NINE INCH NAILS
Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
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 about 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...
(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 (x4) (Hey God!) I really don't know what you mean Seems like salvation comes only in my 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 you to hold on to (x3) Don't take it away from me, I need someone to hold on to Don't tear it away from me, I need you to hold on to Don't tear it away from me, I need someone to hold on to Don't tear it away from me, I need you to hold on to Don't tear it - Don't tear it - Don't take it, don't take it, don't... (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 your promises, your promises and lies Terrible lie (x5) You make me throw it all away, my morals left to decay - Terrible lie How many you betray? You've taken everything - Terrible lie My head is filled with disease, my skin is begging you please - Terrible lie I'm on my hands and knees, I want so much to believe (I give you everything, my sweet everything) (etc.) (I need someone to hold on to) (etc.)
(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 kinda seeping into me, try to laugh about it now but isn't it funny how everything works out "I guess the joke's on me", she said I was up above 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 it's open wide I used to want it all I used to be somebody I'll cross my heart and 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 "good-bye" I was up above it... (etc.) Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day (x4)
It's still getting worse after everything I've 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, "Give 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 (Dance of hell) I still dream of lips I never should have kissed Well, she knows exactly what I can't resist And if she says, "Come inside" I'll come inside for her And if she says, "Give it all" I'll give everything to her I am justified... "Dear mom and dad, this is the hardest letter I've ever had to write I'd hoped somehow to get out of this quickly so that you'd never have to know about it, but that just isn't possible now I don't know what's going to happen, but what can I say to you? Will 'I'm sorry' make a difference? Will it ease the pain? The shame you must be feeling...forgive me...please" I'm just caught up in another of her spells Well, she's turning me into someone else Every day I hope and pray that this will end But when I can I do it all again And if she says, "Come inside" I'll come inside for her And if she says, "Give it all" I'll give everything to her I am justified... (x2)
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 'til I don't wanna sleep anymore You make this all go away, you make this all go away I'm down to just one thing and I'm starting to scare myself 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... In this place it seems like such a shame 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...
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, kinda I want to I'm not sure of what I should do When every thought I'm thinking of is you All of my excuses turn to lies Or maybe God will cover up his eyes And I know it's not the right thing And I know it's not the good thing But kinda I want to, kinda I want to Kinda I want to, kinda I want to Kinda I want to maybe just for tonight We can pretend it's all right What's the price I pay? I don't care what they say I want to (x8)
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, will 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...
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 can you turn me into this? After you just taught me how to kiss you I told you I'd never say goodbye Now I'm slipping on the tears, you've made me cry But that's what I get... Why's it come as a surprise? To think that I was so naive Maybe didn't mean that much But it meant everything to me That's what I get (etc.)
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 (x2) I swear I just found everything I need The sweat in your eyes, the blood in you veins are listening to me Well, I wanna rip 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...
Well, you've got me working so hard 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 This one act of consecration is what I ask of you Ringfinger - Promise carved in stone, deeper than the sea Ringfinger - Sever flesh and bone, offer it to me Well, you just leave me nailed here Hanging like Jesus on this cross I'm just dying for your sins and aiding to the cause Ringfinger... Wrap my eyes in bandages Confessions I see through I get everything I want when I get part of you Ringfinger - Promise carved in stone, it's deeper than the sea Ringfinger - Sever flesh and bone and offer it to me Ringfinger - A promise carved in stone, deeper than the sea Ringfinger - Devil's flesh and bone, do something for me (Ringfinger)
Broken (1994)
(instrumental)
This is the first day of my last days I built it up, now 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... (etc.)
Gave up, trying to figure it out My head got lost along the way Worn out from giving it up But 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 fill me up Come, come, gotta let me inside of you Come, come, come on, you've gotta fix me up Come, come, gotta let me inside of you Still feel it all slipping away But it doesn't matter anymore Everybody still slipping 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... This isn't meant to last, this is for right now (x4) 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 fix me up... This isn't meant to last, this is for right now (etc.) I want you to make me I want you to take me I want you to break me I want you to throw me away (etc.)
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Slave screams, he thinks he know what he wants Slave screams, thinks he has something to say Slave screams, he hears but doesn't wanna 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 you eyes, take it from me I have found you can find happiness in slavery 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 Happiness in slavery - Happiness in slavery Happiness in slavery - (Happiness) 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 through the cage of this endless routine Just some flesh caught in this big broken machine Happiness in slavery (etc.)
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, wake up, wake up, wake up in flames It took you to make me realize (x3) It took you to make me see the light Smashed up my sanity, smashed up 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 with hope and vaseline Still cannot fix this broken machine Watching the hole that 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 (x3) It took you to make me see the light Smashed up my sanity... I tried, I gave up (etc.) Smashed up my sanity... (Throw it away)
I wanna take you, baby I wanna take you out I wanna wine and dine you Oh, I wanna twist and twist and shout I want you hot in my arms So soft on my bed You get the keys to my heart Oh, 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 roughhouse, 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, too physical for me You're too physical to me You're really jus-just, too just, too really fuck, no You're just too physical - You're just too physical Too fucking physical - No, no, no, no, no, no, no Oh, you're too physical, just too physical
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 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 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 the inside) (x4) 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 wanna do terrible things to you)
The Downward Spiral (1994)
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... You let me do this to you (I am an exit) I am the needle in your vein I am the high you can't sustain I am the pusher, I'm a whore I am the need in you for more 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 a 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... (x2)
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 all alone My little piggy needed something new Nothing can stop me now 'cause I don't care anymore Nothing can stop me now 'cause I don't care Nothing can stop me now 'cause I don't care anymore Nothing can stop me now 'cause 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... Nothing can stop me now, nothing can stop me now Nothing can stop me now, nothing can stop me (etc.)
He sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see He tries to tell me what I put inside of me He got the answers to ease my curiosity He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity God is dead and no one cares If there is a hell I'll 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 God is dead and no one cares If there is a hell I'll see you there Your god is dead and no one cares If there is a hell I'll see you there (etc.)
Step right up, march, push Crawl right up on your knees Please, greed, feed (no time to hesitate) I want a little bit, I want a piece of it I think he's losing it, I wanna watch it go down Don't like the look of it, don't like the taste of it Don't like the smell of it, I wanna watch it go 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 wanna break it up, I wanna smash it up I wanna fuck it up, I wanna watch it go down Maybe afraid of it, let's discredit it Let's pick away at it, I wanna watch it go down All the pigs are all lined up... The pigs have won tonight Now they can all sleep soundly And everything is all right
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, you 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... All 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
You had all of them on your side, didn't you? Didn't you? You believed in all your lies, didn't you? 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 ruined ruins everything he sees Now the only pure thing left in my fucking world is wearing your disease How'd you get so big? How'd you get so strong? How'd it get so hard? How'd it get so long? You had to give them all a sign, didn't you? Didn't you? You had to what was mine, didn't you? Didn't you? The ruiner's a collector, he's an injector 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'd you get so big?... And 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 (etc.)
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 that you know he had some second thoughts He's covered with scabs, he is broken and sore The me that you know he doesn't come around much That part of me isn't here anymore All pain disappears, it's the nature of, of my circuitry Drowns out all I hear, 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 is left to decay The me that you know is now made up or 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 of my bad parts I don't wanna listen, but it's all too 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 And goddamn this noise inside my head (etc.)
I'm losing ground But you know how this world can beat you down And I'm made of clay I fear I'm the only one who thinks this way I'm always falling down this same hill, bamboo puncturing this skin And nothing comes bleeding out of me, just like a waterfall I'm drowning in Two 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 (x2) And 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 And don't tell me that you care There really isn't anything now, 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've 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 wanna know everything I wanna be everywhere I wanna fuck everyone in the world I wanna do something that matters (etc.)
I am a big man, yes I am, and I've got a big gun Got me a big old dick and I like to have fun Held against your forehead, well, 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, 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 gonna come all over you (x4) Me and my fucking gun (x4) My fucking gun! Me and my fucking gun (x4)
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Need you, dream you, find you, taste you Fuck you, use you, scar you, break you Lose me, hate me, smash me, erase me Kill me, kill me, kill me, kill me (etc.)
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 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 that the depths I reach are limitless Oh, my beautiful liar... (x3)
He couldn't believe how easy it was He put the gun into his face Bang! So much blood for such a tiny little hole Problems do have solutions, you know A lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash Everything's blue, everything's blue in this world The deepest shade of mushroom blue All fuzzy, spilling out of my head
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 this crown of shit upon my liar's chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time the feelings disappear You are someone else, I am still right here What have I become?... If I could start again a million miles away I would keep myself, I would find a way
The Fragile (1999)
Left
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 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?
I'd listen to the words he'd say But in his voice I heard decay The plastic face forces 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-na-na-nah Na-na-na-nah (etc.)
(instrumental)
Just a reflection, just a glimpse, just a little reminder Of all the way 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 wretched The hopes and preys, the better days The far aways, the wretched, the wretched 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 (x2) The clouds will part and the sky cracks open And God himself will reach 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... (You can try to stop it but it keeps on coming) (You can try to stop it but)
I've become impossible, holding on to when When everything seemed to matter more The two of us, all used, 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've 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 Forever and ever I am a part of You and me... All that we were is gone, we have to hold on All that 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
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 saying I can't watch her slip away I won't let you fall apart (x2) She reads the minds of all the people that 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 to go, 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 And picking, and picking It's something I have to do I won't let you fall apart - I was there too I won't let you fall apart - Before everything else I won't let you fall apart - I was like you I won't let you fall apart
(intrumental)
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 you 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 In a dream I'm a different me With a perfect you we fit perfectly 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 has gone?... 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
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Smiling in their faces while filing 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 'til 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 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 (etc.)
(instrumental)
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 And 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 (etc.)
All I've undergone - I will keep on (etc.) Underneath it all we feel so small The heavens fall but still we crawl I will keep on - All I've undergone (etc.)
Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away (etc.) 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 (etc.)
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 Hasn't yet become, so numb And succumb and goddamn 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...
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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 - Just like now Breathe, echoing the sound Time starts slowing down Sink until I drown I don't ever wanna make it stop And it keeps repeating Will you please complete me? Never be enough to fill me up (x4) 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 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 wanna make it stop You can never leave me Will you please complete me? Never be enough to fill me up (etc.)
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 incorporated - 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 (Ass kisser) Starfuckers... (x2) All the pain, how did you think we'd get by without you? You're so vain, I'll bet you think this song is about you, don't you? Don't you? - Don't you? (etc.) Starfuckers... (etc.) Now I belong, I'm one of the chosen ones (x3) Now I belong, I'm one of the beautiful ones
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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 naiveté, buried in a layer of frost The smell of sunshine - I remember sometimes Thought he had it all before they call 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
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, ooh - Got to get back to the bottom Bye-bye, ooh - The big come down, isn't that what you wanted? Bye-bye, ooh - Find a place with the failed and forgotten Bye-bye, ooh - Isn't that really what you wanted now? There is no 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 from the inside
All I do, I can still feel you (x4) 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 (x4) You remain, I am stained
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With Teeth (2005)
Watching all the insects march along Seem to know just right where they belong Smears of face reflecting in the chrome Hiding in the crowd I'm all alone No one's heard a single word I've said They dont sound as good out side my head It looks as though the past is here to stay I've become a million miles away Why do you get all the love in the world? Why do you get all the love in the world? All the jagged edges dissapear Colors all look brighter when you're near The stars are all a fire in the sky Sometimes I get so lonely I could... Why do you get all the love in the world? (etc.)
I tried to slip myself through, tried to get to the other side I had to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide For a little bit of time even made it work okay Just long enough to really make it hurt When they figured me out and it all just rotted away Don't you fucking know what you are? (x3) (Go on, get back to where you belong) You better take a good look 'cause I'm full of shit With every bit of my heart I have tried to believe in it You can dish it all out, you can try to pretend But you can't change anything, but you can't change anything, in the end Don't you fucking know..? Remember where you came from Remember what you are (etc.) Don't you fucking know..?
I pick things up, I am a collector And things, well things, they tend to accumulate I have this net and it drags behind me It picks up feelings for me to feed upon There are times, plenty of times, I wish I could let it go It's time to breed and it's time to grow inside me There are times, plenty of times I wish I could let it go But this time to make me think, things I don't want to know I'm trying to fit it all inside I'm trying to open my mouth wide I'm trying not to choke and swallow it all Swallow it all, swallow it all, swallow it all I am the plague, I am the swarm All your hard steps on me, and I'm keeping at war And they'll make me stay they won't let me leave There are so goddamn many of them it gets hard to breathe I'm trying to fit it all inside I'm trying to open my mouth wide I'm trying to make them choke inside I am a big boy and I will swallow it all Swallow it all, swallow it all, swallow it all Every last one, every last one (etc.)
You're keeping in step, and in line Got your chin held high and and you feel just fine 'Cause you do what you're told But inside your heart it is black, it is hollow, it is cold Just how deep do you believe? Will you bite the hand that feeds? Will you chew until it bleeds? Can you get up off your knees? Are you brave enough to see? Do you wanna change it? What if this whole crusade's, a charade, And behind it all there's a price to be paid for the blood which we dine Justified in the name of the Holy and the Divine Just how deep do you believe..? So naïve, I keep holding on to what I wanna believe, I can see, But I keep holding on and on and on and on Will you bite the hand that feeds you? Will you stay down on your knees? (etc.)
The more that we take The paler we get I can’t remember what is We try to forget The tile on the floor So cold it could sting In your eyes is a place Worth remembering For you to go and take this And smash it apart I’ve gone all this fucking way To wind up back at…back at the start Hey! The closer we think we are Well, it only got us so far Now you’ve got anything left to show? No, no I didn’t think so. Hey! The sooner we realize We cover ourselves with lies But underneath we’re not so tough And love is not enough Well, it hides in the dark Like the withering vein We didn’t give it a mouth So it cannot complain We never really had a chance We never really make it through I never think I’d believe I believed I could get better with you Hey! The closer we think we are Well, it never got us so far Now you’ve got anything left to show? No, no I didn’t think so. Hey! The sooner we realize We cover ourselves with lies But underneath we’re not so tough And love is not enough Love is not enough Love is not enough Hey!
I believe I can see the future Because I repeat the same routine I think I used to have a purpose Then again, that might have been a dream I think I used to have a voice Now I never make a sound I just do what I’ve been told I really don’t want them to come around Oh, no. Every day is exactly the same Every day is exactly the same There is no love here and there is no pain Every day is exactly the same I can feel their eyes are watching In case I lose myself again Sometimes I think I’m happy here Sometimes, yeah, I still pretend I can’t remember how this got started But I can tell you exactly how it will end. Every day is exactly the same... I’m writing on a little piece of paper I’m hoping someday you might find Well, I’ll hide it behind something They won’t look behind I am still inside here A little bit comes bleeding through I wish this could have been any other way But I just don’t know, I don’t know What else I can do? Every day is exactly the same...
She comes along She gets inside She makes you better than, anything you've tried It's in her kiss Black as sea And it runs deeper than you, dared to dream it could be With teeth With teeth With teeth With teeth Wave good bye To what you were The rules have changed, the lines begin to blur She makes you hard It comes on strong You finally found, the place where you belong With teeth With teeth With teeth With teeth I cannot go through this again I cannot go through this again I cannot go through this again I cannot go through this again I cannot go through this again I cannot go through this again I cannot go through this again I cannot go through this again With teeth With teeth With teeth With teeth She will not let you go Keeps on and on She will not let you go Keeps on and on This time I'm not coming back She will not let you go This time I'm not coming back She will not let you go
I'm becoming less defined, as days go by Fading away, well you might say I'm losing focus Kinda drifting into the abstract in terms of how I see myself Sometimes, I think I can see right through myself Sometimes, I think I can see right through myself Sometimes, I can see right through myself Less concerned, about fitting into the world Your world that is, cause it doesn't really matter anymore (no, it doesn't really matter anymore) No, it doesn't really matter anymore None of this sh... really matters anymore Yes I am alone but then again I always was As far back as I can tell, I think maybe it's because because you were never really real to begin with I just made you up, to hurt myself I just made you up to hurt myself Yeah, and I just made you up to hurt myself I just made you up to hurt myself Yeah, and I just made you up to hurt myself And it worked Yes it did! There is no you, there is only me There is no you, there is only me There is no fucking you, there is only me There is no fucking you, there is only me Only Only Only 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 I just couldn't leave it alone Picking at that scab It was a doorway trying to seal itself shut But I climbed through Now I'm somewhere I am not supposed to be And I can see things I know I really shouldn't see And now I know why now, now I know why Things aren't as pretty, on the inside There is no you, there is only me There is no you, there is only me There is no fucking you, there is only me There is no fucking you, there is only me Only...
Getting a little erratic here And I don't know who to trust I guess they got a way of reading my mind I guess I gotta adjust Got my arms they flip flop flip flop flip Got my head on a spring Well I thought I got you on my side I haven't got fucking anything I'm just a face in the crowd Nothing to worry about Not even tryin' to stand out I'm getting smaller and smaller and smaller And I have nothing to say It's all been taken away I just behave and obey I'm afraid I am starting to fade away Uh-huh I cannot see through the cracks When I'm pressed up on the wall I'm not looking to stand up real high I'd be happy to crawl I think I'm losing my grip But I can still make a fist You know I still got my one good arm That I can beat... Oh, I can beat myself with up with I'm just a face in the crowd Nothing to worry about Not even tryin' to stand out I'm getting smaller And smaller and smaller And I have nothing to say Its all been taken away I just behave and obey I'm afraid I am starting to fade away And for what it is worth I really used to believe That maybe there's some great thing That we could achieve And now I cant tell the difference Don't know what to feel Between what I've been trying to hard to see And what appears to be real Fading away Fading away Fading away Fading away My world is getting smaller everyday My world is getting smaller everyday (and thats ok)
Sunspots cast a glare in my eyes sometimes I forget I'm alive I feel it coming and I've gotta get out of it's way I hear it calling and I come 'cause can't disobey I should not listen and I shouldn't believe but I do Yes, I do she turns me on she makes it real i have to apologize for the way I feel my life it seems has taken a turn why in the name of god would I ever want to return peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground fuck in the fire and we'll spread all the ashes around i wanna kill away the rest of what's left and I do yes I do she turns me on she makes it real i have to apologize for the way I feel and nothing can stop me now there is nothing to fear and everything that ever was is inside of here woah woah woah woah inside us here now I just stare into the sun and I see everything i've done i think I could have been someone but I can't stop what has begun when everything is said and done and there is no place left to run i think I used to be someone now I just stare into the sun
There are things I said I would never do There are fears I can not believe have come true For my soul is too sick and too little and too late and myself I have grown to weary to hate The more I stay in here The more it's not so clear The more I stay in here The more I disappear As far as I have gone I knew what side I'm on But now I'm not so sure The line begins to blur There's somebody on top of me I don't know I don't know Is anyone stopping me? I don't know I don't know I won't try and hold my breath I don't know I don't know Just how far can I go I don't know I don't know As I lay here the fabric starts to tear It's far beyond repair And I don't really care As far as I have gone I knew what side I'm on But now I'm not so sure The line begins to blur
I am all alone this time around Sometimes on the side I hear a sound Places parallel I know it's you Feel the little pieces bleeding through And all this goes on And on, and on, and on, and on This goes on And on, and on, and on, and on Now that I've decided not to stay I can feel me start to fade away Everything is back where it belongs I will be beside you before long We will never die Beside you in time We will never die Beside you in time
See the animal in his cage that you built, Are you sure what side you're on? Better not look him too closely in the eye, Are you sure what side of the glass you are on? See the safety of the life you have built, Everything where it belongs Feel the hollowness inside of your heart, And it's all...right where it belongs What if everything around you, Isn't quite as it seems? What if all the world you think you know, Is an elaborate dream? And if you look at your reflection, Is it all you want it to be? What if you could look right through the cracks, Would you find yourself...find yourself afraid to see? What if all the world's inside of your head? Just creations of your own Your devils and your gods all the living and the dead And you're really all alone You can live in this illusion You can choose to believe You keep looking but you can't find the woods, While you're hiding in the trees What if everything around you, Isn't quite as it seems? What if all the world you used to know, Is an elaborate dream? And if you look at your reflection, Is it all you want it to be? What if you could look right through the cracks, Would you find yourself...find yourself afraid to see?