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This is the original album version. It begins with piano chords accompanied by standup bass and is then accentuated by drums playing a jazz rhythm and e-bow guitar. This is one of the few songs by [[Nine Inch Nails]] that is played with almost all acoustic instruments. It consists of a 3/4 time signature superimposed over a 4/4 time signature. Its piano theme is also used at the end of "[[We're In This Together (song)|We're in This Together]]."
On ''The Fragile'' vinyland 2017 DE download, the introductory piano chords and standup bass are repeated one extra time before the solo begins over top, and the ending denouement is slightly longer, featuring more spoken samples. Because of this, the transition into "[[The Great Below]]" is also slightly different than the original CD version.
===La Mer (Alt)===
===La Mer (Alternate Version)===
''The Fragile: Deviations 1'' version. It seems to be a better transfer of the Apple Music alt version, lacking the DAT transfer noise in the intro.
===La Mer (Version)===
===La Mer (''And All That Could Have Been'')===
This live version does not feature the speech samples, backs the piano line with bass synth, and [[Robin Finck]] plays the introductory melody normally played on piano with a Martin Backpacker acoustic guitar.
==Live==