Introduction
When Willie Nelson sings, the world listens. But with “Something You Get Through,” he doesn’t just sing—he cuts straight into the raw heart of human grief and survival. This isn’t a song about romance or glory. It’s a song about the brutal truth we all face: loss is inevitable. And yet, in Nelson’s weathered voice, that loss is transformed into a strange kind of strength.
Most country songs talk about broken hearts, but Nelson here is speaking about the kind of heartbreak that never fully heals—the empty chair at the table, the silence left behind after someone is gone. His delivery is so fragile, so stripped of pretense, that it feels less like music and more like a confession whispered to the universe.
What shocks listeners is not just the sadness—it’s the honesty. Nelson doesn’t sugarcoat pain. He reminds us that life’s hardest blows are not things we “get over,” but things we get through. It’s a difference that hits like a lightning strike. At 85 years old when he recorded it, Nelson’s voice carried the weight of decades, sounding like both a survivor and a prophet.
The song is devastating, yet strangely comforting. It shocks because it says aloud what most of us are too afraid to admit—that some wounds never truly close. And yet, by facing that truth, Nelson offers hope. He doesn’t promise healing. He promises endurance.
“Something You Get Through” is not just another track in Willie Nelson’s legendary catalog. It’s a monument. A chilling reminder that even legends cannot escape loss—but they can teach us how to carry it.
This isn’t music to hum in the background. It’s music that stops you cold, forces you to look at your own life, and makes you wonder: how will you get through?
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Lyrics
When you lose the one you love
You think your world has ended
You think your world will be a waste of life
Without them in it
You feel there’s no way to go on
Life is just a sad, sad song
But love is bigger than us all
The end is not the end at all
It’s not somethin’ you get over
But it’s somethin’ you get through
It’s not ours to be taken
It’s just a thing we get to do
Life goes on and on
And when it’s gone
It lives in someone new
It’s not somethin’ you get over
But it’s somethin’ you get through
It’s not somethin’ you get over
But it’s somethin’ you get through
It’s not ours to be taken
It’s a thing we get to do
Life goes on and on
And when it’s gone
It lives in someone new
It’s not somethin’ you get over
But it’s somethin’ you get through
It’s not somethin’ you get over
But it’s somethin’ you get through
