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| BPM = 100| versions = We're In This Together<br>We're In This Together (Instrumental) (Apple Music)<br>We're In This Together (Instrumental) (''Deviations 1'')<br>We're In This Together (Radio Edit)<br>We're In This Together (Short Edit)<br>We're In This Together (Mark Pellington Video Version)

}}'''"We're In This Together"''' is the fifth track on the Left disc of ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]].'' It was also released as a [[We're In This Together (halo)|single]], receiving the designation of Halo 15. According to [[Keith Hillebrandt]], and is among the rarest "whole song started from something (Reznor) actually played at the end of halosanother track. He wrote it up into an entirely new song." [http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/xart78.shtml]

===Interpretation===The song is in some ways different from most other [[Nine Inch NailsTrent Reznor]] commented on the creation of the song in a VIVA 2 Magazine interview:<blockquote>"When I wrote that song it was one of the last songsfor the record. I like the obviousness of the track but I was fearful of the obviousness of the track and in a record that I think is pretty dense and somewhat challenging to get through, specifically I didn't want a song that was too obviously the hit single. Of all the tracks on that album I think that was the hardest to arrange and mix, because if it was mixed poorly, it sounded too obvious in its theme the context of devotionthe record, while still maintaining an air and at this point we were very aware of the context of the record. So what I learned from the process of doing that was the vocal track I would have thrown out that was out of tune and my voice was breaking up was the one that I needed to use, because it added a desperation as that made the whole mood of the songfeel right."[http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/xint52.shtml]</blockquote> [[Image:Fragile_diary_062599_WITT.jpg‎|thumb|Journal entry from ''The Fragile''s narrator clings to sessions in 1999 published on nin.com detailing the overhaul of the only thing, or only person left intro of "We're in This Together."]] [[Image:Fragile_diary_062999_WITT2.jpg‎|thumb|Journal entry from ''The Fragile'' sessions in 1999 published on nin.com detailing more work on "We're in the oppressive world around him that This Together."means anything]] [[Image:WITT_protools.jpg|thumb|Screenshot of ProTools session from "We're In This Together"published on nin.com during ''The Fragile'' era.]]

This is the original album version, found on ''The Fragile'' , yellow and all parts green discs of ''We're In This Together'' and Australian ''Into The Void.'' Beginning out of the ending of "[[The Wretched]]" with a machine-like, rhythmic sound collage, it builds in volume and intensity but stops to introduce the main rhythmic thrust of the song, a distorted and staccato guitar riff that runs through all of the verses. After the drums and wah guitar enter, Reznor begins yelling the first verse abrasively. The chorus is driven by loud, distorted and constant guitars and live drums accompanying more melodic and higher-pitched yelling by Reznor. After a second verse and chorus, a driving bridge featuring a wah guitar solo and walls of fluent guitars leads into a final chorus. A descending guitar riff from this chorus continues through the mellow coda of the song, a section which also shares the three-note motif used in "[[The Great Below]]" and the piano theme motif of "[[La Mer]]." It eventually gives way to the opening e-bow guitar line of "[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]." On the singlesvinyl version, the segues segue from "The Wretched" (in the beginning) is removed; on the singles, the song is completely cropped from segues at the beginning and ending. An alternate version of the introduction was indexed separately and titled "[[Missing Places]]"on ''The Fragile" : Deviations 1.'' ===We're In This Together (Instrumental) (Apple Music)==='''''Running Time: 7:36''''' Released exclusively through Apple Music, this instrumental version also has an extended ending. ===We're In This Together (Instrumental) (at the end''Deviations 1'') have been removed==='''''Running Time: 6:50''''' Released exclusively on ''The Fragile: Deviations 1'', this version does not contain its original intro and is instead placed after an alternate intro entitled "Missing Places".

'''''Running Time: 5:17''''' In this edit, the intro is shortened and the coda is significantly shortened; it was released on part 2 of its single.

'''''Running Time: 4:21''''' This was is found only on the promo, and begins with the bridge an instrumental chorus before going to the first verse. The coda is shortened even more as wellthan the other radio edit. ===We're In This Together (Mark Pellington Video Version)===The full length version of the music video for the song extends its introduction, making the song run approximately 7:52. Various new layers of ambient sounds and drones begin the song, extending the repeated rhythmic guitar motif before the drums kick in. It also features a female voice whispering "even after everything" and "nothing else" during the initial noise loop pattern.

[[Image:WITTstill.jpg|thumb|Screenshot from the "We're In This Together" video]]The [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music video ]] for this song first aired in 1999, and was directed by [[Mark Pellington]]. It shows [[Trent Reznor]] and an army of black-clad people running frantically through empty buildings, streets, and eventually a desolate field where everyone except Reznor had disappeared. The video was filmed on location in Guadalajara, Mexico. Two different edits of the video were made: the version released to video outlets, and an extended version edited by Mark Pellington. The extended version, clocking in at nearly 8 minutes, also features an extended intro unique to the video.

==Live==On the meaning of the music video, Reznor states in the aforementioned VIVA 2 interview:Although <blockquote>"WeWhen I came to do the video for it I tried to make the song uglier than it would have been if you just heard it and the idea of a tragedy or situation where everything is happening too fast, you're In This Together" is a single, it was not performed live aware of where you're at until the [[Performance 2007]] tour, where it entered the setlists alongside [[Last]], another never before played song's too late and you might be caught up in something you're not sure about but you're blindly embracing this comfort of security, This that was a dream come true the global idea for many fansthat."</blockquote>

The song He also states in the same interview the difficulty in making it:<blockquote>"There was good artistic communication until the very end when I got the edit back and got into a situation where what I saw in my head wasn't on the screen. It comes down to a bigger problem which is performed I've taken over every aspect of the recording process... But in the world of video, I don't know how to do that yet, I haven't directed my own videos so I have to embrace another artists ideals and hope that they see my vision. On this particular one when I got to the end I realized his vision wasn't mine and we tried to reach a lower keycommon ground and heads butted, presumably due and it amounted to me editing the video by myself. There's a slightly unpleasant taste in the vocal strain required to sing whole process of that thing but it as made me learn it appears in 's time to read the albummanual for my video camera and just do that too."</blockquote>

The song debuted at ==Live==Although "We're In This Together" is a single, it was not performed live until the [[Performance 2007/02/11 Lisbon, Portugal|Lisbon, Portugal]]tour. This song is performed in a lower key, and was played (at least) at three other showspresumably due to the vocal strain required to sing it as it appears in the album.

The piano solo outro is greatly expanded in the live versionssong debuted at [[2007/02/11 Lisbon, Portugal|Lisbon, Portugal]], and was played at (at least) three other shows.

*[http://vimeo.com/3703443 "We're In This Together" music video (LP version)]*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtwQf9iJTmg 9o7eEjMlkCI "We're In This Together" extended music video]*[http://theninhotline.net/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=827 Interview] with VIVA 2 Magazine*[http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/marvel/avengers/ ''The Avengers'' film trailer]