| Nine Inch Nails – March of the Pigs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I went to three NIN concerts in 2008 and braved the pit, and when this song would come on, every time it struck fear and dread in my heart. And right at the beginning when Trent says "come on you fucking pigs".....yeah, it's about all of us in the crowd. :) |
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| Nine Inch Nails – 1,000,000 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Flic, I think you've summed it up perfectly. :) | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Sunspots Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I also think this is about drugs. It's easy to misinterpret it as a song about the euphoria of being with someone, but like others here have mentioned before, and since the "she" throughout the rest of this album is really referring to a drug, this song is probably not about a girl. To me the first verse is like, ok, you've been sober for a while and feel like shit, you know you shouldn't get high but kinda helpless to the need. The rest of the song is about all the reasons it was (and still would be) awesome to just give in, feel unstoppable, feel alive again, feel no fear. You're sorry you feel this way but this makes you feel real, kills all the bad stuff, why would you want to go back to being that lame person you were before you found this? The exception is the last two verses, which if you think about it would be a really lame way to end a love song. He's basically saying after all this shit that this addiction has caused there is no other choice but to quit, just sit there and deal with it. Believe me, cocaine really is a hell of a drug. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – 1,000,000 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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One image from the past comes to mind at this part: "with your face in the trough wait your turn while they finish you off" Pigs. Piggies lined up waiting to go to slaughter. Sound familiar? And yes, the Hurt allusion is clear: "if I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way." So in this new song, to me it seems like he's saying that he's done just that, he kept himself and started things over a million miles away from where he once was, but now what?? |
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| Nine Inch Nails – March of the Pigs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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^^lolz Read through some of the comments made about this song and the intent behind the lyrics becomes inherently clear: "maybe afraid of it let's discredit it let's pick away at it I want to watch it come down 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" Watch one of the DVDs or go to a NIN concert and before this song is played, TR makes it clear who the pigs are. Commenting on this song is like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now doesn't that make you feel better? |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Just Like You Imagined Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Are you serious? lol ;P | |
| Porcelain and the Tramps – I Feel Perfect Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is an awesome fucking song | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Frail Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This album seems to get pushed to the side by the mainstream, which is really a shame. This should be ranked beside Pink Floyd's "The Wall". |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Meet Your Master Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Kinda like a grown-up version of "Head Like A Hole" | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Mark Has Been Made Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Anyone ever see "Man on Fire"? This was perfect in that movie, in the way that character acted and felt. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Mark Has Been Made Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Anyone ever see "Man on Fire"? This was perfect in that movie, in the way that character acted and felt. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Where Is Everybody? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Brink, you see it in the same way I do. To me, the lyrics kind of read like a therapy session transcript. This song is about everyone else having "normal" lives (getting married, having kids, etc.), him questioning why his life isn't like that, if that is really even what life is supposed to be, and if he could/should/would even be capable of leading that life. More importantly, the phrase "where is everybody?" is kind of like when you were younger, and you and your friends all talk about these great plans for your lives, and you will always stick together, and how you will never be this way or never do that...........and then one day years later you look around and realize that none of those friends are with you, and nothing turned out the way everyone thought it would, and everyone became the very thing they swore they would not---Except you. You think they are the freaks, and they probably think the same of you, but you always wonder about the life you didn't lead... My 10 year high school reunion is next month, and I am the only person out of my friends back then who didn't get immediately pregnant, married, divorced, pregnant again, or die. I didn't "succumb" to life the way they did and said they would never do. In a strange way I wonder why that life wasn't meant for me , or if I could even live a "normal" life like theirs. Sorry this is so long :) |
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