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| album =''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]''

| BPM = 94| versions =N/AThe Only Time<br>The Only Time (Demo - ''[[Purest Feeling (halo)|Purest Feeling]]'')<br>The Only Time (''[[Closure]]'')| live =Hate [[VIVIsectVI Tour ]] through Self[[Further Down The Spiral Tour]]}}'''"The Only Time"''' is the ninth track on the 1989 release ''[[Pretty Hate Machine]].'' The song references "[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]" in its use of the same recognizable melodic synth voice. ===Song Credits===*Production: [[Trent Reznor]], [[Keith LeBlanc]], [[John Fryer]]*Engineering: John Fryer, Keith LeBlanc, Kennan Keating, Ken Quartarone*Mix: Keith LeBlanc ==Appearances=====Halos===*''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]''*''[[Closure]]'' ===Video Games===*''[[Rock Band|Rock Band 3]]'' (available for download) ===Other===*''[[Purest Feeling (halo)|Purest Feeling]]'' ==Versions=====The Only Time===This is the final album version. The track begins with Reznor's vocal and a bass line that sounds like a keyboard slap bass preset. As the verse moves along, a minimal and sleek-Destruct tour <br> Instrumental used sounding drum track gradually comes in. Near the end of the first verse, there is a very brief appearance of [[samples|sampled]] background vocals recorded for "So Alive" by Love And Rockets (a track also produced by John Fryer.) As the chorus kicks in, the bass switches to a more picked bass guitar sound, the drum track becomes much louder and more aggressive and the low-pitched "Down In It" synth voice comes in, playing an ascending melody. During the second half of the chorus, the instrumentation of the verse returns, and the high-pitched "Down In It" synth voice comes in. The song continues on in much the same pattern, with minor variances. A distorted guitar overdub in the instrumental end of the song segues directly into "Closer[[Ringfinger]]." breakdown  ===The Only Time (Demo - ''Purest Feeling'')===An early version of the song found on Live: With Teeth tour''Purest Feeling''. ===The Only Time (''Closure'')===}}This live version begins with Reznor explaining that "this is a song about fucking." This version features a heavy guitar riff added during the second verse, as well as an aggressive bridge section with more heavy guitar and a descending synth melody.

==Live==Last performed during the [[Self-Destruct Tour]] with new guitar riffs, the song has pushed its way back to the surface in brief, its melody being used for an interpolation/breakdown during the final verse of "The Only Time[[Closer]]" is on the ninth track on [[Pretty Hate MachineLive: With Teeth]]tour and continuing to this day.

I’m I'm drunk And right now I’m I'm so in love with you And I don’t don't want to think too much about what we should or shouldn’t shouldn't do

Maybe I’m I'm all messed up Maybe I’m I'm all messed up in you

Maybe I’m I'm all messed up Maybe I’m I'm all messed up in you

I can’t can't help thinking Christ never had it like this The final line appears only in the liner notes.