Beyoncé - Pretty Hurts
Time: 2:56
You left with shattered mirrors
And the shards of a beautiful past
Pretty hurts (Pretty hurts, pretty hurts)

fragment; a broken piece of a brittle artifact
Heard in 70 songs (597M+ combined views) — most famously in "Pretty Hurts" by Beyoncé.
Updated August 7, 2026
Time: 2:56
You left with shattered mirrors
And the shards of a beautiful past
Pretty hurts (Pretty hurts, pretty hurts)

Time: 1:06
Past the blackest heaven above the dying stars
I watch me breaking into a million shards
(Wake up, wake up, wake up)

Time: 1:29
So there
So all the cups got broke, shards beneath our feet
But it wasn't my fault

Time: 0:35
Take a flight, she wanna take a Lyft, for the molly man, he's on the way, uh-huh
I might take her The Shard, I might take her The Ritz, it don't matter, baby, I'm straight, uh-huh
Heart broke when them pills done, Prometh', I can't feel now

Time: 0:12
I can't pull your heart together with just my voice alone
A thousand shards of glass I came to meet you in
You cut the piece out of me

Time: 1:24
I mean snare and a kick drum, see my forearm
I carved OF on it this morning with a glass shard
On my green miniramp that I built in my backyard (that's weird)

Time: 2:28
♪
Leave some shards under the belly
Lay some grease inside my hand

Time: 0:00
He's got fasting black lungs
Made of clove-splintered shards
They're the kind that will talk

Time: 1:54
And I question everything
And those shards of doubt begin to penetrate my heart
With every waking hour

Time: 2:47
A body locked in the vice grip of conflict
A mind sharpened on the shards of disappointment
And from the depths of hell I rise

Time: 1:01
Deep down inside
Tearing through shards of broken glass (broken glass)
Oh yeah, getting one step closer to the edge and taking it all back (baby)

Time: 1:27
The cars could all collide
The shards of glass won't catch my eye
Because you're almost by my side

Time: 0:34
All the little pieces falling shatter
Shards of me too sharp to put back together
Too small to matter

Time: 0:05
I rock designer, rocking leather kid, I'm avant-garde
Windows fully tinted, speakers blasting while I'm sniffing shards
I pull up in whips with bits, 'cause the cheque's retarded

Time: 1:02
Clawed away from human clay
We are the broken shards the art disarray
Before you condemn, you rape them feed us meconium

Time: 2:19
L.A., New York, Amsterdam
Monte Carlo, Shard End and
All over the world

Time: 1:24
We didn't know you'd break this bottle open
That the magic came in to use those jagged shards to cut our wrists and neck
And you'd do it, too, you're that kind of dude

Time: 0:56
Tear down the cross
Splinters and shards
Remembered this Trojan horse

Time: 1:25
Split it with his big roll dog, call him Marmaduke
Searching for a shard of truth and found, uh
Couple bucks bought his cousins lunch

Time: 0:53
Like broken mirrors
Ten million shards of glass and tears
But now we are

Time: 1:28
Hey
I was in her house with some glass shards
Breaking out the back door (Yeah)

Time: 0:49
Violence is our way of life
Shards of life like confetti in the air
The flesh storm grows as it breeds despair

Time: 3:30
Spilling over, down the drains
Shard of glass, splinters like rain
But you could only feel your own pain

Time: 1:47
Adrenaline be thrilling
Shards cut deep when you play
Shards cut deep when you stray

Time: 1:29
There's a methane storm on a planet that's warm
You'll find broken shards of pottery and alien forms
Plus a riddle that was left from a conscious queen

Time: 1:10
It always takes me, it's such a curse to be so hard
You shatter easily and can't pick up all those shards
It's the curse of losing yourself when the mirror takes you too far

Time: 0:12
They reek of tropical charms
The embassies lie in hideous shards
Where tourists snore and decay

Time: 2:58
♪
Beautiful like shards of glass
In your throat that cut you up

Time: 1:03
Excuses, pulling strings, swept you away
So come closer, crawl over, shards of your faith
Do your time, climb your mind's endless staircase

Time: 0:57
Singing broken melodies
Like shards of broken glass
Ripping through my memory
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Time: 0:18
Underneath the overpass
Mangled in the shards of a metal frame
Woken from the dream by my own name

Time: 1:58
♪
A million shards of glass
♪

Time: 0:00
You speak in shards of broken glass
You punish me to try to take away my dignity

Time: 0:37
Yeah, welcome to the trill life
That views in the shard then I go and book a car
Then we go and get a meal life

Time: 2:55
I'm dreaming of you
In a multiverse of meaning fractal shards
From a distant star

Time: 0:52
I've got to choke it down and break it down until it's broke down
It's like a shard of glass, like a broken piece
Of everything I hate, it's everything in me

Time: 1:39
Everywhere you are
Every single shard
Everywhere you are

Time: 0:15
Shards of broken pieces
Shattered on the floor

Time: 1:19
Sealed tight/hung up/street mouth/sad pup
Shards of sweetshine of voice and flute
Street mouth decodes the bluesking dude

Time: 1:20
In the city of God, I'm from the city of God
Bitch, I've been up in the Shard, I really been at the top
Separate the man from the man dem, find out who's real and who's not

Time: 4:07
These words are not tools of communication
They are shards of metal
Dropped from eight story windows

Time: 0:32
Shatter the lens
Pull out the shards
Choke on her words

Time: 0:51
Flatter hopes don't flatter and soul batter won't congeal to mend a life
That's shattered into shards
Was it in the cards?

Time: 0:43
Broken heart, can't piece it together
Broken shards had you screamin' in terror
From Paris, this jawn an easy contender

Time: 1:39
To the ground and crawls there on its knees
I'll embrace small shards of silence
To avoid a loss this violent

Time: 2:41
It faded out of sight back to the shadows of her mind
Just like the shards of shattered mirrors
Broken pieces scattered o'er the burial grounds

Time: 1:41
Each day shot through
With all the sharp, small shards of shrapnel
That seem to burst out of me and you

Time: 0:01
Swallowtail
I met you up atop The Shard
As we fell

Time: 1:43
(Chorus x2)
Shards of pull cards scattered on the carpet
It's hard to breathe cause you wear a fitted target

Time: 0:37
Raid up with the roof and this ain't Derek Carr (The Raiders)
Since we fell apart, I found another shard
Broke my heart so much, I had the Chrome Heart (Chrome)

Time: 1:41
Last night was a rapture in the mosaic sky
Dropping shards of love, dropping shards of love
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Time: 2:00
Every breath I take I feel my lungs seal
This breeze feels more like shards of glass I'm more scars than skin
Because this city, this city is haunted

Time: 0:14
Forged by the crow-mage from shards of darkness
Honed by the half-breed to vorpal sharpness

Time: 1:08
The calliope serenades, made the old towns come running
And the boys would gamble shards to pull her chains
The striker's boast would fain me loss, about the wrecks the shoals were keeping

Time: 2:13
Through fields of crystal
And the shards of my bones
May I open my eyes

Time: 0:16
I awoke this morning to a shattering sound
And I went downstairs and found these shards of glass strewn all around
And there upon the floor I found this poor broken dove

Time: 0:03
Hold up, I was reborn the second before the plane became shards of glass
When it crashed on arrival I woke up

Time: 1:05
evil debris of human bodies
each window's glass shards pelted
secure confines

Time: 0:39
You are fading away in pieces and parts
Like old china and glass, in fragments and shards
Moment by moment, a day at a time

Time: 0:18
I count the days in seconds and minutes
Hours and hours are subtle as shards of glass
In the skin

Time: 1:02
♪
Broken again shards of the years that I lost stuck in my skin
And the scares the least of the cost

Time: 2:16
Where all of the dreams of the searchers are hidden
Where all of the shards of the broken hearts bleed
I wait in the dawn for the hand I was given

Time: 0:34
All together playing games of cards
Gambling the tiny shards of brass once my heart
Who will be at Sanssouci tonight

Time: 0:01
Hang the body with a cord, gag his mouth
with shards of steel
He doesn't know the pain he'll feel

Time: 0:38
Sell yourself
All my memory shard becomes dirty little pieces
Choking on your cancer, waitin' on to new releases

Time: 0:40
Fragile and precious (bebu)
Nothing broke a shard (bebu, bebu)
We blew it all (bebu, bebu)

Time: 0:16
Phone the molly man, he's on the way, uh-huh
I might take her The Shard, I might take her The Ritz
It don't matter, baby, I'm straight, uh-huh
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Time: 0:40
Rotten bell is hanging from a dusty vine
Blue and silver shards of broken candle light
And it's all sewn together this time

Time: 2:52
Point the figure-head at the glass
Smash! Smash! into shards
Don't stop and don't touch!

Time: 3:17
I'm fine, I'm just gonna go over here and
Puke shards of my own pelvis into this bush"
