| Nine Inch Nails – Where Is Everybody? Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think this song is about someone who wants to conform to society, but can't. He wants to believe that there are other people like him, who can't conform and are therfore different from the rest of society. "Where is Everybody?" implies that he is searching for these people, but can't find them. Its a conformist's anti-conformist song, if you know what i mean, and an excuse for being different. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Where Is Everybody? Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think this song is about someone who wants to conform to society, but can't. He wants to believe that there are other people like him, who can't conform and are therfore different from the rest of society. "Where is Everybody?" implies that he is searching for these people, but can't find them. Its a conformist's anti-conformist song, if you know what i mean, and an excuse for being different. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Great Below Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| amazing song. its incredible how trent captures "the sound of death" in this song. the narrator questions his life, and how he lived it, realizing now that every moment was precious, and the petty problems we though we had truly meant nothing in the end. winner or loser in life, we all still die. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Great Below Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| amazing song. its incredible how trent captures "the sound of death" in this song. the narrator questions his life, and how he lived it, realizing now that every moment was precious, and the petty problems we though we had truly meant nothing in the end. winner or loser in life, we all still die. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – La Mer Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| the title sums up the whole song. "la mer" the sea, vast, beautiful, mysterious, uncontrollable, and unpredictable.I love the line "nothing can stop me now", classic trent. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Ruiner Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think this is the part of the story where the character's alternate personality manifests itself in an attempt to take control. It tries to destroy the character by calling him a "ruiner".The interesting thing in my opinion is that the alternate personality is almost its own entity, referring to the charcter as "you" and referring to itself as "me." at the end of the song, it almost takes control of the character, saying "you didn't hurt me, nothing can hurt me." He slowly begins to transform. However, the chracter regains himself at the last second, which is why the song ends mid sentence and goes into "the becoming", in which the character talks about his struggle. By the way, it sounds like at the very beginning of the "you didn't hurt me, nothing can hurt me" lines he's saying "I didn't hurt me, nothing can hurt me" about two times until it reverts to "you". Anybody agree? |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Non Entity Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| These great songs are so hard to find! Amazing piano. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The New Flesh Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| So messed up, yet so good. The lyrics remind me of The Becoming from The Downward Spiral | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Ripe (With Decay) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It's a good song, i just think it was a bad way to end the fragile. The Downward Spiral and With Teeth had great endings, but this one, not so much. I would have prefered something like The Great Below. Just my opinion | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Perfect Drug Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I love the guitar at the end of this song. Absolutely beautiful. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Only Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Damn best music video I've ever seen. The animation is incredible! | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Gives me the chills every time. The character decides to kill himself, releasing all his pain and suffering. As the human side of him cries in agony, the machine part of him taunts him he couldn't believe how easy it was he put the gun into his face bang (so much blood for such a tiny little hole) problems do have solutions, you know a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash the machine looks down upon the character. As he taunts, he begins to fade away, signalling the end to the characters struggle. He has finally ended the machine. He can no longer hurt others. That scream at the beginning always gets me |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Piggy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| And by the way, I definetly agree with you DoctorGloom. People seem to take Trent's lyrics way to literally. Trent uses symbolism and metaphors in his songs. I dont think he's talking about being drunk and talking to pigs or getting the crap beaten out of him because he is a drug dealer | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Piggy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| The "Downward Spiral" is a story, and this is the beginning of it. The main character has suffered some sort of emotional detachment from someone, possibly in a break up (which is what I thinK) and is depressed. The "pig" or "piggy" is that person, who he blames for all his problems and feelings. He feels betrayed, abandend, and alone. Through this experience he creates "the machine", an almost mental alternate personality that feels no pain, and has no emotion. It's roots lie here, as he being saying "nothing can stop me now", implying that he has become emotionally detached. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Happiness in Slavery Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| The slave in the song believes himself to be an individual. He still believes in a world where he can be an individual. He is beaten down by society, and chained to the wall so as to restrain him. The lyrics containing "Don't open your eyes..." represents an outside voice telling the slave not open his eyes so as to realize that his struggle is in vain, that he will "still be chained to that wall" no matter what he does. I think it's a look at an Individual from a social Conformist's point of view. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – March of the Pigs Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The society of the "pigs" in this song represents our own society. The main character sees society as one of vicious conformity, in which those that are different are brutally alienated and destroyed mentally and physically. I want a little bit I want a piece of it I think he's losing it I want to watch it come down don't like the look of it don't like the taste of it don't like the smell of it I want to watch it come down maybe afraid of it let's discredit it let's pick away at it I want to watch it come down These lyrics represent the pigs talking about the one who is different, or as the main character sees it, himself. They want to "watch it come down" because they "don't like the look of it, don't like the tast of it, don't like the smell of it." shove it up inside surprise! lies stains like the blood on your teeth bite chew suck (away the tender parts) I want to break it up I want to smash it up I want to fuck it up I want to watch it come down These lyrics represent the character's resistance to the "pigs". He exposes the "pigs" for what they really are. He mimmicks the "pigs" by saying "I want to watch it come down". A clash of ideals: Conformity vs. Individuality all the pigs are all lined up I give you all that you want take the skin and peel it back but doesn't it make you feel better? These lyrics represent the realization of conformity as an escape from the pain inflicted by the "pigs". "Take the skin and peel it back" means that the "pigs" are tearing away what he really his and replacing it with something that will "make you feel better." the pigs have won tonight they can all sleep soundly and everything is all right Eventually the character realizes that he cannot defeat the "pigs". The "pigs", having defeated their greatest threat, something different from them, "can all sleep soundly" because now "everything is alright". That's at least the way I see it. Hope it helps |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Eraser Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think that the character, after his epihany in "A Warm Place", realizes the harm he has done, especially to the female character of the story, and believes that death is the only solution to stopping the machine from assuming total control. He wants the girl to kill him, believing she is justified in doing so. This is the last straw for her, however, and she runs away, which leads to "Reptile", the character's search for her, and his realization that the only way to stop the maching is for him to do it himself. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – I Do Not Want This Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I believe that at this point in the album, the main character is losing to the machine in his mind. He attempts to talk with the female charcter in the story about his coming defeat, and his depression, but when she tries to console him, he lashes out at her, believing her to be another "pig" of societym and therefore a conformist who doesn't understand. By the end of the song, he finally is defeated, as the machine assumes control, thus the change in tone, and the strange machine like sound of Trent's voice. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – I Do Not Want This Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Although this is not one of my favorite NIN songs, i've always had a personal connection with it. Sadly enough, I can relate. | |
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