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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Only (page 2/ 4) ------ performed by Nine Inch Nails Not what it was supposed to be. | Reviewer: Hunter | 7/29/08 I think its about loving someone who didnt love back, all the stuff about not being real to begin with and making the person up to hurt himself. Hes realized now he got screwed over and hes kinda pissed haha and the whole there is no you there is only me line just states that hey even though it was supposed to be you and me it ended up being only me who cared. Great song and great band I grew up listening to them. Welllllllll... | Reviewer: roxta | 7/26/08 i've been a big NIN fan for a couple of years now, and although i haven't yet had the opportunity to listen to every album and become familiar with every song (i have PHM, TDS, and YZ as well as other live stuff on CD), i went and got my first 'band tattoo' today. i'd been planning on getting a very long lyric from YZ but it would've taken up my whole back! so i was listening to a burned copy of an '05 concert and heard Only. i didn't know the name of the song, how old it was, what CD it was from, or anything (until five minutes ago) but it kicked me so hard in the balls (well, ovaries) that i went out today and got 'i'm becoming less defined as days go by...' tattooed on my arm. crazy, ehh? i love it. i don't completely know my own interp of the song yet, but some of it hits really close to home with me personally, like 'less concerned about fitting into the world- YOUR fucking world, that is', and 'i just made you up to hurt myself- and it worked'. i have to take a pic of my tat and send it to TR or something. who knows, maybe he'll drop by cleveland and hang out on the street sometime. or not. my interpretation... | Reviewer: yanga | 2/29/08 guess you can say i'm catching on late... but i love this song. i took it as a fiend reflecting on the addiction that has developed and recognizing the underlying fact that if they alter their mindset, they can gain their grip on life. Enjoy the Life, Enjoy the Death | Reviewer: Nathanael | 1/23/08 Your own life is the ture life that you were wishing for... Live the Life until it ends, and enjoy the way you are leaving it... even if there is no god, no heaven, no hell, it will be a great step for you to die as the way you like and live as you pleased... no matters what the other ones will think about you, just live as you want, and die as you like. (this doesn't had anything about the song, yeah???) Simply stunning... | Reviewer: nailgun | 9/14/07 Being a slave to corporate America and how we sell our soul for so little... having once stood for something, and now nothing at all... I can totally relate to this song. It's about personal identity. Federico, Vigo , Spain | Reviewer: Federico | 8/29/07 Es muy profunda y trata de la necesidad de alienarse de los demás para comprender mejor el interior de uno mismo. No love | Reviewer: Roel | 8/19/07 Well, I just kinda "broke up" with someone and I think this song is about having love for someone who doesn't really love (or loved) you back... So the "you" refers to "the love he thought they had for him, but didn't exist". Just my thoughts... awsome | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/14/07 I was thinking about this song for awhile and suddenly wondered about the meaning. I can see the layer of the song that is referring to freeing your mind from control of others by realizing where and how you see the world (from in your head). At the same time, he starts earlier in the song by progressing through 'being less concerned' to 'it doesn't really matter anymore' to 'nothing really matters anymore', which seems to indicate a progressive growth of apathy. The music even wigs out at this point and gets really intense, listen for the synth. Perhaps he is referring to the mentality of very arrogant and haughty people who see the universe as centered around them, while the picking at the scab of the idea of why and suddenly seeing things may refer to understanding and seeing the nature of such a mindset firsthand. Hence, 'things arn't as pretty on the inside' could be a realization of the beast we carry that often is invisible. The beast being a disconnect from others. This is pretty out there and I was kinda intoxicated when I thought of this so perhaps this is not what hes going for. Just a thought. Awsome song review... | Reviewer: matty | 8/4/07 this song is so amazing and i can totally connect with it, i also believe that this song can raise alot of questions that people should think about. belief in existence leads to suffering | Reviewer: andy | 7/19/07 These are great lyrics by Trent. Don't think this track is about God, though it could be considered spiritual. Basically very eastern, wei wu, buddhist, advaita. This is essentially saying that you don't exist, only in a relative sense. Nothing outside of your conciousness exists. You create this world. This life and all you see is just an elaborate dream of your own doing. In fact you don't even need to believe in existence in order to live. Try it and see how much anxiety you loose, when you no longer care whether you exist or not. People make others up just to hurt themselves. Say this World is real and nobody laughs. Say it is a dream and everyone desperately tries to hold onto some glimmer of an objective reality which by its very essence assumes an observer and an observed. The chorus of David Bowie's track from Hunky Dory 'Quicksand' essentially says the same thing: 'Don't believe in yourself, Don't deceive with belief, Knowledge comes with death's release'. Read some Baudrillard or Allan Watts to further your understanding of the greatest illusion of all - the concept of Self! 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