| album =''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]''
| length =5:55
| versions =Something I Can Never Have (''[[Still]]'') <br> Something I Can Never Have (''Natural Born Killers'' sountracksoundtrack) <br> Something I Can Never Have (live, ''[[Closure]]'') <br> Something I Can Never Have (live, ''[[Beside You In Time]]'')
| live =[[Hate 1990]] through present <br> Staple song in set except during [[Fragility]]
}}
==About==
'''''Something I Can Never Have''''' is the fifth track on the 1989 release ''[[Pretty Hate Machine]].'' It's a song about lost love and missed chances, though the true story about the song isn't widly wildly (or at all) known. It is the first song in which [[Trent Reznor]] plays a piano and is the first song in which he uses the word "fuck" ("fading fucking reminder").
===Song Credits===