| Nine Inch Nails – The Great Collapse Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| The lyrics conflict with the sound, that's why it was made into a b-side. The instrumental sound and title give inklings of an addiction relapse, which is not what the lyrics imply. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Demon Seed Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think it makes most sense if you interpret the previous three songs in conjunction with this. I know, a tetralogy seems outlandish, but hear me out here. So it begins with Lights in the Sky, which can easily be interpreted to be about sacrificing your own love to stay with a significant other who has lost feelings for you. I'm not going to go deep into this, because it's not the songs page. Moving on. Based on that, Corona Radiata can be interpreted as the feeling of pretending to consign yourself and be okay with the fact that you love someone who doesn't love you back. It haunts you. Seriously, its something I've been through. It's always in the back of your mind, you dwell on it. Following that, The Four of us are Dying has a sound that indicates (to me at least) self loathing. Sort of wrestling with yourself about going back on your own word. The narrator can't handle the relationship any more. He keeps pushing down his reservations though. They manifest in Demon Seed... In Demon Seed, he has hit the breaking point. He can't handle his own self loathing or his resentment of his "Love". This starts to bleed out in a destructive manner. Whether physical abuse, self harm, or just straight up homo/suicide, is open for interpretation. But something very destructive has come of this and he just doesn't care about the consequences anymore. To me, The Slip is almost an alternative take on The Downward Spiral. This time it's being less about drugs, and more about mental illness, I.e. bipolar disorder and depression |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Metal Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The song gives me the vague impression that it's about a societal system that promotes nationalism and callousness. The society is represented by the factory or "Building where they make us grow", where the products of said society are convinced that the ideology that is being instilled in them is a positive thing, evidenced by the following stanzas. "The sound of metal I want to be you I should learn to be a man Like you" "I need my treatment it's tomorrow they send me Singing "I am an American" Do you?" I don't think that second one is meant to be a direct prod at America, but more of an example of national pride in general. To be honest, the songs underlying message is unusually vague. The rest of the lines fit, and work with my interpretation, but only in so far as they don't contradict it. Those are the only two stanzas that really reveal a meaning in my opinion. Any other ideas? I saw somebody (demeter) mention something about AI, which was a really interesting idea. That would make the song pretty conceptual, which isn't something outside of the pervue of Trents portfolio, but certainly isn't something he does often. Having said that, he didn't write the song, so anything goes, really. |
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