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Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I'm fucking suffering
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I hope you're suffering

The price of admission is suffering
My whole life stuck in it, from my birth into the grave
My wounds full of stitches, but still I bleed
The pain, it haunts me, it's on me that it feeds

Destroy or create
My effects from the cause
Even when you're to blame
It's all my fault
(Fuck)

Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I'm fucking suffering
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I hope you're suffering

(Suffering)

My life's decisions are killing me
Ruined by the world and my hostility
Inside, feels like I'm dying, I'm always struggling
I fight to the death, is it you or is it me?

Destroy or create
My effects from the cause
Even when you're to blame
It's all my fault
(Fuck)

Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I'm fucking suffering
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I hope you're suffering

To the people that hurt me
You better know I won't forget
To the people that hurt me
I'm gonna break your fucking neck
Break, break, break
I'm gonna break your fucking neck

Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I'm fucking suffering
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I hope you're suffering

Submitted by

eternaltearsofsorrow On Aug 29, 2025

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A World So Cold

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Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I'm fucking suffering
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I hope you're suffering

The price of admission is suffering
My whole life stuck in it, from my birth into the grave
My wounds full of stitches, but still I bleed
The pain, it haunts me, it's on me that it feeds

Destroy or create
My effects from the cause
Even when you're to blame
It's all my fault
(Fuck)

Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I'm fucking suffering
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I hope you're suffering

(Suffering)

My life's decisions are killing me
Ruined by the world and my hostility
Inside, feels like I'm dying, I'm always struggling
I fight to the death, is it you or is it me?

Destroy or create
My effects from the cause
Even when you're to blame
It's all my fault
(Fuck)

Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I'm fucking suffering
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I hope you're suffering

To the people that hurt me
You better know I won't forget
To the people that hurt me
I'm gonna break your fucking neck
Break, break, break
I'm gonna break your fucking neck

Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I'm fucking suffering
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
Hurt people, hurt people
I hope you're suffering

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Cover art for Hurt People Hurt People lyrics by Mudvayne

by EternalTearsOfSorrow MOD

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This is about the destructive cycle of projecting one's own pain onto others, and the need to break this pattern by choosing self-love and letting go of the inherited hurt. Lead singer Chad Gray explains the song as a reminder to himself and others to stop the cycle of causing and experiencing suffering, and to instead foster self-love.

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Positive

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Sadness

Self-love

Pain

Cycle

Healing

Introspection

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