Changes

This is the original album version, found on both ''With Teeth'' and the ''Every Day Is Exactly The Same'' EP. The song opens with distant, warbled piano notes and ambient noise before the verse suddenly kicks in with thumping live drums, a distorted bassline, and Reznor's vocals. There is separate electronic percussion syncopated with the live drums, deepening the rhythm. Halfway through the first verse, synthesized strings enter, sweeping along with the driving bassline. These strings intensify in the choruses, pounding out the same single high note as Reznor wails against his own homogeny. This structure remains until the bridge, when the bass and synth-strings suddenly drop out, leaving only the percussion and spare, moody piano notes. The entrance of a high-pitched, tremolo-ing guitar and Reznor's scream of "I don't know...what else I can do!" drive the song into its vocal-layered final chorus and eventual echo-laden percussion outro.