The Perfect Drug

"The Perfect Drug"
Single by Nine Inch Nails
from the album Lost Highway Soundtrack
Released	May 13, 1997
Recorded	Mid–late 1996
Genre	Industrial pop, drum and bass[1]
Length	5:42
Label	Nothing Interscope
Songwriter(s)	Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails singles chronology
"Closer" (1994) "The Perfect Drug" (1997) "The Day the World Went Away" (1999)
Halo numbers chronology
Halo 10 (1995) Halo 11 (1997) Halo 12 (1997)

"The Perfect Drug" is a song by Nine Inch Nails written for the David Lynch film Lost Highway. It was released in 1997 on the Lost Highway soundtrack as well as a single from the score. Remixes of the song were released as an EP, "The Perfect Drug" Versions.

Though "The Perfect Drug" Versions acts as a single for the titular song, the original version does not appear on the EP. The track has also been included on international singles "We're in This Together, Part 3" and "Into the Void" without the ending truncated; the only audio release of it in North America being on the Lost Highway soundtrack. A music video for the song, directed by Mark Romanek, was included with the VHS compilation Closure and in The Work of Director Mark Romanek.

In September 2018 the band performed the song live for the first time at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.^[2]