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"i wish i could put all the blame on you i want you to make me i want you to take me i want you to break me then i want you to throw me away" I think it's about... He's in a relationship and he lies about quite a few things and thinks she or whoever it is doesn't need them, that he's too lowly for them. He wants them to throw him away because that's all he thinks he's worth, is trash.

I think it's about losing yourself, and desperately clawing up to recover from a frenetically paced downward spiral. Thats the more general theme. Specifically this song is about attempting to sustain yourself through carnality when you have lost so much.

This song, as a special place in my heart, so to speak. I've been exactly where it describes.

this song kicks so much ass it's not even funny.

not very industrial, but a fucking badass industrial metal song. love the beginning

I see it as somebody taking advantage of many people, needing for him to be "filled up" he does this by "look through these blackened eyes you'll see ten thousand lies my lips may promise but my heart is a whore" lieing to people, similar to Closer he feels incomplete and needs the sex to keep him alive, (The reference to sweat and blood can mean sex)

and any relationship made, wont last.

i believe this song is about someone who is in a relationship with someone who they at one point was so completly in love, and all of a suddon the felling started slipping away. and he couldnt do anything about it. no matter how much he wanted to save himself and the relationship, he just couldnt. so he is trying to convice himself that it wasnt meant to last

this song is fuckin amazing. to say that trent reznor is a lyrical genius would belittle him "pigs we get what pigs deserve" i mean how are you going to beat that. and the raw emotion that he puts into the songs is insane and it drives the feeling out of the listener. a world without trent reznor is a world i would not want to live in.

Keep in mind that Trent sometimes writes his lyrics from different perspectives, so when he says "I" he can be writing about someone else.

I agree with the old groupie/whore theory. Most of the lyrics are ambiguous, but when you put together some of the key phrases, they seem to point in that direction ("worn out from giving it up," "blackened eyes," "my heart is a whore," "dress up this rotten carcass").

No comments on one of my favorite NIN songs? That's a shame.

I love this track. The imagery is just so powerful (fresh blood through tired skin / new sweat to drown me in / dress up this rotten carcass just to make it look alive), and the way Trent sings it is amazing.

THIS SONG IS ABOUT GROUPIES!!! WOOHOO!

\"look through these blackened eyes, you\'ll see ten thousand lies\"

I get chills when he sings that.