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Many of [[Trent Reznor]]'s lyrics and (and sometimes song titles) are thematically similar across songs and albums. This is an expansion of a list compiled at [http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=13785 ETS] by user "Christ". [[Cover Songs|Covers]] and spoken parts from [[samples]] are not included in this list.
==Abandonment/rejection==
*[[She's Gone Away]]
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "I'm all alone in a world you must despise" / "my morals left to decay"
*[[Ringfinger]]: "you just leave me nailed here"
*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "I can't watch her slip away"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "everything pushes me further away"
*[[Disappointed]]: "Just just get out of here"
*[[Beside You In Time (song)|Beside You In Time]]: "I am all alone this time around"
*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "yes, I am alone but then again I always was"
*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "and you're really all alone"
*[[All The Love In The World]]: "hiding in the crowd I’m I'm all alone" / "sometimes I get so lonely I could –"
*[[Came Back Haunted (song)|Came Back Haunted]]: "I am not who I used to be"
*[[Find My Way]]: "Now now that you have gone away" / "Ghosts ghosts of who we used to be"*[[She's Gone Away]]
==Afraid to see==
==A million miles away==
*[[1,000,000]]: "I feel a million miles away"
*Hurt: "if I could start again, a million miles away"
*All The Love In The World: "I've become a million miles aw(ay)" - in addition, the phrase appears in the accompanying unsung lyrics printed on the ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]'' PDF poster: "right beside is still a million miles away"
==Asleep==
*[[Dear World,]]: "Yesyes, everyone seems to be asleep"*[[The Lovers]]: "Everyone everyone seems to be asleep but me"*[[God Break Down The Door]]: "We we sleep hypnotized from the center" / "I believe I am sleeping after all" (The lyrics are not included of in the final cut of the song, but included in the digital data.)
==Becoming==
*The 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"
*Closer: "help me become somebody else"
*Hurt: "what have I become, my sweetest friend?"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "I've become impossible"
*[[The New Flesh]]: "yes I am becoming" / "I've become"
*[[Me, I'm Not]]: "and it's hard to believe just what I've become"
*All the The Love In the The World: "I've become a million miles aw(ay)"*Only: "I’m I'm becoming less defined as days go by"
*[[Vessel]]: "I am becoming something else, I am turning into God"
*[[10 Miles High]]: "I swore to God I'd never turn into you"
*[[Head Down]]: "all your hate, what you’ve you've become"
*[[Everything]]: "I've become something else"
*[[Shit Mirror]]: "I'm becoming something new"
*[[Not Anymore]]: "Watched watched myself become somebody else" (The lyrics are not included of in the final cut of the song, but included in the digital data.)
==Beginnings==
*[[The Beginning Of The End]]
*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"
*Came Back Haunted: "I'm afraid this has just begun"
*[[All Time Low]]: "see this is where the fun begins"
*Me, I'm Not: "I can't shut it off, this thing I've begun"
*Dear World,: "I begin to go through another that we have been"
*[[I Know You Can Feel It]]: "just like that, it begins" / "the moment it begins" Though the lyrics may not have been written by Trent Reznor, it should be noted that "[[Recursive Self-Improvement]]" by [[How To Destroy Angels]] features the line "this is how it all begins".
==Belonging==
*Right Where It Belongs
*[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|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"
*[[With Teeth (song)|With Teeth]]: "you've finally found the place where you belong"
*Beside You In Time: "everything is back where it belongs"
*[[Home]]: "I return to the only place I've ever felt that I belong"
*[[God Given]]: "You you should get where you belong"
==Beside you==
*Beside You In Time
*We're In This Together: "the farther I fall I'm beside you"
*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "I am staying right beside you"
==Black==
*[[Black Noise]]
*[[Cold And Black And Infinite Tour]]
*[[Branches/Bones]]: "cold and black and infinite and nothing left to lose"
*Came Back Haunted: "its smile is red and its eyes are black"
*[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]: "head like a hole, black as your soul"
*Piggy: "black and blue and broken bones"
*[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]: "but inside your heart it is black and it's hollow and it's cold"
*[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]: "as black as the night can get"
*She's Gone Away: "we keep licking while the skin turns black"
*[[Deep]]: "there's a big black hole gonna eat me up someday"
*The New Flesh: "I can almost see the blackest eyes"
*With Teeth: "it's in her kiss, the blackest sea"
*[[Last]]: "look through these blackened eyes"
Though the lyrics may not have been written by Trent Reznor, "[[BBB]]" by How To Destroy Angels features the line "listen to the sound of my big black boots".
==Blind==
*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "my blood wants to say hello to you"
*Where Is Everybody?: "pleading and needing and bleeding and breeding"
*[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]: "will you chew until it bleeds?" / "for the blood on which we dine"
*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding"
*[[The Good Soldier]]: "blood hardens in the sand"
*[[My Violent Heart]]: "our blood will stay" / "our blood, our grace"
*[[Letting You]]: "the dying left to bleed"
*[[In Two]]: "Bleedbleed, have to purge, what you were"
*The Becoming: "the blood has stopped pumping"
*[[The Only Time]]: "the sweat in your eyes, the blood in your veins"
*[[Various Methods Of Escape]]: "bled from my own hand"
*She's Gone Away: "You you dig in places till your fingers bleed"*[[The Background World]]: "The the world is bleeding out"
===Bleeding through===
*Bleedthrough was the working title for [[''With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''
*[[Every Day Is Exactly The Same (song)|Every Day Is Exactly The Same]]: "a little bit comes bleeding through"
*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through"
*Everything: "And and his seed that bleeds right through to me"*The Background World: "Behind behind the background world is always bleeding through"
==Broken==
===Bruised===
*[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]: "God Money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised"
*Somewhat Damaged: "broken bruised forgotten sore"
*Survivalism: "all bruised and broken, bleeding"
*[[Branches/Bones]]: "the makeup hides the bruise"
==Burning==
*[[Burn (song)|Burn]]
*[[Burning Bright (Field On Fire)]]
*Heresy: "burning with your god in humility"
*The Big Come Down: "there is a hate that burns within"
*[[Non-Entity]]: "Burning burning down the world, the ashes and debris"
*[[Sunspots]]: "peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground"
*God Given: "and it burns so bright"
*Various Methods Of Escape: "a place to bury every thing I did and burn it to the ground"
===Fire===
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire)
*[[Sanctified]]: "as the words spill out like fire from her lips"
*Gave Up: "wake up in flames"
*[[Fist Fuck]]All The Love In The World: "can you flow with firethe stars are all afire in the sky"
*Survivalism: "you see your world on fire"
*[[In This Twilight]]: "it is watching us, and the world we set on fire"
*My Violent Heart: "Into into fire you can send us, from the fire we return"
*Sunspots: "fuck in the fire and we'll spread all the ashes around"
*Various Methods Of Escape: "the fire illuminates our final scene"
==Calling==
*Even Deeper: "I hear them call I cannot stay"
*Sunspots: "I hear it calling and I come cause I can’t can't disobey"*[[Who Wants To Live Forever?]]: "voices calling"
==Closeness==
*The Great Below: "ocean pulls me close"
*10 Miles High: "I'm getting closer all the time"
*[[Love Is Not Enough]]: "hey the closer we think we are, well it only got us so far"*[[While I'm Still Here]]: "Closest closest I have ever come"
==Cracks==
==Decay==
*[[Ripe (With 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"
==Deserving==
*Head Like A Hole: "You’re you're going to get what you deserve"*[[Last]]: "pigs we get what pigs deserve"*[[Meet Your Master]]: "Maybe maybe you get what you deserve"*[[Sin (song)|Sin]]: "Carry carry out my sentence, I get what I deserve"*In Two: "What what you want, what you deserve"*Ahead Of Ourselves: "We we wound up building this we deserve"
==Disappearing==
*The Becoming: "all pain disappears"
*[[Deep]]: "right here make it all disappear"*We’re We're In This Together: "well they've got to make it disappear"
*The Great Below: "washes me away, makes me disappear"
*Please: "I can disappear"
*Disappointed: "just get out of here, disappointed, disappear"
*All The Love In The World: "all the jagged edges disappear"
*Lights In The Sky: "I can’t can't disappear"*Running: "Just just slip away and disappear" ==Didn't even notice==*Dear World,: "hey look, you didn't even notice"*[[Less Than]]: "focus? we didn't even notice"
==Disease==
*Ruiner: "wearing your disease"
*In Two: "just become, your disease"
*[[As Alive as You Need Me To Be (song)|As Alive as You Need Me To Be]]: "the way it makes me feel, infection"
==Dragging/pulling/pushing==
*[[Down In It (song)|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"
*Please: "push it away but it all comes back again"
*Where Is Everybody?: "everything pushes me further away"
*We’re We're In This Together: "they pick and they pull"
*The Great Below: "ocean pulls me close"
==Dreams==
*[[The Eater Of 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"
*[[Eraser]]: "dream you"
*Even Deeper: "in a dream I'm a different me"
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "I can't tell if I am dreaming anymore"
*[[Shadow Over Me]]: "in this dream, used to think I believe"
==Drowning==
==Echo==
*[[Echoes]]*Echoplex*The Good Soldier: "gunfire in the street echoes out a beat"*Echoplex: "My voice just echoes off these walls"*Something I Can Never Have: "Echoing echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears"
*Please: "echoing the sound"
*Survivalism: "hypnotic sound of sirens, echoing through the street"*Non-Entity: "The the echoes in my eyes, of all they used to see"
*[[Copy Of A]]: "I am just an echo of an echo of an echo"
*Only: "well the tiniest little dot caught my eye"
*The Great Below: "all the world has closed her eyes"
*The New Flesh: "I can almost see the blackest eyes"*[[Memorabilia]]: "the look in your eye"
*The Beginning of the End: "I got my mark, see it in my eyes"
*Non-Entity: "The the echoes in my eyes, of all they used to see"*[[Sunspots]]: "Sunspots sunspots cast a glare in my eyes"
*Came Back Haunted: "its smile is red and its eyes are black"
*Shit Mirror: "Caught caught reflecting in your eyes"*Who Wants To Live Forever?: "something in my eye"
==Fading==
*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 but you're just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away"
*Echoplex: "and I just slowly fade away"
*Who Wants To Live Forever?: "I might just fade away"
==Feel==
*I Know You Can Feel It*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" / "don't you tell me how I feel, you don't know just how I feel"
*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"
*The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"
*[[The Way Out Is Through]]: "we feel so small"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can feel their eyes are watching"
*Only: "and I had this funny feeling"
*Getting Smaller: "don’t don't know what to feel"
*Sunspots: "I feel it coming" / "I have to apologize for the way I feel"
*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through" / "I can feel me start to fade away"
*Right Where It Belongs: "feel the hollowness inside of your heart"
*Home: "and it feels I’m I'm getting to the end"*Me, I’m I'm Not: "I feel it coming apart"
*In This Twilight: "and it feels like, like it was a friend" / "do you wonder if it feels the same?" / "what it feels like, and I won't feel again" / "and the longing that you feel"
*[[Discipline]]: "feels like I’m I'm wearing down"
*Hurt: "the feelings disappear"
*Kinda I Want To: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"
*1,000,000: "I feel a million miles away"
*[[Demon Seed]]: "And and I can feel it breathe"
*Echoplex: "you feel me breathe, I am watching you"
*The Great Below: "I can still feel you, even so far away"
*My Violent Heart: "feel it coming now"
*[[Underneath It All]]: "I can still feel you"
*Branches/Bones: "Feels feels like I've been here before"
*Dear World,: "I feel like I have lived so long"
*She's Gone Away: "Cut cut along the length (but you can't get the feeling back)"*Shit Mirror: "Got got a new face and it feels all right"*As Alive as You Need Me To Be: "the way it makes me feel" / "feel, I can finally feel"*Who Wants To Live Forever?: "something in the way it feels here"*Shadow Over Me: "and it feels so real"*Even Deeper: "for once in my life I feel complete"*Zero-Sum: "and it feels like we're living in that split-second of a car crash"
==Fist==
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*[[Wish (song)|Wish]]: "fist fuck"
*Survivalism: "I got my fist I got my plan I got survivalism"
*Demon Seed: "And and I will use my fist"
*Getting Smaller: "I think I'm losing my grip, but I can still make a fist"
*Sin: "your kiss, your fist"
*Everything: "I am free"
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "I am forgiven, I am free"
*The Lovers: "And and I'm free to return to the place where I already am" / "Freefree, take me into the arms of the lovers" / "The the center has moved on and all that’s that's left is free"
==God==
*God Break Down The Door
*God Given
*[[Play The Goddamned Part]]
*10 Miles High: "I swore to God I'd never turn into you"
*Closer: "You you get me closer to God"
*Head Like A Hole: "God Money I'll do anything for you"
*Heresy: "God is dead"
*Home: "God knows how much I've tried to"
*[[Maybe Just Once]]: "Oh oh God, what's coming to me?" *Right Where it Belongs: "Your your devils and your gods, all the living and the dead" *Ringfinger: "You you just leave me nailed here hanging like Jesus on this cross" *Suck: "There there is no God up in the sky tonight" *Terrible Lie: "Hey hey God!"
*The Wretched: "and God himself will reach his fucking arm through"
*The Beginning of the End: "God helps the ones who can help themselves"
*[[The Good Soldier]]: "'Cause cause God is on our side"*Vessel: "I am a turning into God" / "My my God...Oh oh my God"*God Given*Starfuckers, Inc.: "My my god sits in the back of the limousine, my god comes in a wrapper of cellophane, my god pouts on the cover of the magazine, my god’s god's a shallow little bitch trying to make the scene"*Capital G: "Traded traded in my God for this one"*[[Zero-Sum]]: "May may God have mercy on our dirty little hearts"*Find My Way: "Lord lord my path has gone astray" / "Pray pray the Lord my soul to take" / "Oh oh dear Lord hear my prayer"
*While I'm Still Here: "God forgive me if I cry"
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "And and oh my God, I have missed you"*Ahead Of Ourselves: "Created created us in His image"*[[Play The Goddamned Part]]*God Break Down The Door
*Shit Mirror: "I think I knew the whole goddamned time"
*[[The Collector]]: "there are so God damned many of them"
*The Becoming: "Goddamn this noise inside my head"
==Greed==
*Capital G: The title of the song refers to greed.
*[[The Warning (Year Zero song)|The Warning]]: "your greed, self-importance and your arrogance"
*March Of The Pigs: "please, greed, feed (no time to hesitate)"
*Letting You: "your politics of greed"
*Not So Pretty Now: "keep trying to fill it all up with your greed"
==Head==
*Head Like A Hole
*Head Down
*Terrible Lie: "my head is filled with disease"
*Something I Can Never Have: "scraping through my head"
*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 Goddamn this noise inside my head"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the voice inside your head"
*The Downward Spiral: "spilling out of 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"
*Getting Smaller: "got my head on a spring"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if all the world’s world's inside of your head"*The Good Soldier: "Right right over my head"*Capital G: "now nod your head because you know that I’m I'm right"
*[[The Great Destroyer]]: "nod your head" / "listen to the shit they pump into your head"
*[[Satellite]]: "I'm inside your head"
*Various Methods Of Escape: "A a line of lyric looping in my head"*Ringfinger: "right in time with the song that's repeating in my head" (The lyrics are not included of in the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics.)
==Hiding==
*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’tDon't: "tries so hard to hide"
*The Fragile: "where we can run and hide"
*All The Love In The World: "hiding in the crowd I’m I'm all alone"
*You Know What You Are?: "I have to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*[[Love Is Not Enough]]: "well, it hides in the dark"*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "well, I’ll I'll hide it behind something"
*Right Where It Belongs: "are you hiding in the trees?"
*Me, I’m I'm Not: "I define myself by how well I hide"*The Good Soldier: "Therethere's nowhere left to hide"
*Running: "I'm running out of places I can hide from this, I'm running out of ways to keep on hiding this"
*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*Somewhat Damaged: "tear a hole exquisite red"
*No, You Don’tDon't: "smiling in their faces while filling up the hole"
*Please: "it fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead"
*You Know What You Are?: "I have to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*My Violent Heart: "there's bullet holes where my compassion used to be"
*Not So Pretty Now: "you got a hole that you've got to feed"
*As Alive as You Need Me To Be: "it's filling up the hole inside you"
==Home/Returning home==
*[[Home]]
*La Mer: "and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home"*[[The Life You Didn't Lead]]: "Homehome, returning from somewhere, to someplace safe"
*Everything: "I am home, I believe, I am home, I am free. I am home, I can see. Always here, finally"
*[[This Isn't The Place]]: "Carry carry me home"*Vessel: "I have finally found my home"*My Violent Heart: "when you return to the place that you call home"
==Inside of me==
*Vessel: "When when I put you inside of me"*Came Back Haunted: "They they put something inside of me"
*The Becoming: "hiding backwards inside of me" / "it's a part of me, it's inside of me"
*Burn: "this thing inside of me" / "something inside of me"
*Heresy: "he tries to tell me what I put inside of me"
*Everything: "But but this thing that lives inside of me"*As Alive as You Need Me To Be: "it's filling up the hole inside you"*Who Wants To Live Forever?: "stay here inside me"
==Keeps (coming, calling, etc.)==
*The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"
*Please: "and it keeps repeating"
*The Hand That Feeds: "I keep holding on to what I want to believe"
*With Teeth: "keeps holding on"
*Right Where It Belongs: "You you keep looking but you can’t can't find the woods"
*Survivalism: "I turned just keep on walking"
*Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away"
==Knees (down on or getting up off)==
*The Hand That Feeds: "will you get up off your knees" / "will you stay down on your knees"
*The Beginning of the End: "down on your knees, you’ll you'll be left behind"
*My Violent Heart: "on hands and knees we crawl"
*March Of The Pigs: "crawl right up on your knees"
*Capital G: "well I used to stand for something, now i'm on my hands and knees"
*1,000,000: "on your hands and your knees"
===Crawling===
*Down In It: "I was swimming in the haze now I crawl on the ground"
*Getting Smaller: "I'd be happy to crawl"
*March Of The Pigs: "Crawl crawl right up on your knees"*My Violent Heart: "On on hands and knees, we crawl"*The Way Out Is Through: "But but still we crawl"
*In This Twilight: "as it crawls across a final time"
*1,000,000: "kind of hard to see when you crawl"
==Loneliness==
*Terrible Lie: "I'm all alone in a world you must despise"
*Piggy: " you left me here I'm all alone"
*Reptile: "Need need to contaminate to alleviate this loneliness"*All The Love In The World: "Hiding hiding in the crowd I'm all alone" / "Sometimes sometimes I get so lonely I could..."
*Beside You In Time: "I am all alone this time around"
*Right Where It Belongs: "And and you're really all alone"*Vessel: "We we will never be alone"*Only: "Yes yes I am alone"
*Somewhat Damaged: "all alone, by myself, where were you?"
*[[The Idea Of You]]: "It it gets so lonely in here"
==Loss==
*[[The Persistence Of Loss]]
*She's Gone Away
*Eraser: "lose me"
*In This Twilight: "let me take away your doubt"
*Discipline: " feels like I’m I'm losing touch"
*Head Like A Hole: "no you can't take that away from me"
*Terrible Lie: "don't take it away from me"
*Last: "I pissed it all away" / "my head got lost along the way"
*[[That's What I Get]]: "you took away all my self confidence"
*Something I Can Never Have: "you make this all go away"
*[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]: "thought he lost everything, then he lost a whole lot more" / "where did everything get lost"
*Various Methods Of Escape: "I think I could lose myself in here"
*March Of The Pigs: "I think he's losing it"
*All Time Low: "we lost too much along the way"
*My Violent Heart: "and soon you'll lose the will to care"
*Somewhat Damaged: "lost my faith in everything"
*SheEven Deeper: "lost my way, can's Gone Awayt come back"
==Machines==
*Down In It: "just a fading memory"
*Hurt: "but I remember everything"
*I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "I remember sometimes"
*You Know What You Are?: "remember where you came from, remember what you are"
*Love Is Not Enough: "I can’t can't remember what it is" / "in your eyes is a place worth remembering" *Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can’t can't remember how this got started"*The Life You Didn't Lead: "And and you are not living in a memory"
*Zero-Sum: "do you remember the time we" / "and I know you remember"
*While I'm Still Here: "While while we can, remember when"
*In Two: "I don't believe you can even remember which one you are"
*[[I Would For You]]: "So so long I can't remember when"
*[[Purest Feeling (song)|Purest Feeling]]: "I wish I could remember everything she said"
*She's Gone Away: "I can't remember what she came here for" / "I can't remember much of anything anymore"
*The Idea Of You: "Rememberremember, I don't wanna remember anymore"*[[Over And Out]]: "Am am I remembering you correctly"*Who Wants To Live Forever?: "can't remember why"
==Naive/naïveté==
*That's What I Get: "To to think that I was so naïve"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the prayers of the naïve"
*The Hand That Feeds: "So so naïve"*I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "The the flowers of naïveté"*My Violent Heart: "Standing standing there in all your grand naïveté"
==Nothing can stop me now==
*Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
*Piggy: "nothing can stop me now, I don't care anymore"*Ruiner: "You you didn't hurt me, nothing can stop me now"*Big Man With A Gun: "Me me and my fucking gun, nothing can stop me now"*[[La Mer]]: "Rien rien ne peut m'arrêter maintenant" (Translates to "nothing can stop me now". Spoken in Creole French)*Sunspots: "And and nothing can stop me now, and there is nothing to fear"*We're In This Together: "None none of them can stop us now"
==Pieces==
*Copy Of A: "I am little pieces, pieces that we picked up on the way"
*The Big Come Down: "try so hard to make the pieces all fit"
*Various Methods Of Escape: "Little little pieces of a plan"
*Where Is Everybody?: "all the pieces don't fit"
*Gave Up: "gonna smash myself to pieces"
*Now I'm Nothing: "I smashed myself to pieces"
*Branches/Bones: "Still still can make out pieces with the opening sewed shut"*I Know You Can Feel It: "all the pieces of the plan"
==Pigs==
*Piggy
*March Of The Pigs
*[[Le Pig]] studio
*Last: "pigs we get what pigs deserve"
*Heresy: "he made a virus that would kill off all the swine"
*God Given: "we are the divine, separated from the swine"
*[[Ahead Of Ourselves]]: "with our snouts in the dirt"
*[[Isn't Everyone]]: "all the little piggies cannot help themselves"
==Piss==
*Last: "Worn worn out from giving it up, my soul I pissed it all away"*The Warning: "Your your greed, self-importance and your arrogance, you piss it all away"
*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*Terrible Lie: "Hey hey God, I really don't know who I am in this world of piss" (The lyrics are not included of in the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics.)
==Profanity==
===Fuck===
*Fist Fuck
*Starfuckers, Inc.
*Something I Can Never Have: "just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be"
*The Only Time: "while the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car"
*Wish: "now there’s there's nothing more fucked up I could do" / "big time, hard line, bad luck, fist fuck" / "I’m I'm the one with this big fucking hole"*[[Fist Fuck]]
*March of the Pigs: "I want to fuck it up"
*Closer: "I want to fuck you like an animal"
*Ruiner: "the only pure thing left in my fucking world is wearing your disease" / "and maybe that fucked me up much more than you’ll you'll ever know"
*I Do Not Want This: "I want to fuck everyone in the world"
*Big Man With A Gun: "just for the fuck of it" / "I’m I'm hard as fucking steel" / "me and my fucking gun"
*Eraser: "fuck you"
*The Downward Spiral: "a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash"
*Somewhat Damaged: "fuck the rest and stab it dead" / "too fucked up to care anymore" / "where the fuck were you?"
*The Wretched: "and God himself will reach his fucking arm through"
*The Big Come Down: "smash it apart just for the fuck of it"
*You Know What You Are?: "don’t don't you fucking know what you are"*Love Is Not Enough: "I’ve I've gone all this fucking awayway"
*Only: "there is no fucking you"
*Getting Smaller: "I haven’t haven't got fucking anything"*Sunspots: "fuck in the fire and we’ll we'll spread all the ashes around"*Not So Pretty Now: "But but you're just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away"
*Capital G: "those motherfuckers didn't last too long"
*1,000,000: "blow my fucking brains out"
*All Time Low: "your voice in fucking echo stereo" / "just how'd we fucking end up here?"
*Now I'm Nothing: "I'm gonna fuck myself up" / "I fucked it all away"
*Branches/Bones: "Dondon't give a fuck anymore"*Less Than: "too many fucking people"*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "Ohoh, burn motherfucker"*[[Less Than]]: / "Too many like the fucking peopleend"(The latter lyric is not included on the final cut of the song, but is printed on the physical component.)
===Shit===
*Shit Mirror
*Piggy: "lost my shit because of you"
*Ruiner: "serving his shit to his flies"
*Hurt: "I wear this crown of shit"
*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*Where Is Everybody?: "thought I really didn’t didn't give a shit"*Capital G: "Dondon't give a shit about the temperature in Guatemala"
*The Great Destroyer: "listen to the shit they pump into your head"
*You Know What You Are?: "you better take a good look cause I’m I'm full of shit"*Shit Mirror
==Purpose==
*Copy Of A: "Imprinted imprinted with a purpose, a purpose that's become quite clear today"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I think I used to have a purpose"
==Realization==
*Eraser (Denial; Realization)
*Sin: "am I just too stupid to realize"
*Gave Up: "it took you to make me realize"
*The Perfect Drug: "my soul is so afraid to realize"
*Please: "and I realize it was all in my head"
*Burn: "why did you put it there, did you not realize"
*Lights in the Sky: "I’ve I've come to realize we all have our place"
*Love Is Not Enough: "the sooner we realize"
*Ruiner: "those that you keep blind will suddenly realize"
==Said and done==
*The Great Below: "After after all is said and done"*Sunspots: "When when everything is said and done"*Zero-Sum: "And and soon it will be all said and done"
==Scab==
*Only: "Well well the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab" / "picking at that scab"*The Becoming: "he's covered with scabs and he is broken and sore"*Something I Can Never Have: "Still still picking at this scab" (The lyrics are not included of in the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics.)*The Becoming: "He's covered with scabs and he is broken and sore"
==Sea==
*La Mer: ("La Mer" is translated from French to literally "The Sea")
*Ringfinger: "deeper than the sea"
*The Great Below: "staring at the sea" / "ocean pulls me close"
*With Teeth (song): "the blackest sea"
==Skin==
*Down In It (Skin)
*[[Underneath The Skin]]
*Sin: "it gets under my skin"
*Last: "fresh blood through tired skin"
*Suck: "itches my skin right off my back"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just words and so much skin"
*March Of The Pigs: "take the skin and peel it back"
*Reptile: "just underneath her skin"
*Terrible Lie: "my skin is begging you"
*Discipline: "I see you left a mark, up and down my skin"
*Sunspots: "Peel peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground"
*All Time Low: "you barely even pierced the skin"
*In Two: "shed, your precious skin"
*She's Gone Away: "we keep licking while the skin turns black"*The Lovers: "Hot hot swollen skin want me take me perfect embrace"*God Break Down The Door: "Wondering wondering if you'll remove my skin" (The lyrics are not included of in the final cut of the song, but included in the digital data.)
===Flesh===
*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]
*Ringfinger: "sever flesh and bone"
*Suck: "the her temple walls are made of flesh"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
*Please: "all the flesh, all the sin"
*Vessel: "I can leave all of this flesh behind"
==Sky==
*Lights In The Sky
*All Time Low: "and we will live forever, baby, and stretch across the sky"
*Lights In The SkyWarning: "when it came down from the sky"
*Zero-Sum: "they're starting to open up the sky"
*Non-Entity: "the sky is not the same shade of blue"
*Suck: "there is no God up in the sky tonight"
*Down In It: "kinda like a cloud i was up, way up in the sky"
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "And and blacken out the sky and every last one of you"
==Slipping/slipping away==
*The Slip
*[[Slipping Away]]
*That's What I Get: "slipping on the tears"
*Deep: "you're slipping through"
*[[999,999]]: "how did I slip into (this)?"
*Now I'm Nothing: "I let it slip away, now I'm nothing"
*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"
*Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away"
*The Fragile: "I can't watch her slip away"
*While I'm Still Here: "Falls falls apart, slips away"*Running: "Just just slip away and disappear"
*The Lovers: "I've slipped out of time again"
*March Of The Pigs: "I want to smash it up"
*Eraser: "smash me"
*Gave Up: "Smashed smashed up my sanity, smashed up integrity, smashed up what I believed in, smashed up what's left of me, smashed up my everything, smashed up all that was true, gonna smash myself to pieces"
*Now I'm Nothing: "I'm gonna smash myself to pieces"
*The Big Come Down: "Smash smash it apart just for the fuck of it"
*Love Is Not Enough: "for you to go and take this and smash it apart"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if all the world you think you know is an elaborate dream?"
*Head Down: "this is all a dream and none of you are real"
*The Idea Of You: "None none of this is happening"
==Stopping==
''see also: [[Recurring lyrics#Nothing can stop me now|Nothing can stop me now]]''
*We’re We're In This Together: "none of them can stop us now"
*Sunspots: "but I can't stop what has begun"
*The Line Begins To Blur: "isn’t isn't anyone stopping me?"*My Violent Heart: "You you cannot stop us all"*Me, I’m I'm Not: "hey, can we stop?"
*Discipline: "you know once I start I cannot stop myself"
*Came Back Haunted: "Just just can't stop, came back ha-ha-haunted"*The Lovers: "Maybe maybe I could stop it (if I wanted to)"
==Tiny little dot==
*Down In It: "Just 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 well the tiniest little dot caught my eye"
==That which could have or would have been==
*And All That Could 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"
*Sunspots: "I think I could have been someone"
*I Would For You: "There there was a place that could have been"*While I'm Still Here: "Oh oh all the things that might have been"
==Throwing away==
*Throw This Away*Terrible Lie: "You you made me throw it all away"
*Gave Up: "give it to me, I throw it away"
*Last: "I want you to throw me away"
==Used up==
*We’re We're In This Together: "all used and beaten up"*Love Is Not Enough (rehearsal version): "left for dead and all used up"
*Head Down: "all used up half way through"
*Love Is Not Enough: "left for dead and all used up" (unsung lyrics printed on the ''With Teeth'' PDF poster)
==Waking up==
*[[I Can't Seem To Wake Up 2017]]
*Even Deeper: "I woke up today to find myself in the other place"
*Gave Up: "wake up, wake up in flames"
*We’re We're In This Together: "awake to the sound"*Home: "I awake to find I’m I'm not at all where I should be"
*1,000,000: "I wake up on the floor"
*Everything: "But but this thing that lives inside of me will surely rise and wake"*The Idea Of You: "Waitwait, wake, breathe, believe"*Less Than: "we awake in a place we can barely recognize, yeah"*Not Anymore: "And and I can't seem to wake up"*[[Shadow Over Me: "hard to tell if I Can't Seem To Wake Up 2017]]m awake anymore" Though outside of the direct [[Nine Inch Nails ]] spectrum, it is worth noting that a track from the extended version of the ''[[Bird Box Original Score]] '' contains a track called "[[Can't Seem To Wake Myself Up]]".
==Waving goodbye==
*[[Wave Goodbye Tour]]
*Down In It: "I looked him right in the eye and said goodbye"
*Now I'm Nothing: "wave, wave, wave, wave goodbye"
*With Teeth: "wave goodbye to what you were"
*Lights in the Sky: "the lights in the sky are waving goodbye"
*Came Back Haunted: "I said goodbye"
*Everything: "Wave wave goodbye, wish me well"
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