"Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" — the most painful admission in the Elton John catalogue.
What have I got to do to make you love me
What have I got to do to make you care
What do I do when lightning strikes me
And I wake to find that you're not there
What do I do to make you want me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I say when it's all over
And sorry seems to be the hardest word
It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation
And it's getting more and more absurd
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over
Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word
What do I do to make you love me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I do when lightning strikes me
What have I got to do
What have I got to do
When sorry seems to be the hardest word
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- From Blue Moves (1976). The lyric of romantic deadlock — "what do I have to do to make you love me?" A 2002 collaboration with Blue took it to #1 in the UK. The 1976 original reached #11.