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FORMED: 1989, Cleveland, OH Ten years after Pretty Hate Machine gave a comatose rock scene some much-needed electro-shock therapy, nine inch nails' imprint on the genre remains unmatchable. By popularizing electronic music, nine inch nails auteur Trent Reznor rewired the mainstream, inspiring Time magazine to name him "One of the Most Influential People in America," and Spin to praise him as "The Most Vital Artist in Music Today." The Grammy Award-winning artist is once again forcing the genre's growth - and his own - by pushing both into new territory. His latest, The Fragile (dubbed "The Decade's Most Anticipated Album" by Alternative Press), is a 23-track, double-disc set that clocks in at over 100 minutes of music. Reznor dedicated two solid years to make More... (Submit New Nine Inch Nails Lyrics) (Submit New Nine Inch Nails Lyrics) suicide | Reviewer: just a person ------ About the song Every Day Is Exactly The Same performed by Nine Inch Nails I don't know what this song is actually about but I have a friend that was depressed and suicidal for about 6 months and this says nearly exactly what she described going to school as when she was depressed. Going through the routine and trying to act like everyone else and do what you are told because everyone is watching and if you act like yourself they will think you are sick again.And you just feel so lost and empty. I don't know anything about the band but I like this song and that is what it sounds like to me. This is an excellent song.. | Reviewer: Ana ------ About the song Only performed by Nine Inch Nails I've seen NIN from the beginning although, I was just a kid with my face stuck to MTV when it was still "good." Over the years I've "enjoyed" the music but these last few albums have ultimately gained deep respect. I saw a show last month and they ALWAYS have a great show. I've been tore up for a while now over a quadruple murder in my circle where the one of two men are still unconvinced. I thought it was time to go scream my head off and that concert was the bomb. I'm considering hopping a flight to NC to see it again, but, it's all for the fact it was one of the only times I can feel what I really feel over this tragedy and yes... scream my head off. Thank you Trent- I appreciate you. BTW I don't see any point in stating what I think this song means b/c it will mean something different to anyone who hears it. Just like a daily horoscope- people will make it fit. addiction sux | Reviewer: shaikh ------ About the song Only performed by Nine Inch Nails this song is realy so fuckin real if u have this recession period after addiction... U FINALLY REALIZE U R NOT UR MIND.. U R NOT THIS FUCKED UP GUY AFTER ALL.. U R NOT THE THINKER.. u r someone more powerfull, more living, more loving to ur existence.. it is one hell of a struggle i love this song | Reviewer: michael ------ About the song Only performed by Nine Inch Nails im not saying anyone else is wrong but i think its about a person with scitzophrenia (spelling?), who is trying to accept the fact that the person he see's isnt actually a person but a part of his imagination "there is no u there is only me" maybe refering to the other person or personality tht he see's and cant get out of his head .... just what i think seductive yet sad | Reviewer: carla ------ About the song The Perfect Drug performed by Nine Inch Nails This song is one of the best reznor has come up with. I love how it sounds so seductive but at the end sounds like you dont want to let go of that person though ur relationship is crazy,but in the end you know you will miss that person How I got to understand freedom of speech was truly dead | Reviewer: Roland Michel Tremblay ------ About the song Every Day Is Exactly The Same performed by Nine Inch Nails I had a clear idea of what this song meant before I read other comments from people who contacted me, now I am not so sure. They mentioned a man being in an asylum, or even 1984 of George Orwell. Well, I will still share with you what my first impression was and what I felt like writing right after reading the lyrics (yes, I am insane, yes, I am suicidal, and from comments I read, I gather that this is exactly where Trent Reznor was when he wrote that song): Do you know Nine Inch Nails? Trent Reznor? I saw them live in Brixton London last year, it was impressive. If there is one band beyond that freedom of speech bullshit, it is Nine Inch Nails. It is so crude, it is so direct, so cathartic, there is nothing else on this planet that could give it to you just like Nine Inch Nails can. I mentioned them everywhere, in books I have written years ago and that got published in France, meaning nothing to any French reader, and yet, I felt the need to tell the whole world about NIN, as if somehow it was just an extension of myself. What I am, what I aspire to be, this is it, that cathartic. In 2005 came that song, Every Day Is Exactly The Same, the best song NIN ever did, so deep, so significant, it signifies the death of free speech. Because, dear me, if even Trent Reznor cannot express himself, and has to use tricks to make us understand his true meaning, then, we are all lost, freedom of speech is truly dead. I bought the CD “With Teeth” in Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, when I was living there two years ago. I cannot believe it took me that long to finally appreciate its true significance, as it is illuminating. When my own personal hero, tells me, that he is no longer capable of telling me what he really feels inside, what he really thinks, then, is there still a purpose to this existence? I need an escape from reality, he is supposed to provide it for me. By being extreme, more extreme that I could ever dream to be. And now he is telling me that they got to him and that he can no longer do so. I am now left to my own fate. A miracle! Simply a miracle that such a hidden message, could be embedded within such an album as “With Teeth”. Such a great song, their best ever, and so, you would have to pay attention. I certainly paid attention, and researched those lyrics, because frankly, I could not have figured it out from listening to the song. It was hidden indeed, but here are the words. They are unmistakable, you cannot misunderstand this. There is no more freedom of speech in this world. Not even from Nine Inch Nails or Trent Reznor. It has really just finished me. I just don’t know what to do, what to think. I don’t know even if I can still say anything in this world. Can I? Will you let me? Will you listen to me? Where are those threats? Will it get to threaten me as well? When, how, who? Well, as astonishing as this can be, that Nine Inch Nails, that Trent Reznor, can no longer feel free to speak, I feel free to say whatever I want, and I certainly, will say, whatever I want! I do not care to be shot, threaten, mishandled, or criticised. I have nothing to lose, because I am nothing. I am not an industry all unto myself. I live beyond everything, because I am so disgusted by everything, that departing this life would be welcomed. I am electrified! That even my dearest hero can no longer speak, as freedom of speech is dead! Well, I am not dead! I will continue to speak for everyone else. I will speak whatever I want, whenever I want, until I get shot! And I don’t care! Because you have made this life such a living hell, no one in their right mind would wish to be alive in this world in the first place! No one will threaten me. There is still a freedom of speech in this world, for as long as I live. Roland Michel Tremblay http://www.themarginal.com/destructivism.htm Eye opening | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song God Given performed by Nine Inch Nails Any song is open for interpretation but this is one you simply have to smirk at while listening to imagining the one person you know that this song completely suits. We all know the type, the perfect little priest, so sure you've got to be a Caucasian male of 25 at about 175 lbs to understand the good book and fight your way to the front of the line at the pearly gates. I saw this live at the Q in Cleveland this year, and it was wonderful, people who aren't even fans of Trent's newer work would have loved this song live. He is one pissed off poet, and that's just what we need. Amazing | Reviewer: Heidi ------ About the song Right Where It Belongs performed by Nine Inch Nails This song is amazing. It is absolutely true, how do we know that we're not the only ones in the world? And how do we know that everything isn't just our own imaginations? This song makes me think, and step back from life. I love it. Every word. "Only" lyrical meaning | Reviewer: Stephen ------ About the song Only performed by Nine Inch Nails In light of the fact that Trent wrote this song, along with most of the rest of the album post-recovery from heroin, I believe that it has to do with his battle with addiction. The "you" is himself as an addicted individual with no control over his own life. The "me" is himself in hindsight, as a person with full control (after conquering the addiction.) Towards the beginning of the song he makes existential references to who he is afterwards. These are the results of depressed thoughts upon long term recovery. The "scab picking" section I believe could either be a flashback to how he began using in the first place, or a window that he sees to fall back into the addiction? This is just one interpretation that I saw no one else cover on this site. Just thought I would throw it out there. empty | Reviewer: katie ------ About the song Right Where It Belongs performed by Nine Inch Nails this song for me really focuses on how well we know the things we're so sure about. if this is all just in our heads, what have we done? there's no way to be sure about anything in this world. how do we know the chair we're sitting in is really there? we don't know the extent a human mind can take us, and that leaves a space for uncertainty. i think it's more about if we had all the power in the world, what would we do with it? Fantastic | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song God Given performed by Nine Inch Nails This is an intensely powerful song. Last night I went to the NIN performance in Atlanta, and this song was fantastic. His energy was overwhelming, the gun cross that appeared in lights over the stage was awe-inspiring and the chanting of the crowd was amazing. Trent Reznor is a genius, a madman, and a scholar. People are completely missing it when they say it's about sex and rape. | Reviewer: Gah. ------ About the song Closer performed by Nine Inch Nails Everything that is said in the versus and chorus are from the point of view of the drug itself. The refrains (Help me, and the lyrics that follow those two words itself) is the person affected by the addition to heroin. There's a reason the song is sexual in tone, people who have had heroin habits say it's "a million times better than the best orgasm you've ever had." You let me violate you/You let me desecrate you/You let me penetrate you/You let me complicate you The drug speaking to the user. You violate your body, penetrate it with a needle and the user's personality becomes complicated due to the use of the drug and withdrawl thereafter. (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 POV of the user, a literal cry for help. The user admits to using heroin as an escape fro himself. He also admits the toll it has taken upon his life and his body. 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 POV of Heroin again. Its arrogance is showing by saying I'm going to fuck you up, you're going to enjoy me in your veins, my existence shouldn't even be rationalized, but as more people use me... I become immortal. 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 POV of Heroin again. Outright arrogance gives in to absolute truth of the "complications" (as said in the first verse) that the drug use brings. (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 POV of the user. Again, cries for help. Outright admissions that one knows heroin isn't doing anything good but the user is still dependent on the drug to escape from himself and his life. The whole saying of Heroin's high being better than sex is pretty obvious here, IMHO. 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 First two lines. Literally about flying high. Second two, heroin has a wasting effect on its users. Third and fourth lines, the drug's arrogance shown again, by saying it's because of you I continue to exist and other people will end up getting hooked. Put the video into perspective. It's based on "old time" footage and laboratories. Religious imagry is common in NIN videos and songs, but here it also works because Trent shows himself flying, shackled and essentially crucified. It's about drug addiction and the visual interpretations of such. Heroin used to be sold as a medical remedy back when people were completely naive about what it really did to you. This song is about heroin and the cries of help from one who is addicted to it, plain and simple. . | Reviewer: yoda ------ About the song Echoplex performed by Nine Inch Nails This song somehow reminds me of the movie (and album) The Wall, by Pink Floyd. To me it speaks about a person who is willingly isolated from the rest of the world, just so he won't be hurt by others, or see just how nasty things can get outside. poop | Reviewer: your sister ------ About the song Hurt performed by Nine Inch Nails anybody saying that this is a Johnny fuckin Cash original song should burn in hell while the devil keeps fuckin them up the ass for all eternity. Hurt is the most emotionally hard song that could a person listen in their entire life, it maked me cry like a bitch even that I'm not one. Show some respect, this is a serious song by none other than NINE INCH NAILS. brilliant | Reviewer: shelby ------ About the song Every Day Is Exactly The Same performed by Nine Inch Nails i first heard this song when i went to see the movie "Wanted" and it describes the main characters situation perfectly in the beginning of the movie, explaining how he feels about his boring, mundane life as an accountant who gets walked all over by his boss, best friend and girlfriend. I totally fell in love with it as soon as i heard it and when i realised it was NIN, it definitely made me love it more!! brilliant song, brilliant band, brilliant movie! ... | Reviewer: kryptonite6 ------ About the song Every Day Is Exactly The Same performed by Nine Inch Nails well i think that it's about how shitty and empty can life be when it lacks purpose. we do not realize that there's nothing meaningful in it and no one else except us can really change it. give this very meaning Not what it was supposed to be. | Reviewer: Hunter ------ About the song Only performed by Nine Inch Nails 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. Herione or Sex | Reviewer: Hunter ------ About the song Closer performed by Nine Inch Nails Ok so yes this can easly be about sex but this can also be about herione. One voice is him talking about the drug about what it does the other voice is the drug saying all this shit the guy does with it letting it violate him and getting in him. Trent is a smart man this song can be takin both ways including many more. Sex, drugs, one heart, its all relevant depeding on your mood. Welllllllll... | Reviewer: roxta ------ About the song Only performed by Nine Inch Nails 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. Good Song | Reviewer: carla ------ About the song And All That Could Have Been performed by Nine Inch Nails This song is emotional i think who ever listens to it.I think it relates to the one who I let go who I would wanted to be with but I know hes happy with someone so what can I do let him go cant let him become who I was or will be You could review the artist/band Nine Inch Nails in Biography page You could review Nine Inch Nails album by visiting Albums page and selecting an album You could review Nine Inch Nails song by clicking the song which you like  Download "Nine Inch Nails" Music | | ||||||||||
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