Woe is me, woe is you
Woe consumes both us two
Heartbreak has a cruel invertibility: the person who opens the wound can remain the person we most want to close it. After love breaks, desire divides against itself. One half wishes for a return, for the old tenderness to be restored and the damage somehow withdrawn; the other wants the absent lover to wake inside the same pain, because understanding can feel incomplete until it is physical. Reconciliation and retribution begin to share a border. “Come back” and “suffer as I have” become rival versions of the same plea: see what happened to me.
That double wish supplies the emotional engine of DECEITS’ latest single, One Day You’ll Hurt As Much As Me. Released on March 25th, the song is the Los Angeles duo’s first official release with Get Better Records. It now receives a brilliantly shot video directed by Raquel Rojas, who gives its divided feelings a physical route through memory, childhood, and the disappearing view from a train window.
A thick, melodic bass figure takes the first step, with Francisco Saenz’s drums answering in a cymbal splash before a dance-minded hi-hat locks the song into motion. Above them, a sustained guitar riff trembles around its melody. Kevin Moreno sings with a Robert Smith-like romantic ache, drawing out the opening supplications before compressing the repeated phrase about silent suffering into a quick, addictive cadence. The Cure resemblance lives in the emotional pitch, while DECEITS propel the song with the rapid, bass-led momentum of faster Cure songs such as “Primary,” allowing grief to pass through the body rather than remain fixed as a confessional dirge. Among the duo’s recordings to date, it ranks as one of their strongest: romantic post-punk with real velocity and a chorus made for a crowded room.
Moreno’s lyrics keep the song’s lover in incompatible roles: desired comforter, departing betrayer, and imagined fellow sufferer. He asks for closeness and a cure, then for abandonment and emotional erasure, as though every available exit must be tested. “Woe is me, woe is you” is the song’s plainest and most revealing line, making misery reciprocal before the title turns that symmetry into a future verdict. The wish carries spite, but also a bruised faith in recognition: someday, perhaps, the other person will feel enough to understand.
The video’s director Raquel Rojas gives that emotional bargain a coastal route. Moreno and Saenz ride an Amtrak car visited—or perhaps accompanied—by Gustavo Alexander Moreno and Logan Martínez as their childhood counterparts. Present-day close-ups dissolve into grainy footage of the children on station platforms and at the beach, building in the sand and racing beside the water as the train follows the Pacific. The carriage becomes a place where youth and adulthood can share seats without quite seeing one another.
Performance scenes place the duo inside a chain-link pedestrian overpass and beside the tracks, with the bright coast visible beyond the enclosure. Past and present seem briefly reversible, yet the edits never grant them a clean reunion; each age slips over the other like damaged film. Travel supplies movement without escape. By the closing views from the window, the landscape is retreating too quickly to hold, leaving the video’s central question unresolved: were those earlier days genuinely easier, or has distance made them kinder than they were?
Watch the video for “One Day You’ll Hurt As Much As Me” below:
Since forming in 2021, longtime friends Moreno (vocals and instruments) and Saenz (drums and percussion) have built DECEITS from the ground up. The duo self-released its catalog, accumulated millions of streams, sold out tours, and produced vinyl pressings that disappeared almost as soon as they became available. The partnership with Get Better Records marks a significant turn in that history while preserving the fiercely independent spirit that brought them this far.
DECEITS draw upon the color, rhythm, and emotional directness of the Spanish-language music they grew up with, shaping a warmer and more kinetic form of post-punk. Their all-analog live setup and punk beginnings lend each set a degree of instability: arrangements breathe, tempos flex, and no two performances land exactly the same way. That combination of romantic intensity and physical force has earned the band an international following throughout the dark alternative underground.
The duo has appeared on bills with She Past Away, She Wants Revenge, New Order, and Anka Huwe of Xmal Deutschland. On November 14th, DECEITS will perform at Darker Waves Festival in Huntington Beach alongside Morrissey, The Smashing Pumpkins, Simple Minds, Gary Numan, The Psychedelic Furs, The Damned, and more.
Listen to “One Day You’ll Hurt As Much As Me” below and order the single through here.
One Day You’ll Hurt As Much As Me by DECEITS
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