Sherry Winger - Those Who Laugh the Loudest [Karaoke] (2025 album, "10 More Chances")

Karaoke track from Sherry Winger's album "10 More Chances"
Vocals & lyrics: Sherry Winger
Music: Michael Molony
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This song portrays a 29-year-old woman with a tough, rebellious exterior, marked by expensive boots, fights, and being banned from a bar. This hardened persona, however, is a facade. The chorus reveals a deeper truth: those who laugh the loudest and fight the hardest are often hiding immense pain and secret fears. Her tough shell conceals a history of trauma, including a difficult relationship with her mother and an uncle who was a sex offender. She silently suffers while dreaming of a different, more perfect life, illustrating how outward appearances can mask deep, unspoken struggles.

Lyrics
Wearing expensive boots and a necklace named blasphemer
She’s a shameless sinner tough & battle scarred
started another fight, man you should’ve seen her
That’s the one that finally got her banned from the bar

She’s lived one hundred lifetimes in her twenty-nine years
Hiding her dulcet dresses, for reasons unclear, except to…

Those who laugh the loudest
Holding back the biggest tears
Those who fight the hardest
Hiding their secret fears
Those who run the fastest
Never look in the mirror
And those who most deny it
Suffer silently for years, silently for years

She’s a Sadie Sadie, proper married lady
Just a Rusty ol’ tune mama taught her
Someday someday perfect children, maybe
Without her uncle sex offender

With Disneyland so far away
Life has showed her how, to give and ache, She’s one of…

Those who laugh the loudest
Holding back the biggest tears
Those who fight the hardest
Hiding their secret fears
Those who run the fastest
Never look in the mirror
And those who most deny it
Suffer silently for years, silently for years