Nine Inch Nails

So glad you asked.

You want to know my secret?  I’m angry all the time. – Bruce Banner

Yeah, Happy New Year’s Rocking Eve

Lyrics below so you sing along.

Terrible Lie

Why are you doing this to me

Am I not living up to what I am supposed to be

Why am I seething with this animosity

I think you owe me a great big apology

Terrible lie … terrible lie

Terrible lie … terrible lie

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

Can this world really be as sad as it seems

Terrible lie … terrible lie

Terrible lie … terrible lie

Don’t take it away from me

Don’t take it away from me

Don’t take it away from me

I need you to hold on to

Dont take it away from me

I need someone to hold on to

Dont tear it away from me

Dont tear it away from me

Dont tear it away from me

I need you to hold on to

Dont tear it away from me

I need someone to hold on to

There’s nothing left for me to hide

I’ve lost my ignorance security and pride

I’m all alone a world you must despise

I believed your promises, your promises and lies

Terrible lie … terrible lie

Terrible lie … terrible lie

Terrible lie

You make me throw it all away

My morals left to decay

How many you betrayed

You’ve taken everything

Terrible lie

My head is filled with disease

My skin is begging to appease

I’m on my hands and knees

I want so much to believe

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 get’s 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.

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 get’s under my skin.

Within.

Take in the extent of my sin

March of the Pigs

Step right up, march, push

Crawl right up on your knees

Please, greed, feed, no time to hesitate

I want to little bit

I want to 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 it make you feel better?

Shove it up inside, surprise, 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

Make me afraid of it

Let’s discredit it

Let’s pick away at 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 it make you feel better?

The pigs have won tonight

Now, they can all sleep soundly

And everything is all right

Something I can’t ever have

I still recall the taste of your tears

Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ear

My favorite dreams of you still wash ashore

Scraping through my head ’til I don’t want to sleep anymore

You’ll make this all go away

You’ll make this all go away

I’m down to just one thing

And I’m starting to scare myself

You’ll make this all go away

You’ll 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

Grey would be the color if I had a heart

Come on, tell me

You’ll make this all go away

You’ll make this all go away

I’m down to just one thing

And I’m starting to scare myself

You’ll make this all go away

You’ll 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 shame

Though it all looks different now

I know it’s still the same and everywhere I look you’re all I see

Just a fading fucking reminder of who I use to be

Come on, tell me

You’ll make this all go away

You’ll make this all go away

I’m down to just one thing

And I’m starting to scare myself

You’ll make this all go away

You’ll make this all go away

I just want something

I just want something I can never have

I just want something I can never have

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 wanna fuck you like an animal

I wanna feel you from the inside

I wanna fuck you like an animal

My whole existence is flawed,

You get me closer to God

You can have my isolation

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 wanna fuck you like an animal

I wanna feel you from the inside

I wanna 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!

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

Give in

Devils speak of the way 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

Ohh

Ohh

Oh my beautiful liar

Oh my precious whore

My disease, my infection

I am so impure

Oh my beautiful liar

Oh my precious whore

My disease, my infection

I am so impure

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

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?

How does it feel?

She makes it sweeter than the sun

I get too tight I come undone

I found my way to this place

The temple walls are made of flesh

Runs up my arms ’till 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 on ecstasy

How does it feel?

How does it feel?

I am so dirty on on the inside

I am so dirty on on the inside

I am so dirty on on the inside

I am so dirty on on the inside

How does it feel?

How does it feel?

Suck, suck, suck, 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

Burn

This world rejects me

This world threw me away

This world never gave me a chance

This world gonna have to pay

And I don’t believe in your institutions

I did what you want me to

Like the cancer in your system

I’ve got a little surprise for you

Something inside of me

Has opened up its eyes

Why did you put it there

Did you not realize?

This thing inside of me

It screams the loudest sound

Sometimes I think I could

Burn

I look down there, where you’re standing

Flock of sheep out on display

With all your lies bumped up around you

I can take it all away

Something inside of me

Has opened up its eyes

Why did you put it there

Did you not realize?

Something inside of me

It screams the loudest sound

Sometimes I think I could

I’m gonna burn this whole world down

I’m gonna burn this whole world down

I never was a part of you burn

I never was a part of you burn

I never was a part of you burn

I never was a part of you burn

I never was a part of you burn

I never was a part of you burn

I never was a part of you burn

I never was a part of you burn

I am your saviour

(I never was a part of you burn)

I am corruption

(I never was a part of you burn)

I am the angel

(I never was a part of you burn)

Of your destruction

(I never was a part of you burn)

I am perversion

(I never was a part of you burn)

Secret desire

(I never was a part of you burn)

I am your future

(I never was a part of you burn)

Swallowed up in fire

(I never was a part of you burn)

The Only Time

I’m drunk

And right now I’m so in love with you

And I don’t wanna 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 a life

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 wrap 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

Maybe I’m all all messed up

This is the only time I really feel alive

This is the only time I really feel alive

This is the only time I really feel alive

This is the only time I really feel alive

Down in it

Now, I’m down in it

Now, I’m down in it

Kinda 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

It was pulling me down

I was up above it

I was up above it

Now, I’m down in it

I was up above it

I was up above it

Now, I’m down in it

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

I was up above it

Now, I’m down in it

I was up above it

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, I’ll 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

What I used to think was me

Is just a fading memory

I looked him right in the eye

And said, “Goodbye”

I was up above it

I was up above it

Now, I’m down in it

Now, I’m down in it

I was up above it

I was up above it

Now, I’m down in it

I was up above it

I was up above it

Now, I’m down in it

I was up above it

Rain, rain go away

Come again some other day

Rain, rain go away

Come again some other day

Rain, rain go away

Come again some other day

Rain, rain go away

Come again some other day

I was up above it

I was up above it

Now, I’m down in it

I was up above it

Now, I’m down in it

Dead Souls

Someone take these dreams away

That point me to another day

A duel of personalities

That stretch all true reality

They keep calling me

They keep calling me

Keep on calling me

They keep calling me

The figures from the past stand tall

And mocking voices ring the hall

Imperialistic house of prayer

Conquistadors who took their share

They keep calling me

Keep on calling me

They keep calling me

Keeps on calling me

Calling me, calling me

Calling me, calling me

They keep calling me

Keep on calling me

They keep calling me

Keeps on calling me

They keep calling me

Keep on calling me

They keep calling me

Keeps on calling me, yeah

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 is 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 is slavery

I don’t know what I am

I don’t know where I’ve been

Just (just) hurt and so much skin

Stick my head through the cage of this endless routine

Just some flesh caught in this big broken machine

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 you can’t take it

No you can’t take that away from me

No you can’t take it

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.

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 you can’t take it

No you can’t take that away from me

No you can’t take it

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.

Bow down before the one you serve.

You’re going to get what you deserve.

Bow down before the one you serve.

You’re going to get what you deserve.

Bow down before the one you serve.

You’re going to get what you deserve.

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.

Bow down before the one you serve.

You’re going to get what you deserve.

You know who you are.

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