I Can't Break Your Heart Slow

"I Can't Break Your Heart Slow"
Demo by Rivers Cuomo
from the album Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997
Released	December 12, 2011
Recorded	April 22, 1994
Length	0:45
Label	self-released
Songwriter(s)	Rivers Cuomo
RC#	186
Producer(s)	Rivers Cuomo
Status	officially released
Rivers Cuomo song chronology
"I'm Lonely on a Saturday Night" (RC# 185) "I Can't Break Your Heart Slow" (RC# 186) "Money Makes Me Happy" (RC# 187)
Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997 track listing
26 tracks "I'm So Lonely" "Getchoo" "Lisa" "Negativland" "You Gave Your Love to Me Softly" "When You're Alone" "Susanne" "There Is No Other One" "Let Me Wash at Your Sink" "Waiting on You" "Oh No, This Is Not for Me" "Tired of Sex" "She's Had a Girl" "What Is This I Find?" "Now I Finally See" "Longtime Sunshine" "I'm Lonely on a Saturday Night" "Oh God I'm Hungry" "I'm on Fire, You're a Liar" "The End of My String" "I Can't Break Your Heart Slow" "Money Makes Me Happy" "My Mind's on You" "Defeat on the Hill" "Clarinet Waltz" "A Glorious Moment"

"I Can't Break Your Heart Slow" is the twenty-first track from Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997. It is part of the Fulton Avenue Suite, a series of short song "sketches" written in April of 1994.

Appearances

• Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997 (2011)
• Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years (2020)

Personnel

• Rivers Cuomo – vocals, acoustic guitar

Lyrics

I can't break your heart fast
So I'll break your heart slow
You were so naive, you came to me
You were what I needed when you say
I can make your heart slow

I can't believe what you say
What you do to me
And you know

Known recordings

about this table

Performer(s)	Title	Filename	Date of recording	Recording location	Length	Appeared on	Notes
Rivers Cuomo	I Can't Break Your Heart Slow	21 I Can't Break Your Heart Slow.mp3	April 1994	6000 Fulton Ave., Los Angeles, CA	0:45	Alone III: The Pinkerton Years 1994-1997
Rivers Cuomo	I Can't Break Your Heart Slow	02 I Can't Break Your Heart Slow.mp3	April 1994	6000 Fulton Ave., Los Angeles, CA	0:45	Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years	Alternate rip of 21 I Can't Break Your Heart Slow.mp3

See also

• List of Rivers Cuomo songs