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| album =''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]''
| length =5:55
| versions =Something I Can Never Have (''[[Still]]'') <br> Something I Can Never Have (''Natural Born Killers'' soundtrack) <br> Something I Can Never Have (live, ''[[Closure]]'') <br> Something I Can Never Have (live, ''[[Beside You In Time (halo)|Beside You In Time]]'')
| live =[[Hate 1990]] through present <br> Staple song in set except during [[Fragility]]
}}
'''''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 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").
===Halos===
*''Pretty Hate Machine''
*''[[Closure]]'' (Live)*''[[Still]]'' (Reworked)*''[[Beside You In Time (halo)|Beside You In Time]]'' (Live)
===Other===
===Something I Can Never Have (''[[Natural Born Killers Soundtrack]]'')===
Coming soon
===Something I Can Never Have (''Closure'')===
Coming soon.
===Something I Can Never Have (''[[Still]]'')===
*Second engineering: [[Leo Herrera]]
*Programming: [[Keith Hillebrandt]]
===Something I Can Never Have (''Beside You In Time'')===
Coming soon.
==Live==
A difference from the studio version is the noticeably louder drums that are persistent in the choruses. The keyboard part is usually played by the bassist ([[Danny Lohner]] and [[Jeordie White]]).
During [[Woodstock'94]] and [[Self Destruct]], Trent ended the song with "I can never have... and you will never, ever, ever understand... how I feel."
Since [[Live: With Teeth]], the last chorus has seen an additional rising guitar screech.
==Lyrics==