Heartless is the third track and the second single released from the fourth studio album 808s & Heartbreak by American hip-hop recording artist, Kanye West. The single was released on November 5, 2008 and debuted at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 until eventually peaking at #2 until it finally reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks and U.S. Hot 100 Airplay chart.
In the 2009 South Park episode, "Fishsticks", a parodied version of "Heartless", titled "Gay Fish", was featured in the episode.
Music Video[]
The video is set in rotoscoped animation in which actual people are filmed but their every move is drawn over. The video follows West wandering through a city at night and then takes place in his actual apartment den where The Jetsons portraits are located, while various women is seen throughout the video as well.
Lyrics[]
[Chorus]
In the night, I hear 'em talk
The coldest story ever told
Somewhere far along this road
He lost his soul to a woman so heartless (Heartless)
How could you be so heartless? (Heartless)
Oh, how could you be so heartless?
[Verse 1]
How could you be so
Cold as the winter wind when it breeze, yo?
Just remember that you talkin' to me though
You need to watch the way you talkin' to me, yo
I mean, after all the things that we been through
I mean, after all the things we got into
Ayo, I know of some things that you ain't told me
Ayo, I did some things but that's the old me
And now you wanna get me back and you gon' show me
So you walk around like you don't know me
You got a new friend, well, I got homies
But in the end, it's still so lonely
[Chorus]
In the night, I hear 'em talk
The coldest story ever told
Somewhere far along this road
He lost his soul to a woman so heartless (Heartless)
How could you be so heartless? (Heartless)
Oh, how could you be so heartless?
[Verse 2]
How could you be so Dr. Evil?
You're bringin' out a side of me that I don't know
I decided we wasn't gon' speak so
Why we up 3 AM on the phone?
Why do she be so mad at me fo'?
Homie, I don't know, she's hot and cold
I won't stop, won't mess my groove up
‘Cause I already know how this thing go
You run and tell your friends that you're leavin' me (Hey!)
They say that they don't see what you see in me (Hey!)
You wait a couple of months, then you gon' see (Hey!)
You'll never find nobody better than me
[Chorus]
In the night, I hear 'em talk (Me)
The coldest story ever told
Somewhere far along this road
He lost his soul to a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
Oh, how could you be so heartless?
[Bridge]
Talk and talk and talk and talk
Baby, let's just knock it off
They don't know what we been through
They don't know 'bout me and you
So I got somethin' new to see
And you just gon' keep hatin' me
And we just gon' be enemies (Enemies)
I know you can't believe
I could just leave it wrong
And you can't make it right
I'm gon' take off tonight into the night
[Chorus]
In the night, I hear 'em talk
The coldest story ever told
Somewhere far along this road
He lost his soul to a woman so heartless (Heartless)
How could you be so heartless? (Heartless) (How, how?)
Oh, how could you be so heartless?
[Outro]
On and on and on and on
And on and, and on and on and on, ooh-ah-ah, eh-ah-ah, ooh-ah-ah
Oh-oh-oh, ooh ah-ah, oh-ah-ah, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh-woah-woah, oh