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How To Be Human
Hurt

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Hurt

Release date: 24th February 2023

From How To Be Human

Track 2

3:17

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About This Track

'Hurt' by Amber Run is an Indie Rock track from the album 'How To Be Human', released in 2023. In its lyrics, the song treats emotional pain as something that keeps circling back, warning that there is no neat cure and comparing hurt to a long distance, a heavy shadow, and a dry river. The refrain-like movement of the wording gives it a looped, inescapable feel, as the narrator turns from advice and remedies towards the blunt realisation that suffering can become “a hundred miles long”.

"Hurt" is a track by Amber Run, from the album How To Be Human, released 24th February 2023. The track is 3:17 long. It's filed under Indie Rock. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Amber Run

Amber Run

Lyrics

Hurt

Don't think that there's a medicine
For what is going "round
Fight it with your vitamins
I've heard it knocks you out

And it goes 'round, and 'round, and 'round, and 'round
Until it's yours

When the hurt is a hundred miles long
And your shadow weighs a ton
And your river has run dry
And you think you'd rather die

When the water pulls you under
I'll wrap my arms around you
I'll hold you while you cry
And in the dark I'll be your eyes

Don't think that there's a sedative
Strong enough to stop
The waves that come crashing down
On each and all of us

And it goes 'round, and 'round, and 'round, and 'round
Until it's yours
It goes 'round, and 'round, and 'round, and 'round
Until it's yours

When the hurt is a hundred miles long
And your shadow weighs a ton
And your river has run dry
And you think you'd rather die

When the water pulls you under
I'll wrap my arms around you
I'll hold you while you cry
And in the dark I'll be your eyes

Treading water, fading out
No way to drown the silence out
Twisting, turning, breaking out
Going 'round, and 'round, and 'round

Treading water, fading out
No way to drown the silence out
Twisting, turning, breaking out
Going 'round, and 'round, and 'round

When the hurt is a hundred miles long
And your shadow weighs a ton
And your river has run dry
And you think you'd rather die

When the water pulls you under
I'll wrap my arms around you
I'll hold you while you cry
And in the dark I'll be your eyes
I'll be your eyes

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Track details

From How To Be Human

3:172023

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Album

How To Be Human

24th February 2023

Track number

2

Release year

2023

1Flowers (Interlude I)
0:55
2Hurt
3:17
3Honeylight
3:21
4Funeral
3:38

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Henry Wyeth, Joshua Keogh, Tomas Sperring
Producer: Ben Allen (UK Producer)

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