I don’t know about you, but there definitely a few songs floating around out there than make me cry every single time I hear them — “Traveling Soldier”, “Someone You Loved”, and that “Baby Mine” song from Dumbo , just to name a few.
But one little girl has effortlessly come up with what just might be the saddest song I’ve ever heard. Seriously, it’s going to make you cry, and it’s only a minute long. That’s how powerful it is.
“Dinosaurs in Love” was written by Fenn Rosenthal, the three-year-old toddler of musician Tom Rosenthal.
The elder Rosenthal shared his daughter’s beautiful yet totally heartbreaking ballad on Twitter where he wrote, “Fenn, my nearly 4 year old daughter, recorded her first ever solo song today.”
“She came up with all the words herself and I helped her a little bit with the tune. It’s called ‘Dinosaurs in Love.'”
I hope you have some tissues nearby, because this little number is a real tearjerker.
Fenn, accompanied by some backup piano courtesy of her dad, starts out by singing, “Dinosaurs in love. Dinosaurs having a party. They eat fruit and cucumber. They fell in love.”
When her dad asks what they do next, Fenn replies that they say “thank you”. But that’s when this party takes a turn for the worst.
As the music becomes more somber, Fenn softly sings, “A big bang came, and they died.”
As if the matter of extinction wasn’t heartbreaking enough, the toddler then follows up that tragic news with, “Dinosaurs fell in love. But they didn’t say goodbye.”
Ouch , my heart!
Since Fenn’s song was posted to Twitter on January 28, it has been played more than 5.3 million times.
In the comments, people are rightfully expressing their sorrow at the devastating outcome of these poor dinosaurs who were only trying to enjoy a little cucumber and fruit party when tragedy struck.
“The end hit me like a meteor,” one user wrote, while another added, “Remember to always tell the dinosaurs close to you that you love them.”
And, due to popular demand, Fenn’s dad has announced that “Dinosaurs in Love” is now available on Spotify.
Because if listening to it once didn’t make you burst into tears and ugly cry at your desk at work, then maybe you just need to listen to it a few hundred times more to really get the effect Fenn was going for.
Sob .
