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| album =''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''
| length =3:35
| BPM = 84| versions =Getting Smaller<br>Getting Smaller (Instrumental)| live =[[Live: With Teeth]]<br>[[Lights In The Sky Tour]]}}"'''"Getting Smaller"'''" is the ninth track on the 2005 release ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]].'' Many NIN fans feel that the The lyrics may address [[Trent Reznor]] coming back from his addictions as a humbled person. The track leaked in February of 2005, along with "[[The Line Begins To Blur]]" and "[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]". According to at least one media promo listening[http://theninhotline.net/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=2], the working title for the song was slightly longer, appearing as "Getting Smaller Every Day." The "flip flop" lyric is a reference to the song "Navvy" by Pere Ubu, a song that has appeared on [[playlists]] compiled by Reznor. The track is reminiscent of "Planet of Sound" by Pixies.
===Song Credits===
===Halos===
*''With Teeth''
===Seeds===
*''[[The Definitive NIN - Deep Cuts]]''
===Other===
==Versions==
===Getting Smaller===
This is the only original album version currently available. Crossfading in from the end of "[[Only (song)|Only]]," it begins with frantic and seemingly random distorted guitar playing, punctured by the chorus guitar riff. Grohl's live drums soon begin accompanying, leading into the first verse, accompanied by a different guitar riff. The song opens up in volume and layering for the choruses, their lyrics yelled out by Reznor with a delay effect. A third different guitar riff leads the bridge, which also features layered atmospheric synthesizers over the drum beat that build in intensity and lead into the final chorus. ===Getting Smaller (Instrumental)==='''''Running Time: 3:47''''' Released exclusively through Apple Music.
==Live==
"Getting Smaller" has been made its live debut on [[2005/03/25 Davis, CA|March 25, 2005]]. It was played live since the first leg of on the [[Live: With Teeth]] tour in 2005-06, but was a setlist rarity. On this version, [[Jeordie White]] would play rhythm guitar while [[Alessandro Cortini]] roamed the stage playing bass. It was also played at least once during the [[Lights In The Sky Tour]].
==Lyrics==
Getting a little erratic here
And I don’t don't know who to trust
I guess they got a way of reading my mind
I guess I got to adjust
I got my head on a spring
Well I thought I got you on my side
I haven’t haven't got fucking anything
I'm just a face in the crowd
And that's OK
In the actual recording, the first line of the third verse is changed:
I kind of see through the cracks
{{Succession box
| title=[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]
| before=[[Only (song)|Only]]
| after=[[Sunspots]]
| track=9}}
[[Category: NIN Songs]]