The Line Begins to Blur

Anyone who thinks this song, or any of the new songs suck have their heads up their ass. Go on and whine about how all your favorite bands used to be cool before they sold out or whatever (yes i mean you fluid delusions). The plain and simple fact is that Trent is the biggest perfectionist in the music industry and anything that is released under the NIN banner is going to be something that hes fretted over every single detail with. the fact that your own personal taste in music has come to conflict with trent's only means that you're a sad angry little person who isn't able to let go of his teen angst. Anyone who's seen this song live care to bash it??? I didn't think so.

Why the bloody hell are you guys saying it's a political song? Obviously, if you look at the lyrics, its about a personal struggle.

none of you know what you're talking about...

It's a great song.

Gives me hope for With Teeth.

Considering that he mentions a blurring of lines in with teeth, a song which is most likely about his struggle with drugs could this be about a relapse.

I would say that it could also work as a semi political song considering that Year Zero is totally political. It could be about how confusing it is today because no politican today will ever tell the truth DEMOCRAT or REPUBLICAN, their both too busy fighting each other leaving the average citizen confused as to who they really believe or why they really care.

Good points by both, Schizima and PCS153. Year Zero IS pure political and With Teeth in my opinion is purely drug related. However, I think that EVERY single song that Trent Reznor ever produced has something to do with Philosphy. I don;t remember who I got this from, but theres a philosphy that Time and Reality is a Pattern, and we are all Threads in this Weave of Life. Notice how the logo for With_Teeth is tearing apart, its like reality is tearing apart or tahts what Trent Reznor must be feeling considering his drug abuse. But what IS reality? Each one us percieves things in a differnt way, each on of us is lviing in their own version of reality. Another great philsphy is that i can relate to Trent Reznor's song Right WHere it Belongs is how do we know that is isnt an elobrate dream. you could be in a coma right now, and all you know is just a hallucination. In the end, reality of the truth is Lies. A quote i myself amde up is: "The Truth is merely a Lie that the majority agree on." This emanigns that we can never know for sure what is and what is not, one person can say the sky is orange at daytime, while 99.9999999% of the world says its blue. does that mean its blue? no. the one person can be right, we can all be colour blind. Sorry, got dragged away with ym philsohy again, but Trent Reznor is a fucking genius philosher. Btw, the person who wrote taht hes talking about clothing ripping apart, how the fuck do u breathe on your own? Diind;t know people that stupid esist. Fuckign waste of sperm, go run into a knife, ur useless. Im gonna repost this on The Line Begins to Blur, Beside You in Time, and Right Where ti Belongs, which are three sperate philosphies linked together.

It's about Cocaine Addiction

Some of the songs on this album have this very heavy feeling of apathy about them (Every Day is Exactly the Same), this one included.

"There are things I said I would never do" -Pretty obvious. "There are fears I can not believe have come true" -Things he couldn't have believed would happened, but did. "For my soul is too sick and it's too little and too late" -He feels like it's late to save him. "and myself I have grown to weary to hate" -He's too tired of it all to fight.

"The more I stay in here The more it's not so clear The more I stay in here The more I disappear" -The longer he stays in the hole of his depression/apathy, the harder it is for him to see an exit. The hole slowly eats at him till he's gone from reality.

"As far as I have gone I knew what side I'm on But now I'm not so sure The line begins to blur" -He knew where he was in the world, but whatever happened to change him, made him question his life and reality. He came to the conclusion that the world sucks, thus making him depressed.

There's somebody on top of me I don't know I don't know -He has a feeling of overwhelming resistance to recovery

Is anyone stopping me? I don't know I don't know" -"Is anybody gonna stop this or save me?" I won't try and hold my breath I don't know I don't know -"I'm not gonna hold my breath for somebody to help" "Just how far can I go I don't know I don't know" -"How far can I go downward in this depression/apathy?"

"As I lay here and stare the fabric starts to tear It's far beyond repair And I don't really care" He's so apathetic and depressed, he just watches his reality tear and his life crumble. His depression has gotten so far that it can't be fixed, but he's too apathetic to care.

wow if you think this song is political your an idiot

Let's put ourselves in Trent's position now. This song isn't available yet and surprisingly there are lyrics on this site. What should he do ? Leaks aren't cool.