Where Did the Beat Go?

OH... BA DA BA BUM
OH... BA DA BA BUM
BA DA BA BUM OH...

I can hear planes flyin' over my head
Just hours before you occupied my bed
In our darkness, we conjured up sunlight
In our haste, our need, our thirst
We lost our sight

But I was inspired tracing the lines on your face
To the poetry the first time I heard your name
When I trip from your lips my heart was like a kickdrum
And it silenced the guilt I wasn't raised to hurt anyone

Uh Oh does he know that I'm lyin' in the afterglow
That I'm lyin' but I can't go, can't say no
Make him think he's crazy, while his paranoia grows
What he should be askin', is where did our love go
Then I wouldn't be baskin', in another man's afterglow
Where is the beat? Where did the beat go?
Where is the beat? Where did the beat go?

So how do I justify to the judge and the jury
The voices in my head that caused this fury
Never had to play with matches to start a fire
But it got so cold and I'd thought I'd forgotten desire

I was your concubine, and then your Madonna
You couldn't see anything beyond your baby's mama
How long is lonely supposed to last?
I was naked and waiting for you to come back

Uh Oh does he know that I'm lyin' in the afterglow
That I'm lyin' but I can't go, can't say no
Make him think he's crazy, while his paranoia grows
What he should be askin', is where did our love go
Then I wouldn't be baskin', in another man's afterglow
Where is the beat? Where did the beat go?
Where is the beat? Where did the beat go?
In another man's afterglow OH...

There's a cause and effect, although I took the steps
I dove off of the bridge cause I had nothin' left
All I ever wanted was you
And in the absence of you
I fell through

Uh Oh does he know that I'm lyin' in the afterglow
That I'm lyin' but I can't go, can't say no
Make him think he's crazy, while his paranoia grows
What he should be askin', is where did our love go
Then I wouldn't be baskin', in another man's afterglow
Where is the beat? Where did the beat go?
Where is the beat? Where did the beat go?
Where did the love go?
OH... Where did the beat go?
OH... Where did the love go?



WRITTEN BY P!nk, Billy Mann, Jon Keep, Steve Daly
PUBLISHED BY EMI Blackwood Music, Inc./
P!nk Inside Publishing (BMI), Turtle First Music/
BMG Chrysalis (SESAC), BMG Chrysalis/
Green & Bloom/Tracklacers (BMI)

PRODUCED BY Billy Mann for The Well Ltd.
CO-PRODUCED BY Tracklacers for the Well Ltd.
ARRANGED BY Billy Mann & Tracklacers
ELECTRIC GUITARS, LIVE PERCUSSION: Billy Mann
BASS/DRUM PROGRAMMING: Tracklacers
KEYBOARDS: Tracklacers & Pete Wallace
STRINGS ARRANGED BY Pete Wallace & Jonathan Yudkin
STRINGS PERFORMED BY Jonathan Yudkin
ENGINEERED BY Billy Mann, Pete Wallace & Jonathan Yudkin at
Turtle Sound Studios, Weston, CT;
New Track City, London, UK/Los Angeles, CA;
Monster Island, Nashville, TN; Earthstar Creation Center, Venice, CA
MIXED BY Serban Ghenea at MixStar Studios, Virginia Beach, VA
ENGINEERED FOR MIX BY John Hanes
ASSISTANT ENGINEERED FOR MIX BY Phil Seaford