From the album Golden Hour
Kygo and Kim Petras make self-destruction sound like a hit. The song is a toast to bad decisions, an upbeat duet that prefers spectacle and shared ruin over repair.
We were so close to something right But we're stupid, but we're stupid, but we're stupid
The regret is immediate but half-joked. Repeating "but we're stupid" turns shame into a shared punchline and keeps the mood light enough to dance to.
And the only thing we had in common with each other Was destroyin' everything we ever touched
This line names the bond. It makes the wreckage mutual and almost intimate, trading love for a common habit of breaking things.
Cheers to us and what we had Let's keep dancin' on the broken glass
The chorus refuses mourning. Celebrating "what we had" while dancing on shards makes the breakup into a party and the damage into choreography.
'Cause when you're high, you're bound to crash So let's keep dancin' on the broken glass
The duet knows the outcome and still chooses the thrill. That fatalism is the point: they prefer the crash as proof they were alive.
Broken Glass leaves you dancing and feeling the cuts. It never wants the bandage. It hands you a glass to clink and walks away...