Changes

This is the original album version. Quietly transitioning from "[[The Way Out Is Through]]," it begins by building layers of percussion and melody before launching into the main body of the song with , featuring a danceable beat loop and synthesized bassline. Reznor's layered vocals are a prominent feature of the track, overlapping through the wordless choruses as , during which they are joined by sustaining guitars playing a noisy, descending guitar part. Like many other melodies on ''The Fragile'', this guitar part appears elsewhere in the album, in more prominent and complete form, at the peak of "[[The Mark Has Been Made]]". The instrumental bridge of the song stops suddenly, only to start again re-emerge soon after with a squealing synthesizer solo and . A final, extended chorus ends the final repetition and song, with a trademark NIN wall-of-sound buildup around the lyric "Tried to save myself , but myself keeps slipping away," . This line is the line that ends final moment of the song , sung ''a capella.''