Wipe Your Tears

## *Manic (Deluxe)* Chronology

"**Wipe Your Tears**" (stylized in all lowercase) is a song performed by Halsey. It is featured as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of her third album, *Manic*. It was released on January 17, 2020 through Capitol Records. It was later featured on the deluxe edition of *Manic* which was released on September 29, 2020.

## Background

When asked by a fan during a Spotify Q&A on Twitter why the song didn't appear on the standard edition of *Manic* Halsey replied:

"*It was really hard to decide which songs were going to be exclusive to different versions of the album. But I ultimately ended up putting 'wipe your tears' and 'I'm Not Mad' as bonus tracks because even though I really wanted to keep them, they felt the least essential to the plot that I was trying to get across, because they were so much about other people. And even though there are songs on Manic about my experiences with others, I really wanted the journey to feel cohesive, as being about me, and myself, and my discovery.*"
—Halsey

On June 15, 2020 Halsey leaked the full original demo version of the song in honor of pride month and called the song her "favorite wlw song" of hers. They also revealed that there is a third version of the song that they won't leak because it has a feature and they would get in trouble for leaking it.

## Official versions

* Album version - 1:51
* Demo version - 2:24

## Lyrics

### Official version

[Intro]

Hey

[Chorus]

You know I tell her all the time

Nothing's gonna hurt you, baby

Nothing's gonna make you cry

I'll be damned if I ever let another hand

Wipe your tears before they dry

Nothing's gonna hurt you, baby

Nothing's gonna make you cry

I'll be damned if I ever let another hand

Wipe your tears before they dry

[Verse]

Keep your friends close, but this pretty girl closer

Kiss her on the neck, cradle baby is a poser

Know she's so cold, but the world is colder

Take her in my lap and I promise that I'll hold her

My bed is too big for only me

I keep a pistol when I sleep

Inside my mouth so I can shoot

Down all the bad things

[Chorus]

You know I tell her all the time

Nothing's gonna hurt you, baby

Nothing's gonna make you cry

I'll be damned if I ever let another hand

Wipe your tears before they dry

You know I tell her all the time

Nothing's gonna hurt you, baby

Nothing's gonna make you cry

I'll be damned if I ever let another hand

Wipe your tears before they dry

[Outro]

Mm, mmm

Yeah, yeah

### Demo version

[Chorus]

You know I tell her all the time

Nothing's gonna hurt you, baby

Nothing's gonna make you cry

I'll be damned if I ever let another hand

Wipe your tears before they dry

Nothing's gonna hurt you, baby

Nothing's gonna make you cry

I'll be damned if I ever let another hand

Wipe your tears before they dry

[Verse 1]

Keep my friends close, but this pretty girl closer

Kiss her on the neck, little baby is a poser

Thinks she's so cold, but the world is colder

Take her in my lap and I'll promise that I'll hold her

[Pre-Chorus]

My bed is too big for only me

I keep a pistol when I sleep

Inside my mouth so I can shoot

Down all the bad things

[Chorus]

You know I tell her all the time

Nothing's gonna hurt you, baby

Nothing's gonna make you cry

I'll be damned if I ever let another hand

Wipe your tears before they dry

You know I tell her all the time

Nothing's gonna hurt you, baby

Nothing's gonna make you cry

I'll be damned if I ever let another hand

Wipe your tears before they dry

[Verse 2]

Hurts so bad but it's digging in my shoulder

Make me so mad, but I'm keeping my composure

Got your naked pictures and I keep them in a folder

Know if I delete 'em I'll regret it when I'm older

[Pre-Chorus]

My bed is too big for only me

I keep a pistol when I sleep

Inside my mouth so I can shoot

Down all the bad things

[Chorus]

You know I tell her all the time

Nothing's gonna hurt you, baby

Nothing's gonna make you cry

I'll be damned if I ever let another hand

Wipe your tears before they dry

(You know I tell her all the time)

Nothing's gonna hurt you, baby

Nothing's gonna make you cry

I'll be damned if I ever let another hand

Wipe your tears before they dry

[Outro]

My bed is too big

My bed is too big for only

## Trivia

* Just as in Forever...(Is a Long Time), Halsey used a portion of a poem from her book I Would Leave Me If I Could. to write the lyrics for this song. Two lines can be found at the beginning of the poem "Guts."

## References

1. ↑ *Twitter* - @spotify - "Q: why didn't you include I'm not mad and Wipe your tears ? #AskHalsey"
2. ↑ *Twitter* - @halsey - "prolly gon get in trouble for this but, happy pride ! here’s the full OG version of wipe your tears. my favorite wlw song of mine that ended up on a special release of Manic if it gets taken down it ain’t my fault
3. ↑ *Twitter* - @halsey - "There’s actually 3 versions of this song in existence hahaha. You guys have 2 of them now."
4. ↑ *Twitter* - @halsey - "Omg pls I jussssst leaked the 2nd lemme breathe y’all ravenous. I can’t I’ll get in too much trouble cause it has a feature hahah"

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