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.
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.