RedKat August 22nd, 2006 09:36PM  
This is about a girl who falls in love with a guy who has a drug problem. She doesn't accept/ is in denial about the seriousness of his drug problem "if someone told me three years from now, you'd be long gone, i'd stand up and punch them out. 'cause they're all wrong." she believes he will straighten out eventually, but he doesn't. He either overdoses or gets sent away to rehab or jail.

anonymous November 20th, 2006 02:05AM  
Ok, this is for all of you..you kind of are all right. Except for the fact that this song is about someone very dear to pink who OD...but we can all relate to it in one way or another because..well unfortunatly who doesn't know what it feels like to lose someone close to you?

anonymous January 21st, 2007 10:58AM  
I think you all know pink has been naughty all her life and she had some drug problems.some of her friends were dealers or drug addicts and this song is about/for a junkie friend of her who took an overdose.she found him and called 911 but it was too late.she was 14 when it happened.
This song is one of my favourites.it reminds me so much of my ex bf.he had some drinking problems and would lie a lot about everything and everybody told me he was not good for me and he would hurt me but I would always see only the good parts he had and thought he would change.of course it wasn't the case but..who knew..I didn't..

anonymous March 10th, 2007 01:49PM  
Actually...

Pink SAID in an article in London, that this was about a friend of hers who overdosed when he was 14. So, clearly, yeah the video is good. It's a good place to begin interpretation. He wasn't her boyfriend, but he was a good friend she said.

anonymous April 13th, 2007 02:01PM  
OK, I understand the break-up idea, but you can't just reject the lyrics that don't fit your own idea, you have to look at the whole picture. She says things like "the last year I'll charish" and "you visit me in my sleep", now yes it is ture that people can say those things about someone who has broken up with them, but has anyone else here listened to pinks other songs??? LOOK AT THE WRITERS STYLE!!! she writes about breaking up with guys, not the other way around, and in the unlikely event that she wrote about breaking up with some one, pink would say f*** you , not I miss you. You say things like that when someone dies. how about "I wish I could touch you again"? this isn't even taking into considerations, what Pink has to say on the matter, cause its not like SHE WROTE THE SONG or anything like that. you all seem like reasonably smart people, SO LOOK AT THE WHOLE PICTURE!

anonymous May 16th, 2007 10:39PM  
The song is about losing someone you love. Through drugs, death or any other way you can think of. Pink says that her songs don't necessarily have an intended meaning, but if you can take something from it and make it your own then that's great. I certainly have.

anonymous August 17th, 2007 11:48PM  
I saw the video and the guy clearly drowns himself. Maybe he has a mental issue or it could be drugs or whatever, I think he just had issues. She, obviously, loved him, which made her think he'd always be there. When people told her otherwise, she doubted it. I just think the guy had issues (whether it be drug related or just mental issues) and he commits suicide, which she never thought would happen because he obviously told her he'd be there forever.

anonymous August 18th, 2007 06:57AM  
Every song is open to everyones own interpretation.

6 months ago had my best friend of 17 and ex boyfriend Od on drugs, he said to me he would be there for me forever and ever, and he would love me until the day he died, I still have these letters where he wrote them. So to me the drug thing fits perfectly. I never thought he would go before me, and I still think about him and dream about him all the time, his memory will be with me forever. I chose this song as one of the songs at his funeral.
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anonymous September 14th, 2007 03:13AM  
Ok there's actual proof from a letter pink wrote that the song is inspired by a friend she lost to a drug overdose when she was twelve. So the song is pretty much about her feelings and thoughts there with a little romantic twist.

anonymous September 21st, 2007 06:15PM  
Have not seen the video, but to me the song could be talking about the girl of a couple who got together and were having an intense relationship with all these high hopes and plans when boy is killed or dies and there's still so much longing and heart ache left in her that she's ruminating and Reminiscing on their intense but tragic love that lives on in her memory: "That last kiss, I'll cherish, Until we meet again, & time makes it harder, I wish I could remember, But I keep you memory, You visit me in my sleep..." when you lose someone, their memory fades even with your attempts to keep it strong because there's no more day to day interactions, only memories which slowly lose color over time. WHO KNEW what would happen, be it in the future or within the relationship and normal highs & lows.

Music & Lyrics for different songs strike a slightly different chord in every person depending on their life experiences. People who've had a lot of interaction with drugs or with people who have been involved in drugs see it as something drug related. I can see that interpretation, but I also Lost someone Dear to me years ago and it still is Poignant to this day, but it to is fading so the song brings that to my mind more fully. She wishes it were Before when everything was Bright and wonderful, but "Who Knew?"

anonymous October 14th, 2007 03:17PM  
This song is about a girl's close friend/boyfriend who says that he'll never leave her. Everyone tells her that he is gonna die or etc.

I think he has a drug problem, because if you look at the way he acts in the video he looks angry and pushes her away a lot.

anonymous November 5th, 2007 10:01AM  
I've never seen the video so take that into account. Had to listen to it a couple times. Just going by the words it is about her boyfriend or friend dying. Whether to drugs or something else I don't know. But clearly the words indicate he is not coming back. "Count your blessings", "you visit me in my sleep", etc., etc.

anonymous November 7th, 2007 08:09PM  
It's obvious that this song is not just about a break up.
"I won't forget you my friend". Would anyone ever say that about someone who broke their heart? Maybe someone really needy would say "I won't forget you", but to call him or her "my friend"? Common sense. Besides, Pink is a stronger person than even saying the first part.
Also, "when someone said count your blessings now before they're all gone". Would you call someone who broke up with you three years ago a blessing?
Besides, artists don't make random music videos for no reason. Just from that and the lyrics, it only makes sense that way.

anonymous November 15th, 2007 01:19PM  
It IS about drugs people.
From Pink herself:
Pink in the London Daily Mail May 26th 2006 said this song is about losing a loved one to drugs: "My life was insane, I was (in her youth) out of control and doing lots of stupid things. Some of my friends were selling crack, and I got into drugs too. I've always been honest about that, although I don't like going into details. I've got lots of young fans and I wouldn't want to give them any ideas. I found a friend dead from a drug overdose when I was 14. He was a male friend, not a boyfriend. Most of the people at the funeral were just children. It should have been a wake-up call for me, but it wasn't."

anonymous December 10th, 2007 06:24PM  
Pink in the London Daily Mail May 26th 2006 said this song is about losing a loved one to drugs: "My life was insane, I was (in her youth) out of control and doing lots of stupid things. Some of my friends were selling crack, and I got into drugs too. I've always been honest about that, although I don't like going into details. I've got lots of young fans and I wouldn't want to give them any ideas. I found a friend dead from a drug overdose when I was 14. He was a male friend, not a boyfriend. Most of the people at the funeral were just children. It should have been a wake-up call for me, but it wasn't." (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England)

anonymous January 1st, 2008 02:16PM  
Ok well I know that pink said that they were only good friends but if you look in the video the girl and bot were pretty much kissing and all over each other.so maybe she liked this person more then a friend and he was into drugs and her feelings for him blinded her of the fact he was using drugs and all her friends told her he was going to die but th guy told her he promised it was under control....obviously in the end it wasnt.

i don't know where you get the whole drowning thing you see water maybe three times in that video

anonymous January 27th, 2008 03:29PM  
1.) I believe this isn't about breaking up. I think it's a lot deeper than that.
2.) If it were about breaking up, she wouldn't call the person her darling, she wouldn't say she'd cherish there last kiss until they meet again.

Honestly, I think it's about death and someone close to her.

anonymous February 14th, 2008 12:18AM  
I am a journalist, and I got to interview Pink over e-mail. She says it's about a guy that she dated. There are many references to missing someone and death in the song.

If someone said three years from now
You'd be long gone
I'd stand up and punch them out
Cause they're all wrong
I know better
Cause you said forever
And ever

"The guy I was dating once died, and I guess when you're young, you think you're invincible, and I believed to some extent that he was, I don't know... larger than life and he'd never die. In the end, the drugs got him."

She kept emphasizing to me, and giving me lyrics that gave more and more proof that the guy in this song was killed by the drugs he did, and left her devastated.

"Besides," she says, "I always tell it like it is. If it had been an ordinary breakup, I would have just written it like 'Hey, f*** off."

anonymous March 3rd, 2008 07:06PM  
It's about having a friend with a potentially terminal disease... Hearing people talk about a living friend in the past tense. She knows, or believes, she's going to fight for every breath she can get and overcome it, but everyone is telling her not to get attached.

anonymous March 28th, 2008 01:55AM  
I Guess you can make any interpretation you want to . When the song came out it really freaked me out because I had recently heard news of an old boyfriend/friend who died from a heroin overdose and was very crushed and disappointed over his demise. One morning as I was pulling up my driveway thinking very hard about him, the radio premiered the song and in the beginning the dj on the station said "'This is Pink's new song about a close friend who overdosed on heroin." It was just really ironic. This song comes to mind every time I think of him and everybody who struggles with addiction.