*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "yes, I am alone but then again I always was"
*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "and you're really all alone"
*[[All The Love In The World]]: "hiding in the crowd I’m I'm all alone" / "sometimes I get so lonely I could –"
*[[Came Back Haunted (song)|Came Back Haunted]]: "I am not who I used to be"
*[[Find My Way]]: "Now that you have gone away" / "Ghosts of who we used to be"
*[[Dear World,]]: "Yes, everyone seems to be asleep"
*[[The Lovers]]: "Everyone seems to be asleep but me"
*[[God Break Down The Door]]: "We sleep hypnotized from the center" / "I believe I am sleeping after all" (The lyrics are not included of in the final cut of the song, but included in the digital data.)
==Becoming==
*[[Me, I'm Not]]: "and it's hard to believe just what I've become"
*All The Love In The World: "I've become a million miles aw(ay)"
*Only: "I’m I'm becoming less defined as days go by"
*[[Vessel]]: "I am becoming something else, I am turning into God"
*[[10 Miles High]]: "I swore to God I'd never turn into you"
*[[Head Down]]: "all your hate, what you’ve you've become"
*[[Everything]]: "I've become something else"
*[[Shit Mirror]]: "I'm becoming something new"
*[[Not Anymore]]: "Watched myself become somebody else" (The lyrics are not included of in the final cut of the song, but included in the digital data.)
==Beginnings==
*Beside You In Time
*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "I am staying right beside you"
==Black==
*[[Black Noise]]
*[[Cold And Black And Infinite Tour]]
*[[Branches/Bones]]: "cold and black and infinite"
*Came Back Haunted: "its smile is red and its eyes are black"
*[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]: "head like a hole, black as your soul"
*Piggy: "black and blue and broken bones"
*[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]: "but inside your heart it is black..."
*[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]: "as black as the night can get"
*She's Gone Away: "we keep licking while the skin turns black"
*[[Deep]]: "there's a big black hole gonna eat me up someday"
*The New Flesh: "I can almost see the blackest eyes"
*With Teeth: "it's in her kiss, the blackest sea"
*[[Last]]: "look through these blackened eyes"
Though the lyrics may not have been written by Trent Reznor, it should be noted that "[[BBB]]" by How To Destroy Angels features the line "listen to the sound of my big black boots".
==Blind==
*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "my blood wants to say hello to you"
*Where Is Everybody?: "pleading and needing and bleeding and breeding"
*[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]: "will you chew until it bleeds?" / "for the blood on which we dine"
*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding"
*[[The Good Soldier]]: "Blood hardens in the sand"
===Bruised===
*[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]: "God Money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised"
*Somewhat Damaged: "broken bruised forgotten sore"
*Survivalism: "all bruised and broken, bleeding"
*[[Branches/Bones]]: "the makeup hides the bruise"
==Burning==
*[[Dead Souls]]: "They keep calling me"
*Even Deeper: "I hear them call I cannot stay"
*Sunspots: "I hear it calling and I come cause I can’t can't disobey"
==Closeness==
==Deserving==
*Head Like A Hole: "You’re You're going to get what you deserve"*[[Last]]: "pigs we get what pigs deserve"
*[[Meet Your Master]]: "Maybe you get what you deserve"
*[[Sin (song)|Sin]]: "Carry out my sentence, I get what I deserve"
==Disappearing==
*The Becoming: "all pain disappears"
*[[Deep]]: "right here make it all disappear"*We’re We're In This Together: "well they've got to make it disappear"
*The Great Below: "washes me away, makes me disappear"
*Please: "I can disappear"
*Disappointed: "just get out of here, disappointed, disappear"
*All The Love In The World: "all the jagged edges disappear"
*Lights In The Sky: "I can’t can't disappear"
*Running: "Just slip away and disappear"
==Didn't even notice==
*Please: "push it away but it all comes back again"
*Where Is Everybody?: "everything pushes me further away"
*We’re We're In This Together: "they pick and they pull"
*The Great Below: "ocean pulls me close"
*Only: "well the tiniest little dot caught my eye"
*The Great Below: "all the world has closed her eyes"
*The New Flesh: "I can almost see the blackest eyes"
*[[Memorabilia]]: "the look in your eye"
*The Beginning of the End: "I got my mark, see it in my eyes"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can feel their eyes are watching"
*Only: "and I had this funny feeling"
*Getting Smaller: "don’t don't know what to feel"
*Sunspots: "I feel it coming" / "I have to apologize for the way I feel"
*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through" / "I can feel me start to fade away"
*Right Where It Belongs: "feel the hollowness inside of your heart"
*Home: "and it feels I’m I'm getting to the end"*Me, I’m I'm Not: "I feel it coming apart"
*In This Twilight: "and it feels like, like it was a friend" / "do you wonder if it feels the same?" / "what it feels like, and I won't feel again" / "and the longing that you feel"
*[[Discipline]]: "feels like I’m I'm wearing down"
*Hurt: "the feelings disappear"
*Kinda I Want To: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"
*Everything: "I am free"
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "I am forgiven, I am free"
*The Lovers: "And I'm free to return to the place where I already am" / "Free, take me into the arms of the lovers" / "The center has moved on and all that’s that's left is free"
==God==
*Vessel: "I am a turning into God" / "My God...Oh my God"
*God Given
*Starfuckers, Inc.: "My god sits in the back of the limousine, my god comes in a wrapper of cellophane, my god pouts on the cover of the magazine, my god’s god's a shallow little bitch trying to make the scene"
*Capital G: "Traded in my God for this one"
*[[Zero-Sum]]: "May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts"
*And All That Could Have Been: "I am locked in my head"
*[[Get Down, Make Love]]: "you blow my head"
*All The Love In The World: "they don’t don't sound as good outside my head"
*Getting Smaller: "got my head on a spring"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if all the world’s world's inside of your head"
*The Good Soldier: "Right over my head"
*Capital G: "now nod your head because you know that I’m I'm right"
*[[The Great Destroyer]]: "nod your head" / "listen to the shit they pump into your head"
*Head Down
*[[Satellite]]: "I'm inside your head"
*Various Methods Of Escape: "A line of lyric looping in my head"
*Ringfinger: "right in time with the song that's repeating in my head" (The lyrics are not included of in the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics.)
==Hiding==
*Where Is Everybody?: "when all I'm really doing is trying to hide"
*Somewhat Damaged: "is a place where I hide, where I stay"
*No, You Don’tDon't: "tries so hard to hide"
*The Fragile: "where we can run and hide"
*All The Love In The World: "hiding in the crowd I’m I'm all alone"
*You Know What You Are?: "I have to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*Love Is Not Enough: "well, it hides in the dark"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "well, I’ll I'll hide it behind something"
*Right Where It Belongs: "are you hiding in the trees?"
*Me, I’m I'm Not: "I define myself by how well I hide"
*The Good Soldier: "There's nowhere left to hide"
*Running: "I'm running out of places I can hide from this, I'm running out of ways to keep on hiding this"
*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*Somewhat Damaged: "tear a hole exquisite red"
*No, You Don’tDon't: "smiling in their faces while filling up the hole"
*Please: "it fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead"
*You Know What You Are?: "I have to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*The Hand That Feeds: "I keep holding on to what I want to believe"
*With Teeth: "keeps holding on"
*Right Where It Belongs: "You keep looking but you can’t can't find the woods"
*Survivalism: "I turned just keep on walking"
*Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away"
==Knees (down on or getting up off)==
*The Hand That Feeds: "will you get up off your knees" / "will you stay down on your knees"
*The Beginning of the End: "down on your knees, you’ll you'll be left behind"
*My Violent Heart: "on hands and knees we crawl"
*March Of The Pigs: "crawl right up on your knees"
*Eraser: "lose me"
*In This Twilight: "let me take away your doubt"
*Discipline: " feels like I’m I'm losing touch"
*Head Like A Hole: "no you can't take that away from me"
*Terrible Lie: "don't take it away from me"
*[[That's What I Get]]: "you took away all my self confidence"
*Something I Can Never Have: "you make this all go away"
*[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]: "thought he lost everything, then he lost a whole lot more" / "where did everything get lost"
*Various Methods Of Escape: "I think I could lose myself in here"
*[[The Persistence Of Loss]]
*I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "I remember sometimes"
*You Know What You Are?: "remember where you came from, remember what you are"
*Love Is Not Enough: "I can’t can't remember what it is" / "in your eyes is a place worth remembering" *Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can’t can't remember how this got started"
*The Life You Didn't Lead: "And you are not living in a memory"
*Zero-Sum: "do you remember the time we" / "and I know you remember"
*The Warning: "Your greed, self-importance and your arrogance, you piss it all away"
*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*Terrible Lie: "Hey God, I really don't know who I am in this world of piss" (The lyrics are not included of in the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics.)
==Profanity==
*Something I Can Never Have: "just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be"
*The Only Time: "while the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car"
*Wish: "now there’s there's nothing more fucked up I could do" / "big time, hard line, bad luck, fist fuck" / "I’m I'm the one with this big fucking hole"
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*March of the Pigs: "I want to fuck it up"
*Closer: "I want to fuck you like an animal"
*Ruiner: "the only pure thing left in my fucking world is wearing your disease" / "and maybe that fucked me up much more than you’ll you'll ever know"
*I Do Not Want This: "I want to fuck everyone in the world"
*Big Man With A Gun: "just for the fuck of it" / "I’m I'm hard as fucking steel" / "me and my fucking gun"
*Eraser: "fuck you"
*The Downward Spiral: "a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash"
*Starfuckers, Inc.
*The Big Come Down: "smash it apart just for the fuck of it"
*You Know What You Are?: "don’t don't you fucking know what you are"*Love Is Not Enough: "I’ve I've gone all this fucking away"
*Only: "there is no fucking you"
*Getting Smaller: "I haven’t haven't got fucking anything"*Sunspots: "fuck in the fire and we’ll we'll spread all the ashes around"
*Not So Pretty Now: "But you're just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away"
*Capital G: "those motherfuckers didn't last too long"
*Hurt: "I wear this crown of shit"
*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*Where Is Everybody?: "thought I really didn’t didn't give a shit"
*Capital G: "Don't give a shit about the temperature in Guatemala"
*The Great Destroyer: "listen to the shit they pump into your head"
*You Know What You Are?: "you better take a good look cause I’m I'm full of shit"
*Shit Mirror
*Please: "and I realize it was all in my head"
*Burn: "why did you put it there, did you not realize"
*Lights in the Sky: "I’ve I've come to realize we all have our place"
*Love Is Not Enough: "the sooner we realize"
*Ruiner: "those that you keep blind will suddenly realize"
==Scab==
*Only: "Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab" / "picking at that scab"
*Something I Can Never Have: "Still picking at this scab" (The lyrics are not included of in the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics.)
*The Becoming: "He's covered with scabs and he is broken and sore"
*She's Gone Away: "We keep licking while the skin turns black"
*The Lovers: "Hot swollen skin want me take me perfect embrace"
*God Break Down The Door: "Wondering if you'll remove my skin" (The lyrics are not included of in the final cut of the song, but included in the digital data.)
===Flesh===
==Slipping/slipping away==
*That’s That's What I Get: "slipping on the tears"
*Deep: "you're slipping through"
*[[999,999]]: "How did I slip into (this)?"
==Stopping==
''see also: [[Recurring lyrics#Nothing can stop me now|Nothing can stop me now]]''
*We’re We're In This Together: "none of them can stop us now"
*Sunspots: "but I can't stop what has begun"
*The Line Begins To Blur: "isn’t isn't anyone stopping me?"
*My Violent Heart: "You cannot stop us all"
*Me, I’m I'm Not: "hey, can we stop?"
*Discipline: "you know once I start I cannot stop myself"
*Came Back Haunted: "Just can't stop, came back ha-ha-haunted"
==Used up==
*We’re We're In This Together: "all used and beaten up"
*Love Is Not Enough: "left for dead and all used up" (unsung lyrics printed on the ''With Teeth'' PDF poster)
*Head Down: "all used up half way through"
*Even Deeper: "I woke up today to find myself in the other place"
*Gave Up: "wake up, wake up in flames"
*We’re We're In This Together: "awake to the sound"*Home: "I awake to find I’m I'm not at all where I should be"
*1,000,000: "I wake up on the floor"
*Everything: "But this thing that lives inside of me will surely rise and wake"
==Waving goodbye==
*Down In It: "I looked him right in the eye and said goodbye."
*Now I'm Nothing: "Wave, wave, wave, wave goodbye"
*With Teeth: "Wave goodbye to what you were"