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| album =''[[Still]]''
| length =6:14
| BPM = 140
| versions =And All That Could Have Been
| live =N/A[[Cold And Black And Infinite Tour]] through present}}'''"And All That Could Have Been"''' is the seventh track on ''[[Still]],'' which was released with the Deluxe Edition CD version of . The song may be an outtake from ''[[And All That Could Have Been The Fragile (halo)|And All That Could Have BeenThe Fragile]]'', much like "[[The Great Collapse]]" from ''[[Things Falling Apart]]'' . It may be one of [[NIN]]'s most complex songs regarding time signature, as the verses are in 7/4, the choruses in 4/4, and was available for mail-order with the purchase part of the DVD version and is currently available for order through NINbridge in 6/8.com. This  The song is thought to be a musical sequel to features guitar distortion and the layering of multiple guitar effects often found in songs of the "shoegaze"subgenre—bands such as My Bloody Valentine (with whom NIN's usual mixer, [[Alan Moulder]], worked) and [[The Great BelowJesus and Mary Chain]](with whom NIN toured in 1990 and 2018).The guitars are also sometimes reminiscent of ''Disintegration''-era The Cure, as heard on tracks such as "The Same Deep Water As You"and "Last Dance".
===Song Credits===
*PerformanceWritten by: [[Trent Reznor]], [[Danny Lohner]]*Performance: Trent Reznor, Danny Lohner
*Mix Engineering: [[Skinny Puppy|Dave "Rave" Ogilvie]]
*Engineering: [[Alan Moulder]], Dave "Rave " Ogilvie
*Programming: [[Keith Hillebrandt]]
==Appearances==
===Halos===
*''And All That Could Have Been'' (Deluxe Edition CD; 2002)''*''Still'' (2002) ===Seeds===*''[[The Definitive NIN - Quiet Tracks]]'' ===Promotional===*''And All That Could Have Been. Excerpts'' [http://nincatalog.com/item.asp?key=01-01701]*''And All That Could Have Been Snippets'' [http://nincatalog.com/item.asp?key=01-01746]
==Versions==
===And All That Could Have Been===
This is the only available version. Softly falling rain, continued from the end of "[[The Day The World Went Away (song)#The Day The World Went Away (Still)|The Day the World Went Away]]," begins the song, soon joined by quiet atmospheric synthesizers playing sustained, ascending notes. These lead into the first verse, a still-quiet 7/4 combination of soft electric guitars and Reznor's melodic vocals. The verse gives way to a quiet, instrumental bridge where bass guitar and piano join in, playing the melody and chord sequence from the climax of "[[The Great Below]]" in 4/4. A second verse, again in 7/4, interrupts this bridge with a return to the verse guitars, vocals, and icy percussion loops. After reaching into his higher vocal range for the second half of this verse, Reznor sings the 4/4 chorus in a lower, more up-front and talkative voice, backed by a new guitar riff, picked bass, and drum loops focal on the toms. A second bridge follows, introduced by a solitary delayed electric guitar riff, then louder layers of strumming guitar and bass with a new lead melody in 6/8, then a return to the 7/4 verse guitar riff atmospheres, during which Reznor quietly sings sparse words, building in volume and emotion until the words "... could have been" lead into an instrumental reiteration of the chorus. After singing a different incarnation of the chorus, Reznor's vocals give way to a higher-register return of the melody from the very first 4/4 bridge of the song beneath the chorus, with all instruments stopping at the end of the final bar, leaving a distant echo that quickly fades away.
==Live==
"And All That Could Have Been" has never was not played live for sixteen years after its release, though during that time [[Justin Meldal-Johnsen]] confirmed via Twitter that it had been played rehearsed for the [[Wave Goodbye Tour]]. On [[2018/10/26_Chicago,_IL|October 26, 2018]], the song finally made its livedebut.
==Lyrics==
Breeze still carries the sound
Maybe I’ll I'll disappear
Tracks will fade in the snow
You won’t won't find me here
Ice is starting to form
Ending what had begun
I am locked in my head
With what I’ve I've done
I know you tried to rescue me
Didn’t Didn't let anyone get in
Left with a trace of all that was
And all that could have been
You meant everything
Everything to me
 
[[Category:NIN Songs Never Played Live]]
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