Why Do We Hurt Each Other?

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"Why Do We Hurt Each Other?"
Why Do We Hurt Each Other? cover
Cover art for Alone IV
Demo by Rivers Cuomo
Recorded Summer 1992
Writer(s) Rivers Cuomo
RC# 136
Rivers Cuomo song chronology
"Why Can't You Be There?" (take 1)
135
"Why Do We Hurt Each Other?"
136
"Please Sweet Peepers"
137

"Why Do We Hurt Each Other?" is a song by Rivers Cuomo.

Appearances

Overview

"Why Do We Hurt Each Other" was demoed by Cuomo to 8-track in the summer of 1992.[1] The song was initially leaked online on November 7, 2020, and was made available for purchase later that month as part of the digital compilations Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years and Alone V: Before Weezer.

Known recordings

Performer(s) Title Filename Date of recording Recording location Length Appeared on Notes
Rivers Cuomo Why Do We Hurt Each Other? 05 Why Do We Hurt Each Other.mp3 Summer 1992 2:56 Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years
Rivers Cuomo Why Do We Hurt Each Other? Why Do We Hurt Each Other   2.mp3 Summer 1992 2:59 Alone V: Before Weezer Alternate rip of "05 Why Do We Hurt Each Other.mp3"
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Lyrics

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There ain't any words to save this
So I'll come flat out and say it
You can't write me off as a misanthrope
The ??? to see over, so I say

Why do we hurt each other?
Why do we hurt each other?
You hurt me

I want you to know it's not just us right now
It's everybody everywhere, forever and ever
I don't know what kind of drugs he or she was doing
And they put me on the plane, and they said "Hey, man, you can't fly this thing"

Why do we hurt each other?
Why do we hurt each other?
You hurt me, I hurt you
It feels so bad
It feels so good

Little children walking hand-in-hand
Making little angels in the sand
You hurt me

Why do we hurt each other?
Why do we hurt each other?

See also