I Do Not Want This

Album:The Downward Spiral

Length:5:41

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Versions:I Do Not Want This

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"I Do Not Want This" is the eighth track on the 1994 release The Downward Spiral.

Song Credits

• Production: Trent Reznor
• Mixing Engineer: Alan Moulder
• Drum Performance: Stephen Perkins
• Drum Treatments: Flood and Trent Reznor

Appearances

Halos

• The Downward Spiral

Versions

I Do Not Want This

This is the only available version.

Lyrics

    I’m
    Losing ground
    Well you know how this world
    Can beat you down
    
    And I’m
    Made of clay
    I fear I’m the only one who
    Thinks this way
    
    I’m always falling down the same hill
    Bamboo puncturing this skin
    And nothing comes bleeding out of me
    Just like a waterfall I’m drowning in
    
    Deep below the surface
    I can still make out your wavy face
    And if I could just reach you
    Maybe I could leave this place
    
    I do not want this
    I do not want this
    I do not want this
    I do not want this
    
    Don’t you tell me how I feel!
    Don’t you tell me how I feel!
    Don’t you tell me how I feel!
    You don’t know just how I feel
    
    I
    Stay inside my bed
    I have lived so many lives
    All in my head
    
    And don’t
    Tell me that you care
    There really isn’t anything now
    Is there?
    
    You would know, wouldn’t you?
    You extend your hand to those who suffer
    To those who know what it really feels like
    To those who’ve had a taste
    Like that means something
    
    And oh so sick I am
    And maybe I don’t have a choice
    And maybe that is all I have
    And maybe this is a cry for help
    
    I do not want this
    I do not want this
    I do not want this
    I do not want this
    
    Don’t you tell me how I feel!
    Don’t you tell me how I feel!
    Don’t you tell me how I feel!
    You don’t know just how I feel!
    
    I want to know everything
    I want to be everywhere
    I want to fuck everyone in the world
    I want to do something that matters