The Sorrows are considered perhaps to be the archetypal "Freakbeat" band. F… Read Full Bio ↴The Sorrows are considered perhaps to be the archetypal "Freakbeat" band. Formed in 1963 in Coventry, England, they released their first album "Take a Heart" in 1965 on the Piccadilly Records label which was a subsidiary of Pye Records. The Sorrows were at the time the hardest, most aggressive and contemporary R&B band of that time, although later this brand of music was eventually termed "Freakbeat". The Sorrows were so edgy and raw they simply made The Rolling Stones seem like easy listening music. Their hallmarks are boomy, raucous vocals, lightning fast guitar solos and frantic thudding drums. The musicianship is excellent yet the band failed to achieve too much success probably due to the fact that their brand of proto-punk rock and roll, was simply too ahead of its time.
After receiving some minor chart positions on the UK Singles Chart, Phil Packham and Don Fardon left the band. Fardon then went on to have a UK chart hit with "Indian Reservation". Wez Price took Phil Packam's place on bass guitar, whilst Roger Lomas became lead guitarist and Pip Whitcher focused on vocals. The band relocated to Italy and received minor success. Following the band's break-up Whitcher and Lomas went on to record at Air Studios under Mike Sullivan.

Lomas in the early 1980s became a record producer for his own company, ROLO productions, and produced 1980s ska bands such as Bad Manners.

One of the most overlooked bands of the British Invasion, the Sorrows offered a tough brand of R&B-infused rock that recalled the Pretty Things (though not as R&B-oriented) and the Kinks (though not as pop-oriented). Their biggest British hit, "Take a Heart," stopped just outside the U.K. Top 20; several other fine mid-'60s singles met with either slim or a total lack of success. With the rich, gritty vocals of Don Fardon, taut raunchy guitars, and good material (both self-penned and from outside writers), they rank as one of the better British bands of their era, and certainly among the very best never to achieve success of any kind in the U.S. After their sole LP (also titled Take a Heart), they issued a couple of singles with psychedelic and Dylanesque overtones, and had somehow relocated to Italy in the late '60s, where they played out their string with material in a much more progressive (and less distinctive) vein. Don Fardon had a Top 20 hit in America with a pre-Raiders version of "Indian Reservation" in 1968.

Take A Heart
The Sorrows Lyrics

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First you take a heart, then you break her heart
But before you do, you make it fall for you
Then you give it back, ahh you shouldn't do that

Seen you walk that floor just a-thinking of you
You seen me walk that floor baby, right out of my school
Somebody help me please, tell me what to do

Just send an S.O.S., my heart's in distress
Won't somebody please take her place
Well I found her there, searching everywhere

Break

Watch you breaking my heart baby

First you take a heart, then you break her heart
But before you do, you make it fall for you
Then you give it back, ahh you shouldn't do that

Seen you walk that floor just a-thinking of you
You seen me walk that floor baby, right out of my school
Somebody help me please, tell me what to do

Send me an S.O.S., my heart's in distress
Won't somebody please take her place
Well I found her there, searching everywhere

Oh you shouldn't do that (oh you shouldn't do that)
Oh you shouldn't do that (oh you shouldn't do that)
Oh you shouldn't do that baby (oh you shouldn't do that)
Oh you shouldn't do that

You know you broke my heart, you made me fall for you

You know you shouldn't do that
You know you shouldn't do that

Overall Meaning

The Sorrows's song "Take A Heart" is a warning to lovers not to play with people's emotions. The lyrics speak of a situation where someone takes another person's heart by making them fall in love, only to then break that love in a callous way. The plea for "somebody help me please, tell me what to do" indicates the deep hurt and confusion that the one who has been left behind is feeling. The repeated refrain of "you shouldn't do that" is a reminder that causing someone pain in this way is not acceptable.

The song is a straightforward rock band composition, with a driving drumbeat, guitar riffs, and a catchy chorus. The energy of the music matches the intensity of the emotions being expressed in the lyrics. The insistent repetitions of the chorus and the urgent, almost desperate tone of the verses make the song a classic of the genre.

Line by Line Meaning

First you take a heart, then you break her heart
You capture someone's heart and then destroy it in the end

But before you do, you make it fall for you
You manipulate and win over the heart of the target before shattering it

Then you give it back, ahh you shouldn't do that
After gaining someone's heart, you return it to them with harm, which is not righteous

Seen you walk that floor just a-thinking of you
You have seen the sorrow and pain that the crippled heart is going through and the sufferings of the one who caused it

You seen me walk that floor baby, right out of my school
The pain has caused the person to walk away from the things that used to matter in their life

Take A HeartThe Sorrows Lyrics

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Take A Heart
The Sorrows Lyrics