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Many of [[Trent Reznor]]'s lyrics 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".
==Abandonment/rejection==
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "I'm all alone in a world you must despise" / "my morals left to decay"
*[[Ringfinger]]: "you just leave me nailed here"
*[[Suck]]: "all that was true is left behind"
*[[Piggy]]: "you left me here I'm all alone"
*[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]: "the feelings disappear" / "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"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place"
*[[Please]]: "push it away but it all comes back again" / "but it just left me dead" / "you can never leave me"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "you won't find me here" / "take this and run far away" / "left with a trace of all that was"
*[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|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 (song)|The Fragile]]: "I can't watch her slip away"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "everything pushes me further away"
*[[Disappointed]]: "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 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 that you have gone away" / "Ghosts of who we used to be"
*[[She's Gone Away]]
==Afraid to see==
*[[Heresy]]: "he sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see"
*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "What if you could look right through the cracks / would you find yourself / , find yourself afraid to see?"
*[[Capital G (song)|Capital G]]: "there's a lot of me inside you, maybe you're afraid to see"
==A Million Miles Awaymillion miles away==*[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]: "If I could start again , a million miles away, I would keep myself. I would find a way"*[[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"
*[[1,000,000]]: "I feel a million miles away"
 
==Asleep==
*[[Dear World,]]: "Yes, everyone seems to be asleep"
*[[The Lovers]]: "Everyone seems to be asleep but me"
*[[God Break Down The Door]]: "I believe I am sleeping after all"
==Becoming==
*[[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]]: "I am becoming"
*Hurt: "what have I become, my sweetest friend?"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "I've become impossible"
*[[Even Deeper]]: "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":"come on there has got to be someone / , hasn't yet become / so numb / and succumb"*[[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"
*[[All the Love In the World]]: "I've become a million miles aw(ay)"*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "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 become"*[[Everything]]: "I've become something else"*[[Shit Mirror]]": "I'm becoming something new"
==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 (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "ending what had begun"*[[The Beginning of Of The End]]*Came Back Haunted: "I'm afraid this has just begun"*[[All Time Low]]: "see this is where the Endfun 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"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==
*[[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"
*[[You Know What You Are?]]: "go on get back to where you belong"
*[[With Teeth (song)|With Teeth]]: "you've finally found the place where you belong"
*[[Beside You In Time (song)|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"
*[[God Given]]: "You should get where you belong / everything you know is wrong"
==Beside Youyou==
*We're In This Together: "the farther I fall I'm beside you"
*[[Beside You In Time *[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "I am staying right beside you" ==Blind==*[[Beside You In Time Heresy (haloBlind)]]*[[Lights Happiness In The Sky Slavery (song)|Light Happiness In The SkySlavery]]: "the blind have been blessed with security"*Suck: "once I could see now I am staying right beside blind"*[[Ruiner]]: "those that youkeep blind will suddenly realize"*Ringfinger: "wrap my eyes in bandages"*[[Running]]: "as good as blind"
==BleedingBlood/bleeding==*[[RingfingerMarch Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]: "stains like the blood on your teeth"*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" / "she has the blood of reptile just underneath her skin"*[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]: "so much blood for such a tiny little hole"
*[[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 / she asked to take my hand"*[[My Violent Heart]]: "our blood will stay" and / "our blood / , our waysgrace"
*[[Letting You]]: "the dying left to bleed"
*[[In Two]]: "Bleed, 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 dig in places till your fingers bleed"
*[[The Background World]]: "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"
 ==Blind==*[[Heresy]] (Blind)*[[Happiness In Slavery (song)|Happiness In Slavery]]: "the blind have been blessed with security"*[[Suck]]: "once I could see now I am blind"*[[Ruiner]]Everything: "those And his seed that you keep blind will suddenly realizebleeds right through to me"*[[Ringfinger]]: "wrap my eyes in bandages" ==Blurring lines==*[[The Line Begins To Blur]]*With TeethBackground World: "Behind the lines begin to blur" ==Bowing down==*Head Like a Hole: "Bow down before the one you serve"*Meet Your Master: "Bow down in positionbackground world is always bleeding through"
==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"
*[[Echoplex]]: "I built this place with broken parts"
===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 / too fucked up to care anymore"*Survivalism: "all bruised and broken, bleeding "*[[Branches/ she asked to take my handBones]]: "the makeup hides the bruise"
==Burning==
*[[Burn (song)|Burn]]
*Heresy: "burning with your godin humility"
*The Big Come Down: "there is a hate that burns within"
*[[Non-Entity]]: "Burning down the world, the ashes and debris"*[[Sunspots]]: "peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground"*Various Methods Of Escape: "a place to bury every thing I did and burn it to the ground"*[[Burning Bright (Field On Fire)]]
===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"
*Survivalism: "you see your world on fire"
*[[In This Twilight]]: "it is watching us, and the world we set on fire / do you wonder, if it feels the same?"*[[My Violent Heart]]: "Into fire you can send us / From , 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"
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire)
==Calling==
*[[Dead Souls]]: "They keep calling me"*Even Deeper: "I hear them call I cannot stay the voice inviting me away"
*Sunspots: "I hear it calling and I come cause I can’t disobey"
 
==Charade==
*The Hand That Feeds: "what if this whole crusade’s a charade?"
*[[Letting You]]: "believing your charade"
==Closeness==
*[[Closer]]*[[Closer to To God (halo)]]
*The Great Below: "ocean pulls me close"
*10 Miles High: "I'm getting closer all the time"
*[[While I'm Still Here]]: "Closest I have ever come"
==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?"
*[[Not So Pretty Now]]: "the cracks begin to show" ==Crawling==*Down In ItThe Wretched: "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 right up on your knees"*My Violent Heart: "On hands clouds will part and knees, we crawl"*[[The Beginning Of The End]]: "Down on your knees"*[[The Way Out Is Through]]: "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" ==Damage==*Somewhat Damaged*Even Deeper: "Just how damaged have I become?" ==Debris==*Somewhat Damaged: "Lick around divine debris"*Non-Entity: "Burning down the world, the ashes and debrissky cracks open"
==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 (song)|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"
==Deserving==
*Head Like A Hole: "You’re going to get what you deserve"
*[[Last]]: "pigs will we get what pigs deserve"*[[Meet Your Master]]: "Maybe you get what you deserve"*[[Sin(song)|Sin]]: "Carry out my sentence / , I get what I deserve"*In Two: "What you want, what you deserve"*Ahead Of Ourselves: "We wound up building this we deserve"
==Disappearing; abandonment; loss; throw away==*[[Throw This Away]]*[[Head Like A Hole (song)|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"*The Great Below::"washes me away , makes me disappear":"I can still feel you even so far away"*Please::"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 (song)|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"*Beside You In Time[[The Line Begins To Blur]]: "the more I am all alone this time around"disappear*OnlyDisappointed: "yesjust get out of here, disappointed, I am alone / but then again I always was"*Right Where It Belongs: "and you really are alonedisappear"*All The Love In The World: "hiding in the crowd I’m all alone…sometimes I get so lonely I could –":"all the jagged edges disappear / colors all look brighter when you’re near"*Lights In The Line Begins To BlurSky: "the more I can’t disappear*My Violent Heart: "we will not go away"*In This TwilightRunning: "let me take Just slip away your doubt"*Discipline: " feels like I’m losing touch"*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "I can’t and disappear"
==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"
*In Two: "just become, your disease"
==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 (song)|March Of The Pigs]]: "step right up / , march / , push"*The Perfect Drug: "pull the stars from the sky" and / "wrenching, dragging , shaking me"
*The Wretched: "just to push you down"
*Please: "push it away but it all comes back again"
==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 the 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"
*With Teeth: "It runs deeper than you dare to dream it could be"*Head Down: "This is all a dream / , and none of you are real"*Right Where It Belongs: "What if all the world you think you know is an elaborate dream?"*[[The Eater Of Dreams]]*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "I can't tell if I am dreaming anymore"
==Drowning==
*[[The Only Time]]: "and swim in it until I drown"
*Last: "new sweat to drown me in"
*Fist Fuck: "help I'm drowning"
*Please: "sink until I drown"
*The Great Below: "the currents have their say"
*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "watching you drown"
==Echo==
*Good Soldier: "Echoes gunfire in the street echoes out a beat and the bass goes"
*Echoplex: "My voice just echoes off these walls"
*Something I Can Never Have: "Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears"
*Please: "echoing the sound"
*[[Non-Entity]]: "The echoes in my eyes / Of , of all they used to see"*Echoing the Sound (forum) ==Exit==*Mr. Self Destruct[[Copy Of A]]: "I am just an exit"*The New Flesh: "This is not echo of an echo of an exitecho"
==EyeEyes==*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"
*Happiness In Slavery: "don't open your eyes"
*Heresy: "he sewed his eyes shut"
*[[Only (song)|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"
*The Beginning of the End: "I got my mark / , see it in my eyes"*Non-Entity: "The echoes in my eyes / Of , of all they used to see"
*[[Sunspots]]: "Sunspots cast a glare in my eyes"
*Came Back Haunted: "its smile is red and its eyes are black"
==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"
*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 you're just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away"*Echoplex: "and I just slowly fade away"
==Fears Coming TrueFeel==*PiggySuck: "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"*Memorabilia: "I know what it feels like"*The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"*[[The Way Out Is Through]]: "we feel so small"*The Wretched / [[The Great Collapse]]: "now you know this is what it feels like"*The Hand That Feeds: "and you feel just fine"*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can feel their eyes are watching"*Only: "and I had this funny feeling"*Getting Smaller: "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 getting to the end"*Me, 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 wearing down"*Hurt: "the feelings disappear"*Kinda I Want To: "I can't shake this feeling from my fears came truehead"*1,000,000: "I feel a million miles away"*[[Demon Seed]]: "And I can feel it breathe"*Echoplex: "you feel me breathe, I am watching you"*The Line Begins to BlurGreat 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 like I've been here before"*Dear World,: "There are fears that I cannot believe feel like I have come truelived so long"*She's Gone Away: "Cut along the length (but you can't get the feeling back)"
==Fist==
*[[Wish(song)|Wish]]: "fist fuck"
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*Survivalism: "I got my fist I got my plan I got survivalism"
*Demon Seed: "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"
==FleshFree/Freedom==*The New Flesh*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]*Terrible LieEverything: "my skin is begging youI am free"*SinBurning Bright (Field On Fire): "it gets under my skinI am forgiven, I am free"*Ringfinger: "sever flesh and bone"*SuckThe Lovers: "And I'm free to return to the temple walls are made of flesh"*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught"*[[Vessel]]: "place where I let it get under my skinalready am==Get me out of here==*Fist Fuck: / "HelpFree, help I'm drowning / Get take me out into the arms of herethe lovers"*Deep: / "Somewhere, out there, anywhere, I don't care, get me out of hereThe center has moved on and all that’s left is free"
==God==
*Heresy: "God is dead"
*Home: "God knows how much I've tried to"
*[[Maybe Just Once]]: "Oh God, what's coming to me?"
*Right Where it Belongs: "Your devils and your gods, all the living and the dead"
*Ringfinger: "You just leave me nailed here hanging like Jesus on this cross"
*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 God is on our side"*Vessel: "I am a turning into God" and / "My God...Oh my God"*[[God Given]]*Starfuckers inc, Inc.: "My god sits in the back of the limousine / My , my god comes in a wrapper of cellophane / My , my god pouts on the cover of the magazine / My , my god’s a shallow little bitch trying to make the scene"
*Capital G: "Traded in my God for this one"
*[[Zero-Sum]]: "May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts"
*Find My Way: "Lord my path has gone astray" / "Pray the Lord my soul to take" / "Oh dear Lord hear my prayer"
*While I'm Still Here: "God forgive me if I cry"
*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "And oh my God, I have missed you"
*Ahead Of Ourselves: "Created us in His image"
*[[Play The Goddamned Part]]
*God Break Down The Door
 
==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"
*Capital G: The title of the song refers to greed.
==Head==
*The Becoming: "goddamn this noise inside my head"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the voice inside your head"
*[[The Downward Spiral (song)|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"
*The Good Soldier: "Right over my head"
*Capital G: "now nod your head because you know that I’m right"
*[[The Great Destroyer]]: "nod your head " / "listen to the shit they pump into your head"*Head Down*[[Head DownSatellite]]: "I'm inside your head"*Various Methods Of Escape: "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 the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics.)
==Hiding==
*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"
*All The Love In The World: "hiding in the crowd 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 hide it behind something"
*Right Where It Belongs: "are you hiding in the trees?"
*Me, I’m Not: "I define myself / by how well I hide"
*The Good Soldier: "There'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"
==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"
*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"
*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"
==How it feelsHome/Returning home==*SuckLa Mer: "how does it feel"*Gave Up: "forgot how it feels well almost"*Fist Fuck: "oh you just wish And the sea will come to kiss me for I could feel that way tooam going home"*I Do Not Want This: "to those who know what it really feels like"*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"*Memorabilia: "I know what it feels like"[[Home]]*[[The Big Come DownLife You Didn't Lead]]: "it feels like it keeps coming Home, returning from the inside"*The Way Out Is Through: "we feel so small"*The Wretched: "now you know this is what it feels"*The Hand That Feeds: "and you feel just fine"*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can feel their eyes are watching"*Only: "and I had this funny feeling"*Getting Smaller: "don’t know what somewhere, to feelsomeplace safe"*SunspotsEverything: "I feel it coming / am home, 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 getting to the end"*Mebelieve, 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 likeam home, and I won't feel again / and the longing that you feel"*Discipline: "feels like I’m wearing down" ==am free. I can/can't still feel==*Fist Fuck: "oh you just wish am home, I could feel that way too" and "can you let your heart become central pump-house for all human feelings?see. Always here, finally"*Hurt: "the feelings disappear"*Kinda I Want To: "I can[[This Isn't shake this feeling from my head"*Light in the SkyThe Place]]: "I can feel it breathe"*1,000,000: "I feel a million miles awayCarry me home"
==InsectsInside of me==*All Vessel: "When I put you inside of me"*Came Back Haunted: "They put something inside of me"*The Love In The WorldBecoming: "hiding backwards inside of me" / "it's a part of me, it's inside of me"*Burn: "Watching all the insects march alongthis thing inside of me" / "something inside of me"*ReptileHeresy: "She spreads herself wide open he tries to let the insects intell me what I put inside of me"*Everything: "But this thing that lives inside of me"
==It keeps Keeps (coming, calling, etc.)==
*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"
*Right Where It Belongs: "You keep looking but you can’t find the woods"
*Survivalism: "I turned just keep on walking"
*Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away"
*The Good Soldier: "I keep telling myself"
==Knees (down on or getting up off)==
*The Hand That Feeds: "will you get up off your knees" and / "will you stay down on your knees"*The Beginning of the End: "down on your knees / , you’ll be left behind"*My Violent Heart: "on hands and kneeswe crawl"
*March Of The Pigs: "crawl right up on your knees"
*Closer: "through every forest, above the trees, within my stomach, scraped off my knees"
*Terrible Lie: "I'm on my hands and 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"
*[[Zoo Station]]: "I'll be crawling around on my hands and 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 right up on your knees"
*My Violent Heart: "On hands and knees, we crawl"
*The Way Out Is Through: "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"
*Zoo Station: "I'll be crawling around on my hands and knees"
==Loneliness==
*Terrible Lie: "I'm all alone in a world you must despise"
*Piggy: "Black and blue and broken bones you left me here I'm all alone"
*Reptile: "Need to contaminate to alleviate this loneliness"
*All The Love In The World: "Hiding in the crowd I'm all alone" and / "Sometimes I get so lonely I could..."
*Beside You In Time: "I am all alone this time around"
*Right Where It Belongs: "And you're really all alone"
*Vessel: "We will never be alone"
*Only: "Yes I am alone"
*Somewhat Damaged: "all alone, by myself, where were you?"
*[[The Idea Of You]]: "It gets so lonely in here"
 
==Loss==
*Eraser: "lose me"
*In This Twilight: "let me take away your doubt"
*Discipline: " feels like 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"
*Dead Souls: "someone take these dreams away"
*[[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"
*[[The Persistence Of Loss]]
*March Of The Pigs: "I think he's losing it"
*All Time Low: "we lost too much along the way"
*Piggy: "I lost my shit because of you"
*Only: "you might say I'm losing focus"
*Me, I'm Not: "and I'm losing control"
*My Violent Heart: "and soon you'll lose the will to care"
*Somewhat Damaged: "lost my faith in everything"
*She's Gone Away
==Machines==
*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 a reminder"
*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 remember what it is " / "in your eyes is a place worth remembering"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can’t remember how this got started"
*The Life You Didn't Lead: "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 we can, remember when"
*In Two: "I don't believe you can even remember which one you are"
*[[I Would For You]]: "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: "Remember, I don't wanna remember anymore"
*[[Over And Out]]: "Am I remembering you correctly"
==Naive/naïveté==
*That's What I Get: "To think that I was so naïve"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the prayers of the naïve"
*The Hand That Feeds: "So naïve"
 
===Naïveté===
*I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "The flowers of naïveté"
*My Violent Heart: "Standing there in all your grand naïveté"
*Piggy: "Nothing can stop me now, I don't care anymore"
*Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
*[[Ruiner]]: "You didn't hurt me , nothing can stop me now"
*Big Man With A Gun: "Me and my fucking gun, nothing can stop me now"
*[[La Mer]]: "Rien ne peut m'arrêter maintenant" (Translates to "nothing can stop me now". Spoken in Creole French)
*[[Sunspots]]: "And nothing can stop me now, and there is nothing to fear"
*We're In This Together: "None of them can stop us now"
 
==Pieces==
*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through"
*And All That Could Have Been: "all these pieces and promises and left behinds"
*The Perfect Drug: "it's not as much fun to pick up the 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 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 can make out pieces with the opening sewed shut"
==Pigs==
*Heresy: "he made a virus that would kill off all the swine"
*God Given: "we are the divine, separated from the swine"
*During [[Fragility]], Trent chanted "pig" before Reptile. This can be heard on the [[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]] DVD extra performance of Reptile.*[[Nothing Studios|Le Pig studio]]*[[PigfaceAhead Of Ourselves]]: "with our snouts in the dirt"
==Piss==
*Last: "Worn out from giving it up , my soul I pissed it all away"
*The Warning: "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 God, I really don't know who I am / In in this world full of piss". (The lyrics are not included of the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics.)
==Profanity==
===Fuck===
*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 nothing more fucked up I could do " / "big time, hard line, bad luck, fist fuck " / "I’m the one with this big fucking hole"
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*March of the Pigs: "I want to fuck it up"*Closer: "I wanna 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 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 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"*Starfuckers , Inc.: "I am every fucking thing and just a little more"*The Big Come Down: "smash it apart just for the fuck of it"*You Know What You Are?: "don’t you fucking know what you are"*Love Is Not Enough: "I’ve gone all this fucking away"*Only: "there is no fucking you"*Getting Smaller: "I haven’t got fucking anything"*Sunspots: "fuck in the fire and we’ll spread all the ashes around"*Not So Pretty Now: "But your you're just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away"*Capital G: Those "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: "Don't give a fuck anymore"*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "Oh, burn motherfucker"*[[Less Than]]: "Too many fucking people"
===Shit===
*Piggy: "lost my shit because of you"*Ruiner: "serving his shit to the his flies"*Hurt: "I wear this crown of shit"*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"*Where Is Everybody?: though "thought I really didn’t give a shit"*Capital G: "Don't give a shit about the temperature in Guatemala"*The Great Destroyer: Turn it up, "listen to the shit they pump into your head" *You Know What You Are?: "you better take a good look cause I’m full of shit"*Shit Mirror ==Purpose==*Copy Of A: "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==
*Gave Up: "it took you to make me realize"
*Eraser (Denial; Realization)
*The Perfect Drug (song)|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 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"
==Role==*Discipline: "I need my role in this very clearly defined"*Lights In The Sky: "I have my role in this" ==Said and Donedone==
*The Great Below: "After all is said and done"
*Sunspots: "When everything is said and done"
*[[Zero-Sum]]: "And soon it will be all said and done"
==Scab==
*Only: "Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab" /"picking at that scab"*Something I Can Never Have: "Still picking at this scab"(The lyrics are not included of 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"
==The Sea==
*Ringfinger: "deeper than the sea"
*La Mer: ("La Mer" is translated from French to literally "The Sea")
*The Great Below: "staring at the sea" and / "ocean pulls me close"
*With Teeth (song): "the blackest sea"
 
==Serve/Deserve==
*Head Like A Hole: "bow down before the one you serve / you’re going to get what you deserve"
*Meet Your Master: "now comes the time to serve… / maybe you’ll get what you deserve"
==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"*The Slip===Slipping away===*[[Slipping Away]]*Now I'm Nothing: "I let it slip away now I'm nothing"*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"
==Skin==
*Happiness In Slavery: "just words and so much skin"
*[[Underneath The Skin]]
*[[The New Flesh]]
*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]
*March Of The Pigs: "take the skin and peel it back"
*Reptile: "just underneath her 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"
*My Violent Heart: "our bones, our skin"
*Vessel: "I let it get under my skin"
*Terrible Lie: "my skin is begging you"
*Discipline: "I see you left a mark, up and down my skin"
*Sunspots: "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"
*The Lovers: "Hot swollen skin want me take me perfect embrace"
 
===Flesh===
*The New Flesh
*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]
*Ringfinger: "sever flesh and bone"
*Suck: "the temple walls are made of flesh"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caughtin this big broken machine"*DisciplinePlease: "I see you left all the flesh, all the sin" ==Sky==*All Time Low: "and we will live forever, baby, and stretch across the sky"*Lights In The Sky*Zero-Sum: "they're starting to open up the sky"*Non-Entity: "the sky is not the same shade of blue"*The Wretched: "the clouds will part and the sky cracks open"*The Perfect Drug: "turn off the sun, pull the stars from the sky"*Suck: "there is no God up in the sky tonight"*Down In It: "kinda like a mark / cloud i was up, way up in the sky"*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "And blacken out the sky and down my skinevery last one of you" ==Slipping/slipping away==*That’s What I Get: "slipping on the tears" *SunspotsDeep: "Peel off our skin weyou're gonna burn what we were to the groundslipping through"*[[999,999]]: "How did I slip into (this)?"*The Slip*[[Slipping Away]]*Now I'm Nothing: "I let it slip away, now I'm nothing"*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"*While I'm Still Here: "Falls apart, slips away"*Running: "Just slip away and disappear"*The Lovers: "I've slipped out of time again"
==Smash==
*March Of The Pigs: "I want to smash it up"
*Eraser: "Smash Mesmash me"*Gave Up: "Smashed up my sanity, Smashed smashed up integrity, Smashed smashed up what I believed in, Smashed smashed up what's left of me, Smashed smashed up my everything, Smashed smashed up all that was true, Gonna gonna smash myself to pieces"
*Now I'm Nothing: "I'm gonna smash myself to pieces"
*The Big Come Down: "Smash it apartjust for the fuck of it"*Love Is Not Enough: "To for you to go and take this and smash it apart"
==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: "you were never really real to begin with / i , I just made you up...to hurt myself" 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?"
*Head Down: "this is all a dream and none of you are real"*The Idea Of You: "None of this is happening"
==Stopping==
''see also: [[Recurring lyrics#Nothing can stop me now|Nothing can stop me now]]''
*We’re In This Together: "none of them can stop us now"
*Sunspots: "but I can't stop what has begun"
*My Violent Heart: "You cannot stop us all"
*Me, I’m Not: "hey, can we stop?"
*Discipline: "you know once I start I cannot stop myself"*Came Back Haunted: "Just can't stop, came back ha-ha-haunted"*The Lovers: "Maybe I could stop it (if I wanted to)"
==Tiny little dot==
* Down In It::"Just then a tiny little dot caught my eye it was just about too small to see:But , 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==
*And All That Could Have Been
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I wish this could have been any other way"
*La MerSunspots: "I think I could have been someone"*SunspotsI Would For You: "I think I There was a place that could have been someone / but "*While I can’t stop what has begun'm Still Here: "Oh all the things that might have been"
==Throwing Awayaway==*Terrible Lie: "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"
 ==Underneath it all==*The Way Out Is Through: underneath it all / we feel so small*Underneath It All: hear your call / underneath it allThrow This Away
==Used up==
*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 ==Virus==*Heresy: he made a virus to kill off all the swine*The Warning: you’ve become a virus / that has eaten up its host"
==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"
*Home: "I awake to find I’m not at all where I should be"
*1,000,000: "I wake up on the floor"
*Everything: "But this thing that lives inside of me will surely rise and wake"
*The Idea Of You: "Wait, wake, breathe, believe"
*[[Not Anymore]]: "And I can't seem to wake up"
*[[I Can't Seem To Wake Up 2017]]
 
==Waving goodbye==
*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"
*[[Wave Goodbye Tour]]
*Came Back Haunted: "I said goodbye"
*Everything: "Wave goodbye, wish me well"
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