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{{song
| title=Metal
| album=''[[Things Falling Apart]]''
| length=7:06
| versions=Metal
| live=[[Wave Goodbye Tour|NIN|JA 2009]]
}}'''"Metal"''' is the eighth track on ''[[Things Falling Apart]],'' a cover of [[Gary Numan]] from his 1979 album ''The Pleasure Principle''.
The end of the song features a drawn-out instrumental referencing several other Numan songs: the higher-pitched synth line is taken from "M.E." (also from ''The Pleasure Principle''), while the piano line references "Remember I Was Vapour" (from 1980's ''Telekon'').
===Song Credits===
*Writing: Gary Numan
*Published by Beggar's Banquet Music/Momentum Music Ltd. (PRS)
*Manipulation: [[Trent Reznor]], [[Alan Moulder]]
==Appearances==
===Halos===
*''Things Falling Apart''
==Versions==
===Metal===
This is the only available version.
==Live==
"Metal" was performed live for the first time on the opening date of the [[Wave Goodbye Tour|NIN|JA 2009]] tour.
==Lyrics==
We're in the building where they make us grow
And I'm frightened by the liquid engineer
Like you
My Mallory heart is sure to fail
I could crawl around the floor just like I'm real
Like you
The sound of metal I want to be you
I should learn to be a man
Like you
Plug me in and turn me on
Oh everything is moving
I need my treatment it's tomorrow they send me
Singing "I am an American"
Do you?
Picture this if I should make the change
I'd love to pull the wires from the wall
Did you?
And who are you and how can I try?
Here inside I like the metal
Don't you?
All I know is no one dies
I'm still confusing love with need
==External Links==
*[http://vimeo.com/6859071 NIN: "Metal" with Gary Numan, live from on stage, London 7.15.09]
[[Category:NIN Songs]][[Category:Covers]]
| title=Metal
| album=''[[Things Falling Apart]]''
| length=7:06
| versions=Metal
| live=[[Wave Goodbye Tour|NIN|JA 2009]]
}}'''"Metal"''' is the eighth track on ''[[Things Falling Apart]],'' a cover of [[Gary Numan]] from his 1979 album ''The Pleasure Principle''.
The end of the song features a drawn-out instrumental referencing several other Numan songs: the higher-pitched synth line is taken from "M.E." (also from ''The Pleasure Principle''), while the piano line references "Remember I Was Vapour" (from 1980's ''Telekon'').
===Song Credits===
*Writing: Gary Numan
*Published by Beggar's Banquet Music/Momentum Music Ltd. (PRS)
*Manipulation: [[Trent Reznor]], [[Alan Moulder]]
==Appearances==
===Halos===
*''Things Falling Apart''
==Versions==
===Metal===
This is the only available version.
==Live==
"Metal" was performed live for the first time on the opening date of the [[Wave Goodbye Tour|NIN|JA 2009]] tour.
==Lyrics==
We're in the building where they make us grow
And I'm frightened by the liquid engineer
Like you
My Mallory heart is sure to fail
I could crawl around the floor just like I'm real
Like you
The sound of metal I want to be you
I should learn to be a man
Like you
Plug me in and turn me on
Oh everything is moving
I need my treatment it's tomorrow they send me
Singing "I am an American"
Do you?
Picture this if I should make the change
I'd love to pull the wires from the wall
Did you?
And who are you and how can I try?
Here inside I like the metal
Don't you?
All I know is no one dies
I'm still confusing love with need
==External Links==
*[http://vimeo.com/6859071 NIN: "Metal" with Gary Numan, live from on stage, London 7.15.09]
[[Category:NIN Songs]][[Category:Covers]]