Where Is Everybody?
Where Is Everybody? (Instrumental)
Where Is Everybody? (Version)
"Where is Everybody?" is the third song on the Right disc of The Fragile.
This song may possibly be named after the first episode of The Twilight Zone. "Strange Time" by Enuff Z'Nuff member Chip Z'Nuff features an interpolation of the track.
Contents
Song Credits
- End Melodic Guitar: Adrian Belew
Appearances
Halos
- The Fragile
- The Fragile: Deviations 1
- Things Falling Apart
Versions
Where Is Everybody?
This is the original album version. Beginning immediately with a thumping drum beat and distorted bassline doubled by synthesizers, Trent Reznor delivers the first verse rapidly yet melodically, harkening back to his lyrical delivery on "Down In It." The verses feature a funky, bending guitar lick, likely played using the piezo setting on a Parker Fly. The chorus features a guitar riff as well as rhythm changes for the vocal tracks, which are layered to form harmonies. After the second chorus, a wall of guitars enters, backed by more synthesizers, which eventually give way to Adrian Belew's reversed guitar soloing. This ending crossfades with a brief, quiet, dark and distant instrumental coda, which segues into "The Mark Has Been Made."
Where Is Everybody? (Instrumental)
Running Time: 4:55
Released exclusively through Apple Music as part of The Fragile Instrumental and later on The Fragile: Deviations 1, this retains the album arrangement and mix, but ends earlier as it does not crossfade with the coda segue into "The Mark Has Been Made."
Where Is Everybody? (Version)
Running Time: 5:17
This remix features distorted and cut up vocals and is generally much more atmospheric than the original. Glitch beats enter during the latter half.
Song Credits
- Manipulation: Danny Lohner featuring Telefon Tel Aviv
- Production: Danny Lohner, Joshua Eustis, Charles Cooper
- Joshua Eustis and Charles Cooper appear courtesy of Hefty Records (www.heftyrecords.com)
Live
"Where Is Everybody?" has never been played live.
Lyrics
Did you happen to catch
Or did it happen so fast
What you thought would always last
Has passed you by
Is everything speeding up
Or am I slowing down
Just spinning around
And I don't know why
All the pieces don't fit
Thought I really didn't give a shit
I never wanted to be like you
But for all I aspire
I am really a liar
And I'm running out of things I can do
I'd like to stay
But every day
Everything pushes me further away
If you could show
Help me to know
How it's supposed to be
Where did it go?
Pleading and
Needing and
Bleeding and
Breeding and
Feeding
Exceeding
Where is everybody?
Trying and
Lying
Defying
Denying
Crying and
Dying
Where is everybody?
Well, okay, enough
You've had your fun
But come on there has got to be someone
That hasn't yet become
So numb
And succumb
And
God damn I am so tired of pretending
Of wishing I was ending
When all I'm really doing is trying to hide
And keep it inside
And fill it with lies
Open my eyes?
Maybe I wish I could try
Pleading and
Needing and
Bleeding and
Breeding and
Feeding
Exceeding
Where is everybody?
Trying and
Lying
Defying
Denying
Crying and
Dying
Where is everybody?
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