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Many of [[Trent Reznor]]'s lyrics are thematically similar across songs and albums, evidence of both his genius and his lack of vocabulary. This is an expansion of a list compiled at [http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=13785 ETS] by user "Christ".
==Becoming==
*[[Now I'm Nothing]]: "oh, what I have become!"
*[[Gave Up]]: "after everything I've done I hate myself for what I've become"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "can you let your heart become central pump-house for all human feelings?"
*[[Closer]]: "help me become somebody else"
*[[The Becoming]]: "I am becoming"
*[[Hurt]]: "what have I become, my sweetest friend?"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "I've become impossible"
*[[Even Deeper]]: "do you know how far this has gone? just how damaged have I become"
*[[The Great Below]]: "the destiny I've chose / all becoming clear"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]:
:"that hasn't yet become"
:"come on there has got to be someone / hasn't yet become / so numb / and succumb"
*[[The New Flesh]]: "yes I am becoming" and "I've become"
*[[Me, I'm Not]]: "and it's hard to believe / just, what I've become"
==Beginnings==
*[[The New Flesh]]: "and this is how it all begins"
*[[The Wretched]]: "back at the beginning"
*[[Please]]: "this is how it begins"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "ending what had begun"
==Belonging==
*[[Starfuckers, Inc.]]: "now I belong / I'm one of the chosen ones"
*[[All The Love In The World]]: "watching all the insects march along / seem to know just right where they belong"
*[[You Know What You Are?]]: "go on get back to where you belong"
*[[With Teeth (song)]]: "you've finally found the place where you belong"
*[[Beside You In Time (song)|Beside You In Time]]: "everything is back where it belongs"
*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "see the safety of the life you have built / everything where it belongs"
*[[Home]]: "I return to the only place I've ever felt that I belong"
==Bleeding==
*[[Ringfinger]]: "working my hands until they bleed"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "and nothing comes bleeding out of me just like a waterfall I'm drowning in"
*[[Reptile]]: "angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "pleading and needing and bleeding and breeding"
*[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]: "will you chew until it bleeds?"
*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
===Bleeding through===
*''Bleedthrough'' was the working title for ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''
*[[Every Day Is Exactly The Same (song)|Every Day Is Exactly The Same]]: "a little bit comes bleeding through"
*[[Beside You In Time (song)]]: "feel the little pieces bleeding through"
==Blind==
*[[Heresy]] (Blind)
*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "the blind have been blessed with security"
*[[Suck]]: "once I could see now I am blind"
*[[Ruiner]]: "those that you keep blind will suddenly realize"
===Realization===
*[[Sin]]: "am I just too stupid to realize"
*[[Gave Up]]: "it took you to make me realize"
*[[Eraser]] (Denial; Realization)
*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "my soul is so afraid to realize"
*[[Please]]: "and I realize it was all in my head"
==Blurring lines==
*[[The Line Begins To Blur]]
*[[With Teeth (song)|With Teeth]]: "the lines begin to blur"
==Broken==
*[[Broken]]
*[[Gave Up]]: "still cannot fix this broken machine"
*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
*[[Piggy]]: "black and blue and broken bones / you left me here I'm all alone"
*[[The Becoming]]: "he's covered with scabs, he is broken and sore"
*[[Hurt]]: "full of broken thoughts, I cannot repair"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"
*[[No, You Don't]]: "broken down see through soul"
*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
===Bruised===
*[[Head Like A Hole (song)]]: "God Money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"
*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
==Burning==
*[[Burn]]
*[[Heresy]]: "burning with your god"
*[[The Big Come Down]]: "there is a hate that burns within"
*[[Non-Entity]]: "Burning down the world, the ashes and debris"
===Fire===
*[[Sanctified]]: "as the words spill out like fire from her lips"
*[[Gave Up]]: "wake up in flames"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "can you flow with fire"
*[[In This Twilight]]: "it is watching us, and the world we set on fire / do you wonder, if it feels the same?"
==Cracks==
*[[You Know What You Are?]]: "I tried to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*[[Getting Smaller]]: "can kind of see out the cracks when I press up to the wall"
*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "what if you could look right through the cracks?"
==Crawling==
*[[Down In It]]: " I was swimming in the haze now I crawl on the ground"
*[[Getting Smaller]]: "I'd be happy to crawl"
*[[March of the Pigs]]: "Crawl right up on your knees"
*[[My Violent Heart]]: "On hands and knees, we crawl"
*[[The Beginning Of The End]]: "Down on your knees"
*[[The Way Out Is Through]]: "But still we crawl"
==Decay==
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "my morals left to decay"
*[[The Becoming]]: "the blood has stopped pumping and he's left to decay"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "drink the fountain of decay"
*[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|The Day The World Went Away]]: "but in his voice I heard decay"
*[[Ripe (With Decay)]]
===Rotting===
*[[Last]]: "dress up this rotten carcass"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "poisoned to my rotten core"
==Disappearing; abandonment; loss; throw away==
*[[Throw This Away]]
*[[Head Like A Hole]]: "no you can't take that away from me"
*[[Terrible Lie]]:
:"don't take it away from me"
:"I'm all alone in a world you must despise"
:"my morals left to decay"
*[[That's What I Get]]: "you took away all my self confidence"
*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "you make this all go away"
*[[Ringfinger]]: "you just leave me nailed here"
*[[Suck]]: "all that was true is left behind"
*[[Gave Up]]: "give it to me I throw it away"
*[[Wish]]: "I just threw it away"
*[[Last]]: "I pissed it all away"
*[[Piggy]]: "you left me here I'm all alone"
*[[Hurt]]: "the feelings disappear" and "everyone I know goes away in the end"
*[[Closer]]: "help me get away from myself"
*[[The Becoming]]:
:"even when I'm right with you I'm so far away"
:"and he's left to decay"
:"all pain disappears"
*[[Reptile]]: "she leaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been"
*[[Eraser]]: "find you" and "lose me"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place"
*[[Dead Souls]]: "someone take these dreams away"
*[[Deep]]: "right here make it all disappear"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]:
:"well they've got to make it go away / well they've got to make it disappear"
:"as lost as I get I will find you"
*[[The Great Below]]:
:"washes me away makes me disappear"
:"I can still feel you even so far away"
*[[Please]]:
:"I can disappear"
:"push it away but it all comes back again"
:"but it just left me dead"
:"you can never leave me"
*[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|The Day The World Went Away]]: "all the insides left cold and gray"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]:
:"made the choice to go away"
:"in the back / off the side / far away"
:"all alone / by myself / where were you?"
*[[The Big Come Down]]: "find a place with the failed and forgotten"
*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "I can't watch her slip away"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "everything pushes me further away"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]:
:"maybe I'll disappear"
:"you won't find me here"
:"take this and run far away"
:"left with a trace of all that was"
==Disease==
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "my head is filled with disease"
*[[Suck]]: "this disease I give to myself"
*[[Reptile]]: "my disease my infection"
*[[Ruiner]]: "wearing your disease"
==Dragging/pulling/pushing==
*[[Down In It]]: "it was pulling me down"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I drag you down I use you up"
*[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]: "step right up / march / push"
*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "pull the stars from the sky" and "dragging shaking me"
*[[The Wretched]]: "just to push you down"
*[[Please]]: "push it away but it all comes back again"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "everything pushes me further away"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "they pick and they pull"
*[[The Great Below]]: "ocean pulls me close"
==Dreams==
*[[Sanctified]]: "I still dream of lips I never should have kissed"
*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore"
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "seems like salvation comes only in our dreams"
*[[Suck]]: "don't want your dreams you try to sell"
*[[Gave Up]]: "perfect little dream"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am the end of all your dreams"
*[[Heresy]]: "he dreamed a god up"
*[[The Becoming]]: "I'm stuck in this dream"
*[[Eraser]]: "dream you"
*[[Even Deeper]]: "in a dream I'm a different me"
*[[Dead Souls]]: "someone take these dreams away"
==Drowning==
*[[The Only Time]]: "and swim in it until I drown"
*[[Last]]: "new sweat to drown me in"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "help I'm drowning"
*[[The Becoming]]: "drowns out all I hear"
*[[Heresy]]: "drowning in his own hypocrisy"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "just like a waterfall I'm drowning in"
*[[Please]]: "sink until I drown"
*[[The Great Below]]: "the currents have their say"
==Exit==
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am an exit"
*[[The New Flesh]]: "This is not an exit"
==Eye==
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "just then a tiny little dot caught my eye" and "but the needle's already in my eye"
*[[Ringfinger]]: "wrap my eyes in bandages"
*[[The Only Time]]: "the sweat in your eyes"
*[[Kinda I Want To]]: "maybe god will cover up his eyes"
*[[Last]]: "look through these blackened eyes"
*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "don't open your eyes"
*[[Heresy]]: "he sewed his eyes shut"
*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "well the tiniest little dot caught my eye"
*[[The Great Below]]: "all the world has closed her eyes"
*[[The New Flesh]]: "the blackest eyes"
*[[Memorabilia]]: "the look in your eye"
==Fading==
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "what I used to think was me is just a fading memory"
*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "tracks will fade in the snow" and "gone, fading, everything"
*[[Non-Entity]]: "now I'm afraid I'm fading out of sight"
===Fading away===
*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "I'm becoming less defined, as days go by / fading away, well..."
*[[Getting Smaller]]: "I'm afraid I am starting to fade away"
*[[Beside You In Time (song)|Beside You In Time]]: "I can feel me start to fade away"
*[[Not So Pretty Now]]: But your just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading away"
==Flesh==
*[[The New Flesh]]
*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "my skin is begging you"
*[[Sin]]: "it gets under my skin"
*[[Ringfinger]]: "sever flesh and bone"
*[[Suck]]: "the temple walls are made of flesh"
*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "just some flesh caught"
===Skin===
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]] (Skin)
*[[Last]]: "fresh blood through tired skin"
*[[Suck]]: "itches my skin right off my back"
*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "just words and so much skin"
*[[Underneath The Skin]]
*[[March Of The Pigs]]: "take the skin and peel it back"
*[[Reptile]]: "just underneath her skin"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "bamboo puncturing this skin"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "shedding skin succumb defeat"
*[[We're In This Together]]: "as they peel apart the skin"
*[[Please]]: "all the flesh all the sin"
*[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]: "his skin just wasn't thick enough"
*[[Deep]]: "your skin speaks up but your lips couldn't say it"
==Get me out of here==
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*[[Deep]]
==Head==
*[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "my head is filled with disease"
*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "scraping through my head"
*[[Kinda I Want To]]: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"
*[[Suck]]: "I bow my head to confess"
*[[Last]]: "my head got lost along the way"
*[[Big Man With A Gun]]: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"
*[[The Becoming]]: "goddamn this noise inside my head"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am the voice inside your head"
*[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]: "spilling out of my head"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"
*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "I got my head but my head is unraveling"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "then my head fell apart"
*[[Into The Void (song)|Into The Void]]: "pictures in my head of the final destination"
*[[Please]]: "the world is over and I realize it was all in my head"
*[[The New Flesh]]: "and in my head this is how it all begins"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "I am locked in my head"
*[[Get Down Make Love]]: "you blow my head"
==Hiding==
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "there's nothing left for me to hide"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am the hate you try to hide"
*[[The Becoming]]: "hiding backwards inside of me"
*[[The Big Come Down]]: "there is no way I can hide"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "when all I'm really doing is trying to hide"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "is a place where I hide where I stay"
*[[No, You Don't]]: "tries so hard to hide"
*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "where we can run and hide"
==Holes==
*[[Head Like A Hole]]
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "now just this hole that's open wide"
*[[Gave Up]]: "watching the hole it used to be mine"
*[[Wish]]: "I'm the one with this big fucking hole"
*[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]: "so much blood for such a tiny little hole"
*[[Hurt]]: "the needle tears a hole"
*[[Big Man With A Gun]]: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"
*[[Deep]]: "there's a big black hole gonna eat me up someday"
*[[The Wretched]]: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "tear a hole exquisite red"
*[[No, You Don't]]: "smiling in their faces while filling up the hole"
*[[Please]]: "it fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead"
==How it feels==
*[[Suck]]: "how does it feel"
*[[Gave Up]]: "forgot how it feels well almost"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "oh you just wish I could feel that way too"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "to those who know what it really feels like"
*[[Memorabilia]]: "I know what it feels like"
*[[The Wretched]]: "now you know this is what it feels"
==Insects==
*[[All The Love In The World]]: "Watching all the insects march along"
*[[Reptile]]: "She spreads herself wide open to let the insects in"
==It keeps coming==
*[[The Wretched]]: "you can try to stop it but it keeps on coming"
*[[The Big Come Down]]: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"
*[[Please]]: "and it keeps repeating"
*[[Dead Souls]]: "they keep calling me"
==Machines==
*[[Pretty Hate Machine]]
*[[Gave Up]]: "still cannot fix this broken machine"
*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am the silencing machine"
*[[The Becoming]]: "I beat my machine"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "this machine is obsolete"
==Memory==
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "just a fading memory"
*[[Hurt]]: "but I remember everything"
*[[Memorabilia]]: "I have got to have a memory / I can't remember / give me your reminder"
*[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]: "I remember sometimes"
==Nothing can stop me now==
* [[Piggy]] and Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
* [[Ruiner]] and Ruiner (Version)
* [[Big Man With a Gun]]
* [[La Mer]] and La Mer (Version) ("nothing can stop me now" spoken in creole french)
* [[Sunspots]]
===Stop us===
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "none of them can stop us now"
*[[My Violent Heart]]: "You cannot stop us all"
*[[Me, I'm Not]]: "hey, can we stop?"
==Pigs==
*[[Piggy]]
*[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]
*[[Last]]: "pigs we get what pigs deserve"
*During [[Fragility]], Trent chanted "pig" before [[Reptile]]. This can be heard on the [[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]] DVD extra performance of Reptile.
*[[Le Pig studio]]
==Sin==
*[[Sin (song)|Sin]]
*[[Ringfinger]]: "I'm just dying for your sins"
*[[Please]]: "all the flesh / all the sin"
==Slipping==
* [[That's What I Get]]: "slipping on the tears"
* [[Deep]]: "you're slipping through"
===Slipping away===
*[[Slipping Away]]
*[[Last]]: "still feel it all slipping away"
*[[The Becoming]]: "I might just slip away"
*[[Into The Void (song)|Into The Void]]: "but myself keeps slipping away"
*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "I can't watch her slip away"
==Solipsism==
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"
*[[Please]]: "the world is over and I realize it was all in my head"
*[[Only (song)]]: "you were never real to begin with / i just made you up..." and "there is no you / there is only me"
*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "what if all the world you think you know is an elaborate dream?"
==Tiny little dot==
* [[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]:
:Just then a tiny little dot caught my eye it was just about too small to see
:But I watched it way too long and that dot was pulling me down
* [[Only (song)|Only]]:
:Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye
:And it turned out to be a scab
:And I had this funny feeling
:Like I just knew it's something bad
==That which could have or would have been==
*[[The Wretched]]: "all the what abouts, and all the might have could have beens"
*[[The Great Below]]: "for all we could have done, and all that could have been"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]
*[[Every Day Is Exactly The Same (song)|Every Day Is Exactly The Same]]: "I wish this could have been any other way"
*[[Sunspots]]: "I think I could have been someone"
==Waking up==
*[[Even Deeper]]: "I woke up today to find myself in the other place"
*[[Gave Up]]: "wake up / wake up in flames"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "awake to the sound"
==Becoming==
*[[Now I'm Nothing]]: "oh, what I have become!"
*[[Gave Up]]: "after everything I've done I hate myself for what I've become"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "can you let your heart become central pump-house for all human feelings?"
*[[Closer]]: "help me become somebody else"
*[[The Becoming]]: "I am becoming"
*[[Hurt]]: "what have I become, my sweetest friend?"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "I've become impossible"
*[[Even Deeper]]: "do you know how far this has gone? just how damaged have I become"
*[[The Great Below]]: "the destiny I've chose / all becoming clear"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]:
:"that hasn't yet become"
:"come on there has got to be someone / hasn't yet become / so numb / and succumb"
*[[The New Flesh]]: "yes I am becoming" and "I've become"
*[[Me, I'm Not]]: "and it's hard to believe / just, what I've become"
==Beginnings==
*[[The New Flesh]]: "and this is how it all begins"
*[[The Wretched]]: "back at the beginning"
*[[Please]]: "this is how it begins"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "ending what had begun"
==Belonging==
*[[Starfuckers, Inc.]]: "now I belong / I'm one of the chosen ones"
*[[All The Love In The World]]: "watching all the insects march along / seem to know just right where they belong"
*[[You Know What You Are?]]: "go on get back to where you belong"
*[[With Teeth (song)]]: "you've finally found the place where you belong"
*[[Beside You In Time (song)|Beside You In Time]]: "everything is back where it belongs"
*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "see the safety of the life you have built / everything where it belongs"
*[[Home]]: "I return to the only place I've ever felt that I belong"
==Bleeding==
*[[Ringfinger]]: "working my hands until they bleed"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "and nothing comes bleeding out of me just like a waterfall I'm drowning in"
*[[Reptile]]: "angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "pleading and needing and bleeding and breeding"
*[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]: "will you chew until it bleeds?"
*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
===Bleeding through===
*''Bleedthrough'' was the working title for ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''
*[[Every Day Is Exactly The Same (song)|Every Day Is Exactly The Same]]: "a little bit comes bleeding through"
*[[Beside You In Time (song)]]: "feel the little pieces bleeding through"
==Blind==
*[[Heresy]] (Blind)
*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "the blind have been blessed with security"
*[[Suck]]: "once I could see now I am blind"
*[[Ruiner]]: "those that you keep blind will suddenly realize"
===Realization===
*[[Sin]]: "am I just too stupid to realize"
*[[Gave Up]]: "it took you to make me realize"
*[[Eraser]] (Denial; Realization)
*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "my soul is so afraid to realize"
*[[Please]]: "and I realize it was all in my head"
==Blurring lines==
*[[The Line Begins To Blur]]
*[[With Teeth (song)|With Teeth]]: "the lines begin to blur"
==Broken==
*[[Broken]]
*[[Gave Up]]: "still cannot fix this broken machine"
*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
*[[Piggy]]: "black and blue and broken bones / you left me here I'm all alone"
*[[The Becoming]]: "he's covered with scabs, he is broken and sore"
*[[Hurt]]: "full of broken thoughts, I cannot repair"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"
*[[No, You Don't]]: "broken down see through soul"
*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
===Bruised===
*[[Head Like A Hole (song)]]: "God Money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"
*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
==Burning==
*[[Burn]]
*[[Heresy]]: "burning with your god"
*[[The Big Come Down]]: "there is a hate that burns within"
*[[Non-Entity]]: "Burning down the world, the ashes and debris"
===Fire===
*[[Sanctified]]: "as the words spill out like fire from her lips"
*[[Gave Up]]: "wake up in flames"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "can you flow with fire"
*[[In This Twilight]]: "it is watching us, and the world we set on fire / do you wonder, if it feels the same?"
==Cracks==
*[[You Know What You Are?]]: "I tried to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*[[Getting Smaller]]: "can kind of see out the cracks when I press up to the wall"
*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "what if you could look right through the cracks?"
==Crawling==
*[[Down In It]]: " I was swimming in the haze now I crawl on the ground"
*[[Getting Smaller]]: "I'd be happy to crawl"
*[[March of the Pigs]]: "Crawl right up on your knees"
*[[My Violent Heart]]: "On hands and knees, we crawl"
*[[The Beginning Of The End]]: "Down on your knees"
*[[The Way Out Is Through]]: "But still we crawl"
==Decay==
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "my morals left to decay"
*[[The Becoming]]: "the blood has stopped pumping and he's left to decay"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "drink the fountain of decay"
*[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|The Day The World Went Away]]: "but in his voice I heard decay"
*[[Ripe (With Decay)]]
===Rotting===
*[[Last]]: "dress up this rotten carcass"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "poisoned to my rotten core"
==Disappearing; abandonment; loss; throw away==
*[[Throw This Away]]
*[[Head Like A Hole]]: "no you can't take that away from me"
*[[Terrible Lie]]:
:"don't take it away from me"
:"I'm all alone in a world you must despise"
:"my morals left to decay"
*[[That's What I Get]]: "you took away all my self confidence"
*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "you make this all go away"
*[[Ringfinger]]: "you just leave me nailed here"
*[[Suck]]: "all that was true is left behind"
*[[Gave Up]]: "give it to me I throw it away"
*[[Wish]]: "I just threw it away"
*[[Last]]: "I pissed it all away"
*[[Piggy]]: "you left me here I'm all alone"
*[[Hurt]]: "the feelings disappear" and "everyone I know goes away in the end"
*[[Closer]]: "help me get away from myself"
*[[The Becoming]]:
:"even when I'm right with you I'm so far away"
:"and he's left to decay"
:"all pain disappears"
*[[Reptile]]: "she leaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been"
*[[Eraser]]: "find you" and "lose me"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place"
*[[Dead Souls]]: "someone take these dreams away"
*[[Deep]]: "right here make it all disappear"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]:
:"well they've got to make it go away / well they've got to make it disappear"
:"as lost as I get I will find you"
*[[The Great Below]]:
:"washes me away makes me disappear"
:"I can still feel you even so far away"
*[[Please]]:
:"I can disappear"
:"push it away but it all comes back again"
:"but it just left me dead"
:"you can never leave me"
*[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|The Day The World Went Away]]: "all the insides left cold and gray"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]:
:"made the choice to go away"
:"in the back / off the side / far away"
:"all alone / by myself / where were you?"
*[[The Big Come Down]]: "find a place with the failed and forgotten"
*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "I can't watch her slip away"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "everything pushes me further away"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]:
:"maybe I'll disappear"
:"you won't find me here"
:"take this and run far away"
:"left with a trace of all that was"
==Disease==
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "my head is filled with disease"
*[[Suck]]: "this disease I give to myself"
*[[Reptile]]: "my disease my infection"
*[[Ruiner]]: "wearing your disease"
==Dragging/pulling/pushing==
*[[Down In It]]: "it was pulling me down"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I drag you down I use you up"
*[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]: "step right up / march / push"
*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "pull the stars from the sky" and "dragging shaking me"
*[[The Wretched]]: "just to push you down"
*[[Please]]: "push it away but it all comes back again"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "everything pushes me further away"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "they pick and they pull"
*[[The Great Below]]: "ocean pulls me close"
==Dreams==
*[[Sanctified]]: "I still dream of lips I never should have kissed"
*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore"
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "seems like salvation comes only in our dreams"
*[[Suck]]: "don't want your dreams you try to sell"
*[[Gave Up]]: "perfect little dream"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am the end of all your dreams"
*[[Heresy]]: "he dreamed a god up"
*[[The Becoming]]: "I'm stuck in this dream"
*[[Eraser]]: "dream you"
*[[Even Deeper]]: "in a dream I'm a different me"
*[[Dead Souls]]: "someone take these dreams away"
==Drowning==
*[[The Only Time]]: "and swim in it until I drown"
*[[Last]]: "new sweat to drown me in"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "help I'm drowning"
*[[The Becoming]]: "drowns out all I hear"
*[[Heresy]]: "drowning in his own hypocrisy"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "just like a waterfall I'm drowning in"
*[[Please]]: "sink until I drown"
*[[The Great Below]]: "the currents have their say"
==Exit==
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am an exit"
*[[The New Flesh]]: "This is not an exit"
==Eye==
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "just then a tiny little dot caught my eye" and "but the needle's already in my eye"
*[[Ringfinger]]: "wrap my eyes in bandages"
*[[The Only Time]]: "the sweat in your eyes"
*[[Kinda I Want To]]: "maybe god will cover up his eyes"
*[[Last]]: "look through these blackened eyes"
*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "don't open your eyes"
*[[Heresy]]: "he sewed his eyes shut"
*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "well the tiniest little dot caught my eye"
*[[The Great Below]]: "all the world has closed her eyes"
*[[The New Flesh]]: "the blackest eyes"
*[[Memorabilia]]: "the look in your eye"
==Fading==
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "what I used to think was me is just a fading memory"
*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "tracks will fade in the snow" and "gone, fading, everything"
*[[Non-Entity]]: "now I'm afraid I'm fading out of sight"
===Fading away===
*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "I'm becoming less defined, as days go by / fading away, well..."
*[[Getting Smaller]]: "I'm afraid I am starting to fade away"
*[[Beside You In Time (song)|Beside You In Time]]: "I can feel me start to fade away"
*[[Not So Pretty Now]]: But your just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading away"
==Flesh==
*[[The New Flesh]]
*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "my skin is begging you"
*[[Sin]]: "it gets under my skin"
*[[Ringfinger]]: "sever flesh and bone"
*[[Suck]]: "the temple walls are made of flesh"
*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "just some flesh caught"
===Skin===
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]] (Skin)
*[[Last]]: "fresh blood through tired skin"
*[[Suck]]: "itches my skin right off my back"
*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "just words and so much skin"
*[[Underneath The Skin]]
*[[March Of The Pigs]]: "take the skin and peel it back"
*[[Reptile]]: "just underneath her skin"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "bamboo puncturing this skin"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "shedding skin succumb defeat"
*[[We're In This Together]]: "as they peel apart the skin"
*[[Please]]: "all the flesh all the sin"
*[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]: "his skin just wasn't thick enough"
*[[Deep]]: "your skin speaks up but your lips couldn't say it"
==Get me out of here==
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*[[Deep]]
==Head==
*[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "my head is filled with disease"
*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "scraping through my head"
*[[Kinda I Want To]]: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"
*[[Suck]]: "I bow my head to confess"
*[[Last]]: "my head got lost along the way"
*[[Big Man With A Gun]]: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"
*[[The Becoming]]: "goddamn this noise inside my head"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am the voice inside your head"
*[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]: "spilling out of my head"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"
*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "I got my head but my head is unraveling"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "then my head fell apart"
*[[Into The Void (song)|Into The Void]]: "pictures in my head of the final destination"
*[[Please]]: "the world is over and I realize it was all in my head"
*[[The New Flesh]]: "and in my head this is how it all begins"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "I am locked in my head"
*[[Get Down Make Love]]: "you blow my head"
==Hiding==
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "there's nothing left for me to hide"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am the hate you try to hide"
*[[The Becoming]]: "hiding backwards inside of me"
*[[The Big Come Down]]: "there is no way I can hide"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "when all I'm really doing is trying to hide"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "is a place where I hide where I stay"
*[[No, You Don't]]: "tries so hard to hide"
*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "where we can run and hide"
==Holes==
*[[Head Like A Hole]]
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "now just this hole that's open wide"
*[[Gave Up]]: "watching the hole it used to be mine"
*[[Wish]]: "I'm the one with this big fucking hole"
*[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]: "so much blood for such a tiny little hole"
*[[Hurt]]: "the needle tears a hole"
*[[Big Man With A Gun]]: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"
*[[Deep]]: "there's a big black hole gonna eat me up someday"
*[[The Wretched]]: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "tear a hole exquisite red"
*[[No, You Don't]]: "smiling in their faces while filling up the hole"
*[[Please]]: "it fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead"
==How it feels==
*[[Suck]]: "how does it feel"
*[[Gave Up]]: "forgot how it feels well almost"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "oh you just wish I could feel that way too"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "to those who know what it really feels like"
*[[Memorabilia]]: "I know what it feels like"
*[[The Wretched]]: "now you know this is what it feels"
==Insects==
*[[All The Love In The World]]: "Watching all the insects march along"
*[[Reptile]]: "She spreads herself wide open to let the insects in"
==It keeps coming==
*[[The Wretched]]: "you can try to stop it but it keeps on coming"
*[[The Big Come Down]]: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"
*[[Please]]: "and it keeps repeating"
*[[Dead Souls]]: "they keep calling me"
==Machines==
*[[Pretty Hate Machine]]
*[[Gave Up]]: "still cannot fix this broken machine"
*[[Happiness In Slavery]]: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I am the silencing machine"
*[[The Becoming]]: "I beat my machine"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "this machine is obsolete"
==Memory==
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "just a fading memory"
*[[Hurt]]: "but I remember everything"
*[[Memorabilia]]: "I have got to have a memory / I can't remember / give me your reminder"
*[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]: "I remember sometimes"
==Nothing can stop me now==
* [[Piggy]] and Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
* [[Ruiner]] and Ruiner (Version)
* [[Big Man With a Gun]]
* [[La Mer]] and La Mer (Version) ("nothing can stop me now" spoken in creole french)
* [[Sunspots]]
===Stop us===
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "none of them can stop us now"
*[[My Violent Heart]]: "You cannot stop us all"
*[[Me, I'm Not]]: "hey, can we stop?"
==Pigs==
*[[Piggy]]
*[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]
*[[Last]]: "pigs we get what pigs deserve"
*During [[Fragility]], Trent chanted "pig" before [[Reptile]]. This can be heard on the [[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]] DVD extra performance of Reptile.
*[[Le Pig studio]]
==Sin==
*[[Sin (song)|Sin]]
*[[Ringfinger]]: "I'm just dying for your sins"
*[[Please]]: "all the flesh / all the sin"
==Slipping==
* [[That's What I Get]]: "slipping on the tears"
* [[Deep]]: "you're slipping through"
===Slipping away===
*[[Slipping Away]]
*[[Last]]: "still feel it all slipping away"
*[[The Becoming]]: "I might just slip away"
*[[Into The Void (song)|Into The Void]]: "but myself keeps slipping away"
*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "I can't watch her slip away"
==Solipsism==
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"
*[[Please]]: "the world is over and I realize it was all in my head"
*[[Only (song)]]: "you were never real to begin with / i just made you up..." and "there is no you / there is only me"
*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "what if all the world you think you know is an elaborate dream?"
==Tiny little dot==
* [[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]:
:Just then a tiny little dot caught my eye it was just about too small to see
:But I watched it way too long and that dot was pulling me down
* [[Only (song)|Only]]:
:Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye
:And it turned out to be a scab
:And I had this funny feeling
:Like I just knew it's something bad
==That which could have or would have been==
*[[The Wretched]]: "all the what abouts, and all the might have could have beens"
*[[The Great Below]]: "for all we could have done, and all that could have been"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]
*[[Every Day Is Exactly The Same (song)|Every Day Is Exactly The Same]]: "I wish this could have been any other way"
*[[Sunspots]]: "I think I could have been someone"
==Waking up==
*[[Even Deeper]]: "I woke up today to find myself in the other place"
*[[Gave Up]]: "wake up / wake up in flames"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "awake to the sound"