The Fray

Released: April 7, 2009

Songwriter: Kanye West Kid Cudi Malik Yusef No I.D.

Producer: Mike Flynn

[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
How could you be so heartless?
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've been through
I mean after all the things we got into
Yo, I know of some things that you ain't told me
Yo, I did some things but that's the old me
Now you wanna keep me back and you gon' show me
So you walk around like you don't know me
You got a new friend; 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
How could you be so heartless?
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 weren't gon' speak so
Why we up 3 A.M. on the phone?
Why does she be so mad at me for?
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 leaving me
They say that they don't see what you see in me
You wait a couple months then you gon' see
You'll never find nobody better than me

[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
How could you be so heartless?
How could you be so heartless?

[Bridge]
Talkin', talkin', talkin' tall
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 something new to see
You just gon' keep hatin' me
And we just gon' be enemies
I know you can't believe
I could just leave it wrong
And you can't make it right
So imma take off tonight
Into the night

[Chorus]
I hear 'em talk
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?
How could you be so...
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
How could you be so heartless?
How could you be so heartless?

“Just a couple of kids who were up to no good” is how Isaac Slade, Joe King, Dave Welsh, and Ben Wysocki describe their Denver, Colorado, band. Formed in 2002 while Slade and King were schoolmates, and later joined by Welsh and Wysocki (who were in a band with Slade called Ember near 1999), the group self-released two EPs, Movement and Reason, before releasing their first album under Epic, How to Save a Life. The album would contain the hit singles “Over My Head (Cable Car)” and “How to Save a Life”, which would give them two Grammy nominations. Afterward, the group would release more the self-titled album The Fray (which would get them two more Grammy nominations, one with the song “Never Say Never”), Scars and Stories, and Helios. In 2016, the group released their greatest hits album, Through the Years, incorporating all of their best hits from their four albums along with a few bonus songs.

From the albums

The Fray (2009)
Through the Years: The Best of (2016)

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