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<p>"<strong>Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word</strong>" is a song written by English musician&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elton John</a>&nbsp;and songwriter&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Taupin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bernie Taupin</a>. It was recorded by Elton John and released in 1976, both as a single and as part of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Moves" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Blue Moves</em></a>&nbsp;album. It was John's second single released by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocket_Record_Company" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Rocket Record Company</a>. The song is a mournful ballad about a romantic relationship which is falling apart.</p><p>The song also appeared the following year on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John%27s_Greatest_Hits_Volume_II" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Greatest Hits Volume II</em></a>, though for copyright reasons it no longer appears on the current version of that album. It now appears on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_1976%E2%80%931986_(Elton_John_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Greatest Hits 1976–1986</em></a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Best_of_Elton_John" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Very Best of Elton John</em></a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_1970%E2%80%932002" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Greatest Hits 1970–2002</em></a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_(Elton_John_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Diamonds</em></a>&nbsp;as well as a number of other compilations.</p><p>"Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" is a mournful ballad about a romantic relationship that is falling apart.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Taupin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bernie Taupin</a>&nbsp;said: "It's a pretty simple idea, but one that I think everyone can relate to at one point or another in their life. That whole idealistic feeling people get when they want to save something from dying when they basically know deep down inside that it's already dead. It's that heartbreaking, sickening part of love that you wouldn't wish on anyone if you didn't know that it's inevitable that they're going to experience it one day."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry_Seems_to_Be_the_Hardest_Word#cite_note-smooth-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elton John</a>&nbsp;began writing the song in 1975 in Los Angeles. Whilst many of his songs involved Taupin writing lyrics first, then John writing the music later, John wrote the melody and most of the lyrics for "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word", and Taupin completed it afterwards. John explained: "I was sitting there and out it came, 'What have I got to do to make you love me.'"</p><p>Taupin later said: "I don't think he was intending on writing a song, but we were sitting around an apartment in Los Angeles, and he was playing around on the piano and he came up with this melody line, and I said, 'Hey, that's really nice.' For some reason this lyrical line, 'Sorry seems to be the hardest word' ran through my head, and it fit perfectly with what he was playing. So I said, 'Don't do anything more to that, let me go write something,' so I wrote it out in a few minutes and we had the song." Taupin added: "[The i]nteresting thing about 'Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word' is that it's one of the rare occasions when Elton played me a melody line that inspired a lyric, as opposed to our routine of the lyrics always coming first. He was messing around on the piano one day and was playing something and asked me what did I think. It was actually pretty immediate, the title and the first couple of lines came into my head in a way that I guess I felt they were already there and just needed a little prompting."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry_Seems_to_Be_the_Hardest_Word#cite_note-smooth-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a></p>