"The Dolphin's Cry" is a song by American alternative rock band Live. It was released in August 1999 as the lead single from their fourth studio album The Distance to Here. The song was co-produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads.

The video, directed by Martin Weisz, features the band playing in an alley as successively larger waves of water flow towards them. The other people in the alley grow more panicked as the waves get larger. Towards the end of the song, the largest wave sweeps through the alley and knocks the band down, but they get back up and resume playing.

All songs written by Ed Kowalczyk, except where noted:

In the US "The Dolphin's Cry" reached #78 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, #2 on the Mainstream Rock Chart and #3 on the Modern Rock Tracks Chart. In Canada the song topped the Rock / Alternative chart.

The single also reached #7 in Belgium (Flanders), #10 in The Netherlands, #25 in Australia, #48 in New Zealand and #62 in the UK. The song proved to be Live's final entry in the UK Singles Chart.

This song was featured in The Sopranos episode University when Caitlin Rucker interrupts Meadow Soprano and Noah Tannenbaum kissing.

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