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Many of [[Trent Reznor]]'s lyrics are thematically similar across songs and albums. This is an expansion of a list compiled at [http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=13785 ETS] by user "Christ".
==Abandonment/rejection==
*[[Terrible Lie]]: "I'm all alone in a world you must despise" / "my morals left to decay"
*[[Ringfinger]]: "you just leave me nailed here"
*[[Suck]]: "all that was true is left behind"
*[[Piggy]]: "you left me here I'm all alone"
*[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]: "the feelings disappear" / "everyone I know goes away in the end"
*[[Closer]]: "help me get away from myself"
*[[The Becoming]]: "even when I'm right with you I'm so far away" / "and he's left to decay"
*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place"
*[[Please]]: "push it away but it all comes back again" / "but it just left me dead" / "you can never leave me"
*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "you won't find me here" / "take this and run far away" / "left with a trace of all that was"
*[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|The Day The World Went Away]]: "all the insides left cold and gray"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "made the choice to go away" / "in the back, off the side, far away" / "all alone, by myself, where were you?"
*[[The Big Come Down]]: "find a place with the failed and forgotten"
*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "I can't watch her slip away"
*[[Where Is Everybody?]]: "everything pushes me further away"
*[[Disappointed]]: "Just get out of here"
*[[Beside You In Time (song)|Beside You In Time]]: "I am all alone this time around"
*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "yes, I am alone but then again I always was"
*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "and you're really all alone"
*[[All The Love In The World]]: "hiding in the crowd I’m all alone" / "sometimes I get so lonely I could –"
*[[Came Back Haunted (song)|Came Back Haunted]]: "I am not who I used to be"
*[[Find My Way]]: "Now that you have gone away" / "Ghosts of who we used to be"
==Afraid to see==
*[[Heresy]]: "he sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see"
*[[Right Where It Belongs]]: "What if you could look right through the cracks / would you find yourself / , find yourself afraid to see?"
*[[Capital G (song)|Capital G]]: "there's a lot of me inside you, maybe you're afraid to see"
==A Million Miles Awaymillion miles away==*[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]: "If I could start again , a million miles away, I would keep myself. I would find a way"*[[All The Love In The World]]: "I've become a million miles aw(ay)"
*[[1,000,000]]: "I feel a million miles away"
*[[Gave Up]]: "after everything I've done, I hate myself for what I've become"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "can you let your heart become central pump-house for all human feelings?"
*[[Closer]]: "help me become somebody else"*[[The Becoming]]: "I am becoming"
*Hurt: "what have I become, my sweetest friend?"
*[[We're In This Together (song)|We're In This Together]]: "I've become impossible"
*[[Even Deeper]]: "just how damaged have I become?"
*[[The Great Below]]: "the destiny I've chose / , all becoming clear"*[[Where Is Everybody?]]::"that hasn't yet become":"come on there has got to be someone / , hasn't yet become / so numb / and succumb"*[[The New Flesh]]: "yes I am becoming" and / "I've become"
*[[Me, I'm Not]]: "and it's hard to believe just what I've become"
*[[All the Love In the World]]: "I've become a million miles aw(ay)"*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "I’m becoming less defined as days go by"*[[Vessel]]: "I am becoming something else / , I am turning into God"*[[10 Miles High]]: "I swore to God I'd never turn into you"*[[Head Down]]: "all your hate / , what you’ve become"
*[[Everything]]: "I've become something else"
*The New Flesh: "and this is how it all begins"
*[[The Wretched]]: "back at the beginning"
*[[Please]]: "this is how it begins"*[[And All That Could Have Been (song)|And All That Could Have Been]]: "ending what had begun"*[[The Beginning of Of The End]]*Came Back Haunted: "I'm afraid this has just begun"*[[All Time Low]]: "see this is where the Endfun begins"*Me, I'm Not: "I can't shut it off, this thing I've begun"
==Belonging==
*[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|Starfuckers, Inc.]]: "now I belong / , I'm one of the chosen ones"*All The Love In The World: "watching all the insects march along / , seem to know just right where they belong"
*[[You Know What You Are?]]: "go on get back to where you belong"
*[[With Teeth (song)|With Teeth]]: "you've finally found the place where you belong"
*[[Beside You In Time (song)|Beside You In Time]]: "everything is back where it belongs"*Right Where It Belongs: "see the safety of the life you have built / , everything where it belongs"
*[[Home]]: "I return to the only place I've ever felt that I belong"
*[[God Given]]: "You should get where you belong / everything you know is wrong"
==Beside Youyou==
*We're In This Together: "the farther I fall I'm beside you"
*[[Beside You In Time *[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "I am staying right beside you" ==Blind==*[[Beside You In Time Heresy (haloBlind)]]*[[Lights Happiness In The Sky Slavery (song)|Light Happiness In The SkySlavery]]: "the blind have been blessed with security"*Suck: "once I could see now I am staying right beside blind"*[[Ruiner]]: "those that youkeep blind will suddenly realize"*Ringfinger: "wrap my eyes in bandages"*[[Running]]: "as good as blind"
==BleedingBlood/bleeding==*[[RingfingerMarch Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]: "stains like the blood on your teeth"*Ringfinger: "working my hands until they bleed"*[[I Do Not Want This]]: "and nothing comes bleeding out of me just like a waterfall I'm drowning in"*[[Reptile]]: "angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress" / "she has the blood of reptile just underneath her skin"
*[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]: "so much blood for such a tiny little hole"
*[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]: "my blood wants to say hello to you"
*Where Is Everybody?: "pleading and needing and bleeding and breeding"
*[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]: "will you chew until it bleeds?" / "for the blood on which we dine"*[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"*[[My Violent Heart]]: "our blood will stay" and / "our blood / , our waysgrace"
*[[Letting You]]: "the dying left to bleed"
*[[In Two]]: "Bleed, have to purge, what you were"
*The Becoming: "the blood has stopped pumping"
*[[The Only Time]]: "the sweat in your eyes, the blood in your veins"
===Bleeding through===
*[[Every Day Is Exactly The Same (song)|Every Day Is Exactly The Same]]: "a little bit comes bleeding through"
*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through"
 ==Blind==*[[Heresy]] (Blind)*[[Happiness In Slavery (song)|Happiness In Slavery]]Everything: "the blind have been blessed with security"*[[Suck]]: "once I could see now I am blind"*[[Ruiner]]: "those And his seed that you keep blind will suddenly realize"*[[Ringfinger]]: "wrap my eyes in bandagesbleeds right through to me"
==Broken==
*Gave Up: "still cannot fix this broken machine"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught in this big broken machine"
*[[Piggy]]: "black and blue and broken bones / you left me here I'm all alone"
*The Becoming: "he's covered with scabs, he is broken and sore"
*Hurt: "full of broken thoughts, I cannot repair"
*[[Somewhat Damaged]]: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"
*[[No, You Don't]]: "broken down see through soul"
*Survivalism: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
*[[Echoplex]]: "I built this place with broken parts"
===Bruised===
*[[Head Like A Hole(song)|Head Like A Hole]]: "God Money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised"*Somewhat Damaged: "broken bruised forgotten sore / too fucked up to care anymore"*Survivalism: "all bruised and broken, bleeding / she asked to take my hand"
==Burning==
*[[Burn (song)|Burn]]
*Heresy: "burning with your godin humility"
*The Big Come Down: "there is a hate that burns within"
*[[Non-Entity]]: "Burning down the world, the ashes and debris"*[[Sunspots]]: "peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground"*[[Various Methods Of Escape]]: "a place to bury every thing I did and burn it to the ground"
===Fire===
*[[Sanctified]]: "as the words spill out like fire from her lips"
*Gave Up: "wake up in flames"
*[[Fist Fuck]]: "can you flow with fire"
*Survivalism: "you see your world on fire"
*[[In This Twilight]]: "it is watching us, and the world we set on fire / do you wonder, if it feels the same?"*[[My Violent Heart]]: "Into fire you can send us / From , from the fire we return"
*Sunspots: "fuck in the fire and we'll spread all the ashes around"
*Various Methods Of Escape: "the fire illuminates our final scene"
==Calling==
*[[Dead Souls]]: "They keep calling me"*Even Deeper: "I hear them call I cannot stay the voice inviting me away"
*Sunspots: "I hear it calling and I come cause I can’t disobey"
==Closeness==
*[[Closer]]
*[[Closer to God (halo)]]
*The Great Below: "ocean pulls me close"
*10 Miles High: "I'm getting closer all the time"
*[[While I'm Still Here]]: "Closest I have ever come"
==Cracks==
*You Know What You Are?: "I tried to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*[[Getting Smaller]]: "can kind of see out the cracks when I press up to the wall"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if you could look right through the cracks?"
*[[Not So Pretty Now]]: "the cracks begin to show"
*The Wretched: "the clouds will part and the sky cracks open"
 
==Crawling==
*Down In It: "I was swimming in the haze now I crawl on the ground"
*Getting Smaller: "I'd be happy to crawl"
*March Of The Pigs: "Crawl right up on your knees"
*My Violent Heart: "On hands and knees, we crawl"
*[[The Beginning Of The End]]: "Down on your knees"
*[[The Way Out Is Through]]: "But still we crawl"
*In This Twilight: "as it crawls across a final time"
*1,000,000: "kind of hard to see when you crawl"
==Decay==
*The Becoming: "the blood has stopped pumping and he's left to decay"
*Somewhat Damaged: "drink the fountain of decay"
*[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|The Day The World Went Away]]: "but in his voice I heard decay"
*[[Ripe (With Decay)]]
==Deserving==
*Head Like A Hole: "You’re going to get what you deserve"
*[[Last]]: "pigs we get what pigs deserve"*[[Meet Your Master]]: "Maybe you get what you deserve"*[[Sin(song)|Sin]]: "Carry out my sentence / , I get what I deserve"*In Two: "What you want, what you deserve"
==Disappearing; abandonment; loss; throw away==*[[Throw This Away]]*[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]: "no you can't take that away from me"*[[Terrible Lie]]::"don't take it away from me":"I'm all alone in a world you must despise":"my morals left to decay"*[[That's What I Get]]: "you took away all my self confidence"*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "you make this all go away"*Ringfinger: "you just leave me nailed here"*Suck: "all that was true is left behind"*Gave Up: "give it to me I throw it away"*Wish: "I just threw it away"*[[Last]]: "I pissed it all away"*Piggy: "you left me here I'm all alone"*Hurt: "the feelings disappear" and "everyone I know goes away in the end"*Closer: "help me get away from myself"*The Becoming::"even when I'm right with you I'm so far away":"and he's left to decay":"all pain disappears"*Reptile: "she leaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been"*Eraser: "find you" and "lose me"*I Do Not Want This: "if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place"*[[Dead Souls]]: "someone take these dreams away"
*[[Deep]]: "right here make it all disappear"
*We’re In This Together::"well they've got to make it go away / well they've got to make it disappear":"as lost as I get I will find you"*The Great Below::"washes me away , makes me disappear":"I can still feel you even so far away"*Please::"I can disappear":"push it away but it all comes back again":"but it just left me dead":"you can never leave me"*The Day The World Went Away: "all the insides left cold and gray"*Somewhat Damaged::"made the choice to go away":"in the back / off the side / far away":"all alone / by myself / where were you?"*[[The Big Come Down]]: "find a place with the failed and forgotten"*[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]: "I can't watch her slip away"*Where Is Everybody?: "everything pushes me further away"*And All That Could Have Been::"maybe I'll disappear":"you won't find me here":"take this and run far away":"left with a trace of all that was"*Beside You In Time[[The Line Begins To Blur]]: "the more I am all alone this time around"disappear*OnlyDisappointed: "yesjust get out of here, disappointed, I am alone / but then again I always was"*Right Where It Belongs: "and you really are alonedisappear"*All The Love In The World: "hiding in the crowd I’m all alone…sometimes I get so lonely I could –":"all the jagged edges disappear / colors all look brighter when you’re near"*The Line Begins To Blur: "the more I disappear*My Violent Heart: "we will not go away"*In This Twilight: "let me take away your doubt"*Discipline: " feels like I’m losing touch"*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "I can’t disappear"*[[Came Back Haunted (song)|Came Back Haunted]]Running: "I am not who I used to be"*Find My Way::"Now that you have gone Just slip away":"Ghosts of who we used to be"*Disappointed::"Just get out of here":"Just and disappear"
==Disease==
*Terrible Lie: "my head is filled with disease"
*Suck: "this disease I give to myself"
*Reptile: "my disease , my infection"
*Ruiner: "wearing your disease"
*In Two: "just become, your disease"
==Dragging/pulling/pushing==
*[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]: "it was pulling me down"
*[[Mr. Self Destruct]]: "I drag you down I use you up"
*[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]: "step right up / , march / , push"*The Perfect Drug: "pull the stars from the sky" and / "wrenching, dragging , shaking me"
*The Wretched: "just to push you down"
*Please: "push it away but it all comes back again"
==Dreams==
*[[Sanctified]]: "I still dream of lips I never should have kissed"
*[[Something I Can Never Have]]: "my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore"
*Terrible Lie: "seems like salvation comes only in our dreams"
*Suck: "don't want your the dreams you try to sell"
*Gave Up: "perfect little dream"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the end of all your dreams"
*Heresy: "he dreamed a god up"
*The Becoming: "I'm stuck in this dream"
*[[Eraser]]: "dream you"
*Even Deeper: "in a dream I'm a different me"
*Dead Souls: "someone take these dreams away"
*With Teeth: "It runs deeper than you dare to dream it could be"
*Head Down: "This is all a dream / , and none of you are real"*Right Where It Belongs: "What if all the world you think you know / Is is an elaborate dream?"
*[[The Eater Of Dreams]]
==Drowning==
*[[The Only Time]]: "and swim in it until I drown"
*Last: "new sweat to drown me in"
*Fist Fuck: "help I'm drowning"
*Please: "sink until I drown"
*The Great Below: "the currents have their say"
*[[Lights In The Sky (song)|Lights In The Sky]]: "watching you drown"
==Echo==
*Good Soldier: "Echoes gunfire in the street echoes out a beat and the bass goes"
*Echoplex: "My voice just echoes off these walls"
*Something I Can Never Have: "Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears"
*Please: "echoing the sound"
*[[Non-Entity]]: "The echoes in my eyes / Of , of all they used to see"*Echoing the Sound (forum)
*[[Copy Of A]]: "I am just an echo of an echo of an echo"
==EyeEyes==*Down In It: "just then a tiny little dot caught my eye" and / "but the needle's already in my eye"
*Ringfinger: "wrap my eyes in bandages"
*The Only Time: "the sweat in your eyes"
*Happiness In Slavery: "don't open your eyes"
*Heresy: "he sewed his eyes shut"
*[[Only (song)|Only]]: "well the tiniest little dot caught my eye"
*The Great Below: "all the world has closed her eyes"
*The New Flesh: "the blackest eyes"
*[[Memorabilia]]: "the look in your eye"
*The Beginning of the End: "I got my mark / , see it in my eyes"*Non-Entity: "The echoes in my eyes / Of , of all they used to see"
*[[Sunspots]]: "Sunspots cast a glare in my eyes"
*Came Back Haunted: "its smile is red and its eyes are black"
==Fading==
*Down In It: "what I used to think was me is just a fading memory"
*Something I Can Never Have: "just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be"
*And All That Could Have Been: "tracks will fade in the snow" and / "gone, fading, everything"
*Non-Entity: "now I'm afraid I'm fading out of sight"
*Only: "I'm becoming less defined, as days go by / , fading away, well..."*[[Getting Smaller]]: "I'm afraid I am starting to fade away"
*Beside You In Time: "I can feel me start to fade away"
*[[Not So Pretty Now]]: "But you're just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away"
*Echoplex: "and I just slowly fade away"
 
==Feel==
*Suck: "how does it feel"
*Gave Up: "forgot how it feels, well almost"
*Fist Fuck: "oh you just wish I could feel that way too"
*I Do Not Want This: "to those who know what it really feels like" / "don't you tell me how I feel, you don't know just how I feel"
*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"
*Memorabilia: "I know what it feels like"
*The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"
*[[The Way Out Is Through]]: "we feel so small"
*The Wretched / [[The Great Collapse]]: "now you know this is what it feels like"
*The Hand That Feeds: "and you feel just fine"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can feel their eyes are watching"
*Only: "and I had this funny feeling"
*Getting Smaller: "don’t know what to feel"
*Sunspots: "I feel it coming" / "I have to apologize for the way I feel"
*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through" / "I can feel me start to fade away"
*Right Where It Belongs: "feel the hollowness inside of your heart"
*Home: "and it feels I’m getting to the end"
*Me, I’m Not: "I feel it coming apart"
*In This Twilight: "and it feels like, like it was a friend" / "do you wonder if it feels the same?" / "what it feels like, and I won't feel again" / "and the longing that you feel"
*[[Discipline]]: "feels like I’m wearing down"
*Hurt: "the feelings disappear"
*Kinda I Want To: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"
*1,000,000: "I feel a million miles away"
*[[Demon Seed]]: "And I can feel it breathe"
*Echoplex: "you feel me breathe, I am watching you"
*The Great Below: "I can still feel you, even so far away"
*My Violent Heart: "feel it coming now"
*[[Underneath It All]]: "I can still feel you"
==Fist==
*[[Wish(song)|Wish]]: "fist fuck"
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*Survivalism: "I got my fist I got my plan I got survivalism"
*Demon Seed: "And I will use my fist"
*Getting Smaller: "I think I'm losing my grip, but I can still make a fist"
*Sin: "Your Kiss / Your Fist" ==Flesh==*The New Flesh*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]*Terrible Lie: "my skin is begging you"*Sin: "it gets under my skin"*Ringfinger: "sever flesh and bone"*Suck: "the temple walls are made of flesh"*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caught"*[[Vessel]]: "I let it get under my skin"*March of the Pigs: "Take the skin and peel it backyour kiss, your fist"
==God==
*Heresy: "God is dead"
*Home: "God knows how much I've tried to"
*[[Maybe Just Once]]: "Oh God, what's coming to me?"
*Right Where it Belongs: "Your devils and your gods, all the living and the dead"
*Ringfinger: "You just leave me nailed here hanging like Jesus on this cross"
*The Wretched: "and God himself will reach his fucking arm through"
*The Beginning of the End: "God helps the ones who can help themselves"
*[[The Good Soldier]]: "'Cause God is on our side"*Vessel: "I am a turning into God" and / "My God...Oh my God"*[[God Given]]*Starfuckers inc, Inc.: "My god sits in the back of the limousine / My , my god comes in a wrapper of cellophane / My , my god pouts on the cover of the magazine / My , my god’s a shallow little bitch trying to make the scene"
*Capital G: "Traded in my God for this one"
*[[Zero-Sum]]: "May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts"*Find My Way: "Lord my path has gone astray" / "Pray the Lord my soul to take" / "Oh dear Lord hear my prayer"*While I'm Still Here: "God forgive me if I cry"
==Greed==
*[[The Warning]]: "Your greed, self-importance and your arrogance"*March Of The Pigs: "Please / , greed / , feed / (no time to hesitate)"
*Letting You: "Your politics of greed"
*Not So Pretty Now: "Keep trying to fill it all up with your greed"
*[[Capital G]]: The title of the song refers to greed.
==Head==
*The Becoming: "goddamn this noise inside my head"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the voice inside your head"
*[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]: "spilling out of my head"
*I Do Not Want This: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"
*The Perfect Drug: "I got my head but my head is unraveling"
*The Good Soldier: "Right over my head"
*Capital G: "now nod your head because you know that I’m right"
*[[The Great Destroyer]]: "nod your head " / "listen to the shit they pump into your head"*Head Down*[[Head DownSatellite]]: "I'm inside your head"*Various Methods Of Escape: "A line of lyric looping in my head"
==Hiding==
*The Big Come Down: "there is no way I can hide"
*Where Is Everybody?: "when all I'm really doing is trying to hide"
*Somewhat Damaged: "is a place where I hide , where I stay"
*No, You Don’t: "tries so hard to hide"
*The Fragile: "where we can run and hide"
*All The Love In The World: "hiding in the crowd I’m all alone"
*You Know What You Are?: "I have to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"*[[Love Is Not Enough]]: "well, it hides in the dark"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "well, I’ll hide it behind something"
*Right Where It Belongs: "are you hiding in the trees?"
*Me, I’m Not: "I define myself / by how well I hide"
*The Good Soldier: "There's nowhere left to hide"
*Running: "I'm running out of places I can hide from this, I'm running out of ways to keep on hiding this"
==Holes==
*Head Like A Hole
*Down In It: "now just this hole that's open wide"
*Gave Up: "watching the hole , it used to be mine"
*Wish: "I'm the one with this big fucking hole"
*The Downward Spiral: "so much blood for such a tiny little hole"
*Hurt: "the needle tears a hole"
*[[Big Man With A Gun]]: "maybe I'll put a hole in your head"
*Deep: "there's a big black hole gonna eat me up someday"
*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*No, You Don’t: "smiling in their faces while filling up the hole"
*Please: "it fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead"
*You Know What You Are?: "I have to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"
*My Violent Heart: "there's bullet holes where my compassion used to be"
*Not So Pretty Now: "you got a hole that you've got to feed"
==How it feelsInside of me==*SuckVessel: "how does it feel"*Gave Up: "forgot how it feels well almost"*Fist Fuck: "oh When I put you just wish I could feel that way tooinside of me"*I Do Not Want ThisCame Back Haunted: "to those who know what it really feels likeThey put something inside of me"*LastThe Becoming: "still feel it all slipping awayhiding backwards inside of me"*Memorabilia: "I know what it feels like"*The Big Come Down: / "it feels like 's a part of me, it keeps coming from the 's insideof me"*The Way Out Is ThroughBurn: "we feel so small"*The Wretched: "now you know this is what it feels"*The Hand That Feeds: "and you feel just fine"*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can feel their eyes are watching"*Only: "and I had this funny feeling"*Getting Smaller: "don’t know what to feelthing inside of me"*Sunspots: "I feel it coming / I have to apologize for the way I feel"*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through / I can feel me start to fade away"*Right Where It Belongs: "feel the hollowness something inside of your heartme"*HomeHeresy: "and it feels / I’m getting he tries to the end"*Me, I’m Not: "tell me what I feel it coming apartput inside of me"*In This TwilightEverything: "and it feels like, like it was a friend / do you wonder if it feels the same? / what it feels like, and I won't feel again / and the longing But this thing that you feel"*Discipline: "feels like I’m wearing downlives inside of me"
==I can/can't still feel==*Fist Fuck: "oh you just wish I could feel that way too" and "can you let your heart become central pump-house for all human feelings?"*Hurt: "the feelings disappear"*Kinda I Want To: "I can't shake this feeling from my head"*Light in the Sky: "I can feel it breathe"*1Keeps (coming,000calling,000: "I feel a million miles away"*Demon Seed: "And I can feel it breathe"*Beside You In Time: "Feel the little pieces bleeding through" and "I can feel me start to fade away" ==It keeps comingetc.)==
*The Wretched: "you can try to stop it but it keeps on coming"
*The Big Come Down: "it feels like it keeps coming from the inside"
*Right Where It Belongs: "You keep looking but you can’t find the woods"
*Survivalism: "I turned just keep on walking"
*Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away"
==Knees (down on or getting up off)==
*The Hand That Feeds: "will you get up off your knees" and / "will you stay down on your knees"*The Beginning of the End: "down on your knees / , you’ll be left behind"*My Violent Heart: "on hands and kneeswe crawl"
*March Of The Pigs: "crawl right up on your knees"
*Closer: "through every forest, above the trees, within my stomach, scraped off my knees"
*Terrible Lie: "I'm on my hands and knees"
*Capital G: "well I used to stand for something/, now i'm on my hands and knees"
*1,000,000: "on your hands and your knees"
*[[Zoo Station (U2 Cover)]]: "On my hands and knees"*The Good Soldier: "I keep telling myself"===Crawling===*Down In It: "I was swimming in the haze now I crawl on the ground"*Getting Smaller: "I'd be happy to crawl"*March Of The Pigs: "Crawl right up on your knees"*My Violent Heart: "On hands and knees, we crawl"*The Way Out Is Through: "But still we crawl"*In This Twilight: "as it crawls across a final time"*1,000,000: "kind of hard to see when you crawl"
==Loneliness==
*Terrible Lie: "I'm all alone in a world you must despise"
*Piggy: "Black and blue and broken bones you left me here I'm all alone"
*Reptile: "Need to contaminate to alleviate this loneliness"
*All The Love In The World: "Hiding in the crowd I'm all alone" and / "Sometimes I get so lonely I could..."
*Beside You In Time: "I am all alone this time around"
*Right Where It Belongs: "And you're really all alone"
*Vessel: "We will never be alone"
*Only: "Yes I am alone"
*Somewhat Damaged: "all alone, by myself, where were you?"
 
==Loss==
*Eraser: "lose me"
*In This Twilight: "let me take away your doubt"
*Discipline: " feels like I’m losing touch"
*Head Like A Hole: "no you can't take that away from me"
*Terrible Lie: "don't take it away from me"
*Last: "I pissed it all away" / "my head got lost along the way"
*Dead Souls: "someone take these dreams away"
*[[That's What I Get]]: "you took away all my self confidence"
*Something I Can Never Have: "you make this all go away"
*[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]: "thought he lost everything, then he lost a whole lot more" / "where did everything get lost"
*Various Methods Of Escape: "I think I could lose myself in here"
*[[The Persistence Of Loss]]
*March Of The Pigs: "I think he's losing it"
*All Time Low: "we lost too much along the way"
*Piggy: "I lost my shit because of you"
*Only: "you might say I'm losing focus"
*Me, I'm Not: "and I'm losing control"
*My Violent Heart: "and soon you'll lose the will to care"
*Somewhat Damaged: "lost my faith in everything"
==Machines==
*Down In It: "just a fading memory"
*Hurt: "but I remember everything"
*Memorabilia: "I have got to have a memory " / "I can't remember / , give me your a reminder"
*I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "I remember sometimes"
*You Know What You Are?: "remember where you came from / , remember what you are"*Love Is Not Enough: "I can’t remember what it is " / "in your eyes is a place worth remembering"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I can’t remember how this got started"
*Zero-Sum::"do you remember the time we" / "and I know you remember"*While I'm Still Here: "While we can, remember when"*In Two:"and I know don't believe you can even remember which one you are"*[[I Would For You]]: "So long I can't remember when"*[[Purest Feeling (song)|Purest Feeling]]: "I wish I could remembereverything she said"
==Naive/naïveté==
*That's What I Get: "To think that I was so naïve"
*Mr. Self Destruct: "I am the prayers of the naïve"
*The Hand That Feeds: "So naïve"
 
===Naïveté===
*I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally: "The flowers of naïveté"
*My Violent Heart: "Standing there in all your grand naïveté"
*Piggy: "Nothing can stop me now, I don't care anymore"
*Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
*[[Ruiner]]: "You didn't hurt me , nothing can stop me now"
*Big Man With A Gun: "Me and my fucking gun, nothing can stop me now"
*[[La Mer]]: "Rien ne peut m'arrêter maintenant" (Translates to "nothing can stop me now". Spoken in Creole French)
*[[Sunspots]]: "And nothing can stop me now, and there is nothing to fear"
*We're In This Together: "None of them can stop us now"
 
==Pieces==
*Beside You In Time: "feel the little pieces bleeding through"
*And All That Could Have Been: "all these pieces and promises and left behinds"
*The Perfect Drug: "it's not as much fun to pick up the pieces"
*Copy Of A: "I am little pieces, pieces that we picked up on the way"
*The Big Come Down: "try so hard to make the pieces all fit"
*Various Methods Of Escape: "Little pieces of a plan"
*Where Is Everybody?: "all the pieces don't fit"
*Gave Up: "gonna smash myself to pieces"
*Now I'm Nothing: "I smashed myself to pieces"
==Pigs==
*Heresy: "he made a virus that would kill off all the swine"
*God Given: "we are the divine, separated from the swine"
*During [[Fragility]], Trent chanted "pig" before Reptile. This can be heard on the [[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]] DVD extra performance of Reptile.*[[Nothing Studios|Le Pig studio]]*[[Pigface]]
==Piss==
*Last: "Worn out from giving it up , my soul I pissed it all away"
*The Warning: "Your greed, self-importance and your arrogance, you piss it all away"
*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"
*Terrible Lie: "Hey God, I really don't know who I am / In in this world full of piss". The lyrics are not included of the final cut of the song, but printed out as the original lyrics
==Profanity==
===Fuck===
*Something I Can Never Have: "just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be"*The Only Time: "while the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car"*Wish: "now there’s nothing more fucked up I could do " / "big time, hard line, bad luck, fist fuck " / "I’m the one with this big fucking hole"
*[[Fist Fuck]]
*March of the Pigs: "I want to fuck it up"*Closer: "I wanna want to fuck you like an animal"*Ruiner: "the only pure thing left in my fucking world is wearing your disease " / "and maybe that fucked me up much more than you’ll ever know"*I Do Not Want This: "I want to fuck everyone in the world"*Big Man With A Gun: "just for the fuck of it " / "I’m hard as fucking steel " / "me and my fucking gun"*Eraser: "fuck you"*The Downward Spiral: "a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash"*Somewhat Damaged: "fuck the rest and stab it dead " / "too fucked up to care anymore " / "where the fuck were you?"*The Wretched: "and God himself will reach his fucking arm through"*Starfuckers , Inc.: "I am every fucking thing and just a little more"*The Big Come Down: "smash it apart just for the fuck of it"*You Know What You Are?: "don’t you fucking know what you are"*Love Is Not Enough: "I’ve gone all this fucking away"*Only: "there is no fucking you"*Getting Smaller: "I haven’t got fucking anything"*Sunspots: "fuck in the fire and we’ll spread all the ashes around"*Not So Pretty Now: "But you're just fading, and fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away"*Capital G: Those "those motherfuckers didn't last too long"*1,000,000: "blow my fucking brains out"*All Time Low: "your voice in fucking echo stereo" / "just how'd we fucking end up here?"*Now I'm Nothing: "I'm gonna fuck myself up" / "I fucked it all away"
===Shit===
*Piggy: "lost my shit because of you"*Ruiner: "serving his shit to the his flies"*Hurt: "I wear this crown of shit"*The Wretched: "stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss"*Where Is Everybody?: "thought I really didn’t give a shit"*Capital G: "Don't give a shit about the temperature in Guatemala"*The Great Destroyer: Turn it up, "listen to the shit they pump into your head" *You Know What You Are?: "you better take a good look cause I’m full of shit"
==Purpose==
*Copy Of A: "Imprinted with a purpose/A , a purpose that's become quite clear today"
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I think I used to have a purpose"
 
==Putting something inside==
*Vessel: "When I put you inside of me"
*Came Back Haunted: "They put something inside of me"
==Realization==
*The Perfect Drug: "my soul is so afraid to realize"
*Please: "and I realize it was all in my head"
*Burn: "why did you put it there/, did you not realize"
*Lights in the Sky: "I’ve come to realize we all have our place"
*Love Is Not Enough: "the sooner we realize"
*Ruiner: "those that you keep blind will suddenly realize"
==Said and Donedone==
*The Great Below: "After all is said and done"
*Sunspots: "When everything is said and done"
*[[Zero-Sum]]: "And soon it will be all said and done"
==Scab==
*Only: "Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab" /"picking at that scab"
*Something I Can Never Have: "Still picking at this scab"
*The Becoming: "He's covered with scabs and he is broken and sore"
==The Sea==
*Ringfinger: "deeper than the sea"
*La Mer: ("La Mer" is translated from French to literally "The Sea")
*The Great Below: "staring at the sea" and / "ocean pulls me close"
*With Teeth (song): "the blackest sea"
*Sin
*Ringfinger: "I'm just dying for your sins"
*Please: "all the flesh / , all the sin" ==Slipping==*That’s What I Get: "slipping on the tears"*Deep: "you're slipping through"*[[999,999]]: "How did I slip into (this)?"*The Slip===Slipping away===*[[Slipping Away]]*Now I'm Nothing: "I let it slip away now I'm nothing"*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"*The Becoming: "I might just slip away"*Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away"*The Fragile: "I can't watch her slip away"
==Skin==
*Happiness In Slavery: "just words and so much skin"
*[[Underneath The Skin]]
*[[The New Flesh]]
*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]
*March Of The Pigs: "take the skin and peel it back"
*Reptile: "just underneath her skin"
*Somewhat Damaged: "shedding skin succumb defeat"
*We're In This Together: "as they peel apart the skin"
*Please: "all the flesh all the sin"*[[I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally]]: "his skin just wasn't thick enough"
*Deep: "your skin speaks up but your lips couldn't say it"
*My Violent Heart: "our bones, our skin"
*Vessel: "I let it get under my skin"
*Terrible Lie: "my skin is begging you"
*Discipline: "I see you left a mark, up and down my skin"
*Sunspots: "Peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground"
*All Time Low: "you barely even pierced the skin"
 
===Flesh===
*The New Flesh
*[[Complications Of The Flesh]]
*Ringfinger: "sever flesh and bone"
*Suck: "the temple walls are made of flesh"
*Happiness In Slavery: "just some flesh caughtin this big broken machine"*DisciplinePlease: "all the flesh, all the sin" ==Slipping/slipping away==*That’s What I see Get: "slipping on the tears"*Deep: "you left a mark / up and down my skin're slipping through"*[[999,999]]: "How did I slip into (this)?"*The Slip*[[Slipping Away]]*Now I'm Nothing: "I let it slip away, now I'm nothing"*Last: "still feel it all slipping away"*The Becoming: "I might just slip away"*Into The Void: "but myself keeps slipping away" *SunspotsThe Fragile: "Peel off our skin weI can're gonna burn what we were to the groundt watch her slip away"*While I'm Still Here: "Falls apart, slips away"*Running: "Just slip away and disappear"
==Smash==
*March Of The Pigs: "I want to smash it up"
*Eraser: "Smash Mesmash me"*Gave Up: "Smashed up my sanity, Smashed smashed up integrity, Smashed smashed up what I believed in, Smashed smashed up what's left of me, Smashed smashed up my everything, Smashed smashed up all that was true, Gonna gonna smash myself to pieces"
*Now I'm Nothing: "I'm gonna smash myself to pieces"
*The Big Come Down: "Smash it apartjust for the fuck of it"*Love Is Not Enough: "To for you to go and take this and smash it apart"
==Solipsism==
*I Do Not Want This: "I have lived so many lives all in my head"
*Please: "the world is over and I realize it was all in my head"
*Only: "you were never really real to begin with / i , I just made you up...to hurt myself" and / "there is no you / , there is only me"
*Right Where It Belongs: "what if all the world you think you know is an elaborate dream?"
*Head Down: "this all a dream and none of you are real"
==Stopping==
''see also: [[Recurring lyrics#Nothing can stop me now|Nothing can stop me now]]''
*We’re In This Together: "none of them can stop us now"
*Sunspots: "but I can't stop what has begun"
*Me, I’m Not: "hey, can we stop?"
*Discipline: "you know once I start I cannot stop myself"
*Came Back Haunted: "Just can't stop / Came , came back ha-ha-haunted"
==Tiny little dot==
* Down In It::"Just then a tiny little dot caught my eye it was just about too small to see:But , but I watched it way too long and that dot was pulling me down"* Only::"Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye:And it turned out to be a scab:And I had this funny feeling:Like I just knew it's something bad"
==That which could have or would have been==
*Every Day Is Exactly The Same: "I wish this could have been any other way"
*La Mer: "I think I could have been someone"
*Sunspots: "I think I could have been someone / but "*I can’t stop what has begunWould For You: "There was a place that could have been"*While I'm Still Here: "Oh all the things that might have been"
==Throwing Awayaway==
*Terrible Lie: "You made me throw it all away"
*Gave Up: "give it to me, I throw it away"
*Last: "I want you to throw me away"
*Throw This Away
==Used up==
*We’re In This Together: "all used and beaten up"*Love Is Not Enough(rehearsal version): "left for dead and all used up"*Head Down: "all used up half way through"
==Waking up==
*Even Deeper: "I woke up today to find myself in the other place"
*Gave Up: "wake up / , wake up in flames"
*We’re In This Together: "awake to the sound"
*Home: "I awake to find I’m not at all where I should be"
*1,000,000: "I wake up on the floor"
*Everything: "But this thing that lives inside of me will surely rise and wake"
==Waving goodbye==
*[[Wave Goodbye Tour]]
*Came Back Haunted: "I said goodbye"
*[[Everything]]: "Wave goodbye, wish me well"
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