We're In This Together (song)

Album:The Fragile (Left)

Length:7:15

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Versions:We're In This Together
We're In This Together (Radio Edit)

Live:Performance 2007

"We're In This Together" is the fifth track on the Left disc of The Fragile. It was also released as a single, receiving the designation of Halo 15, and is among the rarest of halos.

Interpretation

The song is in some ways different from most other Nine Inch Nails songs specifically in its theme of devotion, while still maintaining an air of desperation as the song's narrator clings to the only thing, or only person left in the oppressive world around him that "means anything."

Song Credits

• Chorus Drums: Jerome Dillon

Appearances

Halos

• The Fragile
• We're In This Together

Seeds

• Collected
• The Definitive NIN - The Singles

Versions

We're In This Together

This is the original album version, found on The Fragile and two parts of We're In This Together. In the singles, the segues from "The Wretched" (in the beginning) and "The Fragile" (at the end) have been removed.

We're In This Together (Radio Edit)

In this edit, the intro is shortened and the coda is significantly shortened.

We're In This Together (Short Edit)

This was found only on the promo, and begins with the bridge before going to the fist verse. The coda is shortened even more as well.

Music Video

The video for this song first aired in 1999, and was directed by Mark Pellington. It shows Trent Reznor and an army of black-clad people running frantically through empty buildings, streets, and eventually a desolate field where everyone except Reznor had disappeared. The video was filmed on location in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Live

Although "We're In This Together" is a single, it was not performed live until the Performance 2007 tour, where it entered the setlists alongside Last, another never before played song, This was a dream come true for many fans.

The song is performed in a lower key, presumably due to the vocal strain required to sing it as it appears in the album.

The song debuted at Lisbon, Portugal, and was played (at least) at three other shows.

The piano solo outro is greatly expanded in the live versions.

Lyrics

    I've become impossible
    Holding on to when
    When everything seemed to matter more
    The two of us
    All used and beaten up
    Watching fate as it flows down the path we have chose
    
    You and me
    We're in this together now
    None of them can stop us now
    We will make it through somehow
    You and me if the world should break in two
    Until the very end of me
    Until the very end of you
    
    Awake to the sound as they peel apart the skin
    They pick and they pull
    Trying to get their fingers in
    Well they've got to kill what we found
    Well they've got to hate what they fear
    Well they've got to make it go away
    Well they've got to make it disappear
    
    The farther I fall I'm beside you
    As lost as I get I will find you
    The deeper the wound I'm inside you
    Forever and ever I am a part of
    
    You and me
    We're in this together now
    None of them can stop us now
    We will make it through somehow
    You and me
    If the world should break in two
    Until the very end of me
    Until the very end of you
    
    All that we were is gone we have to hold on
    All that we were is gone we have to hold on
    When all our hope is gone we have to hold on
    All that we were is gone but we can hold on
    
    You and me
    We're in this together now
    None of them can stop us now
    We will make it through somehow
    You and me
    Even after everything
    You're the queen and I'm the king
    Nothing else means anything

External Links

• Images from the video
• "We're In This Together" music video (LP version)
• "We're In This Together" extended music video