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'''"10 Miles High"''' is a song exclusive to On the vinyl version CD and cassette versions of ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]],'' disc 1 the pregap of "Please" uses the European and Japanese ''introduction of this song as a segue from "[[We're In This Together (halo)|We're In This TogetherThe Mark Has Been Made]]'' single, ." In a question and ''answer session from 2000[[Things Falling Aparthttp://www.nin-pages.de/chat_spin_21_11_00.htm]]'' in rearranged form. On , the vinyl edition of ''The Fragile,'' following was stated about the song starts side 3, followed immediately after by "[[Please]].":
On <blockquote>ofredearth: "I noticed on the CD and cassette versions '10 Miles High (version)' off of ''Things Falling Apart'', the intro to the song is also on ''The Fragile'',actually played backwards where we hear 'I' m getting closer...' what was the pregap purpose of 'hiding' it into ''The Fragile'' like that and exposing it in the new album?"Please<br>Trent Reznor: " uses '10 Miles High' was a full song that had three completely different sets of lyrics and choruses during the introduction course of this its life span. When it came time to put ''The Fragile'' together, and decide what was gonna get kept, that song as took a bullet. But we left a segue from "[[little reminder of it on there, and we put one of the versions on the vinyl version of ''The Mark Has Been Made]]Fragile''. There are other versions with varying degrees of embarrassing lyrics that are floating around the vaults here."</blockquote>
→10 Miles High (Instrumental)
| album =''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]]'' (Vinyl)
| length =5:13
| BPM = 80, 88| versions =10 Miles High<br>10 Miles High (Version)<br>Hello, Everything Is Not OK<br>10 Miles High (Instrumental)| live =N/A[[NIN songs never played live|Unperformed]]}}'''"10 Miles High"''' is a song exclusive to the vinyl version of ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]],'' disc 1 of the European and Japanese ''[[We're In This Together (halo)|We're In This Together]]'' single, and ''[[Things Falling Apart]]'' in rearranged form. On the vinyl edition of ''The Fragile,'' the song starts side 3, followed immediately after by "[[Please]]."
[[Image:Fragile_diary_062899_TMH.jpg|thumb|Journal entry from The Fragile sessions in 1999 published on nin.com detailing the construction of "10 Miles High."]]
*Production: Trent Reznor, [[Alan Moulder]]
*Engineering and mix: Alan Moulder
*ReconstrucionReconstruction: [[Keith Hillebrandt]]
==Appearances==
===Halos===
*''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]]'' (Vinyl)
*''[[The Fragile: Deviations 1]]''
*''[[We're In This Together (halo)|We're In This Together (Part 1)]]''
*''[[Things Falling Apart]]''
==Versions==
===10 Miles High===
This version is heard on the vinyl edition of ''The Fragile'' and the CD single ''We're In This Together''. Fading in quietly with atmospheric synthesizers and loopsat 80 BPM, a high-pitched, echoing melody crossfades into the track proper at 88 BPM, while Reznor's distant, distorted voice repeats the line "I'm getting closer," joined by a bouncing melody before drum loops enter. This section builds into the first verse, much clearer and louder with live percussion loops and guitar. A clouded, ambient bridge follows, similar in sound to the bridge of "[[The Big Come Down]]"," during which high-pitched vocals and acoustic guitar can be faintly heard. A third section with vocals soon erupts, incredibly distorted in a similar manner as the end of "[[Closer#Closer To God|Closer To God]]"." This section gives way to a repetitive coda of distant, layered vocals, which end suddenly. The intro of this song contains a slowed down sample of the two-note flute sound that begins about one minute into "[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]".
===10 Miles High (Version)===
'''''Running Time: 5:11'''''
This remix by Hillebrandt is on ''Things Falling Apart.'' There are only minor changes to the album version, including a severely shortened introduction, the movement of the middle guitar track to the final section, and the swapping of stereo channels.
====Song Credits====
*Manipulation: Keith Hillebrandt
===Hello, Everything Is Not OK===
Unreleased original demo version of the song.
===10 Miles High (Instrumental)===
'''''Running Time: 5:16'''''
Also known as "Hello, Everything Is Not OK" (Instrumental) when it was released on Apple Music as part of ''The Fragile Instrumental''. Both versions are musically identical.
Released on ''The Fragile: Deviations 1'', a demo version of "10 Miles High" without vocals. The song uses a vastly different structure from the final arrangement, wherein the riff that only briefly makes an appearance very quietly in the bridge is used as a verse, with the choruses using the more prevalent riff featured in the final version. The opening 'lilacs under ice' sounds are used as the bridge in this arrangement, before erupting back into the chorus riff.
==Live==
"10 Miles High" [[NIN songs never played live|has never been performed played live]].
==Lyrics==
I tried to get so high
Reznor also abrasively whispers unprinted lyrics during the quite quiet ambient bridge, backed by guitar and high pitched backing vocals, and dominant in the right stereo channel:
My nightmare's everywhere but inside
A living indication of every situation