Difference between revisions of "Please"

Latest revision as of 03:34, 17 December 2022

Album:The Fragile (Right)

Length:3:30

Tempo:120 BPM

Versions:Please
Please (Instrumental)
Please (+Appendage)

Live:Fragility v1.0
With Teeth Spring Arena Tour

"Please" is the fifth track on the Right disc of The Fragile.

Appearances

Halos

The Fragile
The Fragile: Deviations 1

Versions

Please

This is the original album version as it appears on the CD and vinyl editions of The Fragile. Flowing directly either from the introduction (CD) or ending (vinyl) of "10 Miles High," it opens immediately with the verse drum loop, synthesized bass, and reversed guitars for eight bars before reducing to the first verse, accompanying Trent Reznor's vocals with only the drum loop and a bass riff. Other synthesizer and guitar layers join in to lead into the pre-chorus, with Reznor accompanying himself as a backing vocalist. The chorus is sung low, almost spoken over a decaying synthesizer note, leading into the second verse and pre-chorus. The final chorus is extended, featuring a reversed string loop. The song stops as suddenly as it began.

Please (Instrumental)

Released exclusively through Apple Music, then later on The Fragile: Deviations 1.

Please (+Appendage)

Exclusive to the cassette version, this version combines "Please" with "+Appendage".

Live

"Please" made its live debut on November 20, 1999. The song was performed several times during Fragility v1.0 and the With Teeth Spring Arena Tour. It was also performed in soundchecks for Performance 2007.

Lyrics

    This is how
    It begins
    Push it away but it all comes back again
    All the flesh
    All the sin
    There was a time when it used to mean just about everything
    
    Just like now
    
    Breathe, echoing the sound
    Time starts slowing down
    Sink until I drown
    (Please) I don't ever want to make it stop
    
    And it keeps repeating
    Will you please complete me?
    
    Never be enough
    To fill me up
    
    Watch the white
    Turn to red
    It fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead
    All my life
    Yeah yeah yeah yeah, but it just left me dead
    (Well guess what?)
    The world is over and I realize it was all in my head
    
    Now everything is clear
    I erase the fear
    I can disappear
    (Please) I don't ever want to make it stop
    
    You can never leave me
    Will you please complete me?
    
    Never be enough
    To fill me up

The sixth line of the second verse only appears in the album booklet for The Fragile.

Previous track - "'CD: The Mark Has Been Made, Vinyl: 10 Miles High"

Track CD:17, Vinyl: 18 from The Fragile Right (CD), Side E (Vinyl)

Next track - "Starfuckers, Inc."

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 {{song
 | title = Please
-| album = ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]]''
+| album = ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]]'' (Right)
 | length = 3:30
-| versions = Please<br>Please (+Appendage)
+| BPM = 120
+| versions = Please<br>Please (Instrumental)<br>Please (+Appendage)
 | live = [[Fragility v1.0]] <br> [[With Teeth Spring Arena Tour]]
 }}'''"Please"''' is the fifth track on the Right disc of ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]].''
@@ Line 10: / Line 11: @@
 ===Halos===
 *''The Fragile''
+*''[[The Fragile: Deviations 1]]''
 ==Versions==
 ===Please===
-This is the original album version as it appears on the CD and vinyl editions of ''The Fragile.''
+This is the original album version as it appears on the CD and vinyl editions of ''The Fragile.'' Flowing directly either from the introduction (CD) or ending (vinyl) of "[[10 Miles High]]," it opens immediately with the verse drum loop, synthesized bass, and reversed guitars for eight bars before reducing to the first verse, accompanying [[Trent Reznor]]'s vocals with only the drum loop and a bass riff. Other synthesizer and guitar layers join in to lead into the pre-chorus, with Reznor accompanying himself as a backing vocalist. The chorus is sung low, almost spoken over a decaying synthesizer note, leading into the second verse and pre-chorus. The final chorus is extended, featuring a reversed string loop. The song stops as suddenly as it began.
-===Please (+appendage)===
+===Please (Instrumental)===
-Found exclusively on the audio cassette version of ''The Fragile,'' this version adds an extra section to the end of the original, with harsher electronic sounds and the lyrics "never be enough" repeated.
+Released exclusively through Apple Music, then later on ''The Fragile: Deviations 1.''
+===Please (+Appendage)===
+Exclusive to the cassette version, this version combines "Please" with "[[+Appendage]]".
 ==Live==
-The song was performed several times during the Fragility v1.0 and With Teeth Spring Arena tours. It was also performed in soundchecks for [[Performance 2007]].
+"Please" made its live debut on [[1999/11/20 Vienna, Austria|November 20, 1999]]. The song was performed several times during [[Fragility v1.0]] and the [[With Teeth Spring Arena Tour]]. It was also performed in soundchecks for [[Performance 2007]].
 ==Lyrics==
       This is how
       It begins
-      Push it away and it all comes back again
+      Push it away but it all comes back again
       All the flesh
       All the sin
@@ Line 34: / Line 39: @@
       Time starts slowing down
       Sink until I drown
-      (Please) I don’t ever want to make it stop
+      (Please) I don't ever want to make it stop
       And it keeps repeating
@@ Line 48: / Line 53: @@
       Yeah yeah yeah yeah, but it just left me dead
       (Well guess what?)
-      The world is over and I realized it was all in my head
+      The world is over and I realize it was all in my head
       Now everything is clear
       I erase the fear
       I can disappear
-      (Please) I don’t ever want to make it stop
+      (Please) I don't ever want to make it stop
       You can never leave me
-      Will you please complete me
+      Will you please complete me?
       Never be enough
       To fill me up
-The third lyric of the first verse was changed on the actual recording:
+The sixth line of the second verse only appears in the album booklet for ''The Fragile''.
+{{Succession box
-     Push it away but it all comes back again
+| title=[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]] Right (CD), Side E (Vinyl)
+| before=''CD'': [[The Mark Has Been Made]], ''Vinyl'': [[10 Miles High]]
+| after=[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|Starfuckers, Inc.]]
+| track=''CD'':17, ''Vinyl'': 18}}
 [[Category: NIN Songs]]