This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
There is a game I play
Try to make myself okay
Try so hard to make the pieces all fit
Smash it apart
Just for the fuck of it
Bye bye, ooh
Got to get back to the bottom (bye bye, ooh)
The big come down isn't that what you wanted? (Bye, bye, ooh)
Find a place with the failed and forgotten (bye bye, ooh)
Isn't that really what you wanted now?
There is no place I can go
There is no way I can hide
It feels like it keeps coming from the inside
There is a hate that burns within
The most desperate place I have ever been
Try to get back to where I'm from
The closer I get, the worse it becomes
The closer I get, the worse it becomes
There is no place I can go
There is no way I can hide
It feels like it keeps coming from the inside
Try to make myself okay
Try so hard to make the pieces all fit
Smash it apart
Just for the fuck of it
Bye bye, ooh
Got to get back to the bottom (bye bye, ooh)
The big come down isn't that what you wanted? (Bye, bye, ooh)
Find a place with the failed and forgotten (bye bye, ooh)
Isn't that really what you wanted now?
There is no place I can go
There is no way I can hide
It feels like it keeps coming from the inside
There is a hate that burns within
The most desperate place I have ever been
Try to get back to where I'm from
The closer I get, the worse it becomes
The closer I get, the worse it becomes
There is no place I can go
There is no way I can hide
It feels like it keeps coming from the inside
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33
The Big Come Down Lyrics as written by Trent Reznor
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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"There is a game I play Try to make myself okay"
The game is him using some drug in order to feel better/cope with his problems.
"Try so hard to make the pieces all fit Smash it apart Just for the fuck of it"
He "tries" to get clean, but ends up going back to it, which in essence destroys all his progress and makes his efforts to get clean in vain.
The chorus I think is him being sort of sarcastic or mocking. He's saying goodbye to happiness and prosperity and health and all that. He very well could be speaking to other people as "Lodair" suggests, or he could be talking to himself. He's basically questioning why he chooses to go back again and again.
"There is a hate that burns within The most desperate place I have ever been"
Pretty self-explanatory. The "most desperate place" being withdrawal/feinding for more.
"Try to get back to where I'm from The closer I get the worse it becomes The closer I get the worse it becomes"
I think this is referring to his past and wanting to resolve whatever issues he has from it. However, the closer he gets to truly facing these problems and resolving them, the more painful and unbearable it is, and he ends up going back to drugs for solace and comfort and escape.