I Cried for You

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"I Cried for You"

Single by Katie Melua
from the album Piece by Piece
B-side(s)	"Pictures on a Video Screen"
Released	December 5, 2005
Format	CD
Genre	Jazz/Blues
Length	3:39 / 3:35
Label	Dramatico
Producer(s)	Mike Batt
Chart positions
#35 (UK Singles Chart)
Katie Melua singles chronology
"Nine Million Bicycles" (2005)	"I Cried for You" (2005)	"Spider's Web" (2006)

"I Cried for You"/"Just like Heaven" is the fifth single by Georgian born songstress Katie Melua and is the second single from her album, Piece by Piece. The single is a double A-side consisting of one of Melua's own compositions, "I Cried for You" and a cover of The Cure’s song "Just like Heaven", the latter of which was became the theme song of the film Just like Heaven. The song "I Cried for You" is about Jesus and Mary Magdalene. [1]

1 Video
2 Mashup
3 Track listings
4 Personnel
5 Production
6 External links

[edit] Video

The "I Cried for You" video takes place in a room which is laid out much like a salon/dressing room, except it is surrounded by darkness and is desolate apart from a man in a chair and a woman, whose face is unseen throughout. As the music begins, the man sings in Katie's voice, and the woman begins to perform incisions in his skin and take, piece by piece, parts of his face away, revealing Katie. The man continues to sing, unperturbed until his mouth and neck are removed (at which point his hands grip the chair handles tightly), and he stops singing and Katie's lips are seen to sing underneath. Katie's entire face is eventually revealed, her hair loosened, and the pieces of the man's face are disposed of in a bin.

Then, after a short part where she sings and can move her head again, the woman performs similar incisions and begins to remove Katie's face, revealing the man underneath her again. Again, she sings unperturbed until the mouth and neck are removed (the man's hands grip the chair again). When the entire face is removed, the man seems relieved. Instead of him taking over the song as the mouth is removed, Katie's lips continue to sing the song and her eye continues to blink until the very end, when the pieces of her face are put in the bin.

[edit] Mashup

In January 2007 Norwegian Recycling made a mashup with "Just like Heaven" and "Ghost" by Billie the Vision and the Dancers called "Just like a Ghost"

[edit] Track listings

"I Cried for You" (Katie Melua)
"Just like Heaven" (Simon Gallup, Robert Smith)
"Pictures on a Video Screen" (Mike Batt)

[edit] Personnel

Vocals: Katie Melua
Guitars: Katie Melua, Chris Spedding, Jim Cregan
Piano: Mike Batt
Bass: Tim Harries
Drums: Henry Spinetti
Solo Trumpet: Dominic Glover
Solo violin: Mike Darcy
Percussion: Martin Ditchman, Chris Karan
Orchestra: The Irish Film Orchestra - Conductor: Mike Batt

[edit] Production

Producers: Mike Batt
Engineer: Steve Sale
Arranger: Mike Batt

[edit] External links

Katie Melua web site

v • d • e Katie Melua
Albums
Call off the Search \| Piece by Piece
Singles
"The Closest Thing to Crazy" \| "Call off the Search" \| "Crawling up a Hill" \| "Nine Million Bicycles" \| "I Cried for You" \| "Spider's Web" \| "It's Only Pain" \| "Shy Boy"