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* "[[The Life You Didn't Lead]]"
On May 5, 2005, in the [[:File:2005_05_05Questions8.gif|Access]] section of [[nin.com]], Reznor simply replied with "?" in response to the following [[:File:2005_05_05Questions8.gif|fan question]]: "In the .pdf file for the lyrics to the ''With Teeth'' album, there are [''sic''] appears to be songs listed with lyrics that do not appear on the Dual Disc CD/DVD album. Those songs include "Home," "Message To No One" and "The Life You Didn't Lead". Will these songs be released ever?"
A song with the title "[[The Warning (Year Zero song)|The Warning]]" is on ''[[Year Zero]]''. When the 2019 Definitive Edition vinyl of ''With Teeth'' was released, the aforementioned poster was re-created as part of the packaging. Lyrics to "The Warning" were made legible and it was finally revealed that the track from ''Year Zero'' has its origins in the track from the ''With Teeth'' sessions.
The initial concept of the album was an exploration of "loss and possible discovery of self, along with alternate layers of reality and perception set inside a nightmare you can't seem to wake up from; with lots of feedback." Around this time mysterious quotes and binary codes appeared on the NIN website, including a passage from the book ''[[wp:The Lathe of Heaven|The Lathe of Heaven]]'' by Ursula K. Le Guin, containing the phrase "bleed-through". The working title for ''With Teeth'' was ''Bleedthrough'', referencing the phenomenon of audio bleed-through.
In a [[Access#2004_10_18|question posted]] in the [[Access]] section of [[nin.com]] , Reznor announced that the working title ''Bleedthrough'' had been dropped. Reznor stated that the name was changed because "it was supposed to be about different layers of reality seeping into the next, but I think some people were thinking about blood or a tampon commercial." "'Bleedthrough' is no more," Reznor wrote in a message posted on nin.com, "as the songs and concepts matured, the focus and theme of the album shifted somewhat--leaving me feeling that title was inappropriate. Or you could just say I changed my mind. Yes, the new album has a title and track list, and no I'm not telling you what it is yet."
===''With Teeth''===
<blockquote>I wasn’t doing anything consciously to react to what I thought sucked around me. And I didn’t do this record to be the opposite of ''The Fragile'', although it kind of came out that way. It just seemed fresh to me. It seemed inspiring. And the records I found myself listening to while doing this record—like old Gang of Four records, Stooges, Iggy Pop—felt fresh, felt dangerous, felt underproduced. It felt like the spirit of a human being conveying an emotional message was there in those things. And it wasn’t caught up in the glitz and glamour of production bells and whistles, which I myself have embraced at times in the past. So I wanted to kind of strip it down, and I realized I felt comfortable not fitting a lot of layers of stuff in. I thought, 'Let’s only put in what is absolutely necessary. Let’s take a stripped-down approach.'<br><br>
I realized that the last couple of records were written in the studio. So the writing and production and arrangement phase all kind of took place at the same time, bypassing having demos. Songs would start sometimes with a soundscape, sometimes a visual idea, sometimes a drumbeat, sometimes a cool effect, sometimes a chord change. But, usually, the setting was created first, and then a song kind of got wedged in there later on. And this time around, I went about it pretty much the opposite way. I set up a kind of demo room out in Los Angeles and moved out here from New Orleans, really just for a change of pace. I wanted to set up a place where I didn’t have too many options, and I wanted to do demos this time around.[https://www.theninhotline.com/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=55]</blockquote>
The album is also notable for the fact that several tracks ("All The Love In The World", "You Know What You Are?", "The Collector", "Every Day Is Exactly The Same", "Getting Smaller", "Sunspots", "The Line Begins To Blur", and non-album track "Non-Entity") feature [[Dave Grohl]] on drums. In a [[Access#2004_07_13|post]] to the Access section of nin.com, Reznor stated that Grohl had drummed on fifteen tracks, and it is not known why he only features on a total of eight tracks. Reznor had been wanting a Dave Grohl-esque drum sound during the initial stages of recording, and realized it would make more sense to simply ask Grohl if he would do the drumming.[https://www.loudersound.com/features/nin-foo-fighters-with-teeth-trent-reznor-dave-grohl]
==Themes==
All songs written by Trent Reznor ©2005 Leaving Hope Music/TVT Music (ASCAP)
Administered by Leaving Hope Music, Inc. [[Dave Grohl]] appears courtesy Roswell Records
Thank you: Rick Rubin, Jim Guerinot, Mark Geiger, Jimmy Iovine, Jackie McPherson, David Cohen, Steve Berman, Mark Williams, Dennis Dennehy, David Saslow, Courtney Holt, Candace Berry, Martin Kierszenbaum, Angelica Czekalski, Wendy Diplock, Kathy Angstadt, Kamran V, Jeff Anderson, Shaynee Lee-Gordy, Lindsay Chase, [[Keith Hillebrandt]], Brenda Romano, Robbie Lloyd, Melissa Taylor, Gretchen Anderson, Christina Meloche, Sidney Miltz, Kim Kennedy, Jamie Myers, Doug Idleman, Tim Lightfoot, Gino Ascani, Mark Stephen, Susan Swan, [[Dave “Rave” Ogilvie]], [[Danny Lohner]], [[Charlie Clouser]], Claudia Sarne, Don Passman, Eric Ferman, Larry Tull, Ian Astbury, [[Maynard James Keenan]], Jason Pettigrew, Jen Foster, Jim and Bebe Rose, Kevin Llewllyn, Lindsay Dakota, Myriam Santos-Kayda, Nancy Berry, Pete Thorne, Ralf Dietel, Richard Devine, Rupert Parkes, Alien Tom, Simon B, Steph Jorgl, Ted Revely, Tiffany Andrews, Tamar Levine, Michael Angelos, Walker Rollins