NIN Lyrics

Nine Inch Nails Lyrics by Albums

2006-05-17T13:50:00.000-07:00

The Fragile Left [1999]
Somewhat Damaged
The Day the World Went Away
The Frail
The Wretched
We're in This Together
The Fragile
Just Like You Imagined
Even Deeper
Pilgrimage
No, You Don't
La Mer
The Great Below

The Fragile Right [1999]
The Way Out is Through
Into the Void
Where is Everybody?
The Mark Has Been Made
Please
Starfuckers, Inc.
Complication
I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally
The Big Come Down
Underneath It All
Ripe (With Decay)

The Downward Spiral [1994]
Mr. Self Destruct
Piggy
Heresy
March Of The Pigs
Closer
Ruiner
The Becoming
I Do Not Want This
Big Man With A Gun
A Warm Place
Eraser
Reptile
The Downward Spiral
Hurt

Broken [1992]
Pinion
Wish
Last
Happiness In Slavery
Gave Up
Physical
Suck

Pretty Hate Machine [1988]
Head Like A Hole
Terrible Lie
Down In It
Sanctified
Something I Can Never Have
Kinda I Want To
Sin
That's What I Get
The Only Time
Ringfinger

The Fragile Left [1999]

2006-05-17T13:48:00.000-07:00

Somewhat Damaged

So impressed with all you do.
Tried so hard to be like you.
Flew too high and burnt the wing.
Lost my faith in everything.

Lick around divine debris.
Taste the wealth of hate in me.
Shedding skin succumb defeat.
This machine is obsolete.

Made the choice to go away.
Drink the fountain of decay.
Tear a hole exquisite red.
Fuck the rest and stab it dead.

Broken bruised forgotten sore.
Too fucked up to care anymore.
Poisoned to my rotten core.
Too fucked up to care anymore.

In the back off the side far away is a place where I hide where I.
Stay tried to say tried to ask I needed to all alone by myself where were you?.
How could I ever think it�s funny how everything that.
Swore it wouldn�t change is different now just like you.
Would always say we�ll make it through then my head fell apart.
And where were you?.
How could I ever think it�s funny how everything you swore would.
Never change is different now like you said you and me make it.
Through didn�t quite fell apart.
Where the fuck were you?.

The Day the World Went Away

I�d listen to the words he�d say.
But in his voice I heard decay.
The plastic face forced to portray.
All the insides left cold and gray.
There is a place that still remains.
It eats the fear it eats the pain.
The sweetest price he�ll have to pay.
The day the whole world went away.

Na na nah.
Na na na, nah.
Na na nah.
Na na na, nah.

The Frail

Instrumental

The Wretched

Just a reflection.
Just a glimpse.
Just a little reminder.
Of all the what abouts.
And all the might have.
Could have beens.
Another day.
Some other way.
But not another reason to continue.
And now you�re one of us.
The wretched.

The hopes and prays.
The better days.
The far aways.
Forget it.

It didn�t turn out the way you wanted it to.
It didn�t turn out the way you wanted it, did it?.
It didn�t turn out the way you wanted it to.
It didn�t turn out the way you wanted it, did it?.

Now you know.
This is what it feels like.
Now you know.
This is what it feels like.

The clouds will part and the sky cracks open.
And god himself will reach down his fucking arm through.
Just to push you down.
Just to hold you down.
Stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss.
And it�s hard to believe it could come down to this.
Back at the beginning.
Sinking.
Spinning.

And in the end.
We still pretend.
The time we spend.
Not knowing when.
You�re finally free.
And you could be.

But it didn�t turn out the way you wanted it to.
It didn�t turn out quite the way that you wanted it.

Now you know.
This is what it feels like.
Now you know.
This is what it feels like.

You can try to stop it but it keeps on coming.
You can try to stop it but.

We're in This Together

I�ve become impossible.
Holding on to when.
When everything seemed to matter more.
The two of us.
All used and beaten up.
Watching fate as it flows down the path we have chose.

You and me.
We�re in this together now.
None of them can stop us now.
We will make it through somehow.
You and me.
If the world should break in two.
Until the very end of me.
Until the very end of you.

Awake to the sound as they peel apart the skin.
They pick and they pull.
Trying to get their fingers in.
Well they�ve got to kill what we found.
Well they�ve got to hate what they fear.
Well they�ve got to make it go away.
Well they�ve got to make it disappear.

The farther I fall I�m beside you.
As lost as I get I will find you.
The deeper the wound I�m inside you.
For ever and ever I am a part of.

You and me.
We�re in this together now.
None of them can stop us now.
We will make it through somehow.
You and me.
If the world should break in two.
Until the very end of me.
Until the very end of you.

All that we were is gone we have to hold on.
All the we were is gone we have to hold on.
When all our hope is gone we have to hold on.
All that we were is gone but we can hold on.

You and me.
We�re in this together now.
None of them can stop us now.
We will make it through somehow.
You and me.
Even after everything.
You�re the queen and I�m the king.
Nothing else means anything.

The Fragile

She shines.
In a world full of ugliness.
She matters.
When everything is meaningless.

Fragile.
She doesn�t see her beauty.
She tries to get away.
Sometimes.
It�s just that nothing seems worth saving.
I can�t watch her slip away.

I won�t let you fall apart.

She reads the minds of all the people as they pass her by.
Hoping someone can see.
If I could fix myself I�d �.
But it�s too late for me.

I won�t let you fall apart.

We�ll find the perfect place where we can run and hide.
I�ll build a wall and we can keep them on the other side.
�But they keep waiting.
�And picking�.

It�s something I have to do.
I was there, too.
Before everything else.
I was like you.

Just Like You Imagined

Instrumental

Even Deeper

I woke up today.
To find myself in the other place.
With a trail of my footprints.
From where I ran away.
It seems everything I�ve heard.
Just might be true.
And you know me.
(Well I think you do).
Sometimes, I have everything �.
Yet I wish I felt something.

Do you know how far this has gone?.
Just how damaged have I become?.
When I think I can overcome.
It runs even deeper.

And in a dream I�m a different me.
With a perfect you.
We fit perfectly.
And for once in my life I feel complete �.
And I still want to ruin it.
Afraid to look.
As clear as day.
This plan has long been underway.

I hear them call.
I cannot stay.
The voice inviting me away.

Do you know how far this gone?.
Just how damaged have I become?.
When I think I can overcome.
It runs even deeper.
Everything that matters is gone.
All the hands of hope have withdrawn.
Could you try to help me hang on?.
It runs�.

I�m straight.
I won�t crack.
On my way.
And I can�t turn back.
I�m okay.
I�m on track.
On my way.
And I can�t turn back.
I stayed.
On this track.
Gone too far.
And I can�t come back.
I stayed.
On this track.
Lost my way.
Can�t come back.

Pilgrimage

Instrumental

No, You Don't

Smiling in their faces.
While filling up the hole.
So many dirty little places.
In your filthy little worn out.
Broken down see through soul.

Baby�s got a problem.
Tries so hard to hide.
Got to keep it on the surface.
Because everything else is dead on the other side.

Teeth in the necks of everyone you know.
You can keep on sucking until the blood won�t flow.
When it starts to hurt it only helps it grow.
Taking all you need.
(But not this time).
No, you don�t.

And just for the record.
Just so you know.
I did not believe.
That you could sink so low.

You think that you can beat them.
I know that you won�t.
You think you have everything.
But no, you don�t.

No, you don�t.
No, you don�t.
No, you don�t.
No, you don�t.

La Mer

And when the day arrives.
I�ll become the sky.
And I�ll become the sea.

And the sea will come to kiss me.
For I am going.
Home.

Nothing can stop me now.

The Great Below

Staring at the sea.
Will she come?.
Is there hope for me.
After all is said and done.
Anything at any price.
All of this for you.
All the spoils of a wasted life.
All of this for you.
All the world has closed her eyes.
Tired faith all worn and thin.
For all we could have done.
And all that could have been.

Ocean pulls me close.
And whispers in my ear.
The destiny I�ve chose.
All becoming clear.
The currents have their say.
The time is drawing near.
Washes me away.
Makes me disappear.

I descend from grace.
In arms of undertow.
I will take my place.
In the great below.

I can still feel you.
Even so far away.

The Fragile Right [1999]

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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

The Downward Spiral [1994]

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Mr. Self Destruct

I am the voice inside your head and I control you.
I am the lover in your bed...and I control you.
I am the sex that you provide...and I control you.
I am the hate you try to hide...and I control you.
I take you where you want to go.
I give you all you need to know.
I drag you down I use you up.
mr self destruct.
I speak religion's message clear...and I control you.
I am denial guilt and fear...and I control you.
I am the prayers of the naive...and I control you.
I am the lie that you believe...and I control you.
I take you where you want to go.
I give you all you need to know.
I drag you down I use you up.
mr self destruct.
I am the needle in your vein...and I control you.
I am the high you can't sustain...and I control you.
I am the pusher I'm a whore...and I control you.
I am the need you have for more and I control you.
I am the bullet in the gun...and I control you.
I am the truth from which you run...and I control you.
I am the silencing machine...and I control you.
I am the end of all your dreams...and I control you.
I take you where you want to go.
I give you all you need to know.
I drag you down I use you up.
mr self destruct.

Piggy

hey pig.
yeah you.
hey pig piggy pig pig pig.
all of my fears came true.
black and blue and broken bones you left me here I'm all alone.
my little piggy needed something new.
nothing can stop me now.
I just don't care.
hey pig.
nothing's turning out the way I planned.
hey pig there's a lot of things I hoped you could help me understand.
what am I supposed to do I lost my shit because of you.
nothing can stop me now.
I don't care anymore.
nothing can stop me now.
'cause I don't care anymore.
I just don't care.
nothing can stop me now.
you don't need me anymore.

Heresy

he sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see.
he tries to tell me what I put inside of me.
he's got the answers to ease my curiosity.
he dreamed a god up and called it christianity.
your god is dead and no one cares.
if there is a hell I will see you there.
he flexed his muscles to keep his flock of sheep in line.
he made a virus that would kill off all the swine.
his perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain.
demands devotion atrocities done in his name.
your god is dead and no one cares.
if there is a hell I will see you there.
burning with you god in humility.
will you die for this?.

March Of The Pigs

step right up march push.
crawl right up on your knees.
please greed feed.
I want a little bit I want a piece of it I think he's losing it.
I want to watch it come down.
don't like the look of it don't like the taste of it don't like the smell of it.
I want to watch it come down.
all the pigs are all lined up.
I give you all that you want.
take the skin and peel it back.
now doesn't that make you feel better?.
shove it up inside suprise! lies.
stains like the blood on your teeth.
bite chew suck away the tender parts.
I want to break it up I want to smash it up I want to fuck it up.
I want to watch it come down.
maybe afraid of it let's discredit it let's pick away at it.
I want to watch it come down.
now doesn't that make you feel better.
the pigs have won tonight.
now they can all sleep soundly.
and everything is all right.

Closer

you let me violate you. you let me desecrate you.
you let me penetrate you. you let me complicate you.
help me I broke apart my insides. help me i've got no soul to sell.
help me the only thing that works for me. help me get away from myself.
I want to fuck you like an animal.
I want to feel you from the inside.
I want to fuck you like an animal.
my whole existence is flawed.
you get me closer to god.
you can have my isolati.
on. you can have the hate that it brings.
you can have my absence of faith. you can have my everything.
help me tear down my reason. help me it's your sex I can smell.
help me you make me perfect. help me become somebody else.
I want to fuck you like an animal.
I want to feel you from the inside.
I want to fuck you like an animal.
my whole existence is flawed.
you get me closer to god.
through every forest, above the trees.
within my stomach. scraped off my knees.
I drink the honey inside your hive.
you are the reason I stay alive.

Ruiner

you had all of them on your side, didn't you?.
you believed in all your lies, didn't you?.
the ruiner's got a lot to prove he's got nothing to lose and now he made you believe.
the ruiner's your only friend well he's the living end to the cattle he deceives.
the raping of the innocent you know the ruiner ruins everything he sees.
now the only pure thing left in my fucking world is wearing your disease.
how did you get so big?.
how did you get so strong?.
how did you get so hard?.
how did it get so long?.
you had to give them all a sign, didn't you?.
you had to covet what was mine, didn't you?.
the ruiner's a collector he's an infector serving his shit to his flies.
maybe there will come a day when those that you keep blind will suddenly realize.
maybe it's a part of me you took it to a place I hoped it would never go.
and maybe that fucked me up much more than you'll ever know.
how did you get so big?.
how did you get so strong?.
how did you get so hard?.
how did it get so long?.
what you gave to me.
my perfect ring of scars.
you know I can see what you really are.
you didn't hurt me nothing can hurt me.
you didn't hurt me nothing can stop me now.

The Becoming

I beat my machine it's a part of me it's inside of me.
I'm stuck in this dream it's changing me I am becoming.
the me the you know he had some second thoughts.
he's covered with scabs he is broken and sore.
the me that you know doesn't come around much.
that part of me isn't here anymore.
all pain disappears it's the nature of my circuitry.
drowns out all I hear there's no escape from this my new consciousness.
the me that you know he used to have feelings.
but the blood has stopped pumping and he's left to decay.
the me that you know is now made up of wires.
and even when I'm right with you I'm so far away.
I can try to get away but i've strapped myself in.
I can try to scratch away the sound in my ears.
I can see it killing away all my bad parts.
I don't want to listen but it's all to clear.
hiding backwards inside of me I feel so unafraid.
annie, hold a little tighter I might just slip away.
it won't give up it wants me dead.
goddamn this noise inside my head.

I Do Not Want This

I'm losing ground.
you know how this world can beat you down.
I'm made of clay.
I fear I'm the only one who thinks this way.
I'm always falling down the same hill.
bamboo puncturing this skin.
and nothing comes bleeding out of me just like a waterfall I'm drowning in.
2 feet below the surface I can still make out your wavy face.
and if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place.
I do not want this.
I do not want this.
I do not want this.
I do not want this.
don't you tell me how I feel.
don't you tell me how I feel.
don't you tell me how I feel.
you don't know just how I feel.
I stay inside my bed.
I have lived so many lives all in my head.
don't tell me that you care.
there really isn't anything. is there?.
you would know. wouldn't you?.
you extend your hand to those who suffer.
to those who know what it really feels like.
to those who have had a taste.
like that means something.
and oh so sick I am.
and maybe I don't have a choice.
and maybe that is all I have.
and maybe this is a cry for help.
I do not want this.
I do not want this.
I do not want this.
I do not want this.
don't you tell me how I feel.
don't you tell me how I feel.
don't you tell me how I feel.
you don't know just how I feel.
I want to know everything.
I want to be everywher.
e.
I want to fuck everyone in the world.
I want to do something that matters.

Big Man With A Gun

I am a big man.
yes I am.
and I have a big gun.
got me a big old dick and i.
I like to have fun.
held against your forehead.
I'll make you suck it.
maybe I'll put a hole in your head.
you know, just for the fuck of it.
I can reduce you if I want.
I can devour.
I'm hard as fucking steel, and i've got the power.
I'm every inch a man, and I'll show you somehow.
me and my fucking gun.
nothing can stop me now.
shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot.
I'm going to come all over you.
me and my fucking gun.
me and my fucking gun.

A Warm Place

Instrumental

Eraser

need you.
dream you.
find you.
taste you.
fuck you .
use you.
scar you.
break you.
lose me.
hate me.
smash me.
erase me.

Reptile

she spreads herself wide open to let the insects in.
she leaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been.
she has the blood of reptile just underneath her skin.
seeds from a thousand others drip down from within.
oh my beautiful liar.
oh my precious whore.
my disease my infection.
I am so impure.
devils speak of the ways in which she'll manifest.
angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress.
need to contaminate to alleviate this loneliness.
I now know the depths I reach are limitless.
oh my beautiful liar.
oh my precious whore.
my disease my infection.
I am so impure.

The Downward Spiral

he couldn't believe how easy it was.
he put the gun into his face.
bang!.
problems have solutions.
a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash.
everything's blue.
in this world.
the deepest shade of mushroom blue.
all fuzzy.
spilling out of my head.

Hurt

I hurt myself today.
to see if I still feel.
I focus on the pain.
the only thing that's real.
the needle tears a hole.
the old familiar sting.
try to kill it all away.
but I remember everything.
what have I become?.
my sweetest friend.
everyone I know.
goes away in the end.
you could have it all.
my empire of dirt.
I will let you down.
I will make you hurt.
I wear my crown of shit.
on my liar's chair.
full of broken thoughts.
I cannot repair.
beneath the stain of time.
the feeling disappears.
you are someone else.
I am still right here.
what have I become?.
my sweetest friend.
everyone I know.
goes away in the end.
you could have it all.
my empire or dirt.
I will let you down.
I will make you hurt.
if I could start again.
a million miles away.
I would keep myself.
I would find a way.

Broken [1992]

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Pinion

Instrumental

Wish

This is the first day of my last days.
I built it up now I take it apart.
Climbed up real high now fall down real far.
No need for me to stay.
The last thing left I just threw it away.
I put my faith in god and my trust in you.
Now there's nothing more fucked up I could do.
Wish there was something real wish there was something true.
Wish there was something real in this world full of you.
I'm the one without a soul.
I'm the one with this big fucking hole.
No new tale to tell.
Twenty-six years on my way to hell.
Gotta listen to your big time hard line bad luck fist fuck.
Don't think you're having all the fun.
You know me I hate everyone.
Wish there was something real wish there was something true.
Wish there was something real in this world full of you.
I want to but I can't turn back.
But I want to.

Last

Gave up trying to figure out.
My head got lost along the way.
Worn out from giving it up.
My soul I pissed it all away.
Still stings these shattered nerves.
Pigs we get what pigs deserve.
I'm going all the way down.
I'm leaving today.
Come come come on you've gotta fix me up.
Come come gotta let me inside of you.
Come come come on you're gotta fill me up.
Come come gotta let me inside of you.
Still feel it all slipping away.
But it doesn't matter anymore.
Everybody's still chipping away.
But it doesn't matter anymore.
Look through these blackened eyes.
You'll see ten thousand lies.
My lips may promise but my heart is a whore.
Come come come on you've gotta fix me up.
Come come gotta let me inside of you.
Come come come on you're gotta fill me up.
Come come gotta let me get through to you.
This isn't meant to last.
This is for right now.
I know it's all getting away.
It comes to me as no surprise.
I know what's coming to me.
Is never going to arrive.
Fresh blood through tired skin.
New sweat to drown me in.
Dress up this rotten carcass just to make it look alive.
Come come come on you've gotta fill me up.
Come come gotta let me inside of you.
Come come come on you're gotta fix me up.
Come come gotta let me get through to you.
This isn't meant to last.
This is for right now.
I want you to make me.
I want you to take me.
I want you to break me.
Then I want you to throw me away.

Happiness In Slavery

Slave screams, he thinks he knows what he wants.
Slave screams, thinks he has something to say.
Slave screams, he hears but doesn't want to listen.
Slave screams, he's being beat into submission.
Don't open your eyes you won't like what you see.
The devils of truth steal the souls of the free.
Don't open your eyes take it from me.
I have found.
You can find.
Happiness in slavery.
Slave screams, he spends his life learning conformity.
Slave screams, he claims he has his own identity.
Slave screams, he's going to cause the system to fall.
Slave screams, but he's glad to be chained to that wall.
Don't open your eyes you won't like what you see.
The blind have been blessed with security.
Don't open your eyes take it from me.
I have found.
You can find.
Happiness in slavery.
I don't know what I am, I don't know where I've been.
Human junk, just words and so much skin.
Stick my hands thru the cage of this endless routine.
Just some flesh caught in this big broken machine.

Gave Up

Perfect little dream the kind that hurts the most.
Forgot how it feels well almost.
No one to blame always the same.
Open my eyes wake up in flames.
It took you to make me realize.
It took you to make me realize.
It took you to make me realize.
It took you to make me see the light.
Smashed up my sanity.
Smashed up my integrity.
Smashed up what I believed in.
Smashed up what's left of me.
Smashed up my everything.
Smashed up all that was true.
Gonna smash myself to pieces.
I don't know what else to do.
Covered in h.
ope and vaseline.
Still cannot fix this broken machine.
Watching the hole it used to be mine.
Just watching it burn in my steady systematic decline.
Of the trust I will betray.
Give it to me I throw it away.
After everything I've done I hate myself for what I've become.
It took you to make me realize.
It took you to make me realize.
It took you to make me realize.
It took you to make me see the light.
Smashed up my sanity.
Smashed up my integrity.
Smashed up what I believed in.
Smashed up what's left of me.
Smashed up my everything.
Smashed up all that was true.
Gonna smash myself to pieces.
I don't know what else to do.
I tried.
I gave up.

Physical

I wanna take you maybe.
I wanna take you out.
I wanna wine and dine you.
I wanna twist and twist and shout.
I want you all in my arms.
Sit soft on my bed.
You get the key to my heart.
When you wear that sweet dress.
But you're too physical, physical to me.
You're just too physical, physical no, to me.
I want your ?? baby.
I want this right in your ear.
You let me feel your danger.
I let you make this feeling clear here.
I want the touch of your charms.
The heat of your breath.
I wanna say all those things.
That would be better unsaid, no.
But you're too physical, physical to me.
You're just too physical, oh.
You're too physical to me.
You're too physical to me.
You're just too physical.
You're just too physical.
Too fucking physical.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh you're too physical.
Just too physical.
Just too.

Suck

There is no god up in the sky tonight.
No sign of heaven anywhere in sight.
All that was true is left behind.
Once I could see now I am blind.
Don't want your dreams you try to sell.
This disease I give to myself.
How does it feel?.
She makes it sweeter than the sun.
I get too tight I come undone.
I bow my head to confess .
The temple walls are made of flesh.
Runs up my arms 'til I'm on track.
Itches my skin right off of my back.
I'll heal your wounds.
I'll set you free.
I'm Jesus Christ of Ecstasy.
How does it feel?.
I am so dirty on on the inside.
How does it feel?.
Suck.
A thousand lips a thousand tongues.
A thousand throats a thousand lungs.
A thousand ways to make it true.
I want to do terrible things to you.

Pretty Hate Machine [1988]

2006-05-17T13:34:00.000-07:00

Head Like A Hole

God money I'll do anything for you.
God money just tell me what you want me to.
God money nail me up against the wall.
God money don't want everything he wants it all.
No you can't take it.
No no you can't take it.
No you can't take that away from me.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
God money's not looking for the cure.
God money's not concerned with the sick among the pure.
God money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
God money's not one to choose.
No you can't take it.
No no you can't take it.
No you can't take that away from me.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
You know who you are.

Terrible Lie

Hey God, why are you doing this to me?.
Am I not living up to what I'm supposed to be?.
Why am I seething with this animosity?.
Hey God, I think you owe me a great big apology.
Terrible lie.
Hey God, I really don't know what you mean.
Seems like salvation comes only in our dreams.
I feel my hatred grow all the more extreme.
Hey God, can this world really be as sad as it seems.
Terrible lie.
Don't take it away from me.
I need someone to hold on to.
Don't take it away from me.
I need someone to hold on to.
Hey God, there's nothing left for me to hide.
I lost my ignorance, security and pride.
I'm all alone in a world you must despise.
Hey God, I believed the promises, the promises and lies.
You made me throw it all away.
My morals left to decay.
How many you betray.
You've taken everything.
Terrible lie.
My head is filled with disease.
My skin is begging you please.
I'm on my hands and knees.
I want so much to believe.
I need someone to hold on to.
I need someone to hold on to.
I need someone I need someone.
I need someone to hold on to.
I give you everything.
My sweet everything.
Hey God, I really don't know who I am.
In this world of piss.

Down In It

Kind of like a cloud I was up way up in the sky.
And I was feeling some feelings you wouldn't believe.
Sometimes I don't believe them myself.
And I decided I was never coming down.
Just then a tiny little dot.
Caught my eye it was just about too small to see.
But I watched it way too long.
And that dot was pulling me down.
I was up above it.
Now I'm down in it.
Well shut up so what what does it matter now.
I was swimming in the haze now I crawl on the ground.
And everything I never liked about you.
Is kind of seeping into me.
Try to laugh about it now but isn't it funny how everything works out.
"I guess the jokes on me," she said.
I was up above it.
Now I'm down in it.
I used to be so big and strong.
I used to know my right from wrong.
I used to never be afraid.
I used to be somebody.
I used to have something inside.
Now just this hole that's open wide.
I used to want it all.
I used to be somebody.
I'll cross my heart and hope to die.
But the needle's already in my eye.
And all the world's weight is on my back.
And I don't even know why.
And what I used to think was me is just a fading memory.
I looked him right in the eye and said "good-bye".
I was up above it.
Now I'm down in it.

Sanctified

It's still getting worse after everything I tried.
What if I found a way to wash it all aside.
What if she touches with those fingertips.
As the words spill out like fire from her lips.
If she says come inside I'll come inside for her.
If she says five it all I'll give everything to her.
I am justified.
I am purified.
I am sanctified.
Inside you.
Heaven's just a rumor she'll dispel.
As she walks me through the nicest parts .
of hell.
I still dream of lips I never should have never kissed.
Well she knows exactly what I can't resist.
If she says come inside I'll come inside for her.
If she says five it all I'll give everything to her.
I am justified.
I am purified.
I am sanctified.
Inside you.
I'm just caught up in another of her spells.
She's turning me into someone else.
Everyday I hope and pray this will end.
But when I can I do it all again.
If she says come inside I'll come inside for her.
If she says five it all I'll give everything to her.
I am justified.
I am purified.
I am sanctified.
Inside you.

Something I Can Never Have

I still recall the taste of your tears.
Echoing your 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.
You make this all go away.
You make this all go away.
You make this all go away.
I'm down to just to thing.
And I'm starting to scare myself.
You make this all go away.
You 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.
Gray would be the color, if I had a heart.
Come on tell me.
You make this all go away.
You make this all go away.
You make this all go away.
I'm down to just to thing.
And I'm starting to scare myself.
You make this all go away.
You make this all go away.
You make this all go away.
I just want something.
I just want something I can never have.
In this place it seems like such a same.
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.
You make this all go away.
You make this all go away.
I'm down to just to thing.
And I'm starting to scare myself.
You make this all go away.
You make it all go away.
I just want something.
I just want something I can never have.
I just want something I can never have.

Kinda I Want To

I can't shake this feeling from my head.
There's a devil sleeping in my bed.
He's watching you from across the way.
I cannot make this feeling go away.
I know it's not the right thing.
And I know it's not the good thing.
But kinda I want to.
I'm not sure of what I should do.
When everything I'm thinking of is you.
All of my excuses turn to lies.
Maybe God will cover up his eyes.
I know it's not the right thing.
And I know it's not the good thing.
But kinda I want to.
But kinda I want to.
Maybe just for tonight.
We can pretend it's alright.
What's the price I pay.
I don't care what they say.
I want to.
I want to.

Sin

You give me the reason.
You give me control.
I gave you my purity.
My purity you stole.
Did you think I wouldn't recognize this compromise.
Am I just too stupid to realize.
Stale incense old sweat and lies lies lies.
It comes down to this.
Your kiss.
Your fist.
And your strain.
It gets under my skin, within.
Take in, the extent of my sin.
You give me the anger.
You give me the nerve.
Carry out my sentence.
Well I get what I deserve.
I'm just an effigy to be disgraced.
To be defaced.
Your need for me has been replaced.
And if I can't have everything well then just give me a taste.
It comes down to this.
Your kiss.
Your fist.
And your strain.
It gets under my skin.
Within.
Take in the extent of my sin.
You give me the reason.
You give me control.
I gave you my purity.
My purity you stole.
Did you think I wouldn't recognize this compromise.
Am I just too stupid to realize.
Stale incense old sweat and lies lies lies.
It comes down to this.
Your kiss.
Your fist.
And your strain.
It gets under my skin.
Within.
Take in the extent of my sin.

That's What I Get

Just when everything was making sense.
You took away all my self-confidence.
Now all that I've been hearing must be true.
I guess I'm not the only boy for you.
But that's what I get.
That's what .
I get.
That's what I get.
That's what I get.
How could you turn us into this?.
After you just taught me how to kiss you.
I told you I'd never say good-bye.
Now I'm slipping on the tears you made me cry.
But that's what I get.
That's what I get.
That's what I get.
That's what I get.
Why does it come as a surprise.
To think that I was so naive.
Maybe didn't mean that much.
But it meant everything to me.

The Only Time

I'm drunk.
And right now I'm so in love with you.
And I don't want to think too much about what we should or shouldn't do.
Lay my hands on Heaven and the sun and the moon and the stars.
While the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car.
Nothing quite like the feel of something new.
Maybe I'm all messed up.
Maybe I'm all messed up.
Maybe I'm all messed up in you.
Maybe I'm all messed up.
Maybe I'm all messed up.
Maybe I'm all messed up.
Maybe I'm all messed up in you.
Maybe I'm all messed up.
This is the only time I really feel alive.
This is the only time I really feel alive.
I swear.
I just found everything I need.
The sweat in your eyes, the blood in your veins, are listening to me.
Well I want to drink it up and swim in it until I drown.
My moral standing is lying down.
Nothing quite like the feel of something new.
Maybe I'm all messed up.
Maybe I'm all messed up.
Maybe I'm all messed up in you.
Maybe I'm all messed up.
Maybe I'm all messed up.
Maybe I'm all messed up.
Maybe I'm all messed up in you.
Maybe I'm all messed up.
This is the only time I really feel alive.
This is the only time I really feel alive.

Ringfinger

Well you've got me working so heard lately.
Working my hands until they bleed.
If I was twice the man I could be.
I'd still be half of what you need.
Still you lead me and I follow.
Anything you ask you know I'll do.
But this one act of consecration is what I ask of you.
Promise carved in stone.
Deeper than the sea.
Sever flesh and bone.
And offer it to me.
You just left me nailed here.
Hanging like Jesus on this cross.
I'm just dying for your sins.
And aiding to the cause.
Promise carved in stone.
Deeper than the sea.
Sever flesh and bone.
And offer it to me.
Wrap my eyes in bandages.
Confessions I see through.
I get everything I want.
When I get part of you.
Promise carved in stone.
Deeper than the sea.
Sever flesh and bone.
And offer it to me.
Ringfinger.
Promise carved in stone.
Deeper than the sea.
Ringfinger.
Devil's flesh and bone.
Do something for me .