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Many of [[Trent Reznor]]'s lyrics and (and sometimes song titles) are thematically similar across songs and albums. This is an expansion of a list compiled at [http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=13785 ETS] by user "Christ". [[Cover Songs|Covers]] and spoken parts from [[samples]] are not included in this list.
==Abandonment/rejection==
*[[She's Gone Away]]
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "I'm all alone in a world you must despise" / "my morals left to decay"
*[[Ringfinger]]: "you just leave me nailed here"
*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "I can't watch her slip away"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "everything pushes me further away"
*[[Disappointed]]: "Just just get out of here"
*[[Beside You In Time (song)|Beside You In Time]]: "I am all alone this time around"
*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "yes, I am alone but then again I always was"
*[[All The Love In The World]]: "hiding in the crowd 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 now that you have gone away" / "Ghosts ghosts of who we used to be"*[[She's Gone Away]]
==Afraid to see==
==A million miles away==
*Hurt: "If I could start again, a million miles away"
*All The Love In The World: "I've become a million miles aw(ay)" - in addition, the phrase appears in the accompanying unsung lyrics printed on the ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]'' PDF poster: "Right beside is still a million miles away"
*[[1,000,000]]: "I feel a million miles away"
*Hurt: "if I could start again, a million miles away"
*All The Love In The World: "I've become a million miles aw(ay)" - in addition, the phrase appears in the accompanying unsung lyrics printed on the ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]'' PDF poster: "right beside is still a million miles away"
==Asleep==
*[[Dear World,]]: "Yesyes, everyone seems to be asleep"*[[The Lovers]]: "Everyone everyone seems to be asleep but me"*[[God Break Down The Door]]: "We we sleep hypnotized from the center" / "I believe I am sleeping after all" (The lyrics are not included in the final cut of the song, but included in the digital data.)
==Becoming==
*The Becoming
*[[Now I'm Nothing]]: "oh, what I have become!"
*[[Gave Up]]: "after everything I've done, I hate myself for what I've become"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "can you let your heart become central pump-house for all human feelings?"
*Closer: "help me become somebody else"
*The Becoming
*Hurt: "what have I become, my sweetest friend?"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "I've become impossible"
*[[Everything]]: "I've become something else"
*[[Shit Mirror]]: "I'm becoming something new"
*[[Not Anymore]]: "Watched watched myself become somebody else" (The lyrics are not included in the final cut of the song, but included in the digital data.)
==Beginnings==
*[[The Beginning Of The End]]
*The New Flesh: "and this is how it all begins"
*[[The Wretched]]: "back at the beginning"
*Please: "this is how it begins"
*And All That Could Have Been: "ending what had begun"
*[[The Beginning Of The End]]
*Came Back Haunted: "I'm afraid this has just begun"
*[[All Time Low]]: "see this is where the fun begins"
*Dear World,: "I begin to go through another that we have been"
*[[I Know You Can Feel It]]: "just like that, it begins" / "the moment it begins"
 Though the lyrics may not have been written by Trent Reznor, it should be noted that "[[Recursive Self-Improvement]]" by [[How To Destroy Angels]] features the line "this is how it all begins".
==Belonging==
*Right Where It Belongs
*[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|Starfuckers, Inc.]]: "now I belong, I'm one of the chosen ones"
*All The Love In The World: "watching all the insects march along, seem to know just right where they belong"
*[[With Teeth (song)|With Teeth]]: "you've finally found the place where you belong"
*Beside You In Time: "everything is back where it belongs"
*Right Where It Belongs: "see the safety of the life you have built, everything where it belongs"
*[[Home]]: "I return to the only place I've ever felt that I belong"
*[[God Given]]: "You you should get where you belong"
==Beside you==
*Beside You In Time
*We're In This Together: "the farther I fall I'm beside you"
*Beside You In Time
*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "I am staying right beside you"
*[[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 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 blood hardens in the sand"
*[[My Violent Heart]]: "our blood will stay" / "our blood, our grace"
*[[Letting You]]: "the dying left to bleed"
*[[In Two]]: "Bleedbleed, have to purge, what you were"
*The Becoming: "the blood has stopped pumping"
*[[The Only Time]]: "the sweat in your eyes, the blood in your veins"
*[[Various Methods Of Escape]]: "bled from my own hand"
*She's Gone Away: "You you dig in places till your fingers bleed"*[[The Background World]]: "The the world is bleeding out"
===Bleeding through===
*[[Every Day Is Exactly The Same (song)|Every Day Is Exactly The Same]]: "a little bit comes bleeding through"
*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through"
*Everything: "And and his seed that bleeds right through to me"*The Background World: "Behind behind the background world is always bleeding through"
==Broken==
==Burning==
*[[Burn (song)|Burn]]
*[[Burning Bright (Field On Fire)]]
*Heresy: "burning with your god in humility"
*The Big Come Down: "there is a hate that burns within"
*[[Non-Entity]]: "Burning burning down the world, the ashes and debris"
*[[Sunspots]]: "peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground"
*God Given: "and it burns so bright"
*Various Methods Of Escape: "a place to bury every thing I did and burn it to the ground"
*[[Burning Bright (Field On Fire)]]
===Fire===
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire)
*[[Sanctified]]: "as the words spill out like fire from her lips"
*Gave Up: "wake up in flames"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "can you flow with fire"*All The Love In The World: "The the stars are all afire in the sky"
*Survivalism: "you see your world on fire"
*[[In This Twilight]]: "it is watching us, and the world we set on fire"
*My Violent Heart: "Into into fire you can send us, from the fire we return"
*Sunspots: "fuck in the fire and we'll spread all the ashes around"
*Various Methods Of Escape: "the fire illuminates our final scene"
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire)
==Calling==
*[[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 disobey"
*The Great Below: "ocean pulls me close"
*10 Miles High: "I'm getting closer all the time"
*[[Love Is Not Enough]]: "Hey hey the closer we think we are, well it only got us so far"*[[While I'm Still Here]]: "Closest closest I have ever come"
==Cracks==
==Decay==
*[[Ripe (With Decay)]]
*Terrible Lie: "my morals left to decay"
*The Becoming: "the blood has stopped pumping and he's left to decay"
*Somewhat Damaged: "drink the fountain of decay"
*The Day The World Went Away: "but in his voice I heard decay"
*[[Ripe (With Decay)]]
==Deserving==
*Head Like A Hole: "Youyou're going to get what you deserve"
*Last: "pigs we get what pigs deserve"
*[[Meet Your Master]]: "Maybe maybe you get what you deserve"*[[Sin (song)|Sin]]: "Carry carry out my sentence, I get what I deserve"*In Two: "What what you want, what you deserve"*Ahead Of Ourselves: "We we wound up building this we deserve"
==Disappearing==
*All The Love In The World: "all the jagged edges disappear"
*Lights In The Sky: "I can't disappear"
*Running: "Just just slip away and disappear" 
==Didn't even notice==
*Dear World,: "Hey hey look, you didn't even notice"*[[Less Than]]: "Focusfocus? We we didn't even notice"
==Disease==
==Dreams==
*[[The Eater Of Dreams]]
*[[Sanctified]]: "I still dream of lips I never should have kissed"
*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore"
*[[Eraser]]: "dream you"
*Even Deeper: "in a dream I'm a different me"
*Dead Souls: "someone take these dreams away"*With Teeth: "It it runs deeper than you dare to dream it could be"*Head Down: "This this is all a dream, and none of you are real"*Right Where It Belongs: "What what if all the world you think you know is an elaborate dream?"*[[The Eater Of Dreams]]
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "I can't tell if I am dreaming anymore"
*[[Shadow Over Me]]: "in this dream, used to think I believe"
==Echo==
*[[Echoes]]
*Echoplex
*The Good Soldier: "gunfire in the street echoes out a beat"
*Echoplex*Something I Can Never Have: "Echoing echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears"
*Please: "echoing the sound"
*Survivalism: "Hypnotic hypnotic sound of sirens, echoing through the street"*Non-Entity: "The the echoes in my eyes, of all they used to see"
*[[Copy Of A]]: "I am just an echo of an echo of an echo"
*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"
*Non-Entity: "The the echoes in my eyes, of all they used to see"*[[Sunspots]]: "Sunspots sunspots cast a glare in my eyes"
*Came Back Haunted: "its smile is red and its eyes are black"
*Shit Mirror: "Caught caught reflecting in your eyes"
*Who Wants To Live Forever?: "something in my eye"
*Getting Smaller: "I'm afraid I am starting to fade away"
*Beside You In Time: "I can feel me start to fade away"
*Not So Pretty Now: "But but you're just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away"
*Echoplex: "and I just slowly fade away"
*Who Wants To Live Forever?: "I might just fade away"
==Feel==
*I Know You Can Feel It*Suck: "how does it feel?"
*Gave Up: "forgot how it feels, well almost"
*Fist Fuck: "oh you just wish I could feel that way too"
*I Do Not Want This: "to those who know what it really feels like" / "don't you tell me how I feel, you don't know just how I feel"
*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"
*Memorabilia: "I know what it feels like"
*The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"
*[[The Way Out Is Through]]: "we feel so small"
*Kinda I Want To: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"
*1,000,000: "I feel a million miles away"
*[[Demon Seed]]: "And and I can feel it breathe"
*Echoplex: "you feel me breathe, I am watching you"
*The Great Below: "I can still feel you, even so far away"
*My Violent Heart: "feel it coming now"
*[[Underneath It All]]: "I can still feel you"
*Branches/Bones: "Feels feels like I've been here before"
*Dear World,: "I feel like I have lived so long"
*She's Gone Away: "Cut cut along the length (but you can't get the feeling back)"*Shit Mirror: "Got got a new face and it feels all right"
*As Alive as You Need Me To Be: "the way it makes me feel" / "feel, I can finally feel"
*I Know You Can Feel It
*Who Wants To Live Forever?: "something in the way it feels here"
*Shadow Over Me: "and it feels so real"
*Even Deeper: "for once in my life I feel complete"
*Zero-Sum: "and it feels like we're living in that split-second of a car crash"
==Fist==
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*[[Wish (song)|Wish]]: "fist fuck"
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*Survivalism: "I got my fist I got my plan I got survivalism"
*Demon Seed: "And and I will use my fist"
*Getting Smaller: "I think I'm losing my grip, but I can still make a fist"
*Sin: "your kiss, your fist"
*Everything: "I am free"
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "I am forgiven, I am free"
*The Lovers: "And and I'm free to return to the place where I already am" / "Freefree, take me into the arms of the lovers" / "The the center has moved on and all that's left is free"
==God==
*God Break Down The Door
*God Given
*[[Play The Goddamned Part]]
*10 Miles High: "I swore to God I'd never turn into you"
*Closer: "You you get me closer to God"
*Head Like A Hole: "God Money I'll do anything for you"
*Heresy: "God is dead"
*Home: "God knows how much I've tried to"
*[[Maybe Just Once]]: "Oh oh God, what's coming to me?" *Right Where it Belongs: "Your your devils and your gods, all the living and the dead" *Ringfinger: "You you just leave me nailed here hanging like Jesus on this cross" *Suck: "There there is no God up in the sky tonight" *Terrible Lie: "Hey hey God!"
*The Wretched: "and God himself will reach his fucking arm through"
*The Beginning of the End: "God helps the ones who can help themselves"
*The Good Soldier: "'Cause cause God is on our side"*Vessel: "I am a turning into God" / "My my God...Oh oh my God"*God Given*Starfuckers, Inc.: "My 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 a shallow little bitch trying to make the scene"*Capital G: "Traded traded in my God for this one"*[[Zero-Sum]]: "May may God have mercy on our dirty little hearts"*Find My Way: "Lord lord my path has gone astray" / "Pray pray the Lord my soul to take" / "Oh oh dear Lord hear my prayer"
*While I'm Still Here: "God forgive me if I cry"
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "And and oh my God, I have missed you"*Ahead Of Ourselves: "Created created us in His image"*God Break Down The Door*[[Play The Goddamned Part]]
*Shit Mirror: "I think I knew the whole goddamned time"
*[[The Collector]]: "There there are so God damned many of them"
*The Becoming: "Goddamn this noise inside my head"
==Greed==
*[[The Warning (Year Zero song)|The Warning]]: "Your greed, self-importance and your arrogance"
*March Of The Pigs: "Please, greed, feed (no time to hesitate)"
*Letting You: "Your politics of greed"
*Not So Pretty Now: "Keep trying to fill it all up with your greed"
*Capital G: The title of the song refers to greed.
*[[The Warning (Year Zero song)|The Warning]]: "your greed, self-importance and your arrogance"
*March Of The Pigs: "please, greed, feed (no time to hesitate)"
*Letting You: "your politics of greed"
*Not So Pretty Now: "keep trying to fill it all up with your greed"
==Head==
*Head Like A Hole
*Head Down
*Terrible Lie: "my head is filled with disease"
*Something I Can Never Have: "scraping through my head"
*Last: "my head got lost along the way"
*[[Big Man With A Gun]]: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"
*The Becoming: "goddamn Goddamn this noise inside my head"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the voice inside your head"
*The Downward Spiral: "spilling out of my head"
*The New Flesh: "and in my head this is how it all begins"
*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 sound as good outside my head"
*Getting Smaller: "got my head on a spring"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if all the world's inside of your head"
*The Good Soldier: "Right right over my head"
*Capital G: "now nod your head because you know that 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 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 in the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics.)
*Right Where It Belongs: "are you hiding in the trees?"
*Me, I'm Not: "I define myself by how well I hide"
*The Good Soldier: "Therethere'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"
==Home/Returning home==
*La Mer: "And the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home"
*[[Home]]
*La Mer: "and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home"*[[The Life You Didn't Lead]]: "Homehome, returning from somewhere, to someplace safe"
*Everything: "I am home, I believe, I am home, I am free. I am home, I can see. Always here, finally"
*[[This Isn't The Place]]: "Carry carry me home"
*Vessel: "I have finally found my home"
*My Violent Heart: "When when you return to the place that you call home"
==Inside of me==
*Vessel: "When when I put you inside of me"*Came Back Haunted: "They they put something inside of me"
*The Becoming: "hiding backwards inside of me" / "it's a part of me, it's inside of me"
*Burn: "this thing inside of me" / "something inside of me"
*Heresy: "he tries to tell me what I put inside of me"
*Everything: "But but this thing that lives inside of me"
*As Alive as You Need Me To Be: "it's filling up the hole inside you"
*Who Wants To Live Forever?: "stay here inside me"
*The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"
*Please: "and it keeps repeating"
*Dead Souls: "they keep calling me"
*The Hand That Feeds: "I keep holding on to what I want to believe"
*With Teeth: "keeps holding on"
*Right Where It Belongs: "You you keep looking but you can't find the woods"
*Survivalism: "I turned just keep on walking"
*Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away"
*Capital G: "well I used to stand for something, now i'm on my hands and knees"
*1,000,000: "on your hands and your knees"
*[[Zoo Station]]: "I'll be crawling around on my hands and knees"
===Crawling===
*Down In It: "I was swimming in the haze now I crawl on the ground"
*Getting Smaller: "I'd be happy to crawl"
*March Of The Pigs: "Crawl crawl right up on your knees"*My Violent Heart: "On on hands and knees, we crawl"*The Way Out Is Through: "But but still we crawl"
*In This Twilight: "as it crawls across a final time"
*1,000,000: "kind of hard to see when you crawl"
*Zoo Station: "I'll be crawling around on my hands and knees"
==Loneliness==
*Terrible Lie: "I'm all alone in a world you must despise"
*Piggy: " you left me here I'm all alone"
*Reptile: "Need need to contaminate to alleviate this loneliness"*All The Love In The World: "Hiding hiding in the crowd I'm all alone" / "Sometimes sometimes I get so lonely I could..."
*Beside You In Time: "I am all alone this time around"
*Right Where It Belongs: "And and you're really all alone"*Vessel: "We we will never be alone"*Only: "Yes yes I am alone"
*Somewhat Damaged: "all alone, by myself, where were you?"
*[[The Idea Of You]]: "It it gets so lonely in here"
==Loss==
*[[The Persistence Of Loss]]
*She's Gone Away
*Eraser: "lose me"
*In This Twilight: "let me take away your doubt"
*Terrible Lie: "don't take it away from me"
*Last: "I pissed it all away" / "my head got lost along the way"
*Dead Souls: "someone take these dreams away"
*[[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]]
*March Of The Pigs: "I think he's losing it"
*All Time Low: "we lost too much along the way"
*My Violent Heart: "and soon you'll lose the will to care"
*Somewhat Damaged: "lost my faith in everything"
*SheEven Deeper: "lost my way, can's Gone Awayt come back"
==Machines==
*Down In It: "just a fading memory"
*Hurt: "but I remember everything"
*Memorabilia: "I have got to have a memory" / "I can't remember, give me a reminder"
*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 remember what it is" / "in your eyes is a place worth remembering"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can't remember how this got started"
*The Life You Didn't Lead: "And and you are not living in a memory"
*Zero-Sum: "do you remember the time we" / "and I know you remember"
*While I'm Still Here: "While while we can, remember when"
*In Two: "I don't believe you can even remember which one you are"
*[[I Would For You]]: "So so long I can't remember when"
*[[Purest Feeling (song)|Purest Feeling]]: "I wish I could remember everything she said"
*She's Gone Away: "I can't remember what she came here for" / "I can't remember much of anything anymore"
*The Idea Of You: "Rememberremember, I don't wanna remember anymore"*[[Over And Out]]: "Am am I remembering you correctly"
*Who Wants To Live Forever?: "can't remember why"
==Naive/naïveté==
*That's What I Get: "To to think that I was so naïve"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the prayers of the naïve"
*The Hand That Feeds: "So so naïve"*I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "The the flowers of naïveté"*My Violent Heart: "Standing standing there in all your grand naïveté"
==Nothing can stop me now==
*Piggy: "Nothing can stop me now, I don't care anymore"
*Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
*Piggy: "nothing can stop me now, I don't care anymore"*Ruiner: "You you didn't hurt me, nothing can stop me now"*Big Man With A Gun: "Me me and my fucking gun, nothing can stop me now"*[[La Mer]]: "Rien rien ne peut m'arrêter maintenant" (Translates to "nothing can stop me now". Spoken in Creole French)*Sunspots: "And and nothing can stop me now, and there is nothing to fear"*We're In This Together: "None none of them can stop us now"
==Pieces==
*Copy Of A: "I am little pieces, pieces that we picked up on the way"
*The Big Come Down: "try so hard to make the pieces all fit"
*Various Methods Of Escape: "Little little pieces of a plan"
*Where Is Everybody?: "all the pieces don't fit"
*Gave Up: "gonna smash myself to pieces"
*Now I'm Nothing: "I smashed myself to pieces"
*Branches/Bones: "Still still can make out pieces with the opening sewed shut"
*I Know You Can Feel It: "all the pieces of the plan"
*Piggy
*March Of The Pigs
*[[Le Pig]] studio
*Last: "pigs we get what pigs deserve"
*Heresy: "he made a virus that would kill off all the swine"
*God Given: "we are the divine, separated from the swine"
*[[Le Pig]] studio
*[[Ahead Of Ourselves]]: "with our snouts in the dirt"
*[[Isn't Everyone]]: "All all the little piggies cannot help themselves"
==Piss==
*Last: "Worn worn out from giving it up, my soul I pissed it all away"*The Warning: "Your 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 hey God, I really don't know who I am in this world of piss" (The lyrics are not included in the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics.)
==Profanity==
===Fuck===
*Fist Fuck
*Starfuckers, Inc.
*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 nothing more fucked up I could do" / "big time, hard line, bad luck, fist fuck" / "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"
*Somewhat Damaged: "fuck the rest and stab it dead" / "too fucked up to care anymore" / "where the fuck were you?"
*The Wretched: "and God himself will reach his fucking arm through"
*Starfuckers, Inc.
*The Big Come Down: "smash it apart just for the fuck of it"
*You Know What You Are?: "don't you fucking know what you are"
*Getting Smaller: "I haven't got fucking anything"
*Sunspots: "fuck in the fire and we'll spread all the ashes around"
*Not So Pretty Now: "But but you're just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away"
*Capital G: "those motherfuckers didn't last too long"
*1,000,000: "blow my fucking brains out"
*All Time Low: "your voice in fucking echo stereo" / "just how'd we fucking end up here?"
*Now I'm Nothing: "I'm gonna fuck myself up" / "I fucked it all away"
*Branches/Bones: "Dondon't give a fuck anymore"*Less Than: "too many fucking people"*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "Ohoh, burn motherfucker" / "Like like the fucking end" (The latter lyric is not included on the final cut of the song, but is printed on the physical component.)*Less Than: "Too many fucking people"
===Shit===
*Shit Mirror
*Piggy: "lost my shit because of you"
*Ruiner: "serving his shit to his flies"
*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*Where Is Everybody?: "thought I really didn't give a shit"
*Capital G: "Dondon'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 full of shit"
*Shit Mirror
==Purpose==
*Copy Of A: "Imprinted imprinted with a purpose, a purpose that's become quite clear today"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I think I used to have a purpose"
==Realization==
*Eraser (Denial; Realization)
*Sin: "am I just too stupid to realize"
*Gave Up: "it took you to make me realize"
*Eraser (Denial; Realization)
*The Perfect Drug: "my soul is so afraid to realize"
*Please: "and I realize it was all in my head"
==Said and done==
*The Great Below: "After after all is said and done"*Sunspots: "When when everything is said and done"*Zero-Sum: "And and soon it will be all said and done"
==Scab==
*Only: "Well well the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab" / "picking at that scab"*The Becoming: "he's covered with scabs and he is broken and sore"*Something I Can Never Have: "Still still picking at this scab" (The lyrics are not included 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"
==Sea==
*La Mer: ("La Mer" is translated from French to literally "The Sea")
*Ringfinger: "deeper than the sea"
*La Mer: ("La Mer" is translated from French to literally "The Sea")
*The Great Below: "staring at the sea" / "ocean pulls me close"
*With Teeth (song): "the blackest sea"
==Skin==
*Down In It (Skin)
*[[Underneath The Skin]]
*Sin: "it gets under my skin"
*Down In It (Skin)
*Last: "fresh blood through tired skin"
*Suck: "itches my skin right off my back"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just words and so much skin"
*[[Underneath The Skin]]
*March Of The Pigs: "take the skin and peel it back"
*Reptile: "just underneath her skin"
*Terrible Lie: "my skin is begging you"
*Discipline: "I see you left a mark, up and down my skin"
*Sunspots: "Peel peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground"
*All Time Low: "you barely even pierced the skin"
*In Two: "shed, your precious skin"
*She's Gone Away: "We we keep licking while the skin turns black"*The Lovers: "Hot hot swollen skin want me take me perfect embrace"*God Break Down The Door: "Wondering wondering if you'll remove my skin" (The lyrics are not included in the final cut of the song, but included in the digital data.)
===Flesh===
*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]
*Ringfinger: "sever flesh and bone"
*Suck: "the her temple walls are made of flesh"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
*Please: "all the flesh, all the sin"
==Sky==
*Lights In The Sky
*All Time Low: "and we will live forever, baby, and stretch across the sky"
*Lights In The Sky*The Warning: "When when it came down from the sky"
*Zero-Sum: "they're starting to open up the sky"
*Non-Entity: "the sky is not the same shade of blue"
*Suck: "there is no God up in the sky tonight"
*Down In It: "kinda like a cloud i was up, way up in the sky"
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "And and blacken out the sky and every last one of you"
==Slipping/slipping away==
*The Slip
*[[Slipping Away]]
*That's What I Get: "slipping on the tears"
*Deep: "you're slipping through"
*[[999,999]]: "How how did I slip into (this)?"*The Slip*[[Slipping Away]]
*Now I'm Nothing: "I let it slip away, now I'm nothing"
*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"
*Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away"
*The Fragile: "I can't watch her slip away"
*While I'm Still Here: "Falls falls apart, slips away"*Running: "Just just slip away and disappear"
*The Lovers: "I've slipped out of time again"
*March Of The Pigs: "I want to smash it up"
*Eraser: "smash me"
*Gave Up: "Smashed smashed up my sanity, smashed up integrity, smashed up what I believed in, smashed up what's left of me, smashed up my everything, smashed up all that was true, gonna smash myself to pieces"
*Now I'm Nothing: "I'm gonna smash myself to pieces"
*The Big Come Down: "Smash smash it apart just for the fuck of it"
*Love Is Not Enough: "for you to go and take this and smash it apart"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if all the world you think you know is an elaborate dream?"
*Head Down: "this is all a dream and none of you are real"
*The Idea Of You: "None none of this is happening"
==Stopping==
*Sunspots: "but I can't stop what has begun"
*The Line Begins To Blur: "isn't anyone stopping me?"
*My Violent Heart: "You you cannot stop us all"
*Me, I'm Not: "hey, can we stop?"
*Discipline: "you know once I start I cannot stop myself"
*Came Back Haunted: "Just just can't stop, came back ha-ha-haunted"*The Lovers: "Maybe maybe I could stop it (if I wanted to)"
==Tiny little dot==
*Down In It: "Just just then a tiny little dot caught my eye it was just about too small to see, but I watched it way too long and that dot was pulling me down"*Only: "Well well the tiniest little dot caught my eye"
==That which could have or would have been==
*And All That Could Have Been
*The Wretched: "all the what abouts, and all the might have could have beens"
*The Great Below: "for all we could have done, and all that could have been"
*And All That Could Have Been*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I wish this could have been any other way" / "then again, that might have been a dream"
*Sunspots: "I think I could have been someone"
*I Would For You: "There there was a place that could have been"*While I'm Still Here: "Oh oh all the things that might have been"
==Throwing away==
*Throw This Away*Terrible Lie: "You you made me throw it all away"
*Gave Up: "give it to me, I throw it away"
*Last: "I want you to throw me away"
*Throw This Away
==Used up==
*We're In This Together: "all used and beaten up"
*Head Down: "all used up half way through"
*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"
==Waking up==
*[[I Can't Seem To Wake Up 2017]]
*Even Deeper: "I woke up today to find myself in the other place"
*Gave Up: "wake up, wake up in flames"
*Home: "I awake to find I'm not at all where I should be"
*1,000,000: "I wake up on the floor"
*Everything: "But but this thing that lives inside of me will surely rise and wake"*The Idea Of You: "Waitwait, wake, breathe, believe"*Less Than: " We we awake in a place we can barely recognize, yeah"*Not Anymore: "And and I can't seem to wake up"
*Shadow Over Me: "hard to tell if I'm awake anymore"
*[[I Can't Seem To Wake Up 2017]]Though outside of the direct [[Nine Inch Nails]] spectrum, it is worth noting that the extended version of the ''[[Bird Box Original Score]]'' contains a track called "[[Can't Seem To Wake Myself Up]]".
==Waving goodbye==
*[[Wave Goodbye Tour]]
*Down In It: "I looked him right in the eye and said goodbye"
*Now I'm Nothing: "Wavewave, wave, wave, wave goodbye"*With Teeth: "Wave wave goodbye to what you were"*Lights in the Sky: "The the lights in the sky are waving goodbye"*[[Wave Goodbye Tour]]
*Came Back Haunted: "I said goodbye"
*Everything: "Wave wave goodbye, wish me well"
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