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Many of [[Trent Reznor]]'s lyrics are thematically similar across songs and albums, evidence of both his genius and his lack of vocabulary. This is an expansion of a list compiled at [http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=13785 ETS] by user "Christ". ==Abandonment/rejection==*[[Terrible Lie]]: "I'm all alone in a world you must despise" / "my morals left to decay"*[[Ringfinger]]: "you just leave me nailed here"*[[Suck]]: "all that was true is left behind"*[[Piggy]]: "you left me here I'm all alone"*[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]: "the feelings disappear" / "everyone I know goes away in the end"*[[Closer]]: "help me get away from myself"*[[The Becoming]]: "even when I'm right with you I'm so far away" / "and he's left to decay"*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place"*[[Please]]: "push it away but it all comes back again" / "but it just left me dead" / "you can never leave me"*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "you won't find me here" / "take this and run far away" / "left with a trace of all that was"*[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|The Day The World Went Away]]: "all the insides left cold and gray"*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "made the choice to go away" / "in the back, off the side, far away" / "all alone, by myself, where were you?"*[[The Big Come Down]]: "find a place with the failed and forgotten"*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "I can't watch her slip away"*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "everything pushes me further away"*[[Disappointed]]: "Just get out of here"*[[Beside You In Time (song)|Beside You In Time]]: "I am all alone this time around"*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "yes, I am alone but then again I always was"*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "and you're really all alone"*[[All The Love In The World]]: "hiding in the crowd I’m all alone" / "sometimes I get so lonely I could –"*[[Came Back Haunted (song)|Came Back Haunted]]: "I am not who I used to be"*[[Find My Way]]: "Now that you have gone away" / "Ghosts of who we used to be"*[[She's Gone Away]] ==Afraid to see==*[[Heresy]]: "he sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see"*Right Where It Belongs: "would you find yourself, find yourself afraid to see?"*[[Capital G (song)|Capital G]]: "there's a lot of me inside you, maybe you're afraid to see" ==A million miles away==*Hurt: "If I could start again, a million miles away"*All The Love In The World: "I've become a million miles aw(ay)" - in addition, the phrase appears in the accompanying unsung lyrics printed on the ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]'' PDF poster: "Right beside is still a million miles away"*[[1,000,000]]: "I feel a million miles away" ==Asleep==*[[Dear World,]]: "Yes, everyone seems to be asleep"*[[The Lovers]]: "Everyone seems to be asleep but me"

*[[The Becoming]]: "I am becoming"*[[Now I'm Nothing]]: "oh , what I have become!"*[[Gave Up]]: "after everything I've done, I hate myself for what I've become"*[[Fist Fuck]]: "can you let your heart becomecentral pump-house for all human feelings?"*[[Hurt]]: "what have I become"*[[Closer]]: "help me become somebody else"*[[The Great Below]]: "all becoming clear"Becoming*[[La Mer]]Hurt: "I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea"*[[Even Deeper]]: "just how damaged what have I become, my sweetest friend?"

*[[Even Deeper]]: "just how damaged have I become?"*[[The Great Below]]: "the destiny I've chose, all becoming clear"*Where Is Everybody?:"come on there has got to be someone, hasn't yet become so numb and succumb"*[[The New Flesh]]: "yes I am becoming" / "I've become"*[[Me, I'm Not]]: " and it's hard to believe just what I've become"*All the Love In the World: "I've becomea million miles aw(ay)"*Only: "I’m becoming less defined as days go by"*[[Where Is Everybody?Vessel]]: "I am becoming something else, I am turning into God"*[[10 Miles High]]: "that hasnI swore to God I't yet d never turn into you"*[[Head Down]]: "all your hate, what you’ve become"*[[Starfuckers, Inc.Everything]]: "I have 've becomesomething else"

*[[The New Flesh]]: "and this is how it all begins"

*[[Please]]: "this is how it begins"*[[And All That Could Have Been : "ending what had begun"*[[The Beginning Of The End]]*Came Back Haunted: "I'm afraid this has just begun"*[[All Time Low]]: "see this is where the fun begins"*Me, I'm Not: "I can't shut it off, this thing I've begun"*Dear World,: "I begin to go through another that we have been"Though the lyrics may not have been written by Trent Reznor, it should be noted that "[[Recursive Self-Improvement]]" by [[How To Destroy Angels]] features the line "this is how it all begins". ==Belonging==*[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|And Starfuckers, Inc.]]: "now I belong, I'm one of the chosen ones"*All That Could Have BeenThe Love In The World: "watching all the insects march along, seem to know just right where they belong"*[[You Know What You Are?]]: "go on get back to where you belong"*[[With Teeth (song)|With Teeth]]: "you've finally found the place where you belong"*Beside You In Time: "everything is back where it belongs"*Right Where It Belongs: "see the safety of the life you have built, everything where it belongs"*[[Home]]: "I return to the only place I've ever felt that I belong"*[[God Given]]: "You should get where you belong" ==Beside you==*We're In This Together: "the farther I fall I'm beside you"*Beside You In Time*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "ending what had begunI am staying right beside you"

*[[Heresy]] (Blind)*[[Happiness In Slavery (song)|Happiness In Slavery]]: "the blind have been blessed with security"*[[Suck]]: "once I could see now I am blind"

*[[Gave Up]]: "still cannot fix this broken machine"*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"*[[Piggy]]: "black and blue and broken bones / you left me here I'm all alone"*[[The Becoming]]: "he's covered with scabs, he is broken and sore"*[[Hurt]]: "full of broken thoughts, I cannot repair"*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"

*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"*[[Echoplex]]: "I built this place with broken parts"

*[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]: "God Money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised"*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand" ===Realization===*[[SinBranches/Bones]]: "am I just too stupid to realize"*[[Gave Up]]: "it took you to make me realize"*[[Eraser]] (Denial; Realization)*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "my soul is so afraid to realize"*[[Please]]: "and I realize it was all in my headthe makeup hides the bruise"

*[[Burn (song)|Burn]]*[[Heresy]]: "burning with your godin humility"*[[The Big Come Down]]: "there is a hate that burns within"

*[[Gave Up]]: "wake up in flames"

*[[Terrible Lie]]: "my morals left to decay"*[[The Becoming]]: "the blood has stopped pumping and he's left to decay"*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "drink the fountain of decay"*[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|The Day The World Went Away]]: "but in his voice I heard decay"

===Rotting=Deserving==*Head Like A Hole: "You’re going to get what you deserve"*[[Last]]: "dress up this rotten carcasspigs we get what pigs deserve"*[[Somewhat DamagedMeet Your Master]]: "poisoned to Maybe you get what you deserve"*[[Sin (song)|Sin]]: "Carry out my rotten coresentence, I get what I deserve"*In Two: "What you want, what you deserve"

==Disappearing; abandonment; loss; throw away==*[[Throw This Away]]*[[Head Like A Hole]]: "no you can't take that away from me"*[[Terrible Lie]]::"don't take it away from me":"I'm all alone in a world you must despise":"my morals left to decay"*[[That's What I Get]]: "you took away all my self confidence"*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "you make this all go away"*[[Ringfinger]]: "you just leave me nailed here"*[[Suck]]: "all that was true is left behind"*[[Gave Up]]: "give it to me I throw it away"*[[Wish]]: "I just threw it away"*[[Last]]: "I pissed it all away"*[[Piggy]]: "you left me here I'm all alone"*[[Hurt]]: "the feelings disappear" and "everyone I know goes away in the end"*[[Closer]]: "help me get away from myself"*[[The Becoming]]::"even when I'm right with you I'm so far away":"and he's left to decay":"all pain disappears"*[[Reptile]]: "she leaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been"*[[Eraser]]: "find you" and "lose me"*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place"*[[Dead Souls]]: "someone take these dreams away"

*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're We’re In This Together]]::"well they've got to make it go away / well they've got to make it disappear":"as lost as I get I will find you"*[[The Great Below]]::"washes me away , makes me disappear"*Please:"I can still feel you even so far awaydisappear"*[[Please]]:And All That Could Have Been:"maybe I can 'll disappear":"push it away but it all comes back again":"but it just left me dead":"you can never leave me"*[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|The Day The World Went AwayLine Begins To Blur]]: "all the insides left cold and gray"more I disappear*[[Somewhat Damaged]]:Disappointed:"made the choice to go away":"in the back / off the side / far away":"all alone / by myself / where were you?just get out of here, disappointed, disappear"*[[All The Love In The Big Come Down]]World: "find a place with all the failed and forgottenjagged edges disappear"*[[The Fragile (song)|Lights In The Fragile]]Sky: "I can't watch her slip awaycan’t disappear"*[[Where Is Everybody?]]Running: "everything pushes me further Just slip away"*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]::"maybe I'll and disappear":"you won't find me here":"take this and run far away":"left with a trace of all that was"

*[[Terrible Lie]]: "my head is filled with disease"*[[Suck]]: "this disease I give to myself"*[[Reptile]]: "my disease , my infection"*[[Ruiner]]: "wearing your disease"*In Two: "just become, your disease"

*[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]: "step right up / , march / , push"*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "pull the stars from the sky" and / "wrenching, dragging , shaking me"*[[The Wretched]]: "just to push you down"*[[Please]]: "push it away but it all comes back again"*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "everything pushes me further away"*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're We’re In This Together]]: "they pick and they pull"*[[The Great Below]]: "ocean pulls me close"

*[[Terrible Lie]]: "seems like salvation comes only in our dreams"*[[Suck]]: "don't want your the dreams you try to sell"*[[Gave Up]]: "perfect little dream"*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am the end of all your dreams"*[[Heresy]]: "he dreamed a god up"*[[The Becoming]]: "I'm stuck in this dream"

*[[Even Deeper]]: "in a dream I'm a different me"*[[Dead Souls]]: "someone take these dreams away"*With Teeth: "It runs deeper than you dare to dream it could be"*Head Down: "This is all a dream, and none of you are real"*Right Where It Belongs: "What if all the world you think you know is an elaborate dream?"*[[The Eater Of Dreams]]*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "I can't tell if I am dreaming anymore"

*[[The Only Time]]: "and swim in it until I drown"*[[Last]]: "new sweat to drown me in"*[[Fist Fuck]]: "help I'm drowning"*[[The Becoming]]: "drowns out all I hear"*[[Heresy]]: "drowning in his own hypocrisy"*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "just like a waterfall I'm drowning in"*[[Please]]: "sink until I drown"*[[The Great Below]]: "the currents have their say"*Lights In The Sky: "watching you drown"

==ExitEcho==*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]Good Soldier: "gunfire in the street echoes out a beat"*Echoplex: "My voice just echoes off these walls"*Something I am an exitCan Never Have: "Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears"*Please: "echoing the sound"*Non-Entity: "The echoes in my eyes, of all they used to see"*[[The New FleshCopy Of A]]: "This is not I am just an echo of an echo of an exitecho"

==EyeEyes==*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "just then a tiny little dot caught my eye" and / "but the needle's already in my eye"*[[Ringfinger]]: "wrap my eyes in bandages"*[[The Only Time]]: "the sweat in your eyes"

*[[Last]]: "look through these blackened eyes"*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "don't open your eyes"*[[Heresy]]: "he sewed his eyes shut"*[[Only: "well the tiniest little dot caught my eye"*The Great Below]]: "all the world has closed her eyes"*[[The New Flesh]]: "the blackest eyes"

==Fading awayFeel==*Suck: "how does it feel"*Gave Up: "forgot how it feels, well almost"*Fist Fuck: "oh you just wish I could feel that way too"*I Do Not Want This: "to those who know what it really feels like" / "don't you tell me how I feel, you don't know just how I feel"*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"*Memorabilia: "I know what it feels like"*The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"*[[Only (song)|OnlyThe Way Out Is Through]]: "I'm becoming less defined, as days go by / fading away, well...we feel so small"*The Wretched / [[The Great Collapse]]: "now you know this is what it feels like"*The Hand That Feeds: "and you feel just fine"*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can feel their eyes are watching"*Only: "and I had this funny feeling"*Getting Smaller]]: "don’t know what to feel"*Sunspots: "I'm afraid feel it coming" / "I am starting have to fade awayapologize for the way I feel"*[[Beside You In Time (song)|Beside You In Time]]: "feel the little pieces bleeding through" / "I can feel me start to fade away"*Right Where It Belongs: "feel the hollowness inside of your heart"*Home: "and it feels I’m getting to the end"*Me, I’m Not: "I feel it coming apart"*In This Twilight: "and it feels like, like it was a friend" / "do you wonder if it feels the same?" / "what it feels like, and I won't feel again" / "and the longing that you feel"*[[Not So Pretty NowDiscipline]]: But your just fading"feels like I’m wearing down"*Hurt: "the feelings disappear"*Kinda I Want To: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"*1,000, and fading000: "I feel a million miles away"*[[Demon Seed]]: "And I can feel it breathe"*Echoplex: "you feel me breathe, and fadingI am watching you"*The Great Below: "I can still feel you, and fading even so far away"*My Violent Heart: "feel it coming now"*[[Underneath It All]]: "I can still feel you"*Branches/Bones: "Feels like I've been here before"*Dear World,: "I feel like I have lived so long"*She's Gone Away: "Cut along the length (but you can't get the feeling back)"

===Fading=Fist==*[[Down In It Wish (song)|Down In ItWish]]: "what I used to think was me is just a fading memoryfist fuck"*[[Something I Can Never HaveFist Fuck]]*Survivalism: "just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to begot my fist I got my plan I got survivalism"*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]Demon Seed: "tracks And I will fade in the snow" and "gone, fading, everythinguse my fist"*[[Non-Entity]]Getting Smaller: "now I think I'm afraid losing my grip, but I'm fading out of sightcan still make a fist"*Sin: "your kiss, your fist"

==FleshFree/Freedom==*[[The New Flesh]]*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]*[[Terrible Lie]]Everything: "my skin is begging youI am free"*[[Sin]]Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "it gets under my skinI am forgiven, I am free"*[[Ringfinger]]The Lovers: "sever flesh and boneAnd I'm free to return to the place where I already am"*[[Suck]]: / "Free, take me into the temple walls are made arms of fleshthe lovers"*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: / "just some flesh caughtThe center has moved on and all that’s left is free"

===Skin=God==*10 Miles High: "I swore to God I'd never turn into you" *Closer: "You get me closer to God"*Head Like A Hole: "God Money I'll do anything for you" *Heresy: "God is dead" *Home: "God knows how much I've tried to" *[[Down In It (song)|Down In ItMaybe Just Once]] (Skin): "Oh God, what's coming to me?" *Right Where it Belongs: "Your devils and your gods, all the living and the dead" *[[Last]]Ringfinger: "fresh blood through tired skinYou just leave me nailed here hanging like Jesus on this cross"*[[Suck]]: "itches my skin right off my backThere is no God up in the sky tonight"*[[Happiness In Slavery]]Terrible Lie: "just words and so much skinHey God!"*[[Underneath The Skin]]Wretched: "and God himself will reach his fucking arm through"*[[March Of The Pigs]]Beginning of the End: "take God helps the skin and peel it backones who can help themselves"*[[ReptileThe Good Soldier]]: "just underneath her skin'Cause God is on our side"*[[Vessel: "I Do Not Want This]]am a turning into God" / "My God...Oh my God"*God Given*Starfuckers, Inc.: "bamboo puncturing this skinMy god sits in the back of the limousine, my god comes in a wrapper of cellophane, my god pouts on the cover of the magazine, my god’s a shallow little bitch trying to make the scene"*[[Somewhat Damaged]]Capital G: "shedding skin succumb defeatTraded in my God for this one"*[[We're In This TogetherZero-Sum]]: "as they peel apart the skinMay God have mercy on our dirty little hearts"*[[Please]]Find My Way: "all Lord my path has gone astray" / "Pray the flesh all the sinLord my soul to take" / "Oh dear Lord hear my prayer"*[[While I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]Still Here: "his skin just wasn't thick enoughGod forgive me if I cry"*[[Deep]]Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "your skin speaks up but your lips couldn't say itAnd oh my God, I have missed you"

==Get me out of hereGreed==*[[Fist FuckThe Warning (Year Zero song)|The Warning]]: "Your greed, self-importance and your arrogance"*March Of The Pigs: "Please, greed, feed (no time to hesitate)"*[[Deep]]Letting You: "Your politics of greed"*Not So Pretty Now: "Keep trying to fill it all up with your greed"*Capital G: The title of the song refers to greed.

*[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]*[[Terrible Lie]]: "my head is filled with disease"*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "scraping through my head"*[[Kinda I Want To]]: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"*[[Suck]]: "I bow my head to confess"*[[Last]]: "my head got lost along the way"

*[[The Becoming]]: "goddamn this noise inside my head"*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am the voice inside your head"*[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]: "spilling out of my head"*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "I got my head but my head is unraveling"*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "then my head fell apart"

*[[Please]]: "the world is over and I realize it was all in my head"*[[The New Flesh]]: "and in my head this is how it all begins"*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "I am locked in my head"*[[Get Down , Make Love]]: "you blow my head"*All The Love In The World: "they don’t sound as good outside my head"*Getting Smaller: "got my head on a spring"*Right Where It Belongs: "what if all the world’s inside of your head"*The Good Soldier: "Right over my head"*Capital G: "now nod your head because you know that I’m right"*[[The Great Destroyer]]: "nod your head" / "listen to the shit they pump into your head"*Head Down*[[Satellite]]: "I'm inside your head"*Various Methods Of Escape: "A line of lyric looping in my head"*Ringfinger: "right in time with the song that's repeating in my head" (The lyrics are not included of the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics.)

*[[Terrible Lie]]: "there's nothing left for me to hide"*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am the hate you try to hide"*[[The Becoming]]: "hiding backwards inside of me"*[[The Big Come Down]]: "there is no way I can hide"*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "when all I'm really doing is trying to hide"*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "is a place where I hide , where I stay"*[[No, You Don't]]Don’t: "tries so hard to hide"*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "where we can run and hide"*All The Love In The World: "hiding in the crowd I’m all alone"*You Know What You Are?: "I have to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"*[[Love Is Not Enough]]: "well, it hides in the dark"*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "well, I’ll hide it behind something"*Right Where It Belongs: "are you hiding in the trees?"*Me, I’m Not: "I define myself by how well I hide"*The Good Soldier: "There's nowhere left to hide"*Running: "I'm running out of places I can hide from this, I'm running out of ways to keep on hiding this"

*[[Head Like A Hole]]*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "now just this hole that's open wide"*[[Gave Up]]: "watching the hole , it used to be mine"*[[Wish]]: "I'm the one with this big fucking hole"*[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]: "so much blood for such a tiny little hole"*[[Hurt]]: "the needle tears a hole"*[[Big Man With A Gun]]: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"*[[Deep]]: "there's a big black hole gonna eat me up someday"*[[The Wretched]]: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "tear a hole exquisite red"*[[No, You Don't]]Don’t: "smiling in their faces while filling up the hole"*[[Please]]: "it fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead"*You Know What You Are?: "I have to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"*My Violent Heart: "there's bullet holes where my compassion used to be"*Not So Pretty Now: "you got a hole that you've got to feed" ==Home/Returning home==*La Mer: "And the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home"*[[Home]]*[[The Life You Didn't Lead]]: "Home, returning from somewhere, to someplace safe"*Everything: "I am home, I believe, I am home, I am free. I am home, I can see. Always here, finally"*[[This Isn't The Place]]: "Carry me home" ==Inside of me==*Vessel: "When I put you inside of me"*Came Back Haunted: "They put something inside of me"*The Becoming: "hiding backwards inside of me" / "it's a part of me, it's inside of me"*Burn: "this thing inside of me" / "something inside of me"*Heresy: "he tries to tell me what I put inside of me"*Everything: "But this thing that lives inside of me" ==Keeps (coming, calling, etc.)==*The Wretched: "you can try to stop it but it keeps on coming"*The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"*Please: "and it keeps repeating"*Dead Souls: "they keep calling me"*The Hand That Feeds: "I keep holding on to what I want to believe" *With Teeth: "keeps holding on" *Right Where It Belongs: "You keep looking but you can’t find the woods" *Survivalism: "I turned just keep on walking"*Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away"*The Good Soldier: "I keep telling myself" ==Knees (down on or getting up off)==*The Hand That Feeds: "will you get up off your knees" / "will you stay down on your knees"*The Beginning of the End: "down on your knees, you’ll be left behind"*My Violent Heart: "on hands and knees we crawl"*March Of The Pigs: "crawl right up on your knees"*Closer: "through every forest, above the trees, within my stomach, scraped off my knees"*Terrible Lie: "I'm on my hands and knees"*Capital G: "well I used to stand for something, now i'm on my hands and knees"*1,000,000: "on your hands and your knees"*[[Zoo Station]]: "I'll be crawling around on my hands and knees" ===Crawling===*Down In It: "I was swimming in the haze now I crawl on the ground"*Getting Smaller: "I'd be happy to crawl"*March Of The Pigs: "Crawl right up on your knees"*My Violent Heart: "On hands and knees, we crawl"*The Way Out Is Through: "But still we crawl"*In This Twilight: "as it crawls across a final time"*1,000,000: "kind of hard to see when you crawl"*Zoo Station: "I'll be crawling around on my hands and knees"

==How it feelsLoneliness==*[[Suck]]Terrible Lie: "I'm all alone in a world you must despise"*Piggy: "how does it feelyou left me here I'm all alone"*[[Gave Up]]Reptile: "forgot how it feels well almostNeed to contaminate to alleviate this loneliness"*[[Fist Fuck]]All The Love In The World: "oh you just wish Hiding in the crowd I'm all alone" / "Sometimes I get so lonely I could feel that way too..."*[[Beside You In Time: "I Do Not Want This]]am all alone this time around"*Right Where It Belongs: "to those who know what it And you're really feels likeall alone"*Vessel: "We will never be alone"*[[Memorabilia]]Only: "Yes I know what it feels likeam alone"*Somewhat Damaged: "all alone, by myself, where were you?"*[[The WretchedIdea Of You]]: "now you know this is what it feelsIt gets so lonely in here"

==It keeps comingLoss==*[[The Wretched]]Eraser: "lose me"*In This Twilight: "let me take away your doubt"*Discipline: " feels like I’m losing touch"*Head Like A Hole: "no you can try to stop 't take that away from me"*Terrible Lie: "don't take it but away from me"*Last: "I pissed it keeps on comingall away" / "my head got lost along the way"*Dead Souls: "someone take these dreams away"*[[The Big Come DownThat's What I Get]]: "it feels like it keeps coming from the insideyou took away all my self confidence"*Something I Can Never Have: "you make this all go away"*[[PleaseI'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]: "and it keeps repeatingthought he lost everything, then he lost a whole lot more" / "where did everything get lost"*Various Methods Of Escape: "I think I could lose myself in here"*[[Dead SoulsThe Persistence Of Loss]]*March Of The Pigs: "I think he's losing it"*All Time Low: "we lost too much along the way"*Piggy: "I lost my shit because of you"*Only: "you might say I'm losing focus"*Me, I'm Not: "and I'm losing control"*My Violent Heart: "they keep calling meand soon you'll lose the will to care"*Somewhat Damaged: "lost my faith in everything"*She's Gone Away

*[[Gave Up]]: "still cannot fix this broken machine"*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am the silencing machine"*[[The Becoming]]: "I beat my machine"*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "this machine is obsolete"

*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "just a fading memory"*[[Hurt]]: "but I remember everything"*[[Memorabilia]]: "I have got to have a memory " / "I can't remember / , give me your a reminder"*[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "I remember sometimes"*You Know What You Are?: "remember where you came from, remember what you are"*Love Is Not Enough: "I can’t remember what it is" / "in your eyes is a place worth remembering" *Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can’t remember how this got started"*The Life You Didn't Lead: "And you are not living in a memory"*Zero-Sum: "do you remember the time we" / "and I know you remember"*While I'm Still Here: "While we can, remember when"*In Two: "I don't believe you can even remember which one you are"*[[I Would For You]]: "So long I can't remember when"*[[Purest Feeling (song)|Purest Feeling]]: "I wish I could remember everything she said"*She's Gone Away: "I can't remember what she came here for" / "I can't remember sometimesmuch of anything anymore"*The Idea Of You: "Remember, I don't wanna remember anymore" ==Naive/naïveté==*That's What I Get: "To think that I was so naïve"*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the prayers of the naïve"*The Hand That Feeds: "So naïve"*I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "The flowers of naïveté"*My Violent Heart: "Standing there in all your grand naïveté"

* [[Piggy]] and : "Nothing can stop me now, I don't care anymore"*Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)* [[Ruiner]] and Ruiner (Version): "You didn't hurt me, nothing can stop me now"* [[Big Man With a A Gun]]: "Me and my fucking gun, nothing can stop me now"* [[La Mer]] and La Mer (Version) : "Rien ne peut m'arrêter maintenant" (Translates to "nothing can stop me now" spoken . Spoken in creole frenchCreole French)* [[Sunspots]]: "And nothing can stop me now, and there is nothing to fear"*We're In This Together: "None of them can stop us now"

===Stop us=Pieces==*[[We're Beside You In This Together (song)|WeTime: "feel the little pieces bleeding through"*And All That Could Have Been: "all these pieces and promises and left behinds"*The Perfect Drug: "it're In This Together]]s not as much fun to pick up the pieces"*Copy Of A: "I am little pieces, pieces that we picked up on the way"*The Big Come Down: "try so hard to make the pieces all fit"*Various Methods Of Escape: "none Little pieces of them can stop us nowa plan"*[[My Violent Heart]]Where Is Everybody?: "You cannot stop us allthe pieces don't fit"*[[Me, Gave Up: "gonna smash myself to pieces"*Now I'm Not]]Nothing: "hey, I smashed myself to pieces"*Branches/Bones: "Still can we stop?make out pieces with the opening sewed shut"

*[[Piggy]]*[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]*[[Last]]: "pigs we get what pigs deserve"*During Heresy: "he made a virus that would kill off all the swine"*God Given: "we are the divine, separated from the swine"*Le Pig studio ==Piss==*Last: "Worn out from giving it up, my soul I pissed it all away"*The Warning: "Your greed, self-importance and your arrogance, you piss it all away"*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"*Terrible Lie: "Hey God, I really don't know who I am in this world of piss" (The lyrics are not included of the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics.) ==Profanity=====Fuck===*Something I Can Never Have: "just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be"*The Only Time: "while the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car"*Wish: "now there’s nothing more fucked up I could do" / "big time, hard line, bad luck, fist fuck" / "I’m the one with this big fucking hole"*[[FragilityFist Fuck]]*March of the Pigs: "I want to fuck it up"*Closer: "I want to fuck you like an animal"*Ruiner: "the only pure thing left in my fucking world is wearing your disease" / "and maybe that fucked me up much more than you’ll ever know"*I Do Not Want This: "I want to fuck everyone in the world"*Big Man With A Gun: "just for the fuck of it" / "I’m hard as fucking steel" / "me and my fucking gun"*Eraser: "fuck you"*The Downward Spiral: "a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash"*Somewhat Damaged: "fuck the rest and stab it dead" / "too fucked up to care anymore" / "where the fuck were you?"*The Wretched: "and God himself will reach his fucking arm through"*Starfuckers, Inc.: "I am every fucking thing and just a little more"*The Big Come Down: "smash it apart just for the fuck of it"*You Know What You Are?: "don’t you fucking know what you are"*Love Is Not Enough: "I’ve gone all this fucking away"*Only: "there is no fucking you"*Getting Smaller: "I haven’t got fucking anything"*Sunspots: "fuck in the fire and we’ll spread all the ashes around"*Not So Pretty Now: "But you're just fading, and fading, and fading, Trent chanted and fading the fuck away"pig*Capital G: "those motherfuckers didn't last too long" before *1,000,000: "blow my fucking brains out"*All Time Low: "your voice in fucking echo stereo" / "just how'd we fucking end up here?"*Now I'm Nothing: "I'm gonna fuck myself up" / "I fucked it all away"*Branches/Bones: "Don't give a fuck anymore"*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "Oh, burn motherfucker"*[[ReptileLess Than]]. This can be heard on : "Too many fucking people" ===Shit===*Piggy: "lost my shit because of you"*Ruiner: "serving his shit to his flies"*Hurt: "I wear this crown of shit"*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"*Where Is Everybody?: "thought I really didn’t give a shit"*Capital G: "Don't give a shit about the temperature in Guatemala"*The Great Destroyer: "listen to the [[And All That Could Have Been shit they pump into your head" *You Know What You Are?: "you better take a good look cause I’m full of shit" ==Purpose==*Copy Of A: "Imprinted with a purpose, a purpose that's become quite clear today"*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I think I used to have a purpose" ==Realization==*Sin: "am I just too stupid to realize"*Gave Up: "it took you to make me realize"*Eraser (haloDenial; Realization)|*The Perfect Drug: "my soul is so afraid to realize"*Please: "and I realize it was all in my head"*Burn: "why did you put it there, did you not realize"*Lights in the Sky: "I’ve come to realize we all have our place"*Love Is Not Enough: "the sooner we realize"*Ruiner: "those that you keep blind will suddenly realize" ==Said and done==*The Great Below: "After all is said and done"*Sunspots: "When everything is said and done"*Zero-Sum: "And All That Could soon it will be all said and done" ==Scab==*Only: "Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab" / "picking at that scab"*Something I Can Never Have Been]] DVD extra performance : "Still picking at this scab" (The lyrics are not included of the final cut of Reptilethe song, but printed out as the original lyrics.)*The Becoming: "He's covered with scabs and he is broken and sore"  ==Sea==*Ringfinger: "deeper than the sea"*La Mer: ("La Mer" is translated from French to literally "The Sea")*[[Le Pig studio]]The Great Below: "staring at the sea" / "ocean pulls me close"*With Teeth (song): "the blackest sea"

*[[Sin (song)|Sin]]*[[Ringfinger]]: "I'm just dying for your sins"*[[Please]]: "all the flesh / , all the sin"

==Skin==*Sin: "it gets under my skin"*Down In It (Skin)*Last: "fresh blood through tired skin"*Suck: "itches my skin right off my back"*Happiness In Slavery: "just words and so much skin"*[[Underneath The Skin]]*March Of The Pigs: "take the skin and peel it back"*Reptile: "just underneath her skin"*I Do Not Want This: "bamboo puncturing this skin"*Somewhat Damaged: "shedding skin succumb defeat"*We're In This Together: "as they peel apart the skin"*I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "his skin just wasn't thick enough"*Deep: "your skin speaks up but your lips couldn't say it"*My Violent Heart: "our bones, our skin"*Vessel: "I let it get under my skin"*Terrible Lie: "my skin is begging you"*Discipline: "I see you left a mark, up and down my skin" *Sunspots: "Peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground"*All Time Low: "you barely even pierced the skin"*In Two: "shed, your precious skin"*The Lovers: "Hot swollen skin want me take me perfect embrace" ===Flesh===*The New Flesh*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]*Ringfinger: "sever flesh and bone"*Suck: "the temple walls are made of flesh"*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"*Please: "all the flesh, all the sin" ==Sky==*All Time Low: "and we will live forever, baby, and stretch across the sky"*Lights In The Sky*Zero-Sum: "they're starting to open up the sky"*Non-Entity: "the sky is not the same shade of blue"*The Wretched: "the clouds will part and the sky cracks open"*The Perfect Drug: "turn off the sun, pull the stars from the sky"*Suck: "there is no God up in the sky tonight"*Down In It: "kinda like a cloud i was up, way up in the sky"*Burning Bright (Field On Fire): "And blacken out the sky and every last one of you" ==Slipping /slipping away==*That’s What I Get: "slipping on the tears"*Deep: "you're slipping through"*[[999,999]]: "How did I slip into (this)?"*The Slip

*[[Now I'm Nothing: "I let it slip away, now I'm nothing"*Last]]: "still feel it all slipping away"*[[The Becoming]]: "I might just slip away"*[[Into The Void (song)|Into The Void]]: "but myself keeps slipping away"*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "I can't watch her slip away"*While I'm Still Here: "Falls apart, slips away"*Running: "Just slip away and disappear"*The Lovers: "I've slipped out of time again" ==Smash==*March Of The Pigs: "I want to smash it up"*Eraser: "smash me"*Gave Up: "Smashed up my sanity, smashed up integrity, smashed up what I believed in, smashed up what's left of me, smashed up my everything, smashed up all that was true, gonna smash myself to pieces"*Now I'm Nothing: "I'm gonna smash myself to pieces"*The Big Come Down: "Smash it apart just for the fuck of it"*Love Is Not Enough: "for you to go and take this and smash it apart" ==Solipsism==*I Do Not Want This: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"*Please: "the world is over and I realize it was all in my head"*Only: "you were never really real to begin with, I just made you up to hurt myself" / "there is no you, there is only me"*Right Where It Belongs: "what if all the world you think you know is an elaborate dream?"*Head Down: "this is all a dream and none of you are real"*The Idea Of You: "None of this is happening"

===Slipping=Stopping==* ''see also: [[ThatRecurring lyrics#Nothing can stop me now|Nothing can stop me now]]'s What '*We’re In This Together: "none of them can stop us now"*Sunspots: "but I Get]]can't stop what has begun"*The Line Begins To Blur: "isn’t anyone stopping me?"*My Violent Heart: "You cannot stop us all"*Me, I’m Not: "slipping on the tearshey, can we stop?"* [[Deep]]Discipline: "youknow once I start I cannot stop myself"*Came Back Haunted: "Just can're slipping throught stop, came back ha-ha-haunted"*The Lovers: "Maybe I could stop it (if I wanted to)"

* [[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]::"Just then a tiny little dot caught my eye it was just about too small to see:But , but I watched it way too long and that dot was pulling me down"* [[Only (song)|Only]]::"Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye" ==That which could have or would have been==*The Wretched: "all the what abouts, and all the might have could have beens"*The Great Below:"for all we could have done, and all that could have been"*And it turned out to be a scabAll That Could Have Been*Every Day Is Exactly The Same:And "I had wish this funny feelingcould have been any other way"*Sunspots:Like "I just knew think I could have been someone"*I Would For You: "There was a place that could have been"*While I'm Still Here: "Oh all the things that might have been" ==Throwing away==*Terrible Lie: "You made me throw it all away"*Gave Up: "give it to me, I throw it's something badaway"*Last: "I want you to throw me away"*Throw This Away ==Used up==*We’re In This Together: "all used and beaten up"*Love Is Not Enough (rehearsal version): "left for dead and all used up"*Head Down: "all used up half way through"

*[[Even Deeper]]: "I woke up today to find myself in the other place"*[[Gave Up]]: "wake up / , wake up in flames"*We’re In This Together: "awake to the sound"*Home: "I awake to find I’m not at all where I should be"*1,000,000: "I wake up on the floor"*Everything: "But this thing that lives inside of me will surely rise and wake"*The Idea Of You: "Wait, wake, breathe, believe"*[[WeNot Anymore]]: "And I can're In This Together (song)|Wet seem to wake up"*[[I Can're In This Togethert Seem To Wake Up 2017]] ==Waving goodbye==*Down In It: "I looked him right in the eye and said goodbye."*Now I'm Nothing: "Wave, wave, wave, wave goodbye"*With Teeth: "awake Wave goodbye to what you were"*Lights in the Sky: "The lights in the soundsky are waving goodbye"*[[Wave Goodbye Tour]]*Came Back Haunted: "I said goodbye"*Everything: "Wave goodbye, wish me well" [[Category: NIN Songs]]