Every Day Is Exactly The Same (song)

Album:With Teeth

Length:4:54

Tempo:72 BPM

Versions:Every Day Is Exactly The Same
Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Instrumental)
Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Sam Fog Vs. Carlos D Mix)
Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Interpol Mix Edit)
Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Interpol Mix Vocal)
Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Edit)
Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Live At Rehearsals)

Live:Live: With Teeth
NIN 2022

"Every Day Is Exactly The Same" is the sixth track on the 2005 release With Teeth. It seems to be about addiction and overcoming it. There are also possible references to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is also notable that the drums (performed by Dave Grohl) are quite similar to the drum track to "My Hero", also performed by Grohl.

In 2007 it was nominated for the Grammy for "Best Hard Rock Performance" but lost it to "Woman" by Wolfmother.

Song Credits

• Writing and performance: Trent Reznor
• Production: Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder
• Programming and additional production: Atticus Ross
• Mix: Alan Moulder
• Live Drums: Dave Grohl

Appearances

Halos

• With Teeth
• Every Day Is Exactly The Same
• Beside You In Time

Seeds

• The Definitive NIN - The Singles

Versions

Every Day Is Exactly The Same

This is the original album version, found on both With Teeth and the Every Day Is Exactly The Same EP. The song opens with distant, warbled piano notes and ambient noise before the verse suddenly kicks in with thumping live drums, a distorted bassline, and Reznor's vocals. There is separate electronic percussion syncopated with the live drums, deepening the rhythm. Halfway through the first verse, synthesized strings enter, sweeping along with the driving bassline. These strings intensify in the choruses, pounding out the same single high note as Reznor wails against his own homogeny. This structure remains until the bridge, when the bass and synth-strings suddenly drop out, leaving only the percussion and spare, moody piano notes. The entrance of a high-pitched, tremolo-ing guitar and Reznor's scream of "I don't know...what else I can do!" drive the song into its vocal-layered final chorus and eventual echo-laden percussion outro.

Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Instrumental)

Running Time: 5:09

Released exclusively through Apple Music.

Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Sam Fog Vs. Carlos D Main Mix)

Running Time: 5:03

This largely instrumental remix is found on commercially released Every Day Is Exactly The Same EP.

Song Credits

• Mix Engineering: James Mullen

Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Interpol Mix Edit)

Running Time: 5:18

Shorter by 1 minute version of the Main mix, released on promotional 12" vinyl and CDs.

Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Interpol Mix Vocal)

Running Time: 4:09

Same mix as above with additional slightly sped up vocals from the first half of the original song. Found on promotional 12" vinyl record and CDR.

Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Edit)

Running Time: 3:51

An uncredited remix of the song found on a limited European promo. It is actually an altered version of the original song, with some lyrics omitted, differences in the overall mix, and a shorter ending. It was available in MP3 format via remix.nin.com, uploaded by Reznor.

Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Live At Rehearsals)

This version of the song is exclusive to the Beside You In Time DVD/HD-DVD/BluRay. It was filmed and recorded in the band's rehearsal space in early 2005.

Music Video

There were plans for a music video to be directed by Francis Lawrence, edited by Mario Mares, with Max Goldman as director of photography, but it was scrapped during post-production, not long after details about the video leaked to the web. Reznor commented on the scrapped video on Echoing the Sound:

Regarding EDIETS, there will be no video released. I made a mistake. The good news is that mistake has acted as a catalyst for me to rethink a number of decisions regarding the direction and position of the band I've made and will be making in the future. The enemies from outside and within have been identified and I am back on track.

Rob Sheridan commented many years later on his Instagram account[1]:

Since I know someone will ask about this again: I never saw the discarded EDIETS music video. I was on set for the filming, the set looked cool, Trent didn’t like the way the video turned out for whatever reason, it was canned. When a musician has another artist - a director, in this case - interpret their work, it doesn’t always turn out the way the musician envisioned it, or doesn’t fit the music the way it should, or the concept on paper doesn’t translate to camera, or it was poorly executed, or the lighting is unflattering — there are a million ways it can end up not right, sometimes it’s just not right, these things happen a lot. No one will ever see it, no one needs to see it, the end.

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  Music Video - Behind the Scenes

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  Music Video - Behind the Scenes

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  Image from nin.com/current

• Meathead created a Flash Video for the song based on the leaked information.
• Footage of a performance from tour rehearsals is included in the Beside You In Time DVD as a special feature.

Live

"Every Day Is Exactly The Same" made its live debut on May 4, 2005 and was a rarity throughout that year, but appeared regularly on the With Teeth Spring Arena Tour. It was not performed again until the NIN 2022 tour, the longest drought of any With Teeth song (excluding "Sunspots").

Lyrics

    I believe I can see the future
    Because I repeat the same routine
    I think I used to have a purpose
    And then again that might have been a dream
    I think I used to have a voice
    Now I never make a sound
    I just do what I've been told
    I really don't want them to come around
    Oh no
    
    Every day is exactly the same
    There is no love here and there is no pain
    Every day is exactly the same
    
    I can feel their eyes are watching
    In case I lose myself again
    Sometimes I think I'm happy here
    Sometimes I still pretend
    I can't remember how this all got started
    But I can tell you —exactly— How it will end
    
    Every day is exactly the same
    Every day is exactly the same
    There is no love here and there is no pain
    Every day is exactly the same
    
    I'm writing on a little piece of paper
    I'm hoping someday you might find
    I'll hide it behind something
    They don't look behind
    I am still inside here
    A little bit comes bleeding through
    I wish this could have been any other way
    I just don't know what else I can do
    
    Every day is exactly the same

The fourth line in the bridge was changed to:

    They won't look behind

Additional lyrics printed in the With Teeth PDF booklet, but not appearing in the song itself

    And I've rehearsed my lines
    And I know what's coming next

External Links

• "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" (Edit) at archive.org
• "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" Live From Rehearsals

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