Becca'smediablog: Pink // Just give me a reason

Pink - Just give me a reason

Meaning - the song is about a couple who has just started to come out of their "Honeymoon" period and so are starting to experience some of the changes within a real relationship.

Right from the start

You were a thief
Music video - Pink (the lead singer) is shown her singing into a microphone but looking distant.
Meaning - She is remembering the past and how she fell in love with him at first sight

You stole my heart
And I your willing victim
Music video - She is huddled up on her bed (barely clothed) cuddling into her covers, showing that she misses him.

I let you see the parts of me

That weren't all that pretty

And with every touch you fixed them

Music video - The video switches between close up shots of Pink singing into a microphone and close ups of her lying on the bed look helpless and vulnerable. The use of a giant teddy give a childish side to the video, enhancing her pain and venerability and making it more raw to the audience.

Meaning - He was more than a lover to her, he was also like her best friend and every time she was broken or upset he would "fix" her and make her better.

Now you've been talking in your sleep, oh, oh

Music video - Pink looks away from the camera at this point, almost as if what she is saying is to painful.

Meaning - She feels as if he wants to say something, or that something is wrong because he's "been talking in his sleep"

Things you never say to me, oh, oh

Tell me that you've had enough

Of our love, our love

Music video - There are various different camera angles used at this point, showing her lying on a bed looking sad and depressed, surrounded by empty food containers and a teddy (females may sympathies with this if they have been through a similar thing)

Meaning - Even though he has helped her and fallen in love with her she is starting to over think things as the relationships settles down and starts trying to get him to admit his feelings.

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

Music video - The video switches between shot of her thrashing around on her bed to her alone with her boyfriend, cuddling him but without expressions of love (this is shown through their lack of eye contact)

It's in the stars

It's been written in the scars on our hearts

We're not broken just bent

And we can learn to love again

Music video - It focuses on her being alone on her bed, just floating in the marsh. (the use of placing her bed alone on the marsh emphasizes that she is stranded)

Meaning - They have been through problems within their relationship or previous relationships ("scars on our hearts") and know that their relationship isn't perfect.

I'm sorry i don't understand

Where all of this is coming from

Music video - Nate is alone on the television screen singing whilst pink lies on her bed, showing the distance between the two singers.

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)

Music video - He is still singing on the television screen and she is alone in her room, except this time she is watching him, almost showing anger towards him.

Meaning - He doesn't know what she is talking about because he thought that everything was ok and their relationship was going well because he loves her. She is comparing their relationship now to the honeymoon phase when they were inseparable ("we had everything") and he is trying to reassure her telling her that its her insecurities pushing them apart ("your head is going wild again)

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, our love, our love.

Music video - She throws popcorn at the screen just before the video starts switching between Pink and Nate singing together and he sadly hugging her man.

Meaning - He is trying to tell her that he has never stopped loving her and that the passion is still there and that she needs to stop worrying. This is then shown as being a fight when they sing "our love" twice, one using a low key and the other screaming.

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

Your're still written in the scars on my heart

You're not broken just bent

And we can learn to love again

Music video - The video switches between clips of them singing together, her jumping into the water and "drowning", him singing alone on the television with her watching or lying in bed.

Oh, tear ducts and rust

I'll fix it for us

We're collecting dust

But our love's enough

Music video - It mainly shows her under the water and screaming in her bed

Meaning - She feels like she is doing something wrong as she has been hurt in the past and he is trying to reassure her and tell her that he will fix them and they will be ok.

You're holding it in

You're pouring a drink

No nothing is as bad as it seems

We'll come clean

Music video - She is still drowning in the water but this keeps switching with clips of them singing together in silhouette and almost fighting (shown through their body language). it then showers her

falling backwards onto the bed in despair.

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

Music video - It jumps between clips of her drowning, them singing together and her hugging the man that she is in a relationship with.

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

Music video - the video cuts between pink kissing the man in the water surrounding her bed, singing

with Nate and sitting alone on her bed. The video also shows a four second clip of a heart with two pulses.

Meaning - He finally gets it through to her that it is not a bad thing that their relationship is changing as it is normal and that they will be fine.