Closer Lyrics

Performed by Nine Inch Nails

You let me violate you
You let me desecrate you
You let me penetrate 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 wanna fuck you like an animal
I wanna feel you from the inside
I wanna 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 wanna fuck you like an animal
I wanna feel you from the inside
I wanna fuck you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to God

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...

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Assumptions | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/2/12

Why are people assuming that this song was written about a woman? Before Trent got married his personal life was pretty murky and it's not unreasonable to think that he's bisexual.

The scenes with the microphone in the video look pretty gay to me. Besides that, "violate" and "desecrate" could apply to a guy that allows himself to get fucked depending on how you feel about gay sex.

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psycho babbler | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/22/11

lol arguments on lyric sites, quite being a faggot ass dick rider for the dude and just let people think what they want.
your "interpretation" just exposed you for the limp-dick codependent you are MAN.

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Jeez... | Reviewer: DAWn of the dead | 9/16/11

Instead of being so condescending, how about letting people interpret the song as they want? You're absolutely right, the song has a deeper meaning than just sex... but your over-qualification in addition to the comments you made sounds like a dick measuring competition.

Plus, the song is downright sexy.

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Lets get our facts straight.. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/21/11

Look. For all of you who really think that this song is REALLY just about sex, its because you're an idiot, and you don't understand or appreciate music on the level that Trent Reznor does. And for those of you who don't know who that is, well then, my point exactly. Trent is NOT like that. He isn't that kind of artist. He's a true artist, and what he writes always has a deeper meaning. The Downward Spiral, which is the album this song is from, is full of that. Trust me, I'm a HUGE Nine Inch Nails fan and an even bigger Trent Reznor fan. I wouldn't like his music as much as I do if all he did was write about fucking all of the time. Most people say its about sex, and that they like fucking to it, which is ironic as hell because this is the WORST song to fuck to in terms of meaning. The real meaning of the song(or at least MUCH closer to it than just 'he likes to fuck') is that he is broken. He is full of self-hate, insecurity, misdirection and anguish. He sees this girl as a crutch for him. When he is with her, he feels in a way, perfect. Now then, sex is indeed a subject in this. So I guess you're not COMPLETELY stupid. But that's obvious. Sex is primal. It goes down deep into our very basic instincts as animals, just like every other species. Also, you can take out your emotions with sex, this is actually done a lot and it replaces pain with pleasure. Basically, he has a lot of anguish and he is looking to someone to help ease that burden, and this is made even easier through the act of sex. That's my interpretation of it, and its a lot more intelligent than half of the posts on here. Maybe if you listen to his other songs, you'd know what I mean.

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Psychobabbling on | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/24/11

How many times have bands or song writers been asked about the meaning of their songs and they don't remember or didn't really have a meaning. How many times do people tell others what they should think about art. Cool thing about art is that it's personal and you can take away whatever it means to you. Who cares what the person who wrote it was thinking or meant or felt or what someone else things about it. Does the song and the music make you think and feel... if it does then it served it's purpose.

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Really now? | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/10/11

Yes this song prolly has deeper and more complicated meanings then just fucking or whatever. But people read WAAAAAY to much into things just to compare their lives to others. Listen to the song, every beat ever measure, how slowly but greatly the music increases as if u were fucking someone until the end (climax) pussy lil emo kids need to wipe the tears from their eyes acting like they know what life is all about and just get yo fucking dick wet....its whatever just thought id put my opinion out. Downward spiral and the fragile best fucking albums ever made

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Depression and frustration while in midlife crisis | Reviewer: Rock_n_Rolla | 5/26/11

Dont get too deep in this song guys, he's just expressing what he feels on those dark times of his life and what hes does just to get through a day and as a result, a song with a cool beat that you can relate to specially when you've been through
the same situation...

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cry for help | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/26/11

life is complicated, lust, addiction, masochism, filth, beauty, horror and the rest, its all stuff that's around us and we try to make sense of it somehow. i find the song/lyrics valid and powerful but i find the video denegrates me. the fact that so many people "like" it is a mirror of how sick we are. graphically implied pedophillia, torture, rape, violence, deep mysogeny, filth, insanity, its all in there. a desperate interpretation of what it is to be human. i wish the people who've spent hours/weeks/days and months articulating this particular take on life would get over their unbelievable vanity and put their skills to something uplifting. as if we don't have enough to deal with already, they rub salt in the wounds, using all their considerable talents merely to reinforce the so predictable, well trodden paradigm of hatred of self and all life. if you were holding the gun to your head, you'd pull the trigger for sure watching this. i'd love to see someone make a video for this song that transcends its desperation and answers the cry for help.

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Ms. Perfect | Reviewer: Blanca | 4/20/11

Ok, I'm just reading review about "close" because I never heard the song before until my boyfriend played it for me and told me he thinks of me when he listens to this song. To be honest, I didn't know whether to be offended or not. I mean come on I listen to 50 cent. To extremes of music so, I guess now after reading theses comments I should be pist!

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... | Reviewer: TheAshtrayGirl | 3/31/11

Please.
There is no such fucking thing as hell.
I do what I want & I sleep with who I want but that does not make me a bad person,
It just makes me human.
I'm not hurting others, I'm not killing people or condemning them for listening to a fucking INCREDIBLE song,
So if Hell did exist, maybe you'd be the one to end up there for wrongfully judging others.
Fuck you, Jesus Freak <3

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Stuff | Reviewer: DigBick | 2/20/11

To me, it's about venting all his frustrations and the things he despises in himself through sex. 'The only thing that works for me, Help me get away from myself. He's sicks of being in his head and the only thing that works for him is fucking some chick that lets him sexually abuse her.

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Sara M. Rodriguez | Reviewer: Sara M. Rodriguez | 2/11/11

I love this song. Obviously it is about sex, how people would not know is clueless. And to the people who believe God wouldn't like this song, what do you know? Is God your best friend? I didn't think so. God is more empathetic then any human could ever be.So don't assume the song is so negative. You don't know everything. The bible was made off of heresay if at all. And which bible? Lol. The song shows men show and have the same emotions as women. Many things inspire me to be a better person, this song being one of them...

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an amazing song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/2/11

i love this song ! but after reading some of the comments here i just feel that if you are trying to find some deeper meaning in it you're just trying too hard.... the song is obviously about sex. and omg i'm a girl and i can totally relate to what he's singing about haha. you don't need to be a sick person for sex to make you whole for a while. i mean aren't we all more or less broken inside? not all the time maybe, but sometimes we all feel like s**t, lonely and angry. we need someone/anyone to be close to us. and having sex is the closest you can get to another person. i love how the lyrics are so angry, desperate and then somewhat gentle at the same time. i've lost my virginity while this song was playing, and it makes my heart race every time i hear it <3

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You just don't get it. | Reviewer: Kain | 10/20/10

Its about depression. Some people drink, some cut, we all have outlets for our pain. I cut and slept with many women. For the fleeting time of intercourse or bleeding the pain subsided to numbness, almost like it flowed out of me into the other person, or on the floor depending on which addiction I'm feeding.
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,

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Song meaning, | Reviewer: Joey | 7/9/10

i highly believe this song is about sex, and how its an addiction and makes you feel better about your self, the person who wrote the paragraph "People are missing the point" is right on every level, and i really do think some people take trents lyrics way to seriously, though they have a message. people take this shit like its gonna kill us and send us to hell for singing and listening to, so fuck you if you think im gonna go to hell hahahahahaaaaa

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