the downward spiral
mr. self destruct piggy
heresy march of the pigs
closer ruiner
the becoming i do not want this
big man with a gun a warm place
eraser reptile
the downward spiral hurt
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 you let me do this to you i am an exit you let me do this to you i am an exit you let me do this to you i am an exit you let me do this to you i am an exit 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 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
written, arranged, and performed by trent reznor produced by flood and trent reznor mixing engineer: alan moulder texture generating guitars: adrian belew
released on nothing/tvt/interscope records' release "nine inch nails: the downward spiral"
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 nothing can stop me now nothing can stop me now nothing can stop me now nothing can stop me nothing can stop me now nothing can stop me now nothing can stop me now nothing can stop me nothing can stop me now nothing can stop me now nothing can stop me now nothing can stop me now nothing can stop me now nothing can stop me now nothing can stop me now nothing can stop
written, arranged, and performed by trent reznor produced by flood and trent reznor mixing engineer: alan moulder
releases: nothing/tvt/interscope records' release "nine inch nails: the downward spiral" nothing/tvt/interscope record's promo cd "nine inch nails: piggy" prcd-5923
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 god is dead and no one cares if there is a hell i'll see you there your god is dead god is dead and no one cares and no one cares drowning in his own hypocrisy if there is a hell see you i'll see you there you there
written, arranged, performed, and produced by trent reznor mixing engineer: alan moulder
released on nothing/tvt/interscope records' release "nine inch nails: the downward spiral"
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
written, arranged, performed, and produced by trent reznor mixing engineer: alan moulder
you let me violate you you let me desacrate you you let me penatrate 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 fo 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
written, arranged, and performed by trent reznor produced by flood and trent reznor mixing engineer: alan moulder special hi-hat programming: flood
releases: nothing/tvt/interscope records' release "nine inch nails: the downward spiral" tvt/interscope records' release "nine inch nails: closer to god" and "nine inch nails: closer" in the u.k. tvt/interscope records' promo cd "nine inch nails: closer" prcd-5636-2
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 what was mine didn't you? didn't you? didn't you? oh the ruiners 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 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 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
written, arranged, and performed by trent reznor produced by flood and trent reznor mixing engineer: alan moulder
released on nothing/tvt/interscope records' release "nine inch nails: the downward spiral"
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 conciousness 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 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 it won't give up, it wants me dead and goddamn this noise inside my head it won't give up, it wants me dead and goddamn this noise inside my head it won't give up, it wants me dead and goddamn this noise inside my head it won't give up, it wants me dead and goddamn this noise inside my head it won't give up, it wants me dead and goddamn this noise inside my head it won't give up, it wants me dead and goddamn this noise inside my head it won't give up, it wants me dead and goddamn this noise inside my head
written, arranged, and engineered by trent reznor produced by flood and trent reznor mixing engineer: alan moulder ring mod guitar: adrian belew arp 2600: flood
released on nothing/tvt/interscope records' release "nine inch nails: the downward spiral"
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 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 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 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 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
written, arranged, performed, and produced by trent reznor mixing engineer: alan moulder drum performance: stephen perkins drum treatments: flood and trent reznor
released on nothing/tvt/interscope records' release "nine inch nails: the downward spiral"
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 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 me and my fucking gun me and my fucking gun my fucking gun me and my fucking gun my fucking gun me and my fucking gun my fucking gun me and my fucking gun my fucking gun me and my fucking gun
written, arranged, performed, and produced by trent reznor mixing engineers: bill kennedy, sean beavan additional guitars: danny lohner steakhouse: tommy lee
written, arranged, and performed by trent reznor produced by flood and trent reznor mixing engineer: alan moulder
releases: nothing/tvt/interscope records' release "nine inch nails: the downward spiral" nothing/interscope records' release "natural born killers: a soundtrack to an oliver stone film"
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 kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me
written, arranged, and performed by trent reznor produced by flood and trent reznor mixing engineer: alan moulder
released on nothing/tvt/interscope records' release "nine inch nails: the downward spiral"
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 lonliness 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 oh oh oh, my beautiful liar oh, my precious whore my disease, my infection i am so impure oh my beautiful liar oh my precious whore my disease, my infection i am so impure
written, arranged, and performed by trent reznor produced by flood and trent reznor mixing engineer: alan moulder
released on nothing/tvt/interscope records' release "nine inch nails: 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
written, arranged, performed, and produced by trent reznor mixing engineer: alan moulder drums: andy kubiszewski
released on nothing/tvt/interscope records' release "nine inch nails: the downward spiral"
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
written, arranged, performed, produced, and mixed by trent reznor drums: chris vrenna
releases: nothing/tvt/interscope records' release "nine inch nails: the downward spiral" tvt/interscope records' promo cd "nine inch nails: piggy" prcd-5923 tvt/interscope records' promo cd "nine inch nails: hurt" prcd-6179