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| title =The Perfect Drug
| album =''[[Lost Highway Soundtrack]]''
| length =5:4215
| BPM = 149
| versions =The Perfect Drug<br>The Perfect Drug (Edit)<br>The Perfect Drug (''We're In This Together'' version)<br>The Perfect Drug (Instrumental)<br>The Perfect Drug ([[Meat Beat Manifesto]])<br>The Perfect Drug (Plug)<br>The Perfect Drug ([[Nine Inch Nails]])<br>The Perfect Drug (Spacetime Continuum)<br>The Perfect Drug (The Orb)<br>The Perfect Drug (Aphrodite)
==Music Video==
[[Image:TPDstill.jpg|thumb|Screenshot from the "The Perfect Drug" video]]
[[Mark Romanek]], who also directed "[[Closer]]," directed the [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music video]] for "The Perfect Drug" in 1997. It was one of the most expensive videos at the time, costing over $850,000 to make. Building the two main sets (a refrigerated set and a rooftop set) and commissioning the giant hand sculpture were some of the larger expenses.[http://www.nin-pages.de/perfect_drug_video_quelle.htm]
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.