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Many of [[Trent Reznor]]'s lyrics are thematically similar across songs and albums. This is an expansion of a list compiled at [http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=13785 ETS] by user "Christ".
==Afraid to see==
*[[Heresy]]: "he sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see"
*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "What if you could look right through the cracks / would you find yourself / find yourself afraid to see?"
*[[Capital G (song)|Capital G]]: "there's a lot of me inside you, maybe you're afraid to see"
==A Million Miles Away==
*[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]: "If i could start again, a million miles away. I would keep myself, I would find a way"
*[[All The Love In The World]]: "I've become a million miles aw(ay)
*[[1,000,000]]: "I feel a million miles away"
==Becoming==
*[[Now I'm Nothing]]: "oh, what I have become!"
*[[Gave Up]]: "after everything I've done I hate myself for what I've become"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "can you let your heart become central pump-house for all human feelings?"
*[[Closer]]: "help me become somebody else"
*[[The Becoming]]: "I am becoming"
*Hurt: "what have I become, my sweetest friend?"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "I've become impossible"
*[[Even Deeper]]: "do you know how far this has gone? just how damaged have I become"
*[[The Great Below]]: "the destiny I've chose / all becoming clear"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]:
:"that hasn't yet become"
:"come on there has got to be someone / hasn't yet become / so numb / and succumb"
*[[The New Flesh]]: "yes I am becoming" and "I've become"
*[[Me, I'm Not]]: "and it's hard to believe / just, what I've become"
*[[All the Love In the World]]: "I've become a million miles aw(ay)"
*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "I’m becoming less defined"
*[[Vessel]]: "I am becoming something else / I am turning into God"
*10 Miles High: "I swore to God I'd never turn into you"
*[[Head Down]]: "all your hate what you’ve become"
==Beginnings==
*The New Flesh: "and this is how it all begins"
*[[The Wretched]]: "back at the beginning"
*[[Please]]: "this is how it begins"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "ending what had begun"
*The Beginning of the End
==Belonging==
*[[Starfuckers, Inc.]]: "now I belong / I'm one of the chosen ones"
*All The Love In The World: "watching all the insects march along / seem to know just right where they belong"
*[[You Know What You Are?]]: "go on get back to where you belong"
*[[With Teeth (song)|With Teeth]]: "you've finally found the place where you belong"
*[[Beside You In Time (song)|Beside You In Time]]: "everything is back where it belongs"
*Right Where It Belongs: "see the safety of the life you have built / everything where it belongs"
*[[Home]]: "I return to the only place I've ever felt that I belong"
*[[God Given]]: "You should get where you belong / everything you know is wrong"
==Beside You==
*We're In This Together: "the farther I fall I'm beside you"
*[[Beside You In Time]]
*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Light In The Sky]]: "I am staying right beside you"
==Bleeding==
*[[Ringfinger]]: "working my hands until they bleed"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "and nothing comes bleeding out of me just like a waterfall I'm drowning in"
*[[Reptile]]: "angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress"
*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "my blood wants to say hello to you"
*Where Is Everybody?: "pleading and needing and bleeding and breeding"
*[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]: "will you chew until it bleeds?"
*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
*[[My Violent Heart]]: our blood will stay…our blood / our ways
*[[Letting You]]: "the dying left to bleed"
===Bleeding through===
*''Bleedthrough'' was the working title for ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''
*[[Every Day Is Exactly The Same (song)|Every Day Is Exactly The Same]]: "a little bit comes bleeding through"
*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through"
==Blind==
*[[Heresy]] (Blind)
*[[Happiness In Slavery (song)|Happiness In Slavery]]: "the blind have been blessed with security"
*[[Suck]]: "once I could see now I am blind"
*[[Ruiner]]: "those that you keep blind will suddenly realize"
==Blurring lines==
*[[The Line Begins To Blur]]
*With Teeth: "the lines begin to blur"
==Bowing down==
*Head Like a Hole: "Bow down before the one you serve"
*Meet Your Master: "Bow down in position"
==Broken==
*[[Broken]]
*Gave Up: "still cannot fix this broken machine"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
*[[Piggy]]: "black and blue and broken bones / you left me here I'm all alone"
*The Becoming: "he's covered with scabs, he is broken and sore"
*Hurt: "full of broken thoughts, I cannot repair"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"
*[[No, You Don't]]: "broken down see through soul"
*Survivalism: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
*[[Echoplex]]: "I built this place with broken parts"
===Bruised===
*Head Like A Hole: "God Money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised"
*Somewhat Damaged: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"
*Survivalism: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
==Burning==
*[[Burn (song)|Burn]]
*Heresy: "burning with your god"
*The Big Come Down: "there is a hate that burns within"
*Non-Entity: "Burning down the world, the ashes and debris"
*Sunspots: "peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground"
===Fire===
*Sanctified: "as the words spill out like fire from her lips"
*Gave Up: "wake up in flames"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "can you flow with fire"
*Survivalism: "you see your world on fire"
*[[In This Twilight]]: "it is watching us, and the world we set on fire / do you wonder, if it feels the same?"
*[[My Violent Heart]]: "Into fire you can send us / From the fire we return"
*Sunspots: "fuck in the fire and we'll spread all the ashes around"
==Calling==
*Dead Souls: "They keep calling me"
*Even Deeper: "I hear them call I cannot stay the voice inviting me away"
*Sunspots: "I hear it calling and I come cause I can’t disobey"
==Charade==
*The Hand That Feeds: "what if this whole crusade’s a charade?"
*[[Letting You]]: "believing your charade"
==Closeness==
*[[Closer]]
*[[Closer to God (halo)]]
*The Great Below: "ocean pulls me close"
==Cracks==
*You Know What You Are?: "I tried to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*Getting Smaller: "can kind of see out the cracks when I press up to the wall"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if you could look right through the cracks?"
*Not So Pretty Now: "the cracks begin to show"
==Crawling==
*Down In It: "I was swimming in the haze now I crawl on the ground"
*Getting Smaller: "I'd be happy to crawl"
*March Of The Pigs: "Crawl right up on your knees"
*My Violent Heart: "On hands and knees, we crawl"
*[[The Beginning Of The End]]: "Down on your knees"
*[[The Way Out Is Through]]: "But still we crawl"
*In This Twilight: "as it crawls across a final time"
*1,000,000: "kind of hard to see when you crawl"
==Damage==
*Somewhat Damaged
*Even Deeper: "Just how damaged have I become?"
==Debris==
*Somewhat Damaged: "Lick around divine debris"
*Non-Entity: "Burning down the world, the ashes and debris"
==Decay==
*Terrible Lie: "my morals left to decay"
*The Becoming: "the blood has stopped pumping and he's left to decay"
*Somewhat Damaged: "drink the fountain of decay"
*[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|The Day The World Went Away]]: "but in his voice I heard decay"
*[[Ripe (With Decay)]]
===Rotting===
*Last: "dress up this rotten carcass"
*Somewhat Damaged: "poisoned to my rotten core"
==Deserving==
*Head Like A Hole: "You’re going to get what you deserve"
*Last: "pigs will get what pigs deserve"
*Meet Your Master: "Maybe you get what you deserve"
*Sin: "Carry out my sentence / I get what I deserve
==Disappearing; abandonment; loss; throw away==
*[[Throw This Away]]
*[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]: "no you can't take that away from me"
*[[Terrible Lie]]:
:"don't take it away from me"
:"I'm all alone in a world you must despise"
:"my morals left to decay"
*[[That's What I Get]]: "you took away all my self confidence"
*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "you make this all go away"
*Ringfinger: "you just leave me nailed here"
*Suck: "all that was true is left behind"
*Gave Up: "give it to me I throw it away"
*Wish: "I just threw it away"
*[[Last]]: "I pissed it all away"
*Piggy: "you left me here I'm all alone"
*Hurt: "the feelings disappear" and "everyone I know goes away in the end"
*Closer: "help me get away from myself"
*The Becoming:
:"even when I'm right with you I'm so far away"
:"and he's left to decay"
:"all pain disappears"
*Reptile: "she leaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been"
*Eraser: "find you" and "lose me"
*I Do Not Want This: "if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place"
*[[Dead Souls]]: "someone take these dreams away"
*[[Deep]]: "right here make it all disappear"
*We’re In This Together:
:"well they've got to make it go away / well they've got to make it disappear"
:"as lost as I get I will find you"
*The Great Below:
:"washes me away makes me disappear"
:"I can still feel you even so far away"
*Please:
:"I can disappear"
:"push it away but it all comes back again"
:"but it just left me dead"
:"you can never leave me"
*The Day The World Went Away: "all the insides left cold and gray"
*Somewhat Damaged:
:"made the choice to go away"
:"in the back / off the side / far away"
:"all alone / by myself / where were you?"
*[[The Big Come Down]]: "find a place with the failed and forgotten"
*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "I can't watch her slip away"
*Where Is Everybody?: "everything pushes me further away"
*And All That Could Have Been:
:"maybe I'll disappear"
:"you won't find me here"
:"take this and run far away"
:"left with a trace of all that was"
*Beside You In Time: "I am all alone this time around"
*Only: "yes, I am alone / but then again I always was"
*Right Where It Belongs: "and you really are alone"
*All The Love In The World: "hiding in the crowd I’m all alone…sometimes I get so lonely I could –"
:"all the jagged edges disappear / colors all look brighter when you’re near"
*The Line Begins To Blur: "the more I disappear
*My Violent Heart: "we will not go away"
*In This Twilight: "let me take away your doubt"
*Discipline: " feels like I’m losing touch"
*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "I can’t disappear"
==Disease==
*Terrible Lie: "my head is filled with disease"
*Suck: "this disease I give to myself"
*Reptile: "my disease my infection"
*Ruiner: "wearing your disease"
==Dragging/pulling/pushing==
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "it was pulling me down"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I drag you down I use you up"
*[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]: "step right up / march / push"
*The Perfect Drug: "pull the stars from the sky" and "dragging shaking me"
*The Wretched: "just to push you down"
*Please: "push it away but it all comes back again"
*Where Is Everybody?: "everything pushes me further away"
*We’re In This Together: "they pick and they pull"
*The Great Below: "ocean pulls me close"
==Dreams==
*[[Sanctified]]: "I still dream of lips I never should have kissed"
*Something I Can Never Have: "my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore"
*Terrible Lie: "seems like salvation comes only in our dreams"
*Suck: "don't want your dreams you try to sell"
*Gave Up: "perfect little dream"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the end of all your dreams"
*Heresy: "he dreamed a god up"
*The Becoming: "I'm stuck in this dream"
*Eraser: "dream you"
*Even Deeper: "in a dream I'm a different me"
*Dead Souls: "someone take these dreams away"
*Head Down: "This is all a dream dnd none of you are real"
==Drowning==
*[[The Only Time]]: "and swim in it until I drown"
*Last: "new sweat to drown me in"
*Fist Fuck: "help I'm drowning"
*The Becoming: "drowns out all I hear"
*Heresy: "drowning in his own hypocrisy"
*I Do Not Want This: "just like a waterfall I'm drowning in"
*Please: "sink until I drown"
*The Great Below: "the currents have their say"
*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "watching you drown"
==Echo==
*Good Soldier: "Echoes out a beat and the bass goes"
*Echoplex: "My voice just echoes off these walls"
*Something I Can Never Have: "Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears"
*Please: "echoing the sound"
*Echoing the Sound (forum)
==Exit==
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am an exit"
*The New Flesh: "This is not an exit"
==Eye==
*Down In It: "just then a tiny little dot caught my eye" and "but the needle's already in my eye"
*Ringfinger: "wrap my eyes in bandages"
*The Only Time: "the sweat in your eyes"
*[[Kinda I Want To]]: "maybe god will cover up his eyes"
*Last: "look through these blackened eyes"
*Happiness In Slavery: "don't open your eyes"
*Heresy: "he sewed his eyes shut"
*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "well the tiniest little dot caught my eye"
*The Great Below: "all the world has closed her eyes"
*The New Flesh: "the blackest eyes"
*[[Memorabilia]]: "the look in your eye"
*The Beginning of the End: "I got my mark / see it in my eyes"
*[[Non-Entity]]: "The echoes in my eyes/Of all they used to see"
*[[Sunspots]]: "Sunspots cast a glare in my eyes"
==Fading==
*Down In It: "what I used to think was me is just a fading memory"
*Something I Can Never Have: "just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be"
*And All That Could Have Been: "tracks will fade in the snow" and "gone, fading, everything"
*Non-Entity: "now I'm afraid I'm fading out of sight"
*Only: "I'm becoming less defined, as days go by / fading away, well..."
*[[Getting Smaller]]: "I'm afraid I am starting to fade away"
*Beside You In Time: "I can feel me start to fade away"
*[[Not So Pretty Now]]: But your just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away"
*Echoplex: "and I just slowly fade away"
==Fist==
*Wish: "fist fuck"
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*Survivalism: "I got my fist I got my plan I got survivalism"
*Demon Seed: "And I will use my fist"
==Flesh==
*The New Flesh
*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]
*Terrible Lie: "my skin is begging you"
*Sin: "it gets under my skin"
*Ringfinger: "sever flesh and bone"
*Suck: "the temple walls are made of flesh"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught"
*[[Vessel]]: "I let it get under my skin"
==Get me out of here==
*Fist Fuck: "Help, help I'm drowning / Get me out of here"
*Deep: "Somewhere, out there, anywhere, I don't care, get me out of here"
==God==
*10 Miles High: "I swore to God I'd never turn into you"
*Closer: "You get me closer to God"
*Head Like A Hole: "God Money I'll do anything for you"
*Heresy: "God is dead"
*Home: "God knows how much I've tried to"
*Maybe Just Once: "Oh God, what's coming to me?"
*Right Where it Belongs: "Your devils and your gods, all the living and the dead"
*Ringfinger: "You just leave me nailed here hanging like Jesus on this cross"
*Suck: "There is no God up in the sky tonight"
*Terrible Lie: "Hey God!"
*The Wretched: "and God himself will reach his fucking arm through"
*The Beginning of the End: "God helps the ones who can help themselves"
*The Good Soldier: "'Cause God is on our side"
*Vessel: "I am a turning into God" and "My God...Oh my God"
*[[God Given]]
*Starfuckers inc.: "My god sits in the back of the limousine / My god comes in a wrapper of cellophane / My god pouts on the cover of the magazine / My god’s a shallow little bitch trying to make the scene"
==Head==
*Head Like A Hole
*Terrible Lie: "my head is filled with disease"
*Something I Can Never Have: "scraping through my head"
*Kinda I Want To: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"
*Suck: "I bow my head to confess"
*Last: "my head got lost along the way"
*[[Big Man With A Gun]]: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"
*The Becoming: "goddamn this noise inside my head"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the voice inside your head"
*[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]: "spilling out of my head"
*I Do Not Want This: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"
*The Perfect Drug: "I got my head but my head is unraveling"
*Somewhat Damaged: "then my head fell apart"
*[[Into The Void (song)|Into The Void]]: "pictures in my head of the final destination"
*Please: "the world is over and I realize it was all in my head"
*The New Flesh: "and in my head this is how it all begins"
*And All That Could Have Been: "I am locked in my head"
*[[Get Down, Make Love]]: "you blow my head"
*All The Love In The World: "they don’t sound as good outside my head"
*Getting Smaller: "got my head on a spring"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if all the world’s inside of your head"
*The Good Soldier: "Right over my head"
*Capital G: "now nod your head because you know that I’m right"
*[[The Great Destroyer]]: "nod your head / listen to the shit they pump into your head"
*[[Head Down]]
==Hiding==
*Terrible Lie: "there's nothing left for me to hide"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the hate you try to hide"
*The Becoming: "hiding backwards inside of me"
*The Big Come Down: "there is no way I can hide"
*Where Is Everybody?: "when all I'm really doing is trying to hide"
*Somewhat Damaged: "is a place where I hide where I stay"
*No, You Don’t: "tries so hard to hide"
*The Fragile: "where we can run and hide"
*All The Love In The World: "hiding in the crowd I’m all alone"
*You Know What You Are: "I have to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*Love Is Not Enough: "well, it hides in the dark"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "well, I’ll hide it behind something"
*Right Where It Belongs: "are you hiding in the trees?"
*Me, I’m Not: "I define myself / by how well I hide"
*The Good Soldier: "There's nowhere left to hide"
==Holes==
*Head Like A Hole
*Down In It: "now just this hole that's open wide"
*Gave Up: "watching the hole it used to be mine"
*Wish: "I'm the one with this big fucking hole"
*The Downward Spiral: "so much blood for such a tiny little hole"
*Hurt: "the needle tears a hole"
*[[Big Man With A Gun]]: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"
*Deep: "there's a big black hole gonna eat me up someday"
*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*Somewhat Damaged: "tear a hole exquisite red"
*No, You Don’t: "smiling in their faces while filling up the hole"
*Please: "it fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead"
*You Know What You Are: "I have to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*My Violent Heart: "there's bullet holes where my compassion used to be"
==How it feels==
*Suck: "how does it feel"
*Gave Up: "forgot how it feels well almost"
*Fist Fuck: "oh you just wish I could feel that way too"
*I Do Not Want This: "to those who know what it really feels like"
*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"
*Memorabilia: "I know what it feels like"
*The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"
*The Way Out Is Through: "we feel so small"
*The Wretched: "now you know this is what it feels"
*The Hand That Feeds: "and you feel just fine"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can feel their eyes are watching"
*Only: "and I had this funny feeling"
*Getting Smaller: "don’t know what to feel"
*Sunspots: "I feel it coming / I have to apologize for the way I feel"
*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through / I can feel me start to fade away"
*Right Where It Belongs: "feel the hollowness inside of your heart"
*Home: "and it feels / I’m getting to the end"
*Me, I’m Not: "I feel it coming apart"
*In This Twilight: "and it feels like, like it was a friend / do you wonder if it feels the same? / what it feels like, and I won't feel again / and the longing that you feel"
*Discipline: "feels like I’m wearing down"
==I can/can't still feel==
*Fist Fuck: "oh you just wish I could feel that way too" and "can you let your heart become central pump-house for all human feelings?"
*Hurt: "the feelings disappear"
*Kinda I Want To: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"
*Light in the Sky: "I can feel it breathe"
*1,000,000: "I feel a million miles away"
==Insects==
*All The Love In The World: "Watching all the insects march along"
*Reptile: "She spreads herself wide open to let the insects in"
==It keeps coming==
*The Wretched: "you can try to stop it but it keeps on coming"
*The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"
*Please: "and it keeps repeating"
*Dead Souls: "they keep calling me"
*The Hand That Feeds: "I keep holding on to what I want to believe"
*With Teeth: "keeps holding on"
*Right Where It Belongs: "You keep looking but you can’t find the woods"
*Survivalism: "I turned just keep on walking"
==Knees (down on or getting up off)==
*The Hand That Feeds: "will you get up off your knees" and "will you stay down on your knees"
*The Beginning of the End: "down on your knees / you’ll be left behind"
*My Violent Heart: "on hands and knees"
*March Of The Pigs: "crawl right up on your knees"
*Closer: "through every forest, above the trees, within my stomach, scraped off my knees"
*Terrible Lie: "I'm on my hands and knees"
*Capital G: "well I used to stand for something/now i'm on my hands and knees"
*1,000,000: "on your hands and your knees"
==Loneliness==
*Terrible Lie: "I'm all alone in a world you must despise"
*Piggy: "Black and blue and broken bones you left me here I'm all alone"
*Reptile: "Need to contaminate to alleviate this loneliness"
*All The Love In The World: "Hiding in the crowd I'm all alone" and "Sometimes I get so lonely I could..."
*Beside You In Time: "I am all alone this time around"
*Right Where It Belongs: "And you're really all alone"
*Vessel: "We will never be alone"
*Only: "Yes I am alone"
==Machines==
*[[Pretty Hate Machine]]
*Gave Up: "still cannot fix this broken machine"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the silencing machine"
*The Becoming: "I beat my machine"
*Somewhat Damaged: "this machine is obsolete"
==Memory==
*Down In It: "just a fading memory"
*Hurt: "but I remember everything"
*Memorabilia: "I have got to have a memory / I can't remember / give me your reminder"
*I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "I remember sometimes"
*You Know What You Are: "remember where you came from / remember what you are"
*Love Is Not Enough: "I can’t remember what it is / in your eyes is a place worth remembering"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can’t remember how this got started"
==Naive==
*That's What I Get: "To think that I was so naïve"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the prayers of the naïve"
*The Hand That Feeds: "So naïve"
===Naïveté===
*I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "The flowers of naïveté"
*My Violent Heart: "Standing there in all your grand naïveté"
==Nothing can stop me now==
*Piggy: "Nothing can stop me now, I don't care anymore"
*Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
*[[Ruiner]]: "You didn't hurt me nothing can stop me now"
*Big Man With A Gun: "Me and my fucking gun, nothing can stop me now"
*[[La Mer]]: "Rien ne peut m'arrêter maintenant" (Translates to "nothing can stop me now". Spoken in Creole French)
*[[Sunspots]]: "And nothing can stop me now, and there is nothing to fear"
*We're In This Together: "None of them can stop us now"
==Pigs==
*Piggy
*March Of The Pigs
*Last: "pigs we get what pigs deserve"
*Heresy: "he made a virus that would kill off all the swine"
*God Given: "we are the divine, separated from the swine"
*During [[Fragility]], Trent chanted "pig" before Reptile. This can be heard on the [[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]] DVD extra performance of Reptile.
*[[Nothing Studios|Le Pig studio]]
*[[Pigface]]
==Piss==
*Last: "Worn out from giving it up my soul I pissed it all away"
*The Warning: "Your greed, self-importance and your arrogance, you piss it all away"
*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*Terrible Lie: "Hey God, I really don't know who I am / In this world full of piss". The lyrics are not included of the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics
==Profanity==
===Fuck===
*Something I Can Never Have: just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be
*The Only Time: while the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car
*Wish: now there’s nothing more fucked up I could do / big time, hard line, bad luck, fist fuck / I’m the one with this big fucking hole
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*March of the Pigs: I want to fuck it up
*Closer: I wanna fuck you like an animal
*Ruiner: the only pure thing left in my fucking world is wearing your disease / and maybe that fucked me up much more than you’ll ever know
*I Do Not Want This: I want to fuck everyone in the world
*Big Man With A Gun: just for the fuck of it / I’m hard as fucking steel / me and my fucking gun
*Eraser: fuck you
*The Downward Spiral: a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash
*Somewhat Damaged: fuck the rest and stab it dead / too fucked up to care anymore / where the fuck were you?
*The Wretched: and God himself will reach his fucking arm through
*Starfuckers Inc.: I am every fucking thing and just a little more
*The Big Come Down: smash it apart just for the fuck of it
*You Know What You Are: don’t you fucking know what you are
*Love Is Not Enough: I’ve gone all this fucking away
*Only: there is no fucking you
*Getting Smaller: I haven’t got fucking anything
*Sunspots: fuck in the fire and we’ll spread all the ashes around
*Not So Pretty Now: But your just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away"
*Capital G: Those motherfuckers didn't last too long
*1,000,000: blow my fucking brains out
===Shit===
*Piggy: lost my shit because of you
*Ruiner: serving his shit to the flies
*Hurt: I wear this crown of shit
*The Wretched: stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss
*Where Is Everybody: though I really didn’t give a shit
*Capital G: Don't give a shit about the temperature in Guatemala
*The Great Destroyer: Turn it up, listen to the shit they pump
*You Know What You Are: you better take a good look cause I’m full of shit
==Realization==
*Sin: "am I just too stupid to realize"
*Gave Up: "it took you to make me realize"
*Eraser (Denial; Realization)
*The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug: "my soul is so afraid to realize"
*Please: "and I realize it was all in my head"
*Burn: "why did you put it there/did you not realize"
*Lights in the Sky: "I’ve come to realize we all have our place"
==Role==
*Discipline: "I need my role in this very clearly defined"
*Lights In The Sky: "I have my role in this"
==Said and Done==
*The Great Below: "After all is said and done"
*Sunspots: "When everything is said and done"
==Scab==
*Only: "Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab/picking at that scab"
*Something I Can Never Have: "Still picking at this scab"
*The Becoming: "He's covered with scabs and he is broken and sore"
==The Sea==
*Ringfinger: "deeper than the sea"
*La Mer: ("La Mer" is translated from French to literally "The Sea")
*The Great Below: "staring at the sea" and "ocean pulls me close"
*With Teeth (song): "the blackest sea"
==Serve/Deserve==
*Head Like A Hole: "bow down before the one you serve / you’re going to get what you deserve"
*Meet Your Master: "now comes the time to serve… / maybe you’ll get what you deserve"
==Sin==
*Sin
*Ringfinger: "I'm just dying for your sins"
*Please: "all the flesh / all the sin"
==Slipping==
*That’s What I Get: "slipping on the tears"
*Deep: "you're slipping through"
*The Slip
===Slipping away===
*[[Slipping Away]]
*Now I'm Nothing: "I let it slip away now I'm nothing"
*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"
*The Becoming: "I might just slip away"
*Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away"
*The Fragile: "I can't watch her slip away"
==Skin==
*Sin: "it gets under my skin"
*Down In It (Skin)
*Last: "fresh blood through tired skin"
*Suck: "itches my skin right off my back"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just words and so much skin"
*[[Underneath The Skin]]
*[[The New Flesh]]
*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]
*March Of The Pigs: "take the skin and peel it back"
*Reptile: "just underneath her skin"
*I Do Not Want This: "bamboo puncturing this skin"
*Somewhat Damaged: "shedding skin succumb defeat"
*We're In This Together: "as they peel apart the skin"
*Please: "all the flesh all the sin"
*[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]: "his skin just wasn't thick enough"
*Deep: "your skin speaks up but your lips couldn't say it"
*My Violent Heart: "our bones, our skin"
*Vessel: "I let it get under my skin"
*Terrible Lie: "my skin is begging you"
*Ringfinger: "sever flesh and bone"
*Suck: "the temple walls are made of flesh"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught"
*Discipline: "I see you left a mark / up and down my skin"
*Sunspots: "Peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground"
==Solipsism==
*I Do Not Want This: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"
*Please: "the world is over and I realize it was all in my head"
*Only: "you were never real to begin with / i just made you up..." and "there is no you / there is only me"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if all the world you think you know is an elaborate dream?"
*Head Down: "this all a dream and none of you are real"
==Stopping==
*We’re In This Together: "none of them can stop us now"
*Sunspots: "but I can't stop what has begun"
*The Line Begins To Blur: "isn’t anyone stopping me?"
*My Violent Heart: "You cannot stop us all"
*Me, I’m Not: "hey, can we stop?"
*Discipline: "you know once I start I cannot stop myself"
==Tiny little dot==
* Down In It:
:Just then a tiny little dot caught my eye it was just about too small to see
:But I watched it way too long and that dot was pulling me down
* Only:
:Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye
:And it turned out to be a scab
:And I had this funny feeling
:Like I just knew it's something bad
==That which could have or would have been==
*The Wretched: "all the what abouts, and all the might have could have beens"
*The Great Below: "for all we could have done, and all that could have been"
*And All That Could Have Been
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I wish this could have been any other way"
*La Mer: "I think I could have been someone"
*Sunspots: "I think I could have been someone / but I can’t stop what has begun"
==Underneath it all==
*The Way Out Is Through: underneath it all / we feel so small
*Underneath It All: hear your call / underneath it all
==Used up==
*We’re In This Together: all used and beaten up
*Love Is Not Enough: left for dead and all used up
*Head Down: all used up half way through
==Virus==
*Heresy: he made a virus to kill off all the swine
*The Warning: you’ve become a virus / that has eaten up its host
==Waking up==
*Even Deeper: "I woke up today to find myself in the other place"
*Gave Up: "wake up / wake up in flames"
*We’re In This Together: "awake to the sound"
*Home: "I awake to find I’m not at all where I should be"
*1,000,000: "I wake up on the floor"
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==Afraid to see==
*[[Heresy]]: "he sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see"
*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "What if you could look right through the cracks / would you find yourself / find yourself afraid to see?"
*[[Capital G (song)|Capital G]]: "there's a lot of me inside you, maybe you're afraid to see"
==A Million Miles Away==
*[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]: "If i could start again, a million miles away. I would keep myself, I would find a way"
*[[All The Love In The World]]: "I've become a million miles aw(ay)
*[[1,000,000]]: "I feel a million miles away"
==Becoming==
*[[Now I'm Nothing]]: "oh, what I have become!"
*[[Gave Up]]: "after everything I've done I hate myself for what I've become"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "can you let your heart become central pump-house for all human feelings?"
*[[Closer]]: "help me become somebody else"
*[[The Becoming]]: "I am becoming"
*Hurt: "what have I become, my sweetest friend?"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "I've become impossible"
*[[Even Deeper]]: "do you know how far this has gone? just how damaged have I become"
*[[The Great Below]]: "the destiny I've chose / all becoming clear"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]:
:"that hasn't yet become"
:"come on there has got to be someone / hasn't yet become / so numb / and succumb"
*[[The New Flesh]]: "yes I am becoming" and "I've become"
*[[Me, I'm Not]]: "and it's hard to believe / just, what I've become"
*[[All the Love In the World]]: "I've become a million miles aw(ay)"
*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "I’m becoming less defined"
*[[Vessel]]: "I am becoming something else / I am turning into God"
*10 Miles High: "I swore to God I'd never turn into you"
*[[Head Down]]: "all your hate what you’ve become"
==Beginnings==
*The New Flesh: "and this is how it all begins"
*[[The Wretched]]: "back at the beginning"
*[[Please]]: "this is how it begins"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "ending what had begun"
*The Beginning of the End
==Belonging==
*[[Starfuckers, Inc.]]: "now I belong / I'm one of the chosen ones"
*All The Love In The World: "watching all the insects march along / seem to know just right where they belong"
*[[You Know What You Are?]]: "go on get back to where you belong"
*[[With Teeth (song)|With Teeth]]: "you've finally found the place where you belong"
*[[Beside You In Time (song)|Beside You In Time]]: "everything is back where it belongs"
*Right Where It Belongs: "see the safety of the life you have built / everything where it belongs"
*[[Home]]: "I return to the only place I've ever felt that I belong"
*[[God Given]]: "You should get where you belong / everything you know is wrong"
==Beside You==
*We're In This Together: "the farther I fall I'm beside you"
*[[Beside You In Time]]
*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Light In The Sky]]: "I am staying right beside you"
==Bleeding==
*[[Ringfinger]]: "working my hands until they bleed"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "and nothing comes bleeding out of me just like a waterfall I'm drowning in"
*[[Reptile]]: "angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress"
*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "my blood wants to say hello to you"
*Where Is Everybody?: "pleading and needing and bleeding and breeding"
*[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]: "will you chew until it bleeds?"
*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
*[[My Violent Heart]]: our blood will stay…our blood / our ways
*[[Letting You]]: "the dying left to bleed"
===Bleeding through===
*''Bleedthrough'' was the working title for ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''
*[[Every Day Is Exactly The Same (song)|Every Day Is Exactly The Same]]: "a little bit comes bleeding through"
*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through"
==Blind==
*[[Heresy]] (Blind)
*[[Happiness In Slavery (song)|Happiness In Slavery]]: "the blind have been blessed with security"
*[[Suck]]: "once I could see now I am blind"
*[[Ruiner]]: "those that you keep blind will suddenly realize"
==Blurring lines==
*[[The Line Begins To Blur]]
*With Teeth: "the lines begin to blur"
==Bowing down==
*Head Like a Hole: "Bow down before the one you serve"
*Meet Your Master: "Bow down in position"
==Broken==
*[[Broken]]
*Gave Up: "still cannot fix this broken machine"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
*[[Piggy]]: "black and blue and broken bones / you left me here I'm all alone"
*The Becoming: "he's covered with scabs, he is broken and sore"
*Hurt: "full of broken thoughts, I cannot repair"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"
*[[No, You Don't]]: "broken down see through soul"
*Survivalism: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
*[[Echoplex]]: "I built this place with broken parts"
===Bruised===
*Head Like A Hole: "God Money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised"
*Somewhat Damaged: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"
*Survivalism: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
==Burning==
*[[Burn (song)|Burn]]
*Heresy: "burning with your god"
*The Big Come Down: "there is a hate that burns within"
*Non-Entity: "Burning down the world, the ashes and debris"
*Sunspots: "peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground"
===Fire===
*Sanctified: "as the words spill out like fire from her lips"
*Gave Up: "wake up in flames"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "can you flow with fire"
*Survivalism: "you see your world on fire"
*[[In This Twilight]]: "it is watching us, and the world we set on fire / do you wonder, if it feels the same?"
*[[My Violent Heart]]: "Into fire you can send us / From the fire we return"
*Sunspots: "fuck in the fire and we'll spread all the ashes around"
==Calling==
*Dead Souls: "They keep calling me"
*Even Deeper: "I hear them call I cannot stay the voice inviting me away"
*Sunspots: "I hear it calling and I come cause I can’t disobey"
==Charade==
*The Hand That Feeds: "what if this whole crusade’s a charade?"
*[[Letting You]]: "believing your charade"
==Closeness==
*[[Closer]]
*[[Closer to God (halo)]]
*The Great Below: "ocean pulls me close"
==Cracks==
*You Know What You Are?: "I tried to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*Getting Smaller: "can kind of see out the cracks when I press up to the wall"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if you could look right through the cracks?"
*Not So Pretty Now: "the cracks begin to show"
==Crawling==
*Down In It: "I was swimming in the haze now I crawl on the ground"
*Getting Smaller: "I'd be happy to crawl"
*March Of The Pigs: "Crawl right up on your knees"
*My Violent Heart: "On hands and knees, we crawl"
*[[The Beginning Of The End]]: "Down on your knees"
*[[The Way Out Is Through]]: "But still we crawl"
*In This Twilight: "as it crawls across a final time"
*1,000,000: "kind of hard to see when you crawl"
==Damage==
*Somewhat Damaged
*Even Deeper: "Just how damaged have I become?"
==Debris==
*Somewhat Damaged: "Lick around divine debris"
*Non-Entity: "Burning down the world, the ashes and debris"
==Decay==
*Terrible Lie: "my morals left to decay"
*The Becoming: "the blood has stopped pumping and he's left to decay"
*Somewhat Damaged: "drink the fountain of decay"
*[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|The Day The World Went Away]]: "but in his voice I heard decay"
*[[Ripe (With Decay)]]
===Rotting===
*Last: "dress up this rotten carcass"
*Somewhat Damaged: "poisoned to my rotten core"
==Deserving==
*Head Like A Hole: "You’re going to get what you deserve"
*Last: "pigs will get what pigs deserve"
*Meet Your Master: "Maybe you get what you deserve"
*Sin: "Carry out my sentence / I get what I deserve
==Disappearing; abandonment; loss; throw away==
*[[Throw This Away]]
*[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]: "no you can't take that away from me"
*[[Terrible Lie]]:
:"don't take it away from me"
:"I'm all alone in a world you must despise"
:"my morals left to decay"
*[[That's What I Get]]: "you took away all my self confidence"
*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "you make this all go away"
*Ringfinger: "you just leave me nailed here"
*Suck: "all that was true is left behind"
*Gave Up: "give it to me I throw it away"
*Wish: "I just threw it away"
*[[Last]]: "I pissed it all away"
*Piggy: "you left me here I'm all alone"
*Hurt: "the feelings disappear" and "everyone I know goes away in the end"
*Closer: "help me get away from myself"
*The Becoming:
:"even when I'm right with you I'm so far away"
:"and he's left to decay"
:"all pain disappears"
*Reptile: "she leaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been"
*Eraser: "find you" and "lose me"
*I Do Not Want This: "if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place"
*[[Dead Souls]]: "someone take these dreams away"
*[[Deep]]: "right here make it all disappear"
*We’re In This Together:
:"well they've got to make it go away / well they've got to make it disappear"
:"as lost as I get I will find you"
*The Great Below:
:"washes me away makes me disappear"
:"I can still feel you even so far away"
*Please:
:"I can disappear"
:"push it away but it all comes back again"
:"but it just left me dead"
:"you can never leave me"
*The Day The World Went Away: "all the insides left cold and gray"
*Somewhat Damaged:
:"made the choice to go away"
:"in the back / off the side / far away"
:"all alone / by myself / where were you?"
*[[The Big Come Down]]: "find a place with the failed and forgotten"
*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "I can't watch her slip away"
*Where Is Everybody?: "everything pushes me further away"
*And All That Could Have Been:
:"maybe I'll disappear"
:"you won't find me here"
:"take this and run far away"
:"left with a trace of all that was"
*Beside You In Time: "I am all alone this time around"
*Only: "yes, I am alone / but then again I always was"
*Right Where It Belongs: "and you really are alone"
*All The Love In The World: "hiding in the crowd I’m all alone…sometimes I get so lonely I could –"
:"all the jagged edges disappear / colors all look brighter when you’re near"
*The Line Begins To Blur: "the more I disappear
*My Violent Heart: "we will not go away"
*In This Twilight: "let me take away your doubt"
*Discipline: " feels like I’m losing touch"
*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "I can’t disappear"
==Disease==
*Terrible Lie: "my head is filled with disease"
*Suck: "this disease I give to myself"
*Reptile: "my disease my infection"
*Ruiner: "wearing your disease"
==Dragging/pulling/pushing==
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "it was pulling me down"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I drag you down I use you up"
*[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]: "step right up / march / push"
*The Perfect Drug: "pull the stars from the sky" and "dragging shaking me"
*The Wretched: "just to push you down"
*Please: "push it away but it all comes back again"
*Where Is Everybody?: "everything pushes me further away"
*We’re In This Together: "they pick and they pull"
*The Great Below: "ocean pulls me close"
==Dreams==
*[[Sanctified]]: "I still dream of lips I never should have kissed"
*Something I Can Never Have: "my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore"
*Terrible Lie: "seems like salvation comes only in our dreams"
*Suck: "don't want your dreams you try to sell"
*Gave Up: "perfect little dream"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the end of all your dreams"
*Heresy: "he dreamed a god up"
*The Becoming: "I'm stuck in this dream"
*Eraser: "dream you"
*Even Deeper: "in a dream I'm a different me"
*Dead Souls: "someone take these dreams away"
*Head Down: "This is all a dream dnd none of you are real"
==Drowning==
*[[The Only Time]]: "and swim in it until I drown"
*Last: "new sweat to drown me in"
*Fist Fuck: "help I'm drowning"
*The Becoming: "drowns out all I hear"
*Heresy: "drowning in his own hypocrisy"
*I Do Not Want This: "just like a waterfall I'm drowning in"
*Please: "sink until I drown"
*The Great Below: "the currents have their say"
*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "watching you drown"
==Echo==
*Good Soldier: "Echoes out a beat and the bass goes"
*Echoplex: "My voice just echoes off these walls"
*Something I Can Never Have: "Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears"
*Please: "echoing the sound"
*Echoing the Sound (forum)
==Exit==
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am an exit"
*The New Flesh: "This is not an exit"
==Eye==
*Down In It: "just then a tiny little dot caught my eye" and "but the needle's already in my eye"
*Ringfinger: "wrap my eyes in bandages"
*The Only Time: "the sweat in your eyes"
*[[Kinda I Want To]]: "maybe god will cover up his eyes"
*Last: "look through these blackened eyes"
*Happiness In Slavery: "don't open your eyes"
*Heresy: "he sewed his eyes shut"
*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "well the tiniest little dot caught my eye"
*The Great Below: "all the world has closed her eyes"
*The New Flesh: "the blackest eyes"
*[[Memorabilia]]: "the look in your eye"
*The Beginning of the End: "I got my mark / see it in my eyes"
*[[Non-Entity]]: "The echoes in my eyes/Of all they used to see"
*[[Sunspots]]: "Sunspots cast a glare in my eyes"
==Fading==
*Down In It: "what I used to think was me is just a fading memory"
*Something I Can Never Have: "just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be"
*And All That Could Have Been: "tracks will fade in the snow" and "gone, fading, everything"
*Non-Entity: "now I'm afraid I'm fading out of sight"
*Only: "I'm becoming less defined, as days go by / fading away, well..."
*[[Getting Smaller]]: "I'm afraid I am starting to fade away"
*Beside You In Time: "I can feel me start to fade away"
*[[Not So Pretty Now]]: But your just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away"
*Echoplex: "and I just slowly fade away"
==Fist==
*Wish: "fist fuck"
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*Survivalism: "I got my fist I got my plan I got survivalism"
*Demon Seed: "And I will use my fist"
==Flesh==
*The New Flesh
*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]
*Terrible Lie: "my skin is begging you"
*Sin: "it gets under my skin"
*Ringfinger: "sever flesh and bone"
*Suck: "the temple walls are made of flesh"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught"
*[[Vessel]]: "I let it get under my skin"
==Get me out of here==
*Fist Fuck: "Help, help I'm drowning / Get me out of here"
*Deep: "Somewhere, out there, anywhere, I don't care, get me out of here"
==God==
*10 Miles High: "I swore to God I'd never turn into you"
*Closer: "You get me closer to God"
*Head Like A Hole: "God Money I'll do anything for you"
*Heresy: "God is dead"
*Home: "God knows how much I've tried to"
*Maybe Just Once: "Oh God, what's coming to me?"
*Right Where it Belongs: "Your devils and your gods, all the living and the dead"
*Ringfinger: "You just leave me nailed here hanging like Jesus on this cross"
*Suck: "There is no God up in the sky tonight"
*Terrible Lie: "Hey God!"
*The Wretched: "and God himself will reach his fucking arm through"
*The Beginning of the End: "God helps the ones who can help themselves"
*The Good Soldier: "'Cause God is on our side"
*Vessel: "I am a turning into God" and "My God...Oh my God"
*[[God Given]]
*Starfuckers inc.: "My god sits in the back of the limousine / My god comes in a wrapper of cellophane / My god pouts on the cover of the magazine / My god’s a shallow little bitch trying to make the scene"
==Head==
*Head Like A Hole
*Terrible Lie: "my head is filled with disease"
*Something I Can Never Have: "scraping through my head"
*Kinda I Want To: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"
*Suck: "I bow my head to confess"
*Last: "my head got lost along the way"
*[[Big Man With A Gun]]: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"
*The Becoming: "goddamn this noise inside my head"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the voice inside your head"
*[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]: "spilling out of my head"
*I Do Not Want This: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"
*The Perfect Drug: "I got my head but my head is unraveling"
*Somewhat Damaged: "then my head fell apart"
*[[Into The Void (song)|Into The Void]]: "pictures in my head of the final destination"
*Please: "the world is over and I realize it was all in my head"
*The New Flesh: "and in my head this is how it all begins"
*And All That Could Have Been: "I am locked in my head"
*[[Get Down, Make Love]]: "you blow my head"
*All The Love In The World: "they don’t sound as good outside my head"
*Getting Smaller: "got my head on a spring"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if all the world’s inside of your head"
*The Good Soldier: "Right over my head"
*Capital G: "now nod your head because you know that I’m right"
*[[The Great Destroyer]]: "nod your head / listen to the shit they pump into your head"
*[[Head Down]]
==Hiding==
*Terrible Lie: "there's nothing left for me to hide"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the hate you try to hide"
*The Becoming: "hiding backwards inside of me"
*The Big Come Down: "there is no way I can hide"
*Where Is Everybody?: "when all I'm really doing is trying to hide"
*Somewhat Damaged: "is a place where I hide where I stay"
*No, You Don’t: "tries so hard to hide"
*The Fragile: "where we can run and hide"
*All The Love In The World: "hiding in the crowd I’m all alone"
*You Know What You Are: "I have to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*Love Is Not Enough: "well, it hides in the dark"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "well, I’ll hide it behind something"
*Right Where It Belongs: "are you hiding in the trees?"
*Me, I’m Not: "I define myself / by how well I hide"
*The Good Soldier: "There's nowhere left to hide"
==Holes==
*Head Like A Hole
*Down In It: "now just this hole that's open wide"
*Gave Up: "watching the hole it used to be mine"
*Wish: "I'm the one with this big fucking hole"
*The Downward Spiral: "so much blood for such a tiny little hole"
*Hurt: "the needle tears a hole"
*[[Big Man With A Gun]]: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"
*Deep: "there's a big black hole gonna eat me up someday"
*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*Somewhat Damaged: "tear a hole exquisite red"
*No, You Don’t: "smiling in their faces while filling up the hole"
*Please: "it fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead"
*You Know What You Are: "I have to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*My Violent Heart: "there's bullet holes where my compassion used to be"
==How it feels==
*Suck: "how does it feel"
*Gave Up: "forgot how it feels well almost"
*Fist Fuck: "oh you just wish I could feel that way too"
*I Do Not Want This: "to those who know what it really feels like"
*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"
*Memorabilia: "I know what it feels like"
*The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"
*The Way Out Is Through: "we feel so small"
*The Wretched: "now you know this is what it feels"
*The Hand That Feeds: "and you feel just fine"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can feel their eyes are watching"
*Only: "and I had this funny feeling"
*Getting Smaller: "don’t know what to feel"
*Sunspots: "I feel it coming / I have to apologize for the way I feel"
*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through / I can feel me start to fade away"
*Right Where It Belongs: "feel the hollowness inside of your heart"
*Home: "and it feels / I’m getting to the end"
*Me, I’m Not: "I feel it coming apart"
*In This Twilight: "and it feels like, like it was a friend / do you wonder if it feels the same? / what it feels like, and I won't feel again / and the longing that you feel"
*Discipline: "feels like I’m wearing down"
==I can/can't still feel==
*Fist Fuck: "oh you just wish I could feel that way too" and "can you let your heart become central pump-house for all human feelings?"
*Hurt: "the feelings disappear"
*Kinda I Want To: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"
*Light in the Sky: "I can feel it breathe"
*1,000,000: "I feel a million miles away"
==Insects==
*All The Love In The World: "Watching all the insects march along"
*Reptile: "She spreads herself wide open to let the insects in"
==It keeps coming==
*The Wretched: "you can try to stop it but it keeps on coming"
*The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"
*Please: "and it keeps repeating"
*Dead Souls: "they keep calling me"
*The Hand That Feeds: "I keep holding on to what I want to believe"
*With Teeth: "keeps holding on"
*Right Where It Belongs: "You keep looking but you can’t find the woods"
*Survivalism: "I turned just keep on walking"
==Knees (down on or getting up off)==
*The Hand That Feeds: "will you get up off your knees" and "will you stay down on your knees"
*The Beginning of the End: "down on your knees / you’ll be left behind"
*My Violent Heart: "on hands and knees"
*March Of The Pigs: "crawl right up on your knees"
*Closer: "through every forest, above the trees, within my stomach, scraped off my knees"
*Terrible Lie: "I'm on my hands and knees"
*Capital G: "well I used to stand for something/now i'm on my hands and knees"
*1,000,000: "on your hands and your knees"
==Loneliness==
*Terrible Lie: "I'm all alone in a world you must despise"
*Piggy: "Black and blue and broken bones you left me here I'm all alone"
*Reptile: "Need to contaminate to alleviate this loneliness"
*All The Love In The World: "Hiding in the crowd I'm all alone" and "Sometimes I get so lonely I could..."
*Beside You In Time: "I am all alone this time around"
*Right Where It Belongs: "And you're really all alone"
*Vessel: "We will never be alone"
*Only: "Yes I am alone"
==Machines==
*[[Pretty Hate Machine]]
*Gave Up: "still cannot fix this broken machine"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the silencing machine"
*The Becoming: "I beat my machine"
*Somewhat Damaged: "this machine is obsolete"
==Memory==
*Down In It: "just a fading memory"
*Hurt: "but I remember everything"
*Memorabilia: "I have got to have a memory / I can't remember / give me your reminder"
*I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "I remember sometimes"
*You Know What You Are: "remember where you came from / remember what you are"
*Love Is Not Enough: "I can’t remember what it is / in your eyes is a place worth remembering"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can’t remember how this got started"
==Naive==
*That's What I Get: "To think that I was so naïve"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the prayers of the naïve"
*The Hand That Feeds: "So naïve"
===Naïveté===
*I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "The flowers of naïveté"
*My Violent Heart: "Standing there in all your grand naïveté"
==Nothing can stop me now==
*Piggy: "Nothing can stop me now, I don't care anymore"
*Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
*[[Ruiner]]: "You didn't hurt me nothing can stop me now"
*Big Man With A Gun: "Me and my fucking gun, nothing can stop me now"
*[[La Mer]]: "Rien ne peut m'arrêter maintenant" (Translates to "nothing can stop me now". Spoken in Creole French)
*[[Sunspots]]: "And nothing can stop me now, and there is nothing to fear"
*We're In This Together: "None of them can stop us now"
==Pigs==
*Piggy
*March Of The Pigs
*Last: "pigs we get what pigs deserve"
*Heresy: "he made a virus that would kill off all the swine"
*God Given: "we are the divine, separated from the swine"
*During [[Fragility]], Trent chanted "pig" before Reptile. This can be heard on the [[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]] DVD extra performance of Reptile.
*[[Nothing Studios|Le Pig studio]]
*[[Pigface]]
==Piss==
*Last: "Worn out from giving it up my soul I pissed it all away"
*The Warning: "Your greed, self-importance and your arrogance, you piss it all away"
*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*Terrible Lie: "Hey God, I really don't know who I am / In this world full of piss". The lyrics are not included of the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics
==Profanity==
===Fuck===
*Something I Can Never Have: just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be
*The Only Time: while the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car
*Wish: now there’s nothing more fucked up I could do / big time, hard line, bad luck, fist fuck / I’m the one with this big fucking hole
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*March of the Pigs: I want to fuck it up
*Closer: I wanna fuck you like an animal
*Ruiner: the only pure thing left in my fucking world is wearing your disease / and maybe that fucked me up much more than you’ll ever know
*I Do Not Want This: I want to fuck everyone in the world
*Big Man With A Gun: just for the fuck of it / I’m hard as fucking steel / me and my fucking gun
*Eraser: fuck you
*The Downward Spiral: a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash
*Somewhat Damaged: fuck the rest and stab it dead / too fucked up to care anymore / where the fuck were you?
*The Wretched: and God himself will reach his fucking arm through
*Starfuckers Inc.: I am every fucking thing and just a little more
*The Big Come Down: smash it apart just for the fuck of it
*You Know What You Are: don’t you fucking know what you are
*Love Is Not Enough: I’ve gone all this fucking away
*Only: there is no fucking you
*Getting Smaller: I haven’t got fucking anything
*Sunspots: fuck in the fire and we’ll spread all the ashes around
*Not So Pretty Now: But your just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away"
*Capital G: Those motherfuckers didn't last too long
*1,000,000: blow my fucking brains out
===Shit===
*Piggy: lost my shit because of you
*Ruiner: serving his shit to the flies
*Hurt: I wear this crown of shit
*The Wretched: stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss
*Where Is Everybody: though I really didn’t give a shit
*Capital G: Don't give a shit about the temperature in Guatemala
*The Great Destroyer: Turn it up, listen to the shit they pump
*You Know What You Are: you better take a good look cause I’m full of shit
==Realization==
*Sin: "am I just too stupid to realize"
*Gave Up: "it took you to make me realize"
*Eraser (Denial; Realization)
*The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug: "my soul is so afraid to realize"
*Please: "and I realize it was all in my head"
*Burn: "why did you put it there/did you not realize"
*Lights in the Sky: "I’ve come to realize we all have our place"
==Role==
*Discipline: "I need my role in this very clearly defined"
*Lights In The Sky: "I have my role in this"
==Said and Done==
*The Great Below: "After all is said and done"
*Sunspots: "When everything is said and done"
==Scab==
*Only: "Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab/picking at that scab"
*Something I Can Never Have: "Still picking at this scab"
*The Becoming: "He's covered with scabs and he is broken and sore"
==The Sea==
*Ringfinger: "deeper than the sea"
*La Mer: ("La Mer" is translated from French to literally "The Sea")
*The Great Below: "staring at the sea" and "ocean pulls me close"
*With Teeth (song): "the blackest sea"
==Serve/Deserve==
*Head Like A Hole: "bow down before the one you serve / you’re going to get what you deserve"
*Meet Your Master: "now comes the time to serve… / maybe you’ll get what you deserve"
==Sin==
*Sin
*Ringfinger: "I'm just dying for your sins"
*Please: "all the flesh / all the sin"
==Slipping==
*That’s What I Get: "slipping on the tears"
*Deep: "you're slipping through"
*The Slip
===Slipping away===
*[[Slipping Away]]
*Now I'm Nothing: "I let it slip away now I'm nothing"
*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"
*The Becoming: "I might just slip away"
*Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away"
*The Fragile: "I can't watch her slip away"
==Skin==
*Sin: "it gets under my skin"
*Down In It (Skin)
*Last: "fresh blood through tired skin"
*Suck: "itches my skin right off my back"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just words and so much skin"
*[[Underneath The Skin]]
*[[The New Flesh]]
*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]
*March Of The Pigs: "take the skin and peel it back"
*Reptile: "just underneath her skin"
*I Do Not Want This: "bamboo puncturing this skin"
*Somewhat Damaged: "shedding skin succumb defeat"
*We're In This Together: "as they peel apart the skin"
*Please: "all the flesh all the sin"
*[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]: "his skin just wasn't thick enough"
*Deep: "your skin speaks up but your lips couldn't say it"
*My Violent Heart: "our bones, our skin"
*Vessel: "I let it get under my skin"
*Terrible Lie: "my skin is begging you"
*Ringfinger: "sever flesh and bone"
*Suck: "the temple walls are made of flesh"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught"
*Discipline: "I see you left a mark / up and down my skin"
*Sunspots: "Peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground"
==Solipsism==
*I Do Not Want This: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"
*Please: "the world is over and I realize it was all in my head"
*Only: "you were never real to begin with / i just made you up..." and "there is no you / there is only me"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if all the world you think you know is an elaborate dream?"
*Head Down: "this all a dream and none of you are real"
==Stopping==
*We’re In This Together: "none of them can stop us now"
*Sunspots: "but I can't stop what has begun"
*The Line Begins To Blur: "isn’t anyone stopping me?"
*My Violent Heart: "You cannot stop us all"
*Me, I’m Not: "hey, can we stop?"
*Discipline: "you know once I start I cannot stop myself"
==Tiny little dot==
* Down In It:
:Just then a tiny little dot caught my eye it was just about too small to see
:But I watched it way too long and that dot was pulling me down
* Only:
:Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye
:And it turned out to be a scab
:And I had this funny feeling
:Like I just knew it's something bad
==That which could have or would have been==
*The Wretched: "all the what abouts, and all the might have could have beens"
*The Great Below: "for all we could have done, and all that could have been"
*And All That Could Have Been
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I wish this could have been any other way"
*La Mer: "I think I could have been someone"
*Sunspots: "I think I could have been someone / but I can’t stop what has begun"
==Underneath it all==
*The Way Out Is Through: underneath it all / we feel so small
*Underneath It All: hear your call / underneath it all
==Used up==
*We’re In This Together: all used and beaten up
*Love Is Not Enough: left for dead and all used up
*Head Down: all used up half way through
==Virus==
*Heresy: he made a virus to kill off all the swine
*The Warning: you’ve become a virus / that has eaten up its host
==Waking up==
*Even Deeper: "I woke up today to find myself in the other place"
*Gave Up: "wake up / wake up in flames"
*We’re In This Together: "awake to the sound"
*Home: "I awake to find I’m not at all where I should be"
*1,000,000: "I wake up on the floor"
[[Category: NIN Songs]]