Hearts A Mess
Gotye Lyrics


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Pick apart
The pieces of your heart
And let me peer inside
Let me in
Where only your thoughts have been
Let me occupy your mind
As you do mine
You have lost
Too much love
To fear, doubt and distrust
Its not enough
You just threw away the key
To your heart

You don't get burned
'Cause nothing gets through
It makes it easier
Easier on you
But that much more difficult for me
To make you see

Love ain't fair
So there you are
My love

Your heart's a mess
You won't admit to it
It makes no sense
But I'm desperate to connect
And you, you can't live like this

Your heart's a mess
You won't admit to it
It makes no sense
But I'm desperate to connect
And you, you can't live like this

Your heart's a mess
You won't admit to it
It makes no sense
But I'm desperate to connect
And you can't live like this

Love ain't safe
You won't get hurt if you stay chaste




So you can wait
But I don't wanna waste my love

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Gotye's song “Hearts a Mess” explore the complicated nature of love and relationships. The song describes the singer’s desire to understand and connect with the person he loves, even though they have built walls around their heart. The singer asks his love to let him in, to share their thoughts and occupy each other’s minds. They have lost too much love to fear, doubt, and distrust, and the singer desperately wants to help break down those barriers.


The chorus repeats "Your heart's a mess, you won't admit to it, it makes no sense, but I'm desperate to connect, and you can't live like this." This line is a poignant reminder that sometimes love is messy, complicated, and doesn't make sense, but it's worth fighting for.


As the lyrics progress, the singer recognizes that their love interest has closed themselves off from the possibility of experiencing pain. They've thrown away the key to their heart, believing it's better to protect themselves from harm than risk being hurt again. But the singer knows that love isn't safe or easy, and staying chaste won't prevent them from getting hurt. He is afraid that his love will be wasted, hence the lyric "but I don’t want to waste my love."


Overall, Hearts a Mess is a heart-wrenching song about the difficulty of love, breaking down barriers, and connecting with others on an emotional level.


Line by Line Meaning

Pick apart
Examine closely


The pieces of your heart
The broken parts of your emotional being


And let me peer inside
Allow me to have an intimate understanding


Let me in
Share your emotions and secrets with me


Where only your thoughts have been
The hidden corners of your mind where you keep your deepest emotions


Let me occupy your mind
Let me consume your thoughts and emotions


As you do mine
Since I am thinking about you constantly


You have lost
You have let go of


Too much love
An excessive amount of affection


To fear, doubt and distrust
Due to feelings of fear, doubt and mistrust


Its not enough
What you are doing is inadequate


You just threw away the key
You have locked your emotions and lost the key


To your heart
To your soul, the core of your being


You don't get burned
You don't get hurt emotionally


'Cause nothing gets through
Because you don't let anything penetrate your emotional walls


It makes it easier
It helps you to cope more easily


Easier on you
It does not cause you emotional harm


But that much more difficult for me
But it makes it more challenging for me to connect with you


To make you see
To help you comprehend


Love ain't fair
Love cannot be controlled, it has no rules


So there you are
That is where you stand


My love
The person I am in love with


Your heart's a mess
You are emotionally distraught


You won't admit to it
You refuse to acknowledge your emotions


It makes no sense
It seems illogical and inexplicable


But I'm desperate to connect
I am eager to create a deep emotional connection with you


And you, you can't live like this
You cannot sustain yourself emotionally like this


Love ain't safe
Love is unpredictable and comes with risks


You won't get hurt if you stay chaste
You will not be emotionally hurt if you avoid love and romance


So you can wait
You can delay seeking love


But I don't wanna waste my love
But I do not want to squander my affection




Your heart's a mess
You are emotionally distraught


You won't admit to it
You refuse to acknowledge your emotions


It makes no sense
It seems illogical and inexplicable


But I'm desperate to connect
I am eager to create a deep emotional connection with you


And you, you can't live like this
You cannot sustain yourself emotionally like this




Your heart's a mess
You are emotionally distraught


You won't admit to it
You refuse to acknowledge your emotions


It makes no sense
It seems illogical and inexplicable


But I'm desperate to connect
I am eager to create a deep emotional connection with you


And you can't live like this
You cannot sustain yourself emotionally like this




Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: Irving Burgie, Walter Andre E De Backer, William A Attaway, Walter Andre De Backer

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@dennsis9420

Pick apart
The pieces of your heart
And let me peer inside
Let me in
Where only your thoughts have been
Let me occupy your mind
As you do mine
You have lost
Too much love
To fear, doubt and distrust
Its not enough
You just threw away the key
To your heart
You don't get burned
'Cause nothing gets through
It makes it easier
Easier on you
But that much more difficult for me
To make you see
Love ain't fair
So there you are
My love
Your heart's a mess
You won't admit to it
It makes no sense
But I'm desperate to connect
And you, you can't live like this
Your heart's a mess
You won't admit to it
It makes no sense
But I'm desperate to connect
And you, you can't live like this
Your heart's a mess
You won't admit to it
It makes no sense
But I'm desperate to connect
And you can't live like this
Love ain't safe
You won't get hurt if you stay chaste
So you can wait
But I don't wanna waste my love



@r.1599

I love the song, but let's talk about the video:
Gotye starts out resting on what is very clearly Earth's moon. Then he drops down onto what looks like a devastated Earth. Its skies are darkened to night. The only things we see on the surface of the planet are a few destroyed buildings. He is followed by a mechanical spider weaving a dark shadow. As he walks, he holds a megaphone up to his lips, calling out a message.

He walks through a formation of soldiers forcibly marching a creature with a tank of water on its back, a tear in its eye and moving on trembling crutches. The last of the clean water. It leaves the soldiers to join Gotye.

As the trio approach a collapsed home, three little spirits precede it and jump into the beak of a seemingly dead crane that is laden down with a broken fishing shack, a fishing line, and a stork's baby bundle. It has a Radioactive sign on its side, and its eyes have been bound shut. When the little spirits jump into its beak, it rises and joins the group.

They continue to traverse the wasteland, the spider walking backwards as it watches the ever-growing shadow that it weaves, cover the land. They pass through the burned remains of a forest, where the eyes of what used to live there watch them. A logger with an axe in its hand and laden down with a cargo of felled trees, joins them.
"You just threw away the key."

Ahead, the only seemingly living things are the still-polluting factories and an oil refinery, still belching out their poisons long after life has left the planet; in the foreground a crane with a wrecking ball mindlessly demolishes what's left of the apartment buildings; it's made for destruction and is driven to destroy until everything is gone. As the group passes it, it looks up from its mission, sees them, looks over the buildings it has been wrecking, and leaves its work to join them.
As they leave that area, the dirty glare of the factory lights and the oil refinery's gas flare gleam sickenly in the distance.
Above, to the left, the light of a tiny craft shoots up and out to escape through a thinner patch of sky where sunlight struggles to shine through weakly. It is not night after all; the sun has been blotted out by the thick cloud of pollution.

They stop by the sea's edge. A lonely sea monster with the head of a fish rows in on the last remaining piece of sea ice, which is rapidly melting. The sea monster joins the exodus as the spider gently pulls a blanket of shadow across the planet – it is almost completely covered now.

They pass through a cemetery where the Big Five (Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP and TotalEnergies) finally grieve and wring their hands while surrounded by the gravestones of the protesters that were killed for raising the alarm. A tortured spirit rises from the ground, his mouth bound and silenced. He has a flower on his head and twisted around his body is the spirit of the thing he died trying to protect: life. With a backward glance back at the tycoons, he too joins the parade.

They reach the place Gotye first landed when he jumped down from the moon, and the spider finishes pulling the funeral shroud over the Earth.

The members of the little parade climb each other up past the reach of gravity, and float into space. Farewell to the home we destroyed and lost. Is it a kind of suicide?

The song is sad but the video is so full of grief.



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@blackberry8615

Don’t worry guys he just forgot his YouTube password

@mika-ik6vx

very original

@lizzytytysgirl36

BlackBerry he sure did this video is from damn near 10 years ago xD

@tonyrios5600

Oh I thought it was something else 😪

@couldntbeotherwise

Where is he at thou

@kentv1052

BlackBerry I think so

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@LoganSoul

Seeing Gotye as a tall, depressed bean is all I ever wanted

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bro 😭

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AMOGUS

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