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Beautiful Trauma Lyrics
We were on fire
I slashed your tires
It's like we burned so bright we burned out
I made you chase me
I wasn't that friendly
My love, my drug, we're fucked up, oh
'Cause I've been on the run so long they can't find me
You waking up to remember I'm pretty
And when the chemicals leave my body
Yeah, they're gonna find me in a hotel lobby 'cause
Mmm tough times they keep coming
All night laughing and fucking
Some days like I'm barely breathing
And after we were high in the love, doped out
It was you
The pill I keep taking
The nightmare I'm waking
There's nothing, no nothing, nothing but you
My perfect rock bottom
My beautiful trauma
My love, my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my drug, we're fucked up
You punched a hole in
The wall and I framed it
I wish I could feel things like you
Everyone's chasing
That holy feeling
And if we don't stay later we'll blow out
Blow out
'Cause we've been on the run so long they can't find us
Who's gonna have to die to remind us
That it feels like we chose this blindly
Now I'm gonna fuck up a hotel lobby 'cause
These tough times they keep coming
Last night I might have messed it up again
Some days like I'm barely breathing
After we were high in the love, doped out
It was you
The pill I keep taking
The nightmare I'm waking
There's nothing, no nothing, nothing but you
My perfect rock bottom
My beautiful trauma
My love (my love), my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my drug, we're fucked up
Mmm tough times they keep coming
All night laughing and fucking
Some days like I'm barely breathing
After we were high in the love, doped out
It was you
The pill I keep taking
The nightmare I'm waking
There's nothing, no nothing, nothing but you
My perfect rock bottom
My beautiful trauma
My love, my love, my drug, oh
I slashed your tires
It's like we burned so bright we burned out
I made you chase me
I wasn't that friendly
My love, my drug, we're fucked up, oh
You waking up to remember I'm pretty
And when the chemicals leave my body
Yeah, they're gonna find me in a hotel lobby 'cause
All night laughing and fucking
Some days like I'm barely breathing
And after we were high in the love, doped out
The pill I keep taking
The nightmare I'm waking
There's nothing, no nothing, nothing but you
My perfect rock bottom
My beautiful trauma
My love, my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my drug, we're fucked up
The wall and I framed it
I wish I could feel things like you
Everyone's chasing
That holy feeling
And if we don't stay later we'll blow out
Blow out
Who's gonna have to die to remind us
That it feels like we chose this blindly
Now I'm gonna fuck up a hotel lobby 'cause
Last night I might have messed it up again
Some days like I'm barely breathing
After we were high in the love, doped out
The pill I keep taking
The nightmare I'm waking
There's nothing, no nothing, nothing but you
My perfect rock bottom
My beautiful trauma
My love (my love), my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my love, my drug, oh
My love, my love, my drug, we're fucked up
All night laughing and fucking
Some days like I'm barely breathing
After we were high in the love, doped out
The pill I keep taking
The nightmare I'm waking
There's nothing, no nothing, nothing but you
My perfect rock bottom
My beautiful trauma
My love, my love, my drug, oh
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My perfect rock bottom My beautiful trauma My love, my love, my drug, oh
I think these lines sum up this song perfectly. Love isn't traditionally associated with destruction and devastation. Drugs, trauma, and hard times (rock bottom) are though. To consider something as horrific and devastating as trauma beautiful is nonsensical to the rational brain. Oxymoronic really, but I think that's what Pink's getting at with this song. Love is oxymoronic and doesn't make a bit of sense.
The video borrows a lot from the format of American TV shows back in the 1960s, with Pink and Channing clothed in styles of the time.
There are several standout moments in the music video, the first being Pink's Mrs character smiling as she pours prescription pills down her throat to cope with the bleak monotony of life.
Later on her character stumbles across Mr in the closet dressing up in her clothes. This signals the re-awakening of something in their relationship and Pink plays Mr with him in the bedroom.
Following this the pair indulge in some S&M and bondage play with another woman.
Channing wakes up tied up on the sofa with Pink clad in a sexy skintight latex dress, holding a riding crop.
She proceeds to tease and play with him before Nikki appears in latex and all three roll around on the floo