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| versions = We're In This Together<br>We're In This Together (Radio Edit)<br>We're In This Together (Short Edit)

| live = [[Performance 2007]]

}}'''"We're In This Together"''' is the fifth track on the Left disc of ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]].'' It was also released as a [[We're In This Together (halo)|single]], receiving the designation of Halo 15~~, and is among the rarest of halos~~.

~~===Interpretation===The song is in some ways different from most other~~ [[~~Nine Inch Nails~~Trent Reznor]] commented on the creation of the song in a VIVA 2 Magazine interview: "When I wrote that song it was one of the last songsfor the record. I like the obviousness of the track but I was fearful of the obviousness of the track and in a record that I think is pretty dense and somewhat challenging to get through, I didn't want a song that was too obviously the hit single. Of all the tracks on that album I think that was the hardest to arrange and mix, because if it was mixed poorly, ~~specifically~~ it sounded too obvious in ~~its theme~~ the context of ~~devotion~~the record, ~~while still maintaining an air~~ and at this point we were very aware of the context of the record. So what I learned from the process of ~~desperation as~~ doing that was the vocal track I would have thrown out that was out of tune and my voice was breaking up was the ~~song's narrator clings~~ one that I needed to use, because it added a desperation that made the ~~only thing, or only person left in~~ whole mood of the ~~oppressive world around him that "means anything~~song feel right."

===Song Credits===

==Music Video==

The video for this song first aired in 1999, and was directed by [[Mark Pellington]]. It shows [[Trent Reznor]] and an army of black-clad people running frantically through empty buildings, streets, and eventually a desolate field where everyone except Reznor had disappeared. The video was filmed on location in Guadalajara, Mexico.

On the meaning of the music video, Reznor states in the aforementioned VIVA 2 interview: "When I came to do the video for it I tried to make the song uglier than it would have been if you just heard it and the idea of a tragedy or situation where everything is happening too fast, you're not aware of where you're at until it's too late and you might be caught up in something you're not sure about but you're blindly embracing this comfort of security, that was the global idea for that."

He also states in the same interview the difficulty in making it: "There was good artistic communication until the very end when I got the edit back and got into a situation where what I saw in my head wasn't on the screen. It comes down to a bigger problem which is I've taken over every aspect of the recording process... But in the world of video, I don't know how to do that yet, I haven't directed my own videos so I have to embrace another artists ideals and hope that they see my vision. On this particular one when I got to then end I realized his vision wasn't mine and we tried to reach a common ground and heads butted, and it amounted to me editing the video by myself. There's a slightly unpleasant taste in the whole process of that thing but it made me learn it's time to read the manual for my video camera and just do that too."

==Live==

Although "We're In This Together" is a single, it was not performed live until the [[Performance 2007]] tour, where it entered the setlists alongside [[Last]], another never before played song. ~~The~~ This song is performed in a lower key, presumably due to the vocal strain required to sing it as it appears in the album.

The song debuted at [[2007/02/11 Lisbon, Portugal|Lisbon, Portugal]], and was played (at least) at three other shows.

~~The piano solo outro is greatly expanded in the live versions.~~

== Lyrics ==

*[http://vimeo.com/3703443 "We're In This Together" music video (LP version)]

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtwQf9iJTmg "We're In This Together" extended music video]

*[http://theninhotline.net/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=827 Interview] with VIVA 2 Magazine

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