Nine Inch Nails Lyrics - The Fragile (Right)

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

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

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)

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

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