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When you hear this one, you’ll wonder, did Pink break up again with another beau?  Yes and No.  It is another break up song but it’s the same beau.  Please Don’t Leave Me is the mellower follow-up to the arena ready rock out, So What, taken off the album Funhouse, which was made after her divorce from Carey Hart.

But heartbreak sounds good on her.  She breaks down like a true rocker – with a goofy or balladeering supercharged vent.  

The song is a mellower reaction to her failed marriage, the converse of the angry and seemingly resilient stand-off in the ‘so what’ attitude of her earlier charttopping release.  It’s still about heartbreak of course, but just decked up in bar-fight bluffing bravado that the heartbroken put on for the world to see.

This one is a more humbled and honest reaction to the same heartbreak.  The self-deprecating plea in the title is a dead give away eh?

The songs lyrics are an admission of Pink’s contributions to the failure of her relationship even though they are belted with the same big-voice and defiant tenacity that makes Pink not like the other pretty rock girls in the pop playground.

Just listening to the track without listening to the lyrics could never indicate how humbled and chastised Pink is, but the continuous ‘dadadadada’ in the background adds a bittersweet tone that could hint this one is a different version to what we heard in the more accusatory ‘So What’.

Of course on the video clip she’s just as much a psychotic ex with blazing white hair and bleeding black rock eyes she was in the tree-chopping video of So What – only difference is, now she’s not armed with a three-wheeled mobile and chain saw, but rather an axe and golf club.

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