Lyric discussion by DustinBeyette 

Cover art for Please lyrics by Nine Inch Nails

" this is how it begins push it away but it all comes back again"

I think he's sayin that people can make you wanna change or whatever, but when you lose your traits, they come back again and feel damn good, like they did in the first place. So unless you got some sort of depersonalization disorder, it's cool to stay doing things that keep you going. People try to force their denial on the strong sometimes, and they go so far, so far untill you're like, "fine, I don't like anything either! Everything is bad!"

"all the flesh"

like ..... procreation......... procreation is BAAAAD! Abortions and abstenance rule! Why practice relationship skills when you can just be in denial?! No one gets hurt, right?

"all the sin"

he's trying the denial thing out. Tryin to hate himself.

"there was a time when it used to mean just about everything"

now he's trying to force himself to regret when he didn't hate himself.

"just like now"

boom, back to reality.

"breathe, echoing the sound"

finally, suffocation is over!

"time starts slowing down sink until I drown"

time slows down as he really thinks about things, comes to the realization that he's alright.

"(please) I don't ever want to make it stop"

feels pretty good.

"and it keeps repeating will you please complete me?"

but then people keep comin back tryin to force more denial, sayin he's uncomplete and all that.