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*[[The Great Below]]: "all the world has closed her eyes" | *[[The Great Below]]: "all the world has closed her eyes" | ||
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Revision as of 10:44, 7 March 2007
Many of Trent Reznor's lyrics are thematically similar across songs and albums, evidence of both his genius and his lack of vocabulary. This is an expansion of a list compiled at ETS by user "Christ".
Contents
- 1 Becoming
- 2 Beginnings
- 3 Belonging
- 4 Bleeding
- 5 Blind
- 6 Blurring lines
- 7 Broken
- 8 Burning
- 9 Cracks
- 10 Decay
- 11 Disappearing; abandonment; loss; throw away
- 12 Disease
- 13 Dragging/pulling/pushing
- 14 Dreams
- 15 Drowning
- 16 Exit
- 17 Eye
- 18 Fading
- 19 Flesh
- 20 Get me out of here
- 21 Head
- 22 Hiding
- 23 Holes
- 24 How it feels
- 25 It keeps coming
- 26 Machines
- 27 Memory
- 28 Nothing can stop me now
- 29 Pigs
- 30 Sin
- 31 Slipping
- 32 Solipsism
- 33 Tiny little dot
- 34 That which could have or would have been
- 35 Waking up
Becoming
- Now I'm Nothing: "oh, what I have become!"
- Gave Up: "after everything I've done I hate myself for what I've become"
- Fist Fuck: "can you let your heart become central pump-house for all human feelings?"
- Closer: "help me become somebody else"
- The Becoming: "come on there has got to be someone / hasn't yet become / so numb / and succumb"
- Hurt: "what have I become, my sweetest friend?"
- We're In This Together: "I've become impossible"
- Even Deeper: "do you know how far this has gone? just how damaged have I become"
- The Great Below: "the destiny I've chose / all becoming clear"
- Where Is Everybody?: "that hasn't yet become"
- The New Flesh: "yes I am becoming" and "I've become"
- Me, I'm Not: "and it's hard to believe / just, what I've become"
Beginnings
- The New Flesh: "and this is how it all begins"
- The Wretched: "back at the beginning"
- Please: "this is how it begins"
- And All That Could Have Been: "ending what had begun"
Belonging
- Starfuckers, Inc.: "now I belong / I'm one of the chosen ones"
- All The Love In The World: "watching all the insects march along / seem to know just right where they belong"
- You Know What You Are?: "go on get back to where you belong"
- With Teeth (song): "you've finally found the place where you belong"
- Beside You In Time: "everything is back where it belongs"
- Right Where It Belongs: "see the safety of the life you have built / everything where it belongs"
- Home: "I return to the only place I've ever felt that I belong"
Bleeding
- Ringfinger: "working my hands until they bleed"
- I Do Not Want This: "and nothing comes bleeding out of me just like a waterfall I'm drowning in"
- Reptile: "angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress"
- Where Is Everybody?: "pleading and needing and bleeding and breeding"
- The Hand That Feeds: "will you chew until it bleeds?"
- Survivalism: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
Bleeding through
- Bleedthrough was the working title for With Teeth
- Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "a little bit comes bleeding through"
- Beside You In Time (song): "feel the little pieces bleeding through"
Blind
- Heresy (Blind)
- Happiness In Slavery: "the blind have been blessed with security"
- Suck: "once I could see now I am blind"
- Ruiner: "those that you keep blind will suddenly realize"
Realization
- Sin: "am I just too stupid to realize"
- Gave Up: "it took you to make me realize"
- Eraser (Denial; Realization)
- The Perfect Drug: "my soul is so afraid to realize"
- Please: "and I realize it was all in my head"
Blurring lines
- The Line Begins To Blur
- With Teeth: "the lines begin to blur"
Broken
- Broken
- Gave Up: "still cannot fix this broken machine"
- Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
- Piggy: "black and blue and broken bones / you left me here I'm all alone"
- The Becoming: "he's covered with scabs, he is broken and sore"
- Hurt: "full of broken thoughts, I cannot repair"
- Somewhat Damaged: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"
- No, You Don't: "broken down see through soul"
- Survivalism: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
Bruised
- Head Like A Hole (song): "God Money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised"
- Somewhat Damaged: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"
- Survivalism: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
Burning
- Burn
- Heresy: "burning with your god"
- The Big Come Down: "there is a hate that burns within"
- Non-Entity: "Burning down the world, the ashes and debris"
Fire
- Sanctified: "as the words spill out like fire from her lips"
- Gave Up: "wake up in flames"
- Fist Fuck: "can you flow with fire"
Cracks
- You Know What You Are?: "I tried to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
- Getting Smaller: "can kind of see out the cracks when I press up to the wall"
- Right Where It Belongs: "what if you could look right through the cracks?"
Decay
- Terrible Lie: "my morals left to decay"
- The Becoming: "the blood has stopped pumping and he's left to decay"
- Somewhat Damaged: "drink the fountain of decay"
- The Day The World Went Away: "but in his voice I heard decay"
- Ripe (With Decay)
Rotting
- Last: "dress up this rotten carcass"
- Somewhat Damaged: "poisoned to my rotten core"
Disappearing; abandonment; loss; throw away
- Throw This Away
- Head Like A Hole: "no you can't take that away from me"
- Terrible Lie:
- "don't take it away from me"
- "I'm all alone in a world you must despise"
- "my morals left to decay"
- That's What I Get: "you took away all my self confidence"
- Something I Can Never Have: "you make this all go away"
- Ringfinger: "you just leave me nailed here"
- Suck: "all that was true is left behind"
- Gave Up: "give it to me I throw it away"
- Wish: "I just threw it away"
- Last: "I pissed it all away"
- Piggy: "you left me here I'm all alone"
- Hurt: "the feelings disappear" and "everyone I know goes away in the end"
- Closer: "help me get away from myself"
- The Becoming:
- "even when I'm right with you I'm so far away"
- "and he's left to decay"
- "all pain disappears"
- Reptile: "she leaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been"
- Eraser: "find you" and "lose me"
- I Do Not Want This: "if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place"
- Dead Souls: "someone take these dreams away"
- Deep: "right here make it all disappear"
- We're In This Together:
- "well they've got to make it go away / well they've got to make it disappear"
- "as lost as I get I will find you"
- "washes me away makes me disappear"
- "I can still feel you even so far away"
- "I can disappear"
- "push it away but it all comes back again"
- "but it just left me dead"
- "you can never leave me"
- The Day The World Went Away: "all the insides left cold and gray"
- Somewhat Damaged:
- "made the choice to go away"
- "in the back / off the side / far away"
- "all alone / by myself / where were you?"
- The Big Come Down: "find a place with the failed and forgotten"
- The Fragile: "I can't watch her slip away"
- Where Is Everybody?: "everything pushes me further away"
- And All That Could Have Been:
- "maybe I'll disappear"
- "you won't find me here"
- "take this and run far away"
- "left with a trace of all that was"
Disease
- Terrible Lie: "my head is filled with disease"
- Suck: "this disease I give to myself"
- Reptile: "my disease my infection"
- Ruiner: "wearing your disease"
Dragging/pulling/pushing
- Down In It: "it was pulling me down"
- Mr. Self Destruct: "I drag you down I use you up"
- March Of The Pigs: "step right up / march / push"
- The Perfect Drug: "pull the stars from the sky" and "dragging shaking me"
- The Wretched: "just to push you down"
- Please: "push it away but it all comes back again"
- Where Is Everybody?: "everything pushes me further away"
- We're In This Together: "they pick and they pull"
- The Great Below: "ocean pulls me close"
Dreams
- Sanctified: "I still dream of lips I never should have kissed"
- Something I Can Never Have: "my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore"
- Terrible Lie: "seems like salvation comes only in our dreams"
- Suck: "don't want your dreams you try to sell"
- Gave Up: "perfect little dream"
- Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the end of all your dreams"
- Heresy: "he dreamed a god up"
- The Becoming: "I'm stuck in this dream"
- Eraser: "dream you"
- Even Deeper: "in a dream I'm a different me"
- Dead Souls: "someone take these dreams away"
Drowning
- The Only Time: "and swim in it until I drown"
- Last: "new sweat to drown me in"
- Fist Fuck: "help I'm drowning"
- The Becoming: "drowns out all I hear"
- Heresy: "drowning in his own hypocrisy"
- I Do Not Want This: "just like a waterfall I'm drowning in"
- Please: "sink until I drown"
- The Great Below: "the currents have their say"
Exit
- Mr. Self Destruct: "I am an exit"
- The New Flesh: "This is not an exit"
Eye
- Down In It: "just then a tiny little dot caught my eye" and "but the needle's already in my eye"
- Ringfinger: "wrap my eyes in bandages"
- The Only Time: "the sweat in your eyes"
- Kinda I Want To: "maybe god will cover up his eyes"
- Last: "look through these blackened eyes"
- Happiness In Slavery: "don't open your eyes"
- Heresy: "he sewed his eyes shut"
- Only: "well the tiniest little dot caught my eye"
- The Great Below: "all the world has closed her eyes"
- The New Flesh: "the blackest eyes"
- Memorabilia: "the look in your eye"
Fading
- Down In It: "what I used to think was me is just a fading memory"
- Something I Can Never Have: "just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be"
- And All That Could Have Been: "tracks will fade in the snow" and "gone, fading, everything"
- Non-Entity: "now I'm afraid I'm fading out of sight"
Fading away
- Only: "I'm becoming less defined, as days go by / fading away, well..."
- Getting Smaller: "I'm afraid I am starting to fade away"
- Beside You In Time: "I can feel me start to fade away"
- Not So Pretty Now: But your just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading away"
Flesh
- The New Flesh
- Complications Of The Flesh
- Terrible Lie: "my skin is begging you"
- Sin: "it gets under my skin"
- Ringfinger: "sever flesh and bone"
- Suck: "the temple walls are made of flesh"
- Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught"
Skin
- Down In It (Skin)
- Last: "fresh blood through tired skin"
- Suck: "itches my skin right off my back"
- Happiness In Slavery: "just words and so much skin"
- Underneath The Skin
- March Of The Pigs: "take the skin and peel it back"
- Reptile: "just underneath her skin"
- I Do Not Want This: "bamboo puncturing this skin"
- Somewhat Damaged: "shedding skin succumb defeat"
- We're In This Together: "as they peel apart the skin"
- Please: "all the flesh all the sin"
- I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "his skin just wasn't thick enough"
- Deep: "your skin speaks up but your lips couldn't say it"
Get me out of here
Head
- Head Like A Hole
- Terrible Lie: "my head is filled with disease"
- Something I Can Never Have: "scraping through my head"
- Kinda I Want To: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"
- Suck: "I bow my head to confess"
- Last: "my head got lost along the way"
- Big Man With A Gun: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"
- The Becoming: "goddamn this noise inside my head"
- Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the voice inside your head"
- The Downward Spiral: "spilling out of my head"
- I Do Not Want This: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"
- The Perfect Drug: "I got my head but my head is unraveling"
- Somewhat Damaged: "then my head fell apart"
- Into The Void: "pictures in my head of the final destination"
- Please: "the world is over and I realize it was all in my head"
- The New Flesh: "and in my head this is how it all begins"
- And All That Could Have Been: "I am locked in my head"
- Get Down Make Love: "you blow my head"
Hiding
- Terrible Lie: "there's nothing left for me to hide"
- Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the hate you try to hide"
- The Becoming: "hiding backwards inside of me"
- The Big Come Down: "there is no way I can hide"
- Where Is Everybody?: "when all I'm really doing is trying to hide"
- Somewhat Damaged: "is a place where I hide where I stay"
- No, You Don't: "tries so hard to hide"
- The Fragile: "where we can run and hide"
Holes
- Head Like A Hole
- Down In It: "now just this hole that's open wide"
- Gave Up: "watching the hole it used to be mine"
- Wish: "I'm the one with this big fucking hole"
- The Downward Spiral: "so much blood for such a tiny little hole"
- Hurt: "the needle tears a hole"
- Big Man With A Gun: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"
- Deep: "there's a big black hole gonna eat me up someday"
- The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
- Somewhat Damaged: "tear a hole exquisite red"
- No, You Don't: "smiling in their faces while filling up the hole"
- Please: "it fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead"
How it feels
- Suck: "how does it feel"
- Gave Up: "forgot how it feels well almost"
- Fist Fuck: "oh you just wish I could feel that way too"
- I Do Not Want This: "to those who know what it really feels like"
- Memorabilia: "I know what it feels like"
- The Wretched: "now you know this is what it feels"
It keeps coming
- The Wretched: "you can try to stop it but it keeps on coming"
- The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"
- Please: "and it keeps repeating"
- Dead Souls: "they keep calling me"
Machines
- Pretty Hate Machine
- Gave Up: "still cannot fix this broken machine"
- Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
- Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the silencing machine"
- The Becoming: "I beat my machine"
- Somewhat Damaged: "this machine is obsolete"
Memory
- Down In It: "just a fading memory"
- Hurt: "but I remember everything"
- Memorabilia: "I have got to have a memory / I can't remember / give me your reminder"
- I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "I remember sometimes"
Nothing can stop me now
- Piggy and Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
- Ruiner and Ruiner (Version)
- Big Man With a Gun
- La Mer and La Mer (Version) ("nothing can stop me now" spoken in creole french)
- Sunspots
Stop us
- We're In This Together: "none of them can stop us now"
- My Violent Heart: "You cannot stop us all"
- Me, I'm Not: "hey, can we stop?"
Pigs
- Piggy
- March Of The Pigs
- Last: "pigs we get what pigs deserve"
- During Fragility, Trent chanted "pig" before Reptile. This can be heard on the And All That Could Have Been DVD extra performance of Reptile.
- Le Pig studio
Sin
- Sin
- Ringfinger: "I'm just dying for your sins"
- Please: "all the flesh / all the sin"
Slipping
- That's What I Get: "slipping on the tears"
- Deep: "you're slipping through"
Slipping away
- Slipping Away
- Last: "still feel it all slipping away"
- The Becoming: "I might just slip away"
- Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away"
- The Fragile: "I can't watch her slip away"
Solipsism
- I Do Not Want This: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"
- Please: "the world is over and I realize it was all in my head"
- Only (song): "you were never real to begin with / i just made you up..." and "there is no you / there is only me"
- Right Where It Belongs: "what if all the world you think you know is an elaborate dream?"
Tiny little dot
- Just then a tiny little dot caught my eye it was just about too small to see
- But I watched it way too long and that dot was pulling me down
- Only:
- Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye
- And it turned out to be a scab
- And I had this funny feeling
- Like I just knew it's something bad
That which could have or would have been
- The Wretched: "all the what abouts, and all the might have could have beens"
- The Great Below: "for all we could have done, and all that could have been"
- And All That Could Have Been
- Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I wish this could have been any other way"
- Sunspots: "I think I could have been someone"
Waking up
- Even Deeper: "I woke up today to find myself in the other place"
- Gave Up: "wake up / wake up in flames"
- We're In This Together: "awake to the sound"