart|Billboardalternativesongs|32|artist=Bullet for My Valentine|accessdate=7 August 2017|rowheader=true}}

Certifications

{{Certification Table Top}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Germany|artist=Bullet for My Valentine|title=Tears Don't Fall|award=Gold|type=single|relyear=2006|certyear=2023|access-date=21 January 2023}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|artist=Bullet for My Valentine|title=Tears Don't Fall|award=Gold|type=single|relyear=2006|certyear=2021|accessdate=24 December 2024|source=radioscope}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Bullet for My Valentine|title=Tears Don't Fall|award=Gold|type=single|relyear=2006|certyear=2024|accessdate=23 February 2024|id=15530-714-1}}

{{Certification Table Bottom|streaming=true|nosales=yes|noshipments=yes}}

Personnel

  • Matthew "Matt" Tuck – lead vocals, rhythm and lead guitar
  • Michael "Padge" Paget – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Michael "Moose" Thomas – drums
  • Jason "Jay" James – bass guitar, backing vocals

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sTQ0QdkN3Q Official music video]

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{{Kerrang! Award for Best Single}}

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Category:2006 singles

Category:2005 songs

Category:Bullet for My Valentine songs

Category:Music videos directed by Tony Petrossian

Category:Songs written by Matthew Tuck

Category:Emo songs