Nine Inch Nails Lyrics - The Fragile (Left)

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This machine is obsolete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

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

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

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

Lyrics by Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails, copyright 1999 ASCAP.

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