Chords for Dean Lewis - The Making Of 'Hurtless'

So, um, I'm back in Nashville.
It's been a while.
I think it's been about a year since I was here last time
I'm working on this new song with John called hurtless when we wrote be alright together like seven years ago
And I've just sort of come down to Nashville to kind of finish it
Go to like a few like little changes
We've got to make and we're like finishing producing it up and like finish the outro and stuff like that from memory
_ it is _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Here we go.
Let's go do it.
_ _ _ _ Hey, I'm bro
_ I'm here.
I'm here.
Did you see it?
I didn't see it.
The place is looking amazing.
[Ab] This is insane dude.
[G] This is our [D] spot.
I was here but it wasn't like this.
Like it was kind of like
Yeah, [Ab] I'm like literally just [B] moved in.
You just moved in.
But it's like seeing it.
This is insane.
Yeah.
[C] And _ _ now _ _ I just think it'd be so cool like
Make it [A] hurt
Da da da [D] da da da da da
If there might be a do you know [Ab] if there's an inversion [C] you can go like up like
I might be able to work it out on [Db] piano
The idea that I've got is I feel like we haven't had a _ _ _ feeler.
You know what I mean?
It doesn't feel like it's had that just release of the emotion of the song
[D] So I think it's a moment of like a bit of instrumental without as much
I'll show you the idea
_ _ Play the chorus too [F] I'll
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ I [E] mean it's really cool live that is [C] so it.
That's so it live.
Actually the last chorus hit even harder when [F] it comes to it.
[Dm] You know with all the songs they're always trying to fucking [D] compress nowadays like less [G] parts like quicker quicker
You know what I mean?
So people want to play it again.
[Am] It's really good.
Can I hear it again?
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[C] It's sounding really good.
We are doing some acoustic [G] guitar.
Really trying to get the outro sounding good.
[Am] And the outro is tough in this song because you want to take it to that [F] next level.
_ _ _ _ [C] _ Fuck man that's really interesting with that instrumental.
It's really [E] cool.
I never would have thought of it in a [C] way.
Why don't we just put it in and do an edit?
We should have a version too.
Basically just two versions.
I'll show Rob and [G] Mike.
We should get everyone's opinion on it.
Does that chorus have the riff of like
See it was never meant to [C] end like this.
_ _ [Am] Or at all.
I mean that stuff went really
[F] _ Did you like split the delay?
I did delay on it.
[C] Cool.
[Em] I think it's perfect when you have.
[G] It has that vibe.
Should I play [C] that guitar?
Yeah.
Or I reckon [N] the vocal.
Okay.
Let's do it again. _ _
_ Don't make it hurt less.
Don't make it hurt less. Oh _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Do another one?
Yeah.
Give us a few more of those.
Cause it was never meant to end like this.
Cause _ it was never meant to end like this.
Standing in [D] the rain in your black [Am] dress.
Standing in the rain in your black dress.
_ _ _ [Dm] Don't make it hurt [C] less.
_ Don't [G] make it hurt less.
I'll show [N] you Rob.
I did like a full speech.
_ We actually filmed it and I did like that.
And I brought my bluetooth speaker over
and I sat down and I was like
I've been writing songs for two years.
_ _ So I wrote this song called Hurtless
about two weeks ago.
And it's the first time I've done a song
like this since Be Alright.
Like just this kind of style.
And I'm so excited about it.
So I basically messaged my team
and I said we should all get together
today at 5pm cause I wanted to
pitch you guys a song and show you this new song that I've written.
And cause I'm so excited about it.
And so I bring my little bluetooth speaker
to my manager's house
in West Hollywood and I'm gonna like
sit them down and I've prepared this little speech.
I'm gonna talk about how I've been writing songs for two years.
[F] And I'm so confident in this new song
that I'm like gonna play Be Alright [Gb] first
and then I'm gonna [E] play this song.
So it's gonna be sick.
_ _ [Eb] My manager's house.
[E]
We've arrived.
Hello.
_ _ _ Oh my god.
How you doing?
_ _ So there's a reason I brought you guys here today.
[B] Which was_
So I've been writing for [Bb] two years
and there's I think
[Eb] you know I know when a song's shit.
I know when a song's great.
I know when a song's special and then when a song's [Gb] like beyond special.
And maybe a word that we're not gonna say
cause you don't like that [Gm] word.
_ [E] And I think [Gb] that
I think I've got one that's pretty
like that level.
And _ I've written so many songs
and me and John obviously got in the studio
[B] I think it was three weeks ago
and we were like okay [Gb] let's try to write
something like the sequel to Be Alright.
[E] And it's so unique
and the song was one of the biggest in the world
so why not try to like capture a little bit of that
it could have been terrible [Bb] but I think it's turned out amazing.
And what [Gb] I did was I played Be Alright first.
I was like I'm so confident in this [E] song
you can't hide behind [B] that.
If you play [Db] that first
and then I [Gb] played this after
I was [Ab] so confident.
So this is Hurtless.
The song's called Hurtless
and it is unmixed.
[E] John's put a lot of work into it
we spent a [B] day and a week kind of working on it a little bit.
[C] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] And they heard the song and they were
[Dbm] fucking, everyone was like [C] this is the song.
Rob straight away looks at me and he's like
no [Em] bullshit he was just like holy shit.
And [A] his thing was he [E] feels
like it can be bigger than Be Alright and [Em] this might be
talking way too [F] far ahead cause the song
isn't out yet and you never know.
But I'm like I feel [Gm] like this is
[Bb] that one song you do
[D] it's been seven years of [N] writing great songs
shit [Ebm] songs and then
we write this in a day in that shitty car park.
[F]
And then it's like okay we've [Em] got one.
And it's like [A] oh so I'm aware now
it [Db] might be another seven years until [D] this
comes along or it might be tomorrow you never [Eb] know.
But it's just cool to think
[E] in my head, my perspective, this is
the one that I've been waiting for for seven years
[Gm] and it's funny that we did it in the end.
[Bm] But we'll see.
_ _ _ [Bb] We're just talking about the song.
Yeah exactly.
It's one of those ones where after you write a song I'm like
I [Ab] just want to keep listening to it [E] over and over again.
And I'm not getting sick [D] of it so that's a good sign.
I should dive in and just
let all the momentum [A] go.
[C] Totally.
Do you know the song while I [F] sing it?
I'm not really good.
[G] Yeah I do.
I remember _ _
_ _ [Am] _ the day
that we [C] met you were like a light
I didn't know that I needed
[C] You had a smile that could warm up
the New [G] York cold
_ You [E] never know, I don't want to jinx it
but I have a [E] feeling that [F] I might be playing
this song live a lot and it's the first [C] time
I'm playing this song.
Hopefully
you release it and then this [G] isn't awkward
looking back retrospectively when you go
oh I thought it was going [D] to be big and then no, he never [Am] had to play it again
because it sucked so bad.
[G]
But it felt good and exciting.
_ [C] At the bar where we met
[Am] While I'm here in our bed
Do [C] you even regret what [G] you did
Cause it was never meant
to [Am] end like this
Standing in the [C] rain in your black
It's one of those songs that starts
kind of small [C] with just one note on the piano
[G] and then the piano
sort of like [C] builds in
and it just kind of gets bigger and bigger
throughout the song.
It's been so long since anyone's
done this style and that's what I'm so excited about
these little rappy, not quite rapping
not quite singing, it's such a weird [G] structure
and it's so cool and we haven't done anything like this
since Be A Riot.
I [Am] know
the day will come [F] when this
won't hurt anymore
And [C] all the pain
is just an [Em] afterthought
[C] Me and John have probably written like
[Am] seven, probably like nine songs
[Bb] I don't even think there's a nine
Maybe [Dm] seven, but every single one of them
[C] has been amazing and it's so [F] rare
we just write really [C] good songs together
I think [D] it is like
[G] we start working like two halves [E] of the same brain
or something, [Am] and songs just
write themselves really fast
Standing in the rain [C] in your black dress
Go ahead and tell me
what I did to [G] deserve this
I think this feels like the song
that [Am] we've all been waiting for.
It's [C] exciting
every time we play it, I get tingles
It was worth it, you're telling me
that it was a mistake
Don't make it [G] hurt less
Don't make it hurt less
[Am] I think you never
know when you're writing it
I had that feeling that this is really special
but you never know, you need time away from it
and then when I got the demo
I showed [G] my team and I was like
okay, this sounds amazing, this is the [N] next day
Then we worked on the song a little bit more
and when the drums came in
and all of a sudden the song came together
and I haven't got that special
oh, _ you feel it in your stomach
since Be Alright
I wrote Be Alright seven years ago
and so it's exciting to
have that same feeling again.
The last one came seven years ago
and in between now and then there's been a lot of
good songs and shit songs
and great songs
but a song that is special is rare
and I feel like this is that one I've been searching for
the whole time, so it makes it all
all the other days and the grind
all worth it
so _ _ hopefully the world, peace
[G] _ Thank you
[C] _ _ _ [F] Sounds so fucking good
_ [C] Dude, we've got a fucking tune
[Bb] We've got a fucking tune, I love