Nine Inch Nails Album

Watching all the insects march along
Seem to know just right where they belong
Smears a face reflecting in the chrome
Hiding in the crowd, I'm all alone
No one's heard a single word I've said
They don't sound as good outside my head
It looks as though the past is here to stay
I've become a million miles aw-
Why do you get all the love in the world?
Why do you get all the love in the world?

All the jagged edges disappear
Colors all are brighter when you're near
The stars are all afire in the sky
Sometimes I get so lonely, I could
Why do you get all the love in the world?
Why do you get all the love in the world?
Why do you get all the love in the world?
Why do you get all the love in the world?

Why do you get all the love in the world?
Why do you get all the love in the world?
Why do you get all the love in the world?
Why do you get all the love in the world?
[repeat]

I tried to stick myself through try to get to the other side
I had to patch up the cracks and the holes that i had to hide
For a little bit of time even made it work (ok)
Just long enough to really make it hurt
When you figured me out and it all just rotted away

[Chorus]
Don't you fucking know what you are? [x3]
Com'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've tried to believe
You can dress it up, you can try to pretend
But you can't change anything in the end

[Chorus]

Remember where you came from, remember what you are

[Chorus]

I pick things up, I am a collector
And things, well things, they tend to accumulate
I have this net, 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
But it's time to breed
And it's got to grow inside me

There are times, plenty of times
I wish I could let it go
But it's time to make me think things
I don't wanna 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 heart sticks on me
And I keep it warm

It'll make me stay
It 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 not to choke inside
I am a good boy, and I will
Swallow it all
Swallow it all
Swallow it all
Swallow it all

Every last one [19x]

you're keeping in step
in the line
got your chin held high and you feel just fine
because you do
what you're told
but inside your heart it is black and it's hollow and it's 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 want to change it?

what if this whole crusade's
a charade
and behind it all there's a price to be paid
for the blood
on which we dine
justified in the name of the holy and the divine

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 want to change it?

so naïve
to keep holding on to what I want to 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?

The more that we take, the paler we get
I can't remember what it is we try to forget
The tile on the floor, so cold it can sting
In your eyes in 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 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
Oh, 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'd 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 got anything left to show?
No, no, no, no, I didn't think so
Hey, the sooner we realize
We cover ourselves with lies
But underneath we're not so tough
Oh, love is not enough

Oh, love is not enough
Hey

I believe I can see the future
Cause I repeat the same routine
I think I used to have a purpose
But 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)
Sometimes, yet I still pretend

I can’t remember how this got started
Oh, but I can tell you exactly how it will end

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’ll write it 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 her
A little bit comes bleeding through
I wish this could’ve 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
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same

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
(Every day is 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 shit 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
I cut off 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, and 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
Only
Only
Only
Only
Only
Only
Only

Getting alittle erratic here
And i dont know who to trust
I guess they got a way of reading my mind
I guess i gotta adjust
I got my arms they flip flop flip flop flip
I got my head on a spring
Well i thought i got u on my side
I havent got fucking anything

Im just a face in the crowd
Nothing to worry about
Not even tryin' to stand out
Im getting smaller
and smaller and smaller
And i have nothing to say
Its all been taken away
I just behave and obey
Im afraid that I'm starting to fade away

I cannot see through the cracks
When im pressed up on the wall
Im 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 that i can beat myself with up with

Im just a face in the crowd
Nothing to worry about
Not even tryin' to stand out
Im getting smaller
And smaller and smaller
And i have nothing to say
Its all been taken away
I just behave and obey
Im afraid i am starting to fade away

And for what it is worth
I really used to believe
Maybe theirs some great thing
That we could achieve
And now i cant tell the difference
Dont know what to feel
Between what ive 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-yea-yea-yea
My world is getting smaller everyday-yea-yea-yea
(and thats ok)

My world is getting smaller everyday-yea-yea-yea
My world is getting smaller everyday-yea-yea-yea
(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 I 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 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 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 us here

Whoa, whoa, whoa
Inside us here

Now I just stare into the sun
And I see everything I've done
I think I could've been someone
But I can't stop what has begun
When everything's been said and done
And there is no place left to run
I think I have 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 it's 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

Is there 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
Why 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 I'll decide I hear a sound
Places parallel I know it's you
Feel the little pieces bleeding through
And on
This goes on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
This goes on
And on
And on
And 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
And on
This goes on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
This goes on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
And on
Oh, we will never die
Oh, beside you in time
Oh, we will never die
Oh, 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 alright 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 words
Are you 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?

Everything is catching up with me
I awake to find I'm not at all where I should be
And it feels I'm getting to the end
And it's hard to figure out what's real and what's pretend

To break from what we're tied to
God knows how much I've tried to

And I am still inside you
And I am still inside you

I escape every now and then
And to think I find myself back here again and again

Now, I used to know who I was until you came along
I return to the only place I've ever felt that I belong

To break from what we're tied to
God knows how much I've tried to

And I am still inside you
And I am still inside you