Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you fun songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. Today, country music star Luke Combs has diamond rings on his mind as he confronts the cruel fact that everything he loves will ultimately break his heart.
Included on his long list of things that have “torn him apart” are his job, his truck, his dog, his favorite football team and a couple of girlfriends. The only thing he can count on is his favorite frosty libation.
In his 2019 hit “Beer Never Broke My Heart,” Combs sings, “Longneck iced cold beer never broke my heart / Like diamond rings and football teams have torn this boy apart / Like a neon dream it just don’t know me, the bars and this guitar / And longneck iced cold beer never broke my heart.”
Written by Combs in collaboration with Randy Montana and Jonathan Singleton, “Beer Never Broke My Heart” became a fan favorite when Combs and his band began playing it on tour in January of 2018. A studio version appeared on Combs’ second studio album, What You See Is What You Get, and was released as a single on May 8, 2019.
The song ascended to #2 on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and #1 on the Canada Country chart. The album earned 2X platinum status in the US and topped the album charts in the US, Canada, UK and Australia.
Combs and his band got to perform the song live on both The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in May 2019 and on Saturday Night Live in February 2020.
Luke Albert Combs was born on March 2, 1990, in Huntersville, NC. He demonstrated a love for music at a young age and performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall while attending high school. At Appalachian State University, he worked as a bouncer at a honky-tonk bar and eventually earned stage time to hone his talents.
Just a month before he was set to graduate from college, he dropped out to pursue his dream of becoming a country music star. He released his first EP in 2014, and by 2016 he had been recognized by Sounds Like Nashville as an “artist to watch.”
Please check out the video of Combs’ Saturday Night Live performance of “Beer Never Broke My Heart.” The lyrics are below if you’d like to sing along…
“Beer Never Broke My Heart”
Written by Luke Combs, Randy Montana and Jonathan Singleton. Performed by Luke Combs.
I’ve had a largemouth bass bust my line
A couple of beautiful girls tell me goodbye
Trucks break down, dogs run off
Politicians lie, been fired by the boss
It takes one hand to count the things I can count on
No, there ain’t much man that ain’t ever let me down
Longneck iced cold beer never broke my heart
Like diamond rings and football teams have torn this boy apart
Like a neon dream it just don’t know me, the bars and this guitar
And longneck iced cold beer never broke my heart
She was a Carolina blue jean baby
Fire in her eyes that drove me crazy
It was red tail lights when she left town
If I didn’t know then, I sure do now
That longneck iced cold beer never broke my heart
Like diamond rings and football teams have torn this boy apart
Like a neon dream it just don’t know me, the bars and this guitar
A longneck iced cold beer never broke my heart
Now I got one hand to count the things I can count on
But I got one man drippin’ down on a cold one
‘Cause longneck iced cold beer never broke my heart
Like diamond rings and football teams have torn this boy apart
Like a neon dream it just don’t know me, the bars and this guitar
A longneck iced cold beer never broke my heart
It never broke my heart.
Credit: Screen capture via Youtube.com/Saturday Night Live.