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| BPM = 113
| versions = Pinion<br>Pinion (''And All That Could Have Been'')
| live = [[Self Destruct Touring Cycle]] through [[NIN 2013 Festival Tour]]<br>[[NIN + QOTSA Tour]] through [[NIN 2014 Europe/UK Tour]]<br>[[Europe + Asia 2018]]
}}'''"Pinion"''' is a very simplistic track that begins the ''[[Broken]]'' EP.
==Versions==
===Pinion===
This is the only version available. It features a pulsing series of short, ascending, distorted guitar power chords and a collage of atmospheric loops, including a reversed sample from the end of [[David Bowie]]'s "It's No Game"[http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=327], which eventually give way to the guitar riff once more before leading into "[[Wish (song)|Wish]]." These last chords are looped several times to lengthen the music video soundtrack.
===Pinion (''And All That Could Have Been'')===
==Music Video==
[[Image:Pinionstill.jpg|thumb|Screenshot from the "Pinion" video]]
The [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music video ]] for "Pinion," released in 1992, was directed by [[Eric Goode]] and [[Serge Becker]], who also directed "[[Help Me I Am In Hell]]."
The video was filmed entirely in black-and-white and starts in a restroom. The camera focuses on a toilet containing a dark substance, typically assumed to be blood. The water and the substance are flushed down as the camera follows. As the viewer is led through the pipes to see where the water is going, the camera cuts between exterior views and interior views of the pipes. As the music crescendos, the water pressure increases. Finally the camera comes to a white room as water is pumped through a pressurized machine, which is forcing the water into the mouth of a figure that is blindfolded, bound completely in vinyl (or patent leather) and strapped to the wall.