Alicia Keys has a broken heart

A girl who spent her teen years singing, dancing and acting is now one of the biggest stars in the world. Alicia Keys grew up in New York City and started going to a performing arts school there when she was just 12. She made her first album, Songs in A Minor, when she was 20. Since then she has sold more than 30 million albums and been in big films like The Nanny Diaries and The Secret Life of Bees. Alicia released her fourth album, The Element of Freedom, in December.

“Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart” is the second single from The Element of Freedom

Lonely, own me, nobody ever shut it down like you…
I thought you told me you’d never leave me…
So rather than hold on to a broken dream, I’ll just hold on to love
And I could find a way to make it, don’t hold on too tight

Love is stronger than pain. Alicia Keys loves her boyfriend more than anything. But he has left her and broken her heart. She finds it hard to sleep because she’s so sad and lonely. So she decides to think about all the happy times they had instead of about how much he hurt her. This helps her to feel a lot better.