Hurtful by Erik Hassle

"Hurtful" is the debut single by Swedish singer/songwriter Erik Hassle, taken from his album Hassle. He made his debut in his home country of Sweden almost cracking the Top 10 on the Swedish singles chart.

Erik said that he wrote this song when he went off to music college to pursue his dream and he had to leave a lot of his friends and family back home and he always felt bad about losing connection with them He wrote this song trying to say how bad he felt about it and he knew how hurtful it was for those people he kind of, for lack of better words, left behind.