Nine Inch Nails

Fist Fuck

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drift within
this is your body
can you control
the fire blood
through each tissued corridor drown
into the pulse of life
[can't drown into the pulse of life]

let your heart pump you
out old red tongue
[can you drink the blood?
can you drink the blood?
tell us what's the red tongue]
a stream
into it's own chamber
[can you let your heart become central]

help help
I'm drowning
into the lake help help I'm drowning
get me out of here

drift to the center
drift to the center

I'm drowning
I need some help

the center of this heart fire will go up
let your heart beat your whole life
[alleviate] [screw] [penatrate] [you ll go deeper]
burst
[burst]
greet on
[greet on]
complete death
[communicate]

my blood life
blood
startling

oh you just wish I could feel that way too
I'll bet you will someday

help help
I'm drowning
get me out of here

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djgif On Jul 22, 2009

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by Androgyne

13y ago

Can't believe no one has commented on this song!!! Arguably the most cryptic/strange/complicated lyrics of all NIN songs. I think it's about what it means to be human. Having control of you physical body? It's about how internally/spiritually we are constantly changing from one extreme to another in an attempt to find out what it is that makes us human, what it is that makes life meaningful. How this chaos within ourselves, this inner turmoil, often makes us feel like giving up, but the irony is that this is exactly what gives life meaning. Our struggle. Particularly, our struggle to find meaning, to find ourself, to know and understand ourself, to embrace ourself.... I find elements of sex, death, fear, and confusion. Going deeper as in going deeper into yourself, into the spiral.

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