Nine Inch Nails Lyrics - The Downward Spiral
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
You let me do this to you (I am an exit)
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
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 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 '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
Nothing can stop me now
Nothing can stop me now
Nothing can stop me now
Nothing can stop me
Heresy
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
Drowning in his own hypocrisy
March of the Pigs
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 want to 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 want to 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
But 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 go down
Maybe afraid of it
Let’s discredit it
Let’s pick away at it
I want to 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
But doesn't it make you feel better?
The pigs have won tonight
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 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 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
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
Ruiner
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 ruiner 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 covet what was mine didn't you? Didn't you? Didn't you?
Oh 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’d you get so big?
How’d you get so strong?
How’d you get so hard?
How’d it get so long?
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
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 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 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 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 of my bad parts
I don't want to 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
I Do Not Want This
I’m losing ground
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
I do not want this
I do not want this
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 do not want this
I do not want this
I do not want this
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 want to know everything
I want to be everywhere
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’ve got a big gun
Got me a big old dick and I
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
Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
I’m gonna come all over you
Me and my fucking gun
Me and my fucking gun
My fucking gun
Me and my fucking gun
A Warm Place
The best thing about life
Is knowing that you put it together
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
Kill 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
Oh, give it
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
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
(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
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 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?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
And you could have it all
My empire of 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
All lyrics by Trent Reznor.
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