Not So Pretty Now
"Not So Pretty Now" is a song that was part of the set list on the Live: With Teeth tour. The tour also included "Non-Entity," another song from the With Teeth outtakes. During a chat with fans in the official NIN fan club, The Spiral, Trent Reznor stated that these songs were outtakes from the With Teeth sessions, and studio recordings of them might one day surface. On Firday the 20th of March 2009, Reznor released the long awaited studio version of "Not So Pretty Now" as part of the NINJA summer tour EP via ninja2009.com
Appearances
- NINJA 2009 Summer Tour EP
Versions
Not So Pretty Now
This studio version of the song wasn't released until March 20, 2009, on the NINJA 2009 Summer Tour EP.
Live
Coming soon.
Lyrics
You let them open it up real wide
Then you let everyone come inside
There's always something you got to hide
So you lied and you lied and you lied
Make sure you grab everything that you need
You got a hole that you got to feed
Keep trying to fill it all up with your greed
But it bleeds and it bleeds and it bleeds
Go take a little more
We'll scrape you off the floor
We love you anyhow
But you're not so pretty now
A great big superstar
Is what you think you are
We love you anyhow
But you're not so pretty now
Nobody burns quite as bright
Well goddamn, maybe you're right
There's always battles all for you to fight
And you might, you might, you just might
But there is something I got to say
There is a price you're going to pay
Try as hard as you can to stay
But you're just fading, and fading, and fading away
Go take a little more
We'll scrape you off the floor
We love you anyhow
But you're not so pretty now
A great big superstar
Is what you think you are
We love you anyhow
But you're not so pretty now
Go take a little more
We'll scrape you off the floor
We love you anyhow
But you're not so pretty now
A great big superstar
Is what you think you are
We love you anyhow
But you're not so pretty now
Better turn the lights down low
The cracks begin to show
We love you anyhow
But you're not so pretty now
Soon you will be gone
We will all move on
You never mattered anyhow
But you're not so pretty now
Sometimes Reznor would sing the last line of the second verse slightly different:
But you're just fading, and fading, and fading the fuck away