NIN Lyrics

The Way Out is Through

All I've undergone.
I will keep on.

Underneath it all.
We feel so small.
The heavens fall.
But still we crawl.

All I've undergone.
I will keep on.


Into the Void

Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away.

Talking to myself all the way to the station.
Pictures in my head of the final destination.
All lined up.
(All the ones that aren�t allowed to stay).
Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away.

Tried to save a place from the cuts and the scratches.
Tried to overcome the complications and the catches.
Nothing ever grows and the sun doesn�t shine all day.
Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away.

Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away.



Where is Everybody?

Did you happen to catch.
Or did it happen so fast.
What you thought would always last.
Has passed you by.
Is everything speeding up.
Or am I slowing down.
Just spinning around.
And I don�t know why.
All the pieces don�t fit.
Thought I really didn�t give a shit.
I never wanted to be like you.
But for all I aspire.
I am really a liar.
And I�m running out of things I can do.

I�d like to stay.
But every day.
Everything pushes me further away.
If you could show.
Help me to know.
How it�s supposed to be.
Where did it go?.

Pleading and.
Needing and.
Bleeding and.
Breeding and.
Feeding.
Exceeding.
Where is everybody?.
Trying and.
Lying.
Defying.
Denying.
Crying and.
Dying.
Where is everybody?.

Well okay, enough.
You�ve had your fun.
But come on there has got to be someone.
That hasn�t yet become.
So numb and succumb.
And.
God damn I am so tired of pretending.
Of wishing I was ending.
When all I�m really doing is trying to hide.
And keep it inside.
And fill it with lies.
Open my eyes?.
Maybe I wish I could try.

Pleading and.
Needing and.
Bleeding and.
Breeding and.
Feeding.
Exceeding.
Where is everybody?.
Trying and.
Lying.
Defying.
Denying.
Crying and.
Dying.
Where is everybody?.



The Mark Has Been Made

Instrumental




Please

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.



Starfuckers, Inc.

My god sits in the back of the limousine.
My god comes in a wrapper of cellophane.
My god pouts on the cover of the magazine.
My god�s a shallow little bitch trying to make the scene.

I have arrived and this time you should believe the hype.
I listened to everyone now I know that everyone was right.
I�ll be there for you as long as it works for me.
I play a game.
It�s called insincerity.

Starfuckers.
Starfuckers.
Starfuckers, inc..
Starfuckers.

I am every fucking thing and just a little more.
I sold my soul but don�t you dare call me a whore.
And when I suck you off not a drop will go to waste.
It�s really not so bad you know once you get past the taste, yeah.
(Asskisser).

Starfuckers.
Starfuckers.
Starfuckers, inc..
Starfuckers.

All our pain.
How did we ever get by without you?.
You�re so vain.
I bet you think this song is about you.
Don�t you?.
Don�t you?.
Don�t you?.
Don�t you?.

Now I belong I�m one of the chosen ones.
Now I belong I�m one of the beautiful ones.



Complication

Instrumental



I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally

As black as the night can get.
Everything is safer now.
There�s always a way to forget.
Once you learn to find a way how.

In the blur of serenity.
Where did everything get lost?.
The flowers of naivete.
Buried in a layer of frost.

The smell of sunshine.
I remember sometimes.

Thought he had it all before they called his bluff.
Found out that his skin just wasn�t thick enough.
Wanted to go back to how it was before.
Thought he lost everything.
Then he lost a whole lot more.

A fool�s devotion.
Swallowed up in empty space.
The tears of regret.
Frozen to the side of his face.

The smell of sunshine.
I remember sometimes.

I�ve done all I can do.
Could I please come with you?.
Sweet smell of sunshine.
I remember sometimes.



The Big Come Down

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 a place I can go there is no 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 form the inside.



Underneath It All

All I do.
I can still feel you.

Numb all through.
I can still feel you.
Hear your call.
Underneath it all.
Kill my brain.
Yet you still remain.
Crucified.
After all I�ve died.
After all I�ve tried.
You are still inside.

All I do.
I can still feel you.

You remain.
I am stained.



Ripe (With Decay)

Instrumental