| How Can I Ease the Pain | |
| Cover: | How Can I Ease the Pain Lisa Fischer.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Lisa Fischer |
| Album: | So Intense |
| B-Side: | Reachin' 4/U |
| Released: | June 1, 1991 |
| Recorded: | 1991 |
| Length: | 5:24 (Album version) 4:16 (Radio edit) |
| Label: | Elektra |
| Producer: | Narada Michael Walden / Louis Biancaniello |
| Prev Title: | Glad to Be Alive |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Save Me |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
"How Can I Ease the Pain" is a song by American singer Lisa Fischer, from her album So Intense. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden with associate producer Louis Biancaniello. The hit song spent two weeks at number-one on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.[1] The song was sampled by rap group Three 6 Mafia for their hit "Late Nite Tip".
In 1992, the single won a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female and it also won a 1992 Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. The song also peaked at number eleven on the pop charts. This was Fischer's biggest and most well-known hit.