Cover art for Heartless by Diplo
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Heartless Lyrics

[Intro]
Heartless, heartless, heartless
So heartless, so heartless, so heartless

[Verse 1]
Say you're goin' out late
I count down 'til you call me
It's just one of those things
That you do when you're lonely
And you're all about the chase
But you won't ever let me catch you
And I wish I was the same
But I know I'm gonna let you
Win again and when I do
It's gonna hurt like hell
And you don't mean to
That's what I tell myself

[Chorus]
But why you gotta be so heartless?
I know you think it's harmless
You're tearing me apart and
Girl, the hardest part is
You're so high on attention
Taking miles from inches
Leave me in the darkness
Never finish what we started
Girl, why you gotta be so heartless? (So heartless, so heartless)
Why you gotta be so heartless? (So heartless, so heartless)
[Verse 2]
Monday night was definitely not our night
Tuesday night was just another fight
Wednesday, I thought everything would change
Thursday came and it was still the same
Friday night, we went out on the town
Saturday, we should have burned it down
Sunday morning came and now you're gone
I should probably know this shit by now
Ah, oh (Ah, oh)
I should probably know this shit by now
But no (But no), no

[Chorus]
Why you gotta be so heartless?
I know you think it's harmless
You're tearing me apart and
Girl, the hardest part is
You're so high on attention
Taking miles from inches
Leave me in the darkness
Never finish what we started
Girl, why you gotta be so heartless? (So heartless, so heartless)
Why you gotta be so heartless? (So heartless, so heartless)

[Bridge]
Girl, why you gotta be so in between
Loving me and leaving, leaving?
Ah, oh (Ah, oh)
I should probably know this shit by now
But no (But no), no
[Chorus]
Why you gotta be so heartless?
I know you think it's harmless
You're tearing me apart and
Girl, the hardest part is
You're so high on attention
Taking miles from inches
Leave me in the darkness
Never finish what we started
Girl, why you gotta be so heartless? (Heartless, heartless)
Why you gotta be so heartless? (So heartless, so heartless)
Why you gotta be so heartless? (Heartless, heartless)
Girl, why you gotta be so heartless? (So heartless, so heartless)

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What did Diplo say about "Heartless"?
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Diplo
via Apple Music
Genius Answer

My management is really into country music—they also manage Sturgill Simpson—and they introduced me to Morgan Wallen early on. His mullet was the main selling point. I was like, “Yes, cool. I’m down with the mullet guy.” He was kind of a renegade. I went to see him at his concert and we agreed to record together, but it took a while because even he was kind of scared of it. We were trying out this track with trap drums—I honestly didn’t think about it, it just felt like it had the right tempo—and it wound up being so controversial. That’s how Nashville works. The politics are unique. People don’t really want a Diplo song on country radio. They want to keep it the way it is and control the flow of the music, which is something we’ve been fighting for months. Eventually we decided to use that to our advantage. Morgan was like, “Okay, let’s do it. This’ll be my weird record.” And it became the biggest song we have. It’s like three times platinum now. It just keeps staying up there, finding a new audience.

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