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The track opens with a disco style drum pattern, followed by a heavily distorted synth bass. [[Trent Reznor]]'s vocals enter and the instrumentation remains generally the same until the second verse, when a bass guitar is used alternately with the synth bass and a piano melody enters. For the bridge, the drum pattern becomes more minimal and is accompanied only by the piano and some undistorted synth bass notes as Reznor's vocal gradually returns with a different lyrical section. The full instrumentation returns and the song continues this way until it fades out.
The version on ''The Slip'' is 4:19 and starts to fade out at the end, but then abruptly cuts off as it segues into "[[Echoplex]]". The original, [[The_Slip#Errata|erroneous high-res WAV download release of ''The Slip'']] contains a 4:34 version of "Discipline" that fades out slower and to a more complete silence than the MP3 download version.
===Discipline (MP3 download version)===
The original download single version is 4:29 in length and fades continues for a little more than one extra phrase before fading out at completely. ===Discipline (Erroneous high-res version)===The original, [[The_Slip#Errata|erroneous high-res WAV download release of ''The Slip'']] contains an even longer 4:34 version of "Discipline" that continues for another phrase beyond the endMP3 single version before fading out.
===Discipline (Multitrack combined version)===
The version that can be created from separate [[multitracks]] is 5:08 when combined, and does not fade out. Instead, the outro continues for an additional 3½ measures with extra unused vocals three phrases beyond the erroneous high-res version before abruptly coming to a haltan actual end.
===Discipline (Live At Rehearsals)===