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'''"Hand Covers Bruise"''' is the first track from ''[[The Social Network Soundtrack]]'', written by [[Trent Reznor]] and [[Atticus Ross]]. Its tempo is 65 BPM according to the MP3 tags. Its first appearance was as the No Piano version on ''The Social Network'''s official website as background music in the form of a streaming MP3 at 256kbps. Later, the site was updated to play the original "Hand Covers Bruise".
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{{songReznor/Ross
| title = Hand Covers Bruise
| album = ''[[The Social Network Soundtrack]]''
| BPM = 65
| versions = Hand Covers Bruise <br> Hand Covers Bruise, Reprise <br> Hand Covers Bruise (No Piano)
| live = N[[NIN 2014 Japan Tour]] through [[NIN 2014 Europe/AUK Tour]]}}'''"Hand Covers Bruise"''' is the first track from ''[[The Social Network Soundtrack]]'', written by [[Trent Reznor]] and [[Atticus Ross]]. Its tempo is 65 BPM according to the MP3 tags.
A shortened version of the piece is titled "Main Title Sequence" on the Sony Pictures website for Academy Award consideration, while a shortened version of its reprise is titled "What Are We Doing About This?". At the same source, "What Were the Shares Diluted Down To?" is a slightly different take of the former, its piano sounding softer and more distant, and with a much shorter, darker bass drone section.
*''The Social Network Soundtrack''
*''The Social Network Soundtrack'' Academy Award consideration website
==Title==
In a ''Rolling Stone'' [http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/trent-reznor-talks-oscars-lollapalooza-memories-20110315 interview], Reznor explained the song's title:
<blockquote>"I needed to come up with 18 names of songs in a day. I was faced with the task of 'Let's not name it "Mark Runs Across Campus"' [laughs]. When we were coming up with ideas of what the music would sound like, one of them happened to be called "Hand Covers Bruise," and it seemed to fit perfectly with that theme."</blockquote>
==Versions==
===Hand Covers Bruise, Reprise===
This is a reprise of the originaland is the sixteenth track from ''The Social Network Soundtrack''. Much shorter in length, it contains only one pass of the initial piano motif, and one pass of the bass drone section, which features much louder, more disturbing synth whines. "What Are We Doing About This?" is the same track, but without the extra, louder layers of synth whine.
===Hand Covers Bruise (No Piano)===
This version is the same as the original, but lacks the piano melodies.
==Live==
This song debuted live on the first night of the [[NIN 2014 Japan Tour]].
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[[Category:Related to NIN]][[Category: NIN Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Songs]][[Category:NIN InstrumentalsSongs]]