The Big Come Down

Album: The Fragile (Right)

Length:4:12

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Versions:The Big Come Down
The Big Come Down (Beside You In Time)

Live:Fragility v2.0 through present

"The Big Come Down" is the ninth track on the Right disc of The Fragile. Its samples were published for a NIN.com remix contest.

Notes

As with many songs in the NIN library, this song features a recurring lyric or reference. That being the phrase and concept of a "come down" which is an emphasized line from "March Of The Pigs" on The Downward Spiral. The song is more or less related to "Where Is Everybody?" as both include different takes on the lyrics "try so hard to make the pieces all fit."

Appearances

Halos

• The Fragile
• Beside You In Time

Seeds

• The Definitive NIN - Deep Cuts

Versions

The Big Come Down

This is the original album version.

The Big Come Down (Beside You In Time)

This is widely regarded as the best performance in the set, as Trent Reznor's performance is highly energetic. The acoustic guitar in the original album version is replaced with a moderately distorted guitar.

Live

"The Big Come Down" has been performed live since the Fragility tour in 1999.

Lyrics

    There is a game I play
    Try to make myself okay
    Try so hard to make the pieces all fit
    Smash it apart
    Just for the fuck of it
    
    Bye bye oooh
    Got to get back to the bottom
    Bye bye oooh
    The big come down isn’t that what you wanted?
    Bye bye oooh
    Find a place with the failed and forgotten
    Bye bye oooh
    Isn’t that really what you wanted now?
    
    There is no place I can go there is now way I can hide
    It feels like it keeps coming from the inside
    
    There is a hate that burns within
    The most desperate place I have ever been
    Try to get back to where I’m from
    The closer I get the worse it becomes
    The closer I get the worse it becomes
    
    There is no place I can go there is no place I can hide
    It feels like it keeps coming from the inside