Difference between revisions of "My Violent Heart"

Revision as of 18:27, 3 June 2009

Album:Year Zero

Length:4:13 (Including static ending - 4:19)

Tempo:{{{BPM}}} BPM

Versions:My Violent Heart
My Violent Heart: Pirate Robot Midget

Live:N/A

"My Violent Heart" is the eighth track and was the first song to leak from the 2007 release Year Zero.

An amazing discovery was made while analyzing the content of the leaked MP3. In the last few seconds of the song there is an awkward bit of static. Running the audio file through an audio spectrometer, a distinct image was found within the static. It is indeed "The Presence" from the Year Zero concept. In the album version of the song, the static and image are not present. They are at the end of The Warning.

Viewed through a linear spectrometer.

Viewed through a logarithmic spectrometer.

Leak

At the February 12th, 2007 Nine Inch Nails concert in Lisbon, Portugal, a plain-looking USB flash drive was found in a bathroom stall. It was later found to hold a single MP3 file with the title "My Violent Heart". The numeric sequence "24.3.2" was found within the MP3's ID3 tag of the leaked copy.

The USB flash drive.

Appearances

Halos

Year Zero
Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D

Versions

My Violent Heart (World of Year Zero version)

This version of the song has the static at the end of the song, revealing The Presence.

My Violent Heart (Year Zero version)

This version of the song does not have the static at the end of the song. It begins with looping percussion and vocals soon enter. Just before the chorus, a synthesizer plays as a climax builds. The chorus contains mechanical and robotic noises layered in a very industrial way, creating a very rhythmic wall of sound. The bridge of the song contains guitar parts that have been heavily edited and chopped up.

My Violent Heart: PRM Dance Mix

This fan mix by Pirate Robot Midget was initially posted at NIN Remixes and can be heard on Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D. It contains a more dance-oriented beat than the album original and has a considerably shorter running time than the album original. Interestingly enough, the version that appears on Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D has some sound elements not heard in the original remix, the most noticeable of which is a beeping noise heard in the background. This sound is almost reminiscent of an ECG (electrocardiograph) machine commonly found in hospitals.

Song Credits

Remix and additional production by Pirate Robot Midget at Fakefriends Studio, Netherlands

Lyrics

    You and I we may look the same
    But we are very far apart
    There's bullet holes where my compassion used to be
    And there is violence in my heart
    Into fire you can send us
    From the fire we return
    You can label us a consequence
    Of how much you have to learn
    
    You can try but you'll never understand
    This is something you will never understand
    Can you hear it now?
    Hear it coming now?
    Can you hear it now?
    
    On hands and knees
    We crawl
    You can not stop us all
    You wear our bones
    Our skin
    We will not let you in
    
    You have set something in motion
    Much greater than you've ever known
    Standing there in all your grand naïveté
    About to reap what you have sown
    Time will feed upon your weaknesses
    And soon you'll lose the will to care
    When you return to the place that you call home
    We will be there
    We will be there
    
    On hands and knees
    We crawl
    You can not stop us all
    Our blood
    Will stay
    We will not go away
    On hands and knees
    We crawl
    You can not stop us all
    Our blood
    Our grace
    Will never leave this place

The fourth line of the first chorus is shortened in the actual recording:

    Our bones

Previous track - "Capital G"

Track 8 from Year Zero

Next track - "The Warning"

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-}}'''"My Violent Heart"''' is the eighth track and was the first song to leak from the 2007 release ''[[Year Zero]]''.  It begins with looping percussion and soon enough vocals begin. Just before the chorus, a line of synth plays as a climax builds. The chorus contains mechanical and robotic noises layered in a very industrial way, creating a very rhythmic wall of sound. The bridge of the song contains guitar parts that have been heavily edited and chopped in a recording program.
+}}'''"My Violent Heart"''' is the eighth track and was the first song to leak from the 2007 release ''[[Year Zero]]''.
 ===World of Year Zero reference===
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 ===My Violent Heart (Year Zero version)===
-This version of the song does not have the static at the end of the song.
+This version of the song does not have the static at the end of the song. It begins with looping percussion and vocals soon enter. Just before the chorus, a synthesizer plays as a climax builds. The chorus contains mechanical and robotic noises layered in a very industrial way, creating a very rhythmic wall of sound. The bridge of the song contains guitar parts that have been heavily edited and chopped up.
 ===My Violent Heart: PRM Dance Mix===
 This fan mix by Pirate Robot Midget was initially posted at [http://www.ninremixes.com NIN Remixes] and can be heard on ''Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D.'' It contains a more dance-oriented beat than the album original and has a considerably shorter running time than the album original. Interestingly enough, the version that appears on ''Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D'' has some sound elements not heard in the original remix, the most noticeable of which is a beeping noise heard in the background. This sound is almost reminiscent of an ECG (electrocardiograph) machine commonly found in hospitals.
 ====Song Credits====
 *Remix and additional production by Pirate Robot Midget at Fakefriends Studio, Netherlands