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Added song credits and official lyrics as they appear on yearzero.nin.com
On March 13, the source files for the song were released in GarageBand format at NIN.com. According to the site, the source files of all songs from Year Zero will be made available to download, free of charge. Survivalism is the third NIN song to be officially released as source files—"[[Only (song)|Only]]" and "[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]" were previously released.
===Song Credits===
*Production: [[Trent Reznor]] and [[Atticus Ross]]
*Mix: [[Alan Moulder]]
*Backing vocals: [[Saul Williams]]
==Appearances==
A wall of surveillance monitors details the activities of several people in an apartment building. A group of rebels is creating stencils and spray-painting the "Art Is Resistance" logo on walls. In an apartment, a pair of gay lovers share an intimate moment. In another dwelling, a young asian woman stands topless at her mirror doing her hair and applying make-up. Elsewhere someone is high on drugs, while a couple just sits on their couch in their home. A man is seen on a [http://theninhotline.net/sets.jpg computer] with several photos and [http://www.ninwiki.com/Image:Exodus_721.JPG news clippings]behind him. Another man is seen on camera eating his dinner. Seen on several monitors is Nine Inch Nails playing the song in what is assumed to be their practice space. Intercut with these scenes is footage of armed soldiers, dressed like swat members, moving in on the building and one of the spaces in the video.
At the end of the video the people in the other monitors seem to respond to an ado in one of the spaces seen on the monitor wall. The space where NIN was playing has its door busted in and a pool of blood leading out, while all of the other cameras trained on the band have gone to static. At the very end a body is seen being dragged around a corner, leaving a trail of blood. Presumably the body is that of [[Trent Reznor]], as it wears the same scarf that he is seen wearing throughout the video.<br>
'''END SPOILERS'''
I should have listened to her
So hard to keep control
We kept on eating butour Our bloated belly's Bloated bellies still not full
She gave us all she had but
We went and took some more
Can't seem to shut her legsour Our mother Mother nature is a whore
I got my propaganda I got revisionism I got my violence In in high-def ultra-realism
All a part of this great nation
I got my fist I got my plan I got survivalism Hypnotic sound of sirensirens
Echoing through the street
The cocking of the rifles
Lost our faith along the way and found ourselves believing your lies
I got my propaganda I got revisionism I got my violence In in high-def ultra-realism
All a part of this great nation
I got my fist I got my planI got survivalism All bruised and broken bleeding She asks to take my hand I turn and keep on walking But you'd do the same thing in this circumstance I got survivalism'm sure you understand
All a part of this great nation
I got my fist I got my plan I got survivalism I got survivalism
[[Category:World of Year Zero]]
[[Category:NIN Songs]]