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| album = ''[[Year Zero]]''
| length = 4:09
| BPM = 83| versions =Meet Your Master<br>Meet Your Master (Instrumental)<br>Meet Your Master: The Faint| live = N/A[[Lights In The Sky Tour]]}}'''"Meet Your Master"''' is the eleventh track on the 2007 release ''[[Year Zero]].''.
===Theories===
This song could be either from a government perspective, directed to the people, or from a resistance perspective directed to the government (which makes a lot . The latter theory seems more senseapt, given the part of the lyrics quoted at AVOTT[[Another Version Of The Truth (website)|Another Version Of The Truth]]. The lyrics might echo the commands of a guerrilla resistance group to a kidnapped bureaucrat (a la the kidnapping of Clive Owen's protagonist in <i>Children of Men</i>, or the similar scene in <i>Thank You for Smoking</I>).
Another theory is that these are the words of, or general feeling given by an encounter with the [[The Presence]].
==Appearances==
The lyrics for this song appear on the "another version Another Version of the truthTruth" message board posted by Che2. He says "didn't you get the memo?" Post #04
===Halos===
* ''Year Zero''
*''[[Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D]]''
==Versions==
===Meet Your Master===
This is the only known original album version . ===Meet Your Master (Instrumental)==='''''Running Time: 4:13''''' This unmastered vocal-less mix was released by [[Trent Reznor]] through his [[remix.nin.com]] account. ===Meet Your Master: The Faint==='''''Running Time: 3:35''''' This song is on ''Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D.'' The vocals have some distortion in them and are heard over an electronic beat. It reminiscent of The Orb's remix of "[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]." The instrumentation is slightly different, without any of the guitar elements heard in the original. ====Song Credits====*Remix by The Faint ==Live=="Meet Your Master" made its live debut at the present moment[[2008/07/29 Calgary, AB|Calgary, Alberta]], show on July 29, 2008.
==Lyrics==
You'll put on this blindfold
You'll do what we tell you
You'll do as your you're told
Used to be the leader
Now comes the time to serve
Come on down
<BR>{{succession box | title=[[Year Zero#Track Listing|Year Zero]] | before= [[God Given]]| after= [[The Greater Good]] | track= 11}} [[Category:NIN Songs Released as Multitracks]][[Category:NIN Songs Never Played Live]]