PINK - JUST GIVE ME A REASON
Featuring Nate Reuss
Right From The Start You Were A Thief You Stole My Heart
And I, Your Willing Victim
I Let You See The Parts Of Me That Weren't All That Pretty
And With Every Touch You Fixed Them
Now You've Been Talking In Your Sleep, Oh-Oh
Things You Never Say To Me, Oh-Oh
Tell Me That You've Had Enough
Of Our Love, Our Love
Just Give Me A Reason
Just A Little Bit's Enough
Just A Second We're Not Broken Just Bent
And We Can Learn To Love Again
It's In The Stars
It's Been Written In The Scars On Our Hearts
You're Not Broken Just Bent
And We Can Learn To Love Again
I'm Sorry I Don't Understand
Where All Of This Is Coming From
I Thought, That We Were Fine (Oh, We Had Everything)
Your Head Is Running Wild Again
My Dear We Still Have Everything
And It's All In Your Mind (Yeah, But This Is Happening)
You've Been Having Real Bad Dreams, Oh-Oh
You Used To Lie So Close To Me, Oh-Oh
There's Nothing More Than Empty Sheets
Between Our Love, Our Love, Oh-Oh, Our Love, Our Love, Love!
Just Give Me A Reason
Just A Little Bit's Enough
Just A Second We're Not Broken Just Bent
And We Can Learn To Love Again
I Never Stopped
You're Still Written In The Scars On My Heart
You're Not Broken Just Bent
And We Can Learn To Love Again
Oh, Tear Ducts And Rust! I'll Fix It For Us!
We're Collecting Dust, But Our Love's Enough
You're Holding It In! You're Pouring A Drink!
No, Nothing Is As Bad, As, It, Seems, We'll Come Clean!
Just Give Me A Reason
Just A Little Bit's Enough
Just A Second We're Not Broken Just Bent
And We Can Learn To Love Again
It's In The Stars
It's Been Written In The Scars On Our Hearts
That We're Not Broken Just Bent
And We Can Learn To Love Again
Just Give Me A Reason
Just A Little Bit's Enough
Just A Second We're Not Broken Just Bent
And We Can Learn To Love Again
It's In The Stars
It's Still Written In The Scars On Our Hearts
That We're Not Broken Just Bent
And We Can Learn To Love Again
Oh-Oh, We Can Learn To Love Again
Oh-Oh-Oh, Can Learn To Love Again
Oh-Oh, That We're Not Broken Just Bent
And We Can Learn To Love Again
SONG FACTS
Writer(s): Pink, Jeff Bhasker, Nate Reuss
Producer(s): Jeff Bhasker
This Stripped-Back Piano Piece Was Written By Pink With Fun Frontman Nate Ruess. The Song Is About The Desire To Hold On To A Relationship Even When It Appears To Be Breaking Down, And Was Inspired By A Hypothetical Argument Over Butter. Pink Told The Streaming Service Spotify: "Sometimes [One Partner] Can Be Like, 'The Way You Passed Me The Butter This Morning, I Kinda Feel Like We're Going To Be Over In A Month And We Need To Talk' And He's Like, 'I Just Passed You The F---Ing Butter, What Are You Talking About?' And That's How I Felt The Song Should Go, 'We're Growing Apart, You Don't Spoon Any More, Like It's All Over.'"
Pink Duets With Ruess On The Track, But She Had To Trick Him Into Singing His Part. She Recalled To Spotify: "I Was Like, 'No, This Is A Story, This Is A Conversation This Song' - It Needs The Other Perspective Whether It's A Guy And A Girl, Or Two Girls Or Two Guys. 'I Came In And Tried To Convince Him That This Was How The Conversation Was Going To Go And It Was Interesting You Know, He Was Like 'I'll Just Do The Demo Cos I Don't Know About Duets' And I Totally Tricked Him Into Doing It, And I Am So Glad I Was Able To. 'I Think Now He's Very Happy That He Did It, I Think It's A Beautiful Song And I'm Really, Really Proud Of It."
Running 4:03, This Ballad Is More Subtle Than Most Hit Songs Of The Time, But It Employs Some Clever Songwriting Techniques To Help Its Appeal. The Piano Melody At The Beginning Changes When The Verse Starts, But Comes Back For The Pre-Chorus So We've Already Been Given A Taste Of It By The Time The Song Gets Going. This First Pre-Chorus Is Sung By Pink; The Second One Starts With Ruess But Then Pink Joins Him, Although The Instrumentation Is Identical For Both Sections.
This Was Pink's Fourth #1 Single On The Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
The Song's Elevation To The Peak Position Meant That Nate Ruess Became The First Male Singer Of A Rock Band To Collect A Solo #1 Since Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas Sang On Santana's "Smooth," In 1999.
The Song Replaced Bruno Mars' Ballad "When I Was Your Man" At The Top Of The Hot 100. It Was The First Occurrence Of Ballads Following One Another At The Hot 100 Summit Since Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love" Gave Way To Rihanna's "Take A Bow" In May 2008.
Ruess And Pink Performed This Song At The Grammy Awards In 2014, Where It Was Nominated For Song Of The Year And Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (It Lost To "Royals" And "Get Lucky"). Pink Did An Aerial Acrobatic Rendition Of Her Song "Try" Before Joining Ruess.
Mark Salling And Dianna Agron Sang This On The 2014 Glee Episode "New Directions."