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==Versions==
===The Perfect Drug===
This is the original version that can be found on the ''Lost Highway'' soundtrack as well as some verisons versions of ''The Perfect Drug Versions'' and the ''We're In This Together'' single.
===The Perfect Drug ([[Meat Beat Manifesto]])===
The concept of the video is widely interpreted as [[Trent Reznor]] portraying a man mourning the death of a child and detaching himself from reality through absinthe. [[Charlie Clouser]], [[Danny Lohner]], and [[Chris Vrenna]] appear in the video, most notably playing string instruments at the beginning of the video. The aesthetics were heavily influenced by the illustrations of 20th-century artist Edward Gorey (1925–2000), the most obvious reference coming from the boy sitting on the cushion in front of the painting.
The entire video was filmed with a blue tint with the expection exception of the drum breakdown, which uses flashing green light instead, representing Reznor losing himself in the absinthe. The refrigerated set was used for only part of the video, but the scenes using it really add to the emotion that the video is trying to convey. Reznor becomes a figure who certainly gains our sympathy.
==Lyrics==