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removed YZ songs except for the leaks. And fuck you to whoever added the "homosexual connotations" bullshit. i hope you die in a fire.
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".

==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 become central pump-house for all human feelings?"
*[[Closer]]: "help me become somebody else"
*[[The Becoming]]: "I am becoming"
*[[Hurt]]: "what have I become, my sweetest friend?"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "I've become impossible"
*[[Even Deeper]]: "do you know how far this has gone? just how damaged have I become"
*[[The Great Below]]: "the destiny I've chose / all becoming clear"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]:
:"that hasn't yet become"
:"come on there has got to be someone / hasn't yet become / so numb / and succumb"
*[[The New Flesh]]: "yes I am becoming" and "I've become"
*[[Me, I'm Not]]: "and it's hard to believe / just, what I've become"

==Beginnings==
*The New Flesh: "and this is how it all begins"
*[[The Wretched]]: "back at the beginning"
*[[Please]]: "this is how it begins"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "ending what had begun"
*The Beginning of the End

==Belonging==
*[[Starfuckers, Inc.]]: "now I belong / I'm one of the chosen ones"
*[[All The 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 (song)|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"

==Bleeding==
*[[Ringfinger]]: "working my hands until they bleed"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "and nothing comes bleeding out of me just like a waterfall I'm drowning in"
*[[Reptile]]: "angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress"
*Where Is Everybody?: "pleading and needing and bleeding and breeding"
*[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]: "will you chew until it bleeds?"
*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
*[[My Violent Heart]]: our blood will stay…our blood / our ways

===Bleeding through===
*''Bleedthrough'' was the working title for ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''
*[[Every Day Is Exactly The Same (song)|Every Day Is Exactly The Same]]: "a little bit comes bleeding through"
*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through"

==Blind==
*[[Heresy]] (Blind)
*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "the blind have been blessed with security"
*[[Suck]]: "once I could see now I am blind"
*[[Ruiner]]: "those that you keep blind will suddenly realize"

==Blurring lines==
*[[The Line Begins To Blur]]
*With Teeth: "the lines begin to blur"

==Broken==
*[[Broken]]
*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"
*[[No, You Don't]]: "broken down see through soul"
*Survivalism: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"

===Bruised===
*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: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"

==Burning==
*[[Burn]]
*Heresy: "burning with your god"
*The Big Come Down: "there is a hate that burns within"
*Non-Entity: "Burning down the world, the ashes and debris"
===Fire===
*Sanctified: "as the words spill out like fire from her lips"
*Gave Up: "wake up in flames"
*Fist Fuck: "can you flow with fire"
*Survivalism: "you see your world on fire"
*[[In This Twilight]]: "it is watching us, and the world we set on fire / do you wonder, if it feels the same?"
*[[My Violent Heart]]: "Into fire you can send us / From the fire we return"

==Cracks==
*You Know What You Are?: "I tried to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*Getting Smaller: "can kind of see out the cracks when I press up to the wall"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if you could look right through the cracks?"

==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 Beginning Of The End]]: "Down on your knees"
*[[The Way Out Is Through]]: "But still we crawl"
*In This Twilight: "as it crawls across a final time"

==Decay==
*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: "but in his voice I heard decay"
*[[Ripe (With Decay)]]

===Rotting===
*Last: "dress up this rotten carcass"
*Somewhat Damaged: "poisoned to my rotten core"

==Disappearing; abandonment; loss; throw away==
*[[Throw This Away]]
*[[Head Like A Hole (song)|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"
*Happiness In Slavery: "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"
*[[Deep]]: "right here make it all disappear"
*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"
:"I can still feel you even so far away"
*Please:
:"I can 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 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"
*And All That Could Have Been:
:"maybe I'll disappear"
:"you won't find me here"
:"take this and run far away"
:"left with a trace of all that was"
*Beside You In Time: "I am all alone this time around"
*Only: "yes, I am alone / but then again I always was"
*Right Where It Belongs: "and you really are alone"
*All The Love In The World: "hiding in the crowd I’m all alone…sometimes I get so lonely I could –"
*The Line Begins To Blur: "the more I disappear
*All The Love In The World: "all the jagged edges disappear / colors all look brighter when you’re near
*My Violent Heart: "we will not go away"
*In This Twilight: "let me take away your doubt"

==Disease==
*Terrible Lie: "my head is filled with disease"
*Happiness In Slavery: "this disease I give to myself"
*Reptile: "my disease my infection"
*Ruiner: "wearing your disease"

==Dragging/pulling/pushing==
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "it was pulling me down"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I drag you down I use you up"
*[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]: "step right up / march / push"
*The Perfect Drug: "pull the stars from the sky" and "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: "they pick and they pull"
*The Great Below: "ocean pulls me close"

==Dreams==
*[[Sanctified]]: "I still dream of lips I never should have kissed"
*Something I Can Never Have: "my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore"
*Terrible Lie: "seems like salvation comes only in our dreams"
*Happiness In Slavery: "don't want your 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"
*Eraser: "dream you"
*Even Deeper: "in a dream I'm a different me"
*Dead Souls: "someone take these dreams away"

==Drowning==
*[[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"

==Exit==
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am an exit"
*The New Flesh: "This is not an exit"

==Eye==
*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"
*[[Kinda I Want To]]: "maybe god will cover up his eyes"
*Last: "look through these blackened eyes"
*Happiness In Slavery: "don't open your eyes"
*Heresy: "he sewed his eyes shut"
*[[Only (song)|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"
*[[Memorabilia]]: "the look in your eye"
*The Beginning of the End: "I got my mark / see it in my eyes"

==Fading==
*Down In It: "what I used to think was me is just a fading memory"
*Something I Can Never Have: "just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be"
*And All That Could Have Been: "tracks will fade in the snow" and "gone, fading, everything"
*[[Non-Entity]]: "now I'm afraid I'm fading out of sight"
*Only: "I'm becoming less defined, as days go by / fading away, well..."
*[[Getting Smaller]]: "I'm afraid I am starting to fade away"
*Beside You In Time: "I can feel me start to fade away"
*[[Not So Pretty Now]]: But your just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading away"

==Flesh==
*The New Flesh
*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]
*Terrible Lie: "my skin is begging you"
*Sin: "it gets under my skin"
*Ringfinger: "sever flesh and bone"
*Happiness In Slavery: "the temple walls are made of flesh"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught"

==Get me out of here==
*Fist Fuck
*Deep

==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"
*Maybe Just Once: "Oh God, what's coming to me?"
*Right Where it Belongs: "Your devils and your gods, all the living and the dead"
*Ringfinger: "You left me nailed hanging like Jesus on this cross"
*Suck: "There is no God up in the sky tonight"
*Terrible Lie: "Hey God!"
*The Wretched: "and God himself will reach his fucking arm through"
*The Beginning of the End: "God helps the ones who can help themselves"
*God Given

==Head==
*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"
*Happiness In Slavery: "I bow my head to confess"
*Last: "my head got lost along the way"
*[[Big Man With A Gun]]: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"
*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: "I got my head but my head is unraveling"
*Somewhat Damaged: "then my head fell apart"
*[[Into The Void (song)|Into The Void]]: "pictures in my head of the final destination"
*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: "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"

==Hiding==
*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: "tries so hard to hide"
*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"

==Holes==
*Head Like A Hole
*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: "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: "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"

==How it feels==
*Happiness In Slavery: "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"
*Memorabilia: "I know what it feels like"
*The Wretched: "now you know this is what it feels"
*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 feel it coming / I have to apologise for the way I feel"
*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"

==Insects==
*All The Love In The World: "Watching all the insects march along"
*Reptile: "She spreads herself wide open to let the insects in"

==It keeps coming==
*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"

==Knees (down on or getting up off)==
*The Hand That Feeds: "will you get up off your knees"
*The Beginning of the End: "down on your knees / you’ll be left behind"
*My Violent Heart: "On hands and knees
*March Of The Pigs: "Crawl right up on your knees"
*My Violent Heart: "On hands and knees, we crawl"
*The Beginning Of The End: "Down on your knees"

==Machines==
*[[Pretty Hate Machine]]
*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"

==Memory==
*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 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"

==Nothing can stop me now==
* Piggy and Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
* Ruiner and Ruiner (Version)
* Big Man With A Gun
* [[La Mer]] and La Mer (Version) ("nothing can stop me now" spoken in creole french)
* [[Sunspots]]

==Pigs==
*Piggy
*March Of The Pigs
*Last: "pigs we get what pigs deserve"
*Heresy: "he made a virus that would kill off all the swine"
*During [[Fragility]], Trent chanted "pig" before Reptile. This can be heard on the [[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]] DVD extra performance of Reptile.
*[[Le Pig studio]]

==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
*March of the Pigs: I want to fuck it up
*Closer: I wanna fuck you like an animal
*The 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
Shit -
*Piggy: lost my shit because of you
*The Ruiner: serving his shit to the flies
*Hurt: I wear this crown of shit
*The Wretched: stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss
*Where Is Everybody: though I really didn’t give a shit
*You Know What You Are: you better take a good look cause I’m full of shit
*The Wretched: stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss

==Realization==
*Sin: "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 head"

==Sin==
*Sin
*Ringfinger: "I'm just dying for your sins"
*Please: "all the flesh / all the sin"

==Slipping==
* That’s What I Get: "slipping on the tears"
* Deep: "you're slipping through"

===Slipping away===
*[[Slipping Away]]
*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"
*The Becoming: "I might just slip away"
*Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away"
*The Fragile: "I can't watch her slip away"

==Skin==
*Down In It (Skin)
*Last: "fresh blood through tired skin"
*Happiness In Slavery: "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"
*Please: "all the flesh all the sin"
*[[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"

==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 real to begin with / i just made you up..." and "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?"

==Stopping==
*We’re In This Together: "none of them can stop us now"
*Sunspots: "but I 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: "hey, can we stop?"

==Tiny little dot==
* Down In It:
:Just then a tiny little dot caught my eye it was just about too small to see
:But I watched it way too long and that dot was pulling me down
* Only:
:Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye
:And it turned out to be a scab
:And I had this funny feeling
:Like I just knew it's something bad

==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 All That Could Have Been
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I wish this could have been any other way"
*La Mer: "I think I could have been someone"
*Sunspots: "I think I could have been someone / but I can’t stop what has begun"

==Virus==
*Heresy: he made a virus to kill off all the swine
*The Warning: you’ve become a virus / that has eaten up its host

==Waking up==
*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"