"So Many Tears" is a mid-tempo heavy rock track from Dokken that opens Side Two of the Back for the Attack album. The song blends the band's signature melodic hard rock with an emotional theme of relationship breakdown and regret, captured in the chorus: "There's only so many tears you can cry / There's only so many ways you can say goodbye." George Lynch's guitar work provides a heavy, yet atmospheric riff, culminating in one of his signature, inventive solos. It was released as a single in 1988.