Introduction
Tom Jones and the Song That Still Bleeds After 50 Years
“I didn’t sing it to win her back — I sang it because I was already bleeding.”
When Tom Jones said those words years ago, he wasn’t exaggerating. The Welsh legend wasn’t just recalling a performance — he was reliving it.
When he first recorded “Say You’ll Stay Until Tomorrow” in 1977, it wasn’t merely another ballad for the charts. It was a confession — a cry from the edge of heartbreak. Each note felt torn from a place of loss so deep that it became timeless.
Nearly half a century later, that song still hurts in all the right ways. When Jones sings it now, his voice — older, heavier with memory — carries every ounce of the man who once sang it through tears. Every quiver, every desperate breath, feels like a wound reopening on stage.
Because that’s the magic of Tom Jones: he doesn’t just perform heartbreak — he becomes it.
And in doing so, he reminds the world that love, even when lost, can still set the soul on fire.