Please
Please (Instrumental)
Please (+Appendage)
"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 manipulated 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
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.
"Please" has made one appearance since 2007, during the Tension 2013 shows.
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.
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