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<blockquote>"Down In It"... That was probably... that was the first song I'd ever written. And I sat down, I took a very experimental approach to it. And the original version I did was about half speed of the one on the record. And it was a total rip-off of "Dig It" by [[Skinny Puppy]]. I'll admit that now. But, um, lyrically, I was just experimenting with just kind of a train-of-thought, writing down whatever I thought and all it was was a kind of... I hate to say what I'm talking about, but I'll do it now, since it's so old I just like to think about it now. It was just this feeling of, like, at an earlier stage of my life I thought I had my act together, I thought I knew what I wanted to do. I thought, and thought I had pride in myself, and as I'd gotten older, and realized that certain things don't work out the way you hoped they would at a certain stage and a lot of the illusions you had been led to believe growing up in a fairly sheltered environment... Just, I dunno, I was kind of coming of age, realizing that, you know, things might not work out sort of feeling. That's kind of the bridge of the song.</blockquote>
At some point in the early 90s, Reznor was approached about licensing a track for a Gatorade commercial. When he rejected this proposal, the company hired someone to record was using a "Down In It" soundalike tracksong, and Reznor looked into the possibility of suing them.[https://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/display/598]
==Appearances==
==Live==
As of [[Fragility 2.0]], Reznor had stated that he didn't like the song as much as he used to, but during the later legs of the [[Live: With Teeth]] tour, it seemed as if he's changed his mind about the song, playing it more as the tour progressed. The song usually features a lot of destruction from Reznor towards the end.
The song was featured on setlists intermittently up until 2009, after which the song was not played again until the [[NIN 2022|2022 Tour]]. This version was more stripped down, with fewer effects played during the song and no intro, instead starting at the first verse, similar to the "Demo" version on the ''Head Like a Hole'' single.
While the song was not performed by Nine Inch Nails during the [[Peel It Back Tour]], [[Boys Noize]] would play the "Boys Noize Dubwerk" remix of the song (a shortened version of the "Singe" remix) in his opening set.