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| versions = Gave Up<br>Gave Up (''Fixed'')<br>Gave Up (''The Young Americans'' version)<br>Gave Up (Open My Eyes)<br>Gave Up (''Closure'')<br>Gave Up (Live)<br>Gave Up (''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'')<br>Gave Up (''[[Beside You In Time (halo)|Beside You In Time]]'')
| live = [[Further Down The Spiral Tour]] through [[NIN 2013 Festival Tour]]<br>[[NIN 2014 Japan Tour]] through present
}}'''"Gave Up"''' is the sixth track on the 1992 ''[[Broken]]'' EP. In the [[Closure#Abandoned_1995_tour_film|abandoned Simon Maxwell live film]] from 1995, [[Trent Reznor]] said that "Gave Up" was his favorite song that he'd ever written.
===Song Credits===
*Production: [[Flood]], [[Trent Reznor]]
==Appearances==
===Gave Up===
This is the original album version. Fading in with an ambient pad, the quick drum loop soon enters, with Reznor's quiet and filtered vocals soon after. His singing builds in intensity until launching into the pre-chorus, which is considerably louder and guitar-centric, also featuring yelled vocals. The chorus continues this abrasion but with high-pitched vocal layering before dying down to a keyboard solo and the second verse. After another pre-chorus and chorus, it transitions into the bridge, which strips the layering down to percussion loops and guitar along with Reznor's repeated lyric, "I tried, but I gave up." This soon leads into a loud synthesizer solo and two repeats of the chorus, the song then descending into chaos and ending the album. Its first music video, included in the ''Broken Movie'', uses this track.
[[Brian Liesegang]] explained that the unique vocal effect on this track was created using a trick "in which the lead verse take was dropped into the Emax at 22k or something, resampled, played an octave higher, dropped back down, and flown back in. It gave it that great warbly desperation and worked really well in the track. Total last minute thing because Trent was worried the vocal was too 'clean' and exposed I believe."[https://gearspace.com/board/showpost.php?p=8266168&postcount=350]
===Gave Up (''Fixed'')===
'''''Running Time: 5:25'''''
This remix, done by [[Coil]] and Danny Hyde, appears on ''Fixed.'' Its most prominent feature may be the splicing and rearranging of vocal syllables. This involved running the vocals through a sampler and manipulating the knobs to cause the vocal sample to fire at random, re-sequencing them together in manic fashion.[https://www.compulsiononline.com/interview_dannyhyde.htm] It is musically similar to jungle or drum 'n' bass music, focusing on layering the frantic drum loops and guitar riffs.
===Gave Up (''The Young Americans'' version)===
===Gave Up (Live)===
An otherwise unavailable live recording of this song from the Civic Arena, Omaha, NE ([[1995/02/13_Omaha,_NE|2/13/95]]) show appears on the ''Alternative Press'' compilation ''Industrial Strength Machine Music: The Framework of Industrial Rock 1978-1995'', released in 1999.[httphttps://www.9inchnailsnincatalog.com/discography/compilationsitems-with-official-tracks/industrial-strength-machine-music.php-us-cd-991/]
===Gave Up (''And All That Could Have Been'')===
==Music Videos==
[[Image:Gaveupstill.jpg|thumb|Screenshot from the "Gave Up" video]]
[[Image:Fuckyousteve.jpg|thumb|Screenshot from the "Gave Up" video]]
[[Image:Gaveup.JPG|thumbnail|Screenshot from "Gave Up" from the ''Broken Movie'']]
There are two [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music videos]] for "Gave Up": a performance video directed by Jon Reiss ("[[Happiness In Slavery (song)|Happiness In Slavery]]"), and the finale to the ''[[Broken Movie]],'' directed by [[Peter Christopherson]].
The video directed by Reiss, as stated earlier, is a performance video. It features the band (Reznor, [[Richard Patrick]], [[Chris Vrenna]] and temporary member Brian Liesegang) along with [[Marilyn Manson (musician)|Marilyn Manson]] performing the song in a studio at the notorious Tate Mansion[[Le Pig]]. Noticeable in the video is a message window on a computer monitor that reads "FUCK YOU STEVEFuck you steve." Many consider this to be This is another jab at [[TVT Records]] owner Steve Gottlieb, with whom Reznor was feuding at the time over his contract and creative control. This video clip can be found in ''[[Closure]]''. The audio from this video is from the actual video shoot and is not the same as on ''Broken''. Based on Reznor and Manson's Prodigy message board posts, this video was likely shot in November 1992.
The video directed by Christopherson is the finale to the ''Broken Movie.'' The victim is strung up to the ceiling where he is burned, mutilated, and beaten. He is then taken down and tied to a board, where the killer takes a chainsaw to the victim's appendages. The killer unmasks himself, revealing his identity in the victim's final moments. After having his way with the dying victim, the killer cuts out the victim's heart and eats it. All the while, Reznor can be seen on the television singing the song. Intercut with the violence is footage of various body parts in freezers and the fridge, a police officer (played by either Richard or Robert Patrick) coming into the crime scene, and a crowd of rubbernecking bystanders.
==External Links==
*[httphttps://vimeo.com/3555366 "Gave Up" music video (Jon Reiss version)]
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