Difference between revisions of "My Violent Heart"

Latest revision as of 11:12, 18 April 2024

Album:Year Zero

Length:4:13

Tempo:106 BPM

Versions:My Violent Heart
My Violent Heart (Instrumental)
My Violent Heart (Leak Version)
My Violent Heart: Pirate Robot Midget

Live:Unperformed

"My Violent Heart" is the eighth track and was the first song to leak from the 2007 release Year Zero. Multitracks for this song were released in raw WAV, GarageBand, and Ableton Live formats via remix.nin.com.

World of Year Zero reference

This has lyrics from MVH. Most likely MVH is about this particular World of Year Zero character.

The 'Presence' Reference

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

This is the album version 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. The song's drum pattern is very similar to that of "God Given". These beats are sampled from Atom Heart's Rather Interesting World Of Digital Drums sample library by Atomizer™.

My Violent Heart (Instrumental)

Running Time: 4:24

This unmastered vocal-less mix was released by Trent Reznor through his remix.nin.com account.

My Violent Heart (Leak Version)

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

My Violent Heart: PRM Dance Mix

Running Time: 2:34

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

Live

"My Violent Heart" has never been played live, the only Year Zero song with vocals to have not been performed.

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

External Links

"My Violent Heart" (Instrumental) at archive.org

Previous track - "Capital G"

Track 8 from Year Zero

Next track - "The Warning"

@@ Line 2: / Line 2: @@
 | title = My Violent Heart
 | album =''[[Year Zero]]''
-| length = 4:13 (Including static ending - 4:19)
+| length = 4:13
-| versions =My Violent Heart
+| BPM = 106
-| live = N/A
+| versions =My Violent Heart<br>My Violent Heart (Instrumental)<br>My Violent Heart (Leak Version)<br>My Violent Heart: Pirate Robot Midget
-}}
+| live = [[NIN songs never played live|Unperformed]]
+}}'''"My Violent Heart"''' is the eighth track and was the first song to leak from the 2007 release ''[[Year Zero]]''. [[Multitracks]] for this song were released in raw WAV, GarageBand, and Ableton Live formats via [[remix.nin.com]].
-"'''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.
+==World of Year Zero reference==
+[http://www.onecountryatatime.net/letter.htm This] has lyrics from MVH.  Most likely MVH is about this particular World of Year Zero character.
-===The 'Presence' Reference===
+==The 'Presence' Reference==
-An amazing discovery was made while analyzing the content of the 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|The Warning (Year Zero song)]].
+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 (Year Zero song)|The Warning]].
 [[Image:MVH lin.gif|thumb|Viewed through a linear spectrometer.]]
 [[Image:MVH log.jpg|thumb|Viewed through a logarithmic spectrometer.]]
-===Leak===
+==Leak==
-At the [[2007/02/12|February 12th, 2007]] [[Nine Inch Nails |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.
+At the [[2007/02/12|February 12th, 2007]] [[Nine Inch Nails |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.
 [[Image:Flashdriveno0.gif|thumb|The USB flash drive.]]
 ==Appearances==
 ===Halos===
 *''Year Zero''
+*''[[Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D]]''
 ==Versions==
-===My Violent Heart (ARG version)===
+===My Violent Heart===
-This version of the song has the static at the end of the song, revealing The Presence.
+This is the album version 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. The song's drum pattern is very similar to that of "[[God Given]]". These beats are [[samples|sampled]] from ''Atom Heart's Rather Interesting World Of Digital Drums'' sample library by Atomizer™.
+===My Violent Heart (Instrumental)===
+'''''Running Time: 4:24'''''
+This unmastered vocal-less mix was released by [[Trent Reznor]] through his remix.nin.com account.
+===My Violent Heart (Leak Version)===
+This version of the song has the static at the end of the song, revealing "The Presence".
+===My Violent Heart: PRM Dance Mix===
+'''''Running Time: 2:34'''''
-===My Violent Heart (Year Zero version)===
+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.
-This version of the song does not have the static at the end of the song.
+====Song Credits====
+*Remix and additional production by Pirate Robot Midget at Fakefriends Studio, Netherlands
+==Live==
+"My Violent Heart" [[NIN songs never played live|has never been played live]], the only ''Year Zero'' song with vocals to have not been performed.
 ==Lyrics==
@@ Line 57: / Line 74: @@
       You have set something in motion
       Much greater than you've ever known
-      Standing there in your all your grand naïveté
+      Standing there in all your grand naïveté
       About to reap what you have sown
       Time will feed upon your weaknesses
@@ Line 78: / Line 95: @@
       Will never leave this place
-[[Category:World of Year Zero]][[Category:NIN Songs]][[Category:NIN Songs Never Played Live]]
+The fourth line of the first chorus is shortened in the actual recording:
+     Our bones
+==External Links==
+*[https://archive.org/details/remix-nin-com-audio-00090 "My Violent Heart" (Instrumental) at archive.org]
+<BR>
+{{succession box
+| title=[[Year Zero#Track Listing|Year Zero]]
+| before= [[Capital G (song)|Capital G]]
+| after= [[The Warning (Year Zero song)|The Warning]]
+| track= 8
+}}
+[[Category:World of Year Zero]][[Category:NIN Songs]][[Category:NIN Songs Never Played Live]][[Category:NIN Songs Released as Multitracks]]