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| album = ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]''
| length = 6:13
| versions = Closer<br>Closer (Instrumental)<br>Closer (Clean Pussy Radio Edit)<br>Closer To God<br>Closer (Precursor)<br>Closer (Further Away)<br>Closer (Deviation)<br>Closer (Internal)<br>Closer (Thrust)<br>Closer (''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'')<br>Closer (''[[Beside You In Time (halo)|Beside You In Time]]'')
| live = [[Self-Destruct Tour]] through [[Lights In The Sky Tour]]
}}'''"Closer"''' is the fifth track on the 1994 release ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]].'' It begins with an electronic beat that is reminiscent of a heartbeat for eight bars. A keyboard pattern and sixteenth-note beat join in along with the vocals. Layers are continuously added before dropping out at the end, leaving a simple chromatic piano melody to end the song.
'''"Closer" ''' is the fifth track on the 1994 release ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]'' and is perhaps the most well-known song from by [[Nine Inch Nails]], maybe more so for its as it received much airplay both on radio and music videotelevision. The subject matter is clearly seems to be about sex, but it's not just sex. Instead, it's a feeling of worthlessness and trying to quell that feeling being quelled through control over others using sex. The song was at the number 2 position on AOL's "69 Sexiest Songs of All Time," mostly due to the explicit frankness of its chorus.
===Song Credits===
==Versions==
===Closer===
This is the original album version, found on both ''The Downward Spiral'' and ''Closer To God.'' It begins with an electronic beat, sampled from the Iggy Pop song "Nightclubbing," that is reminiscent of a heartbeat for eight bars. A keyboard pattern and sixteenth-note beat join in along with the vocals. Layers are continuously added before dropping out at the end, leaving a simple chromatic piano melody to end the song and segue into "[[Ruiner]].". The version on ''Closer to God,'' however, does not segue into "[[Ruiner]]," instead allowing allows the final piano note and background noise to ring out and playing the background noise for a few more secondscompletely. The bass drum sound is a heavily processed sample of the bass drum from Iggy Pop's song "Nightclubbing." Being the third song on the album to contain the famous "Downward Spiral Motif," "Closer" plays the motif in similar structure to "[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]," (albeit but in a different key):
[[Image:Closer_(Lower)_Motif_Tab.JPG|The Downward Spiral Motif, found in the cacophony of sound in the closing seconds of "Closer."]]
[[Image:Closer_(Higher)_Motif_Tab.JPG|The higher part of the motif, found on the very last seconds on "Closer."]]
===Closer (Instrumental)===
Released by Reznor via his remix.nin.com account, this is an unmastered and complete version of the album cut, sans his vocals.
===Closer (Clean Pussy Radio Edit)===
This version is shortened and censored for radio airplay.
===Closer To God===
"Closer To God" is one of the only remixes that has been performed live.
====Song Credits====
* Manipulation: Trent Reznor, [[Sean Beavan]], [[Brian Pollack]]
===Closer (Precursor)===
This remix was featured in the opening credits for the [[David Fincher]] film, ''Se7en.''
====Song Credits====
* Manipulation: [[Coil]], [[Danny Hyde]]
===Closer (Deviation)===
This is one of the lesser reworked remixes of "Closer." It adds an interesting loop in the background the consists of what appears to be a bass guitar and a high-pitched drone. At the end it repeats the two lines "Help me get away from myself" and "You get me closer to God".
====Song Credits====
* Manipulation: [[Meat Beat Manifesto|Jack Dangers]], Craig Silvey
===Closer (Internal)===
This remix uses techniques stereo panning in which the phrases "You get me closer to god" and "I want to fuck you like an animal" switch between left and right speaker.
====Song Credits====
* Manipulation: Bill Kennedy, Scott Humphrey, John "Geetus" Aguto, Paul Decarli, Eric Claudiex
===Closer (Further Away)===
This remix begins with a significantly modified drumbeat, similar to the drums heard in "[[A Violet Fluid]]." Slowly the song picks up and a sound similar to a lion's roar is heard with the cry "I want to fuck you like an animal." Lyrics are then whispered then eventually, vocoded. A loud drum solo is then heard on top of the famous "Closer drone" and then the lyrics from the choruses are heard. Various lyrics are chopped up with a drum solo.
====Song Credits====
* Manipulation: Bill Kennedy, Scott Humphrey, John "Geetus" Aguto, Paul Decarli, Eric Claudiex
===Closer (Thrust)===
This remix didn't make it onto the ''Closer To God'' EP and , but can be streamed or downloaded from [[remix.nin.com]].
====Song Credits====
* Manipulation: Paul de Carli
===Closer (''And All That Could Have Been'')===
This live version uses the swirling synthesizers prominent at the end of the original song for an introduction. Its ending segues into "[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]" much like the transition between "Closer" and "[[Ruiner]]" on ''The Downward Spiral.''
===Closer (''Beside You In Time'')===
On this live version, the instrumental breakdown bridge of "[[The Only Time]]" is incorporated into the song's breakdownbridge. The interlude accompanying lyrics are sung in a manner different from past tours. The , and the final outro is much shorter than on the album version and is close to the music video edit in terms of length.
==Music Video==