“Sometimes She Cries” by Warrant

"Sometimes She Cries" was the fourth single off Warrant's debut album, Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, and the second power ballad the glam metal crew sent out from it, trailing the hit "Heaven". Jani Lane wrote it on his own, Beau Hill produced it and John Jansen mixed it, and it folds gospel into the classic rock, a glam band with one foot in the pews.

Those two slow ones did plenty of heavy lifting, widening the album's reach, largely among women listeners. This one climbed to 20 on the Hot 100 and 11 on the Mainstream Rock chart. In the video Lane perches on a wooden table, singing, before the band joins in behind him, while the story follows a woman raising a child after her husband walks out.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.