| Nine Inch Nails – Down in It Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| ok, first of all, I think the song could be about heroin use. Secondly, what I get from it is that he feels like he is above everything and everyone, or he feels like he was doing so great, but now, he is down with everybody else, and just like the people he used to look down on, and he has fallen from a great position. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Ringfinger Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The meaning I get from it is very different from what other people have said. When I listen to it, I think of it not really only in relationship terms but also in terms of people like bosses and family. The first part refers to I try as hard as I can to please you and nothing I ever do is good enough for you. And I keep on being your bitch because I need something from you. The promise carved in stone represents an expectation, either of working at a certain level, or an unspoken binding contract to be what someone wants you to be. Carved in stone deeper than the sea means it is a really limiting promise that basically you can't get away from, and that you can't get rid of. I think of the sever flesh and blood and offer it to me as representing that this bossy person with high expectations wants him/the narrator to actually go so far as to give up part of their body, as in they don't care about you they just want a warm body to fill the place they want someone to fill. You leave me hanging like jesus on the cross dying for your sins and aiding the cause means that the controlling person's issues are what is making them have this need to use this person for work or to fill a certain role,and they are only enabling them, but they can't get off the cross. wrap my eyes in bandages means the person is deceiving him. confessions I see through means that he knows he's being deceived. I get everything I want when I get part of you is the other controlling person speaking to the narrator, who basically wants to own him. Devil's flesh and bone means the controlling person is like the devil. |
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