So Many Tears

"So Many Tears"
Single by 2Pac from the album Me Against the World
B-side	"If I Die 2Nite"
Released	June 13, 1995
Format	CD single
Recorded	September 1994
Studio	Soundcastle Studios (Los Angeles, California)
Genre(s)	Conscious hip hop, West Coast hip hop
Length	3:58
Label	Interscope Records
Songwriter(s)	Tupac Shakur, Gregory Jacobs, Randy Walker, E. Baker, Stevie Wonder
Producer(s)	Shock G

"So Many Tears" is the second single from 2Pac's third studio album Me Against the World.

Chart positions

Chart (1995)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100	44
US Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales (Billboard)	41
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks (Billboard)	21
US Hot Rap Singles (Billboard)	6

Credits

• (T. Shakur, G. Jacobs, R. Walker, E. Baker, S. Wonder; Joshua's Dream/Interscope Pearl Music/Warner-Tamerlane
• Publishing Corp./ Grand Imperial Thug Music/Pubhowyalike Music, BMI/Triboy Music Publishing/Black Bull
• Music/Jobete Music Co., ASCAP.)
• Produced by D-Flizno Production Squad for Stayin' Biznizzy Productions
• Engineered by Mike Schlesinger & Tim Nitz
• Recorded and Mixed at Soundcastle Studios
• Background Vocals: Thug Life, Digital Underground (appears courtesy of Tommy Boy Records) & Stretch
• Keyboards: The Piano Man
• Guitar: Eric "Kenya" Baker
• Contains a sample from "That Girl" (Stevie Wonder; Black Bull Music/Jobete Music Co., Inc., ASCAP), as recorded by Stevie Wonder, under license from Motown Records. During the chorus, a slowed-down harmonica solo is heard.

Track listing

Maxi-single

1. "So Many Tears"
2. "So Many Tears" (Key of Z Remix)
3. "So Many Tears" (Reminizim' Remix)
4. "Hard to Imagine" by Dramacydal
5. "If I Die 2Nite"

Promo single

1. "So Many Tears"
2. "So Many Tears" (Key of Z Remix)
3. "So Many Tears" (Reminizm' Remix)
4. "If I Die 2Nite"

Tupac Shakur
Studio albums	2Pacalypse Now • Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... • Me Against the World • All Eyez on Me • The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
Posthumous albums	R U Still Down? (Remember Me) • Still I Rise • Until the End of Time • Better Dayz • Loyal to the Game • Pac's Life
Collaborative albums	Thug Life: Volume 1
Live albums	2Pac Live • Live at the House of Blues
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits • The Rose That Grew from Concrete • The Prophet: The Best of the Works • Nu-Mixx Klazzics • Tupac: Resurrection • The Rose, Vol. 2 • The Prophet Returns • Beginnings: The Lost Tapes 1988-1991 • Nu-Mixx Klazzics Vol. 2 • Best of 2Pac
Singles	"Trapped" • "Brenda's Got a Baby" • "If My Homie Calls" • "Holler If Ya Hear Me" • "I Get Around" • "Keep Ya Head Up" • "Papa'z Song" • "Dear Mama" • "So Many Tears" • "Temptations" • "California Love" • "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" • "How Do U Want It" • "All Bout U" • "I Ain't Mad at Cha" • "Life Goes On" • "Toss It Up" • "To Live & Die in L.A." • "Hail Mary" • "Wanted Dead or Alive" • "Made N*ggaz"
Posthumous singles	"I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto" • "Do for Love" • "Changes" • "Unconditional Love" • "Baby Don't Cry (Keep Ya Head Up II)" • "Who Do U Believe In" • "Until the End of Time" • "Letter 2 My Unborn" • "Thugz Mansion" • "Still Ballin'" • "Runnin' (Dying to Love)" • "One Day at a Time (Em's Version)" • "Thugs Get Lonely Too" • "Ghetto Gospel" • "Untouchable" • "Pac's Life" • "Playa Cardz Right"
Featured singles	"Call It What U Want" • "Gotta Get Mine" • "Slippin' Into Darkness" • "Be the Realist" • "Smile" • "World Don't Take Me Personally"
Other songs	"Same Song" • "I Don't Give a Fuck" • "Cradle to the Grave" • "Pour Out a Little Liquor" • "Runnin' (From tha Police)" • "Hit 'Em Up"
Books	The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Stage	Holler If Ya Hear Me
Documentaries	Biggie & Tupac • Tupac: Resurrection • Tupac: Assassination
Related articles	Death of Tupac Shakur • Digital Underground • Discography • East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry • Outlawz • Thug Life