| Nine Inch Nails – Head Down Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'd like to think that Trent wouldn't continue to always write about becoming his new self, but hell, it's a daily struggle. All addicts struggle everyday. So to me, Trent is realizing that he can't just stay away from drugs and alcohol. He has to deal with the demons that put him there so he doesn't relapse. Insecurity and self-hate is what fueled his addiction. So now, in 2008/2009, Trent is overcoming it every day. He can't keep his 'head down', he can't just run away from bars or friends who still smoke. He can't escape into a dark hole because he's scared he'll relapse. He has to take the risk, he has to face the hate. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Lights in the Sky Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Are you fucking kidding me? Really? Look, I'll admit that I don't have an honest grasp on what this song is about. I have an idea, but I don't feel confident about it. However, I feel I can safely say that it is a bunch of unimaginative bullshit that this has some Year Zero or alien reference. Are you telling me that just because Trent is talking about lights in the sky, he must be drawing up some Steven Speilberg E.T. phone home shit? Ever heard of thinking outside the box? And here's why I have good reason to bitch about this thinking: Why would Trent write a soft, intimate, pained, piano-based song about aliens? Or even the government? Don't you think he'd save that for something hard and loud? And Year Zero is over, people. Although Trent does focus on drugs & being new and sober, I don't think he's gonna dwell on Year Zero anymore, especially not on an album that is so centered around self-discipline into his new self and a new artist. I'm just being a bitch because I can't believe people will take one line concerning lights in a sky and be like "oh aliens." Thank you, America. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Terrible Lie Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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He's questioning his faith. Everyone here knows that Trent doesn't understand being boxed in by organized religion. The song is coming from someone who did all that God told him to do and bad things happened anyway, so he doesn't understand why God is punishing him. How many times has this happened? Many. Trent's being honest about it. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Sin Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it's about a guy who gave everything, including first sexual experiences, to a girl. And she ended up breaking his heart. It reads like a teenage romance thing- you know how you always dwell on hows you shared something specially, sexually, with your first love? Like you give him/her your virginity and that makes the ugly break up hurt worse? "you give me the reason you give me the control you give me the anger you give me the nerve" to me, it's like he's saying that she's the first one to drive him so crazy he could do something threatening to her for breaking his heart. doesn't this song sound threatening to you? it does a little bit to me. if not, menacing at least. so basically, he gave this girl everything, and she turned around and treated him like shit. the lyrics don't say it, but the sound of it does to me. it sounds angry and vengeful and resentful. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – All the Love in the World Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I feel like he's asking why all these sell-out copy cat celebs and bands get 'all the love in the world'. he's said so many times that NIN isn't about being the greatest or most popular, but if i were an honest musician and person, i'd feel resentful too that i get nothing but shit back from the media and what not, when all along i'm being the most real, genuine, organic human being out there among them. For example... "watching all the insects crawl along know right there they belong" like radio bands and superficial media-whore celebs know exactly where they are supposed to be in, lining up like 'pigs' and 'insects' for the cameras. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Echoplex Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I made a mistake. it's "YOU chip away" not "they". I thought it was "they" chip away... Still, though. He's trying to find himself when the fans won't allow him. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Echoplex Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I interpret it as his feelings about how the fans perceive him. "They chip away the old version of you" Like the fans are trying to adjust to the new him, or find what they like in him, is it still there? He's said so many times that people always think they know what he's talking about, and he's like, "no...". They read too much into something, or they think that the use of 'pig' in TDS was a reference to the house he lived in (the Tate murders). So, wherever he is, the studio, or whatever, he's "safe in here, irrelevant" and thinks about how people are going to read into every single little thing he said and he doesn't want that because he IS a normal guy but to everyone else he's a walking song to be chipped away at. His voice "just echoes off these walls". Like, everything he said is going to be repeated but it's just an echoing lie. It gets bounced back and forth and butchered and skewed. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Normally I would agree, but I don't think even Trent Reznor can continue to make so many songs about drug addiction. With the album 'With Teeth' he was trying to acknowledge the shakiness of his new sober ground but still have the strength to branch out and break through. | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Everyone here says either depression or drugs, couldn't it be about depression contributing to the downhill addiction of drugs? "A slit in my throat, it's all I ever" Knew? All Anthony has known is drug use and therefore, self-infliction? And also, through his denial he doesn't believe its bad? And yet he knows it's contributing to his downfall, and therefore 'how long will he slide?' Throughout the years of Anthony's drug use, he's hurt a lot of people. His drug use has pushed many away and he misses them, and yet it doesn't stop his continuation to use. He heard an ex-girlfriend's voice, or Hillel's voice (Hillel died of an overdose), through a photograph, and it brought up the good times he's missed out on. "Pour my life into a paper cup" makes me thinks of those cups of coffee they drink at AA. As everyone here probably knows, former addicts smoke and typically drink coffee. And he pours his life into it? Like he spills his guts in AA meetings? The things about still being a slut makes me think of his habit of combining one-night stands and drugs or heroin/sex marathons with girlfriends. Scarlet starlet could be an additional reference to the women he's used with and who he'll end up wronging, but could it also be the blood he bleeds when he injects? "Push the trigger and pull the thread" could be saying he's doing himself in, he's continuing his cycle of self-harm and he's finishing the work of it. The part to me that REALLY screams out drug use is "turn me on take me for a hard ride burn me out leave me on the otherside i yell it and tell it it's not a friend i tear it down and its born again" "Turn me on take me for a hard ride burn me out leave me on the otherside "I yell it and tell it it's not a friend" He knows that drug use is a detriment to him "I tear it down... and its born again" Anthony had several sober breaks but couldn't help but relapse Songs aren't meant to have different meanings. This song easily could be interpreted into a message of death, depression, and drugs, which are all similar relations anyway. Drugs take him for a hard life |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Gave Up Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think it could definitely be a song about relationships, but does anyone else think it could be a statement about the cult and product of the major labels? around this time he was struggling with that. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – We're in This Together Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I feel like he's saying to his girl, "No, you're not gonna desert me on this. Yeah, it sucks right now, but you can't just give up. Yeah, they're gonna make it tough on us but we've been through too much for you to just walk away, and I won't be the only to save us, you're gonna have to work on this relationship, too." And then the video makes me feel like it's a guy anthem, 'cause it's only guys, I think, running around in this homogenous mass. They're all screaming this anthem but I guess Trent is the only one left with hope? He wakes up and everyone else is dead. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Piggy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Trent Reznor lived in the house Sharon Tate was killed in. If you don't know, her murderers wrote 'Pig' in her blood on the door. Trent Reznor wrote 'The Downward Spiral' (I believe it was this album) from that house. The feeling of the song feels like someone was tripping out, just like the killers who were almost perpetually high. "Black and blue and broken bones you left me here alone"= the killers left Sharon and the others to die. Also, the lyrics "Nothing going to stop me now 'cause I don't care anymore". Susan Atkins told Sharon, who was begging for her life, that she's going to kill her and there's not a thing she can do to stop it. Now, I'm pretty sure that this wasn't the song was actually written about that but it is how I interpreted it. |
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