Listen to this when
I'd Rather Go Blind
when seeing them with someone else breaks you 🖤
Who it's for
Etta James sings that she'd rather lose her sight than watch the man she loves leave with someone else.
Devastated→Grief released
Feelings it meets
What it is
"I'd Rather Go Blind" is a blues and soul song recorded by Etta James in 1967 at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals for her album Tell Mama, where it was the B-side of the "Tell Mama" single. The narrator sees her lover with another woman, realizes the relationship is ending, and says she would rather lose her sight than watch him walk away.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Age: All ages
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state,William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29
