Hard Feelings/Loveless

Greg Eliason, Eric Eylands, Barry McCready & Brendan Morawksi (assistant recording)

### Other

Ging (additional production)

**Hard Feelings/Loveless** is the sixth track on Lorde's sophomore album Melodrama.

## Lyrics

**[Part I: Hard Feelings]**

[Intro]

Go back and tell it

[Verse 1]

Please, could you be tender?

And I will sit close to you

Let's give it a minute before we admit that we're through

Guess this is the winter

Our bodies are young and blue

I'm at Jungle City, it's late and this song is for you

[Pre-Chorus]

'Cause I remember the rush, when forever was us

Before all of the winds of regret and mistrust

Now we sit in your car and our love is a ghost

Well, I guess I should go, yeah, I guess I should go

[Chorus]

Hard feelings

These are what they call hard feelings of love

When sweet words and fevers

All leave us right here in the cold, oh, oh

Alone with the hard feelings of love

God, I wish I believed ya

When you told me this was my home, oh, oh

[Verse 2]

I light all the candles

Cut flowers for all my rooms

I care for myself the way I used to care about you

These days, we kiss and we keep busy

The waves come after midnight

I call from underwater

Why even try to get right?

When you've outgrown a lover (Oh)

The whole world knows but you (Oh)

It's time to let go of this endless summer afternoon

[Chorus]

Hard feelings

These are what they call hard feelings of love

When sweet words and fevers

All leave us right here in the cold, oh, oh

Alone with the hard feelings of love

God, I wish I believed ya

When you told me this was my home, oh, oh

[Outro]

Three years, loved you every single day

Made me weak, it was real for me, yeah, real for me

Now I'll fake it every single day

'Til I don't need fantasy, 'til I feel you leave

But I still remember everything

How we'd drift buying groceries, how you'd dance for me

I'll start letting go of little things

'Til I'm so far away from you, far away from you, yeah

**[Part II: Loveless]**

[Spoken Intro]

"What is this tape?"

"This is my favorite tape"

[Verse 1]

Bet you wanna rip my heart out

Bet you wanna skip my calls now

Well, guess what? I'd like that

'Cause I'm gonna mess your life up

Gonna wanna tape my mouth shut

Look out, lovers

[Chorus]

We're L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S generation

L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S generation

All fuckin' with our lover's heads generation

[Verse 2]

Bet you wanna rip my heart out

Bet you wanna skip my calls now

Well, guess what? I'd like that

'Cause I'm gonna mess your life up

Gonna wanna tape my mouth shut

Look out, lovers

[Chorus]

We're L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S generation

L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S (Look out, lovers) generation

All fuckin' with our lover's heads generation (Look out, lovers)

[Outro]

L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S generation

L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S generation

L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S generation

L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S generation

L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S

## Commentary

* "There’s a song on the Lorde album called “Hard Feelings,” and there’s this synth at the end that sounds like metal bending. I’m really proud of that." -Jack Antonoff in response to *Entertainment Weekly's* question, "What weird sound or instrument are you most proud of sneaking into a song this year?"

## References

1. ↑ https://ew.com/music/2017/12/28/jack-antonoff-taylor-swift-lorde-interview/