What does What About Us mean?

Pink: What About Us Meaning

Album cover for What About Us album cover

Song Released: 2017


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What About Us Lyrics

La-da-da-da-da, la-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da

We are searchlights, we can see in the dark
We are rockets, pointed up at the stars
We are billions of beautiful hearts
And you sold us down the river too far

What about us?
What about all the...

  1. anonymous
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    Nov 26th 2017 !⃝

    This song makes me think about the disappointment children feel in their parents when they don't meet their expectations. Also maybe a retrospective thoughts of a person trying to move on from an emotionally abusive relationship...

  2. anonymous
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    Nov 26th 2017 !⃝

    I honestly thought it was about love as a couple and deception in general in a relationship asking God about us (couple, marriage), oh wow how people have a different opinion.

  3. anonymous
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    Nov 26th 2017 !⃝

    This is about the lobster industry on the East coast, and the was promised to them and the losses and hardship they are going through.
    We are searchlights lights...fisherman on the dark water with the lights of their boats.
    We are rockets pointed up to the stars....the beacon of the northern star guiding them, the boats travel o. The horizon pointed to the stars.
    We are Billion beautiful hearts....are the fish in the sea looking upwards that remain.
    The reference to the river are the specific salmon struggling to get to their spawning olacewe they began.

  4. anonymous
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    Nov 25th 2017 !⃝

    I thought of this in many forms. One of which was about prostitution.

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  5. anonymous
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    Nov 24th 2017 !⃝

    Wow...I've been trying to figure out the meaning of this song for weeks. If nothing else Pink has definitely gotten our minds racing...I would love to hear her interpretation. Regardless it is a hauntingly beautiful song added to my Playlist.

  6. anonymous
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    Nov 23rd 2017 !⃝

    As a Canadian, I think about our First Nations peoples. All of the promises that have been made to them, from the first time white folk arrived on our shores... and all of the ways in which we have broken the trust and promises over the hundreds of years. And, btw, I am not First Nations, I'm caucasian.

  7. anonymous
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    Nov 21st 2017 !⃝

    Oh dear. I thought it was about love and a beoken relationship haha

  8. anonymous
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    Nov 20th 2017 !⃝

    i think she is directing the song towards Obama and all the whoppers he told to the American people .

  9. anonymous
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    Nov 20th 2017 !⃝

    She’s definitely talking about Trump. The lyrics are way to literally human to be talking about God.

  10. anonymous
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    Nov 20th 2017 !⃝

    She’s definitely talking about Trump.

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  11. anonymous
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    Nov 20th 2017 !⃝

    I think it's about gay and lesbian equality this song is for Australia equality for marriage.same sex Love is Love.

  12. anonymous
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    Nov 18th 2017 !⃝

    Definitely about god, what his promised, also pink was , and correct me if I'm wrong, in the church choir, she has a Christian background, I think it also speaks to the LGBT community, we are billions of beautiful hearts, we are all connected threw love, love for one another binds us, his meant to be our creator, god, who loves us, all equally, yet, the LGBT community still struggles bcos of Christian beliefs, it's a song asking god, what about us, the ones that are still here, stop this horrible system we live in, if your there help, stop the hate filled world we live in, we all love, yet there's still so much hate

  13. anonymous
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    Nov 16th 2017 !⃝

    It could be a prayer or talking about a conversasion with your divorced parents

  14. anonymous
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    Nov 13th 2017 !⃝

    Surviving narcissistic parents.

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  15. anonymous
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    Nov 10th 2017 !⃝

    It's about people being their true self, regardless off their sexuality -notice the boy on the sofa arguing with himself.




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