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| versions = The Way Out Is Through<br>The Way Out Is Through (Alternate Version)
| live = [[Fragility]]<br>[[Wave Goodbye Tour]] through [[NIN 2013 Festival Tour]]
}}'''"The Way Out Is Through"''' is the first track on the Right disc of ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]].'' It is one of the more abstract and non-traditional songs on the album, with its structure based around a drawn-out crescendo. It was featured in a teaser trailer for the album, with [[Trent Reznor]] singing part of the chorus ''a cappella.'' It is often confused with "[[Underneath It All]]" due to the bold verse linethat song title appearing in its lyrics.
==About==
===Song title===
In an interview published in VIVA 2 Magazine, Reznor revealed the source of its title: "The way that I couldn't cope with [the death of his grandmother] was by not addressing it or having the courage to write anything. And it took that realization to turn it around and by writing about it and expressing, I felt better about it, I felt like I could see through it. The way out is through. That's where the song title came from because I thought that the way out was skirting the issue and walking on the curb."
[[Image:Twoit_tracksheet.png|thumb|Screen capture of the song's tracksheet from nin.com during ''The Fragile'' era.]]
[[Image:Doom-ep-1-epilogue.jpg|thumb|''DOOM'' end screen text]]Its working title, as revealed by a picture of its tracking sheet on [[nin.com]], was "Anomaly." There is a corresponding fan theory that both names are a reference to the 1993 video game ''Doom'' - the level "E1M8: Phobos Anomaly". Upon beating that level, the player is met with a text screen that includes the phrase "Looks like you're stuck on the shores of Hell. The only way out is through."
===The Introduction===
On October 15, 2010, Alan Moulder answered a question about the filtering introduction to this song on the PSW Recording Forums:
<blockquote><p>
— Alan Moulder[http://recforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/mv/msg/32698/502417/0/#msg_502417]</p></blockquote>
*Written by Trent Reznor, [[Keith Hillebrandt]] and [[Charlie Clouser]]
*Piano: [[Mike Garson]]