A viscerally intimate number and one of the last songs written for the record, “Hurt Me” illustrates how it feels, for better or worse, to “[love] someone even after they give you a million reasons not to.”
[Verse 1]
Come on, let's get something wrong
Look into my face too long
Overthrow yourself to me
You need me like a parachute
Empty-handed, facing death
Overthrow yourself to me
[Chorus]
You don't wanna hurt me
You don't wanna hurt me, baby
You don't wanna hurt me
You don't wanna hurt me, baby
[Verse 2]
Come on, let's get something wrong
Too close to an endless sun
Overthrow yourself to me
Remember all the plastic proof?
How I punished me for you?
Mirror over everything
Sometimes you feel nothing
The way your shirt hangs off your back
Easy, but you're nothing like that
Eyes like a funeral, mouth like a bruise
Veins like a hallway, voice like a wound
[Chorus]
You don't wanna hurt me
You don't wanna hurt me, baby
You don't wanna hurt me
You don't wanna hurt me, baby
You don't wanna hurt me
You don't wanna hurt me, baby
I can feel the earth quake
You don't wanna hurt me, baby
[Bridge]
You're laughing and I'm waving back
Easy, but you're nothing like that
Eyes like a funeral, mouth like a bruise
Veins like a hallway, voice like a wound
[Chorus]
You don't wanna hurt me
You don't wanna hurt me, baby
You don't wanna hurt me
You don't wanna hurt me, baby
Hurt Me was written by Spencer Fox & Dan Shure & Sam Hendricks & Eva Hendricks.
Hurt Me was produced by Joe Chiccarelli.
Charly Bliss released Hurt Me on Fri May 10 2019.
Another Young Enough buzzer-beater! I had been listening to a lot of Bruce Springsteen, specifically the song “For You” and I thought about how I really wanted there to be a more intimate moment on the record. We had also just seen Lorde on her Melodrama tour and loved how the song “Liability” felt...