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Revision as of 03:08, 11 April 2007
Something I Can Never Have (Still)
Something I Can Never Have (Natural Born Killers soundtrack)
Something I Can Never Have (Closure)
Something I Can Never Have (Beside You In Time)
Something I Can Never Have is the fifth track on the 1989 release Pretty Hate Machine. It's a song about lost love and missed chances, though the true story about the song isn't wildly (or at all) known. It is the first song in which Trent Reznor plays a piano and is the first song in which he uses the word "fuck" ("fading fucking reminder").
Contents
Song Credits
- Production: Trent Reznor, John Fryer
- Engineer/Mix: John Fryer
Appearances
Halos
- Pretty Hate Machine
- Closure
- And All That Could Have Been (Deluxe Edition)
- Still
- Beside You In Time
Other
Versions
Something I Can Never Have
The song begins with the decending pitch drone that segues in from Sanctified as the piano that dominates for most of the song creeps in. The song is notable for it's ambient backing, including conflicting sounds of machinery and nature such as the buzzes, hisses and door slams that accompany the music as well as the ambience of wind and chirping birds buried far behind the "industrial noises". The song itself is fairly straight forward and gets louder as it progresses, notably Trent's vocals which seem to grow in volume and emotion as the song progresses, the song surging up as it enters the last chorus before the ambience suddenly drops out on the last few lines, draining away and only leaving the chirping birds in the background.
Something I Can Never Have (Natural Born Killers Soundtrack)
Coming soon
Something I Can Never Have (Closure)
Coming soon.
Something I Can Never Have (Still)
This stripped-down reworking consists of Reznor on piano and vocals, and Jerome Dillon on guitar.
Song Credits
- Performance: Trent Reznor, Jerome Dillon
- Mix engineering: Alan Moulder
- Engineering: Alan Moulder
- Second engineering: Leo Herrera
- Programming: Keith Hillebrandt
Something I Can Never Have (Beside You In Time)
Coming soon.
Live
A difference from the studio version is the noticeably louder drums that are persistent in the choruses. The keyboard part is usually played by the bassist (Danny Lohner and Jeordie White).
During Woodstock '94 and Self Destruct, Trent ended the song with "I can never have... and you will never, ever, ever understand... how I feel."
Since Live: With Teeth, the last chorus has seen an additional rising guitar screech.
Lyrics
I still recall the taste of your tears
Echoing you voice just like the ringing in my ears
My favorite dreams of you still wash ashore
Scraping through my head ‘till I don’t want to sleep anymore
Come on tell me
Make this all go away
You make this all go away
I’m down to just one thing and I’m stating to scare myself
Make this all go away
You make this all go away
I just want something
I just want something I can never have
You always were the one to show me how
Back then I couldn’t do the things that I can do now
This thing is slowly taking me apart
Grey would be the color if I had a heart
I just want something I can never have
In this place it seems like such a shame
Though it all looks different now, I know it’s still the same
Everywhere I look you’re all I see
Just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be
Come on tell me
Make this all go away
You make this all go away
I’m down to just one thing and I’m starting to scare myself
Make this all go away
You make this all go away
I just want something
I just want something I can never have
I just want something I can never have
Think I know what you meant
That night on my bed
Still picking at this scab
I wish you were dead
Your sweat and Perry Ellis
Just stains on my sheets