She's Gone Away

Album:Not The Actual Events

Length:6:00

Tempo:80 BPM

Versions:She's Gone Away

Live:I Can't Seem To Wake Up 2017
Peel It Back Tour

"She's Gone Away" is the third track on the 2016 EP Not The Actual Events. The song features Mariqueen Maandig as a guest vocalist.

In a Q+A session before the 2017 Riot Fest show, it was revealed that "She's Gone Away" was written specifically for Twin Peaks: The Return. It was later revealed that an early version of "This Isn't The Place" was originally presented to David Lynch who rejected it,[1] saying, "I want something mean and ugly. Something that makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck."[2] Nine Inch Nails (billed as "The Nine Inch Nails" and consisting of Trent Reznor, Robin Finck, Mariqueen Maandig Reznor, Atticus Ross, Alessandro Cortini and Joey Castillo of Queens Of The Stone Age) appeared in an episode doing a mimed performance of the song, which also appears on the soundtrack for the new series.

The track makes two hidden references to "Reptile": one in the Not The Actual Events physical component (where the "Reptile" lyrics are layered underneath the lyrics of "She's Gone Away"), and one in embedded (but unsung) lyrics in the Apple Music release of "She's Gone Away" (the lines "she spreads herself wide open to let the insects in" and "she leaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been").

Appearances

Halos

• Not The Actual Events

Other

• Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series)

Versions

She's Gone Away

This is the only known version.

Live

"She's Gone Away" made its live debut at the surprise Webster Hall show of the I Can't Seem To Wake Up 2017 tour. This was the only performance until it was brought back as a remixed/mash-up version in collaboration with Boys Noize on Act III of the Peel It Back Tour. The song was performed semi-regularly as an intro to Act III, using the intro to "Vessel" and Boys Noize's song "Girl Crush" as the base for the remix. In addition, when Boys Noize played "Girl Crush" as a part of his opening set, he would interpolate elements from "She's Gone Away" into the song as well.

Lyrics

Lyric card depicting "Reptile" superimposition

   You dig in places till your fingers bleed
   Spread the infection where you spill your seed
   I can't remember what she came here for
   I can't remember much of anything anymore
   
   She's gone
   She's gone
   She's gone away
   
   A little mouth opened up inside
   Yeah, I was watching on the day she died
   We keep licking while the skin turns black
   Cut along the length (but you can't get the feeling back)
   
   She's gone
   She's gone
   She's gone away
   
   Are you still here?

Lyrics embedded in the Apple Music release include extra, unsung words directly referencing "Reptile":

   you dig in places til your fingers bleed
   she spreads herself wide open to let the insects in
   spread the infection where you spill your seed
   she leaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been
   i can't remember what she came here for
   i can't remember much of anything anymore

In the physical component for Not The Actual Events, the song lyrics are superimposed over a copy of page 14 from the Deluxe Edition booklet of The Downward Spiral.

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