| | Right Where It Belongs Lyrics Artist(Band):Nine Inch Nails
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 all... Right 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 Keep on looking but you can't find the woods While you're 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 to be? What if you could look right through the cracks Would you find yourself... Find yourself afraid to see? If you find some error in Right Where It Belongs Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to Aleksandras for submitting the lyrics. Review about Right Where It Belongs maybe a song to Manson | Reviewer: Devo | 10/5/09 It could be a quiet song to Manson, especially sense the crowd yelling for no particular reason... They have beef and the song is kinda shit talking about someones shitty pre concived notions of what "is" Reply to Asks questions, provides no answers | Reviewer: Girl A | 7/29/09 I can see what you're saying. I just think that Trent is more focused on trying to get people to open their minds to thinking in different ways than just the normal way most people think. I think his mission is to get people to think more philisophically so that they CAN find the answers they need. He wants to show people the questions that lie out there...not solve all of the problems for them. It's about getting people to really live their lives, and think about things instead of just accepting life the way our society tells us it is. It's not about trying to solve people's problems or giving out all the answers. Trent knows that part of life is seraching for your answers. He's just helping to bring the questions out of all the mess. Asks questions, provides no answers | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/12/09 I'm a long time NIN fan. However the problem I have with Trents lyrics and his philosophy is that he critisizes common wisdom, and provides no answers. It is easy to critisize. Much harder to show us how to solve the problems. What are the answers Trent? Huh? I don't think you know what they are. This is hardly a review. | Reviewer: Angel | 4/27/09 Every time I listen to this song, at the point where he sings "You keep looking but you can't find the words, Are you hiding in retreat?" I swear to god I keep hearing "You keep looking but you can't find the <i>woods</i>, are you hiding in the <i>trees</i>?" Is it just me? lol. Beautiful song, anyway. my animal | Reviewer: alpha | 4/4/09 we all have some animal in a cage and it`s noone else than us. we built that cage for him to keep him separated from the other people, cause we don`t want them to know him. we feel ashamed for him cause his the worst of us. tha bad side of us. so we keep him in there, hiding him. sometimes we forget that he exists, when everything works and we`re safe, but then something happens and we realise that we`re actually not what we pretend to be. and we`re afraid to see. we`re scared to look him closely to the eyes to discover that maybe we`re not outside the cage. we can not be while we`re not free from us, while we don`t admit who we are. and the hollowness inside our hearts is right where it belongs. with this empty heart we`re not able to decide what`s real and what`s just a voice in our head speaking. cause we all got some. we can believe in something....but is it just a faith what makes the truth? anyhow...we can`t find the words to explain that cuase they`re something we don`t believe either cause the reflection of them is not in our power. like we all see different meanings in this song :) a stab a philosophical opti | Reviewer: mia | 2/11/09 I like that Trent Reznor remains ambiguous about his songs' meaning. This allows room for the listeners interpretation. For me this song reminds me of Voltaire's "Candide." for those of you who have read Candide you know that it was written during the enlightenment era. It champions the ideas that true wisdom is learned through the self and through ones own experiences. Voltaire highly looked down upon received wisdom and authority and organized religion. This song to me is about someone who has lived a sheltered existence but, gradually through life experiences learns that the world isn't as they once perceived it to be. This could be in reference to their received wisdom, what they thought was authority or an organized religion. Whether nin intended to or not, this song, like candide is based around philosophical optimism; the idea that no matter what misfortunes you suffer, everything is all right and in order because that is how the world intended it to be. For the philosophical optimist no matter what evils exist, all is right and well because it fits into the order of the universe which they perceive to be perfect in it's own way. I think this song is a challenge to philosophical optimism and revolves around the internal conflict one deals with when they realize that everything they have believed in might just be an illusion and how they are afraid to come to terms with the reality of the harsh world around them. There are many interpretations | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/23/09 I think the great thing about NIN is that each song can be interpreted to mean something to the individual listening to it. Trent has gone on record saying he won't answer what individual songs mean to him, and leaves it up to the listener to interpret them as they would like. That's what makes NIN great. A Woman... | Reviewer: Peter Murguia III | 1/24/09 Back in 28FEB08 Trent gave it away by saying he wrote it about World Warcraft. I listened to it several times at first and thought it was about "someone" having hurt someone else. I then looked up the lyrics and after having read them I interpreted it as a "woman/girl" having hurt a guy (...better not look him too closely in the eye...) through heartbreak I suppose. Basically, in the first verse, she gave a guy a taste of her love (the cage) and then dumped him (so she better not look him in the eye or he'll think she's coming back) so then she is asked where she stands, with him looking out the glass/cage or looking at him from outside the glass/cage (in other words, are you sure you want to leave him?) the second half of the first verse then points out that she has been overly protective of her feelings/herself (...see the safety of the life you have built, everything where it belongs...) and finally she is directed to her feelings to see the lack of fulfillment brought on by her "tough shell" (...feel the hollowness inside of your heart...). The remaining verses simply continue on by asking her if she is now sure of herself and her actions towards this guy and quite possibly others. Like I said, Trent gave it away, but this is my head telling me this. This is an awesome song and to date it is my favorite NIN song...I just love the music/arrangement, especially the final seconds of the song...never underestimate the power of the piano/keyboard. Meaning. | Reviewer: But masterson | 12/25/08 There are Many a different meanings you can apply to this song. The one I take on, Is three prong. Government, Religion, and Self. You can justify those in the texts, not that I am saying that the song is about that. More over, If I had to choose, being a rabid NIN fan, the song is probably about self. And loosing self. Maybe in A sense, Trent thought he lost sight of what self was, and posed the question to his fans. Really, have you became so wrapped up in you endeavors and self image, that maybe you lost sight of what you where? Would you be afraid to know? And maybe possibly, could the animal in the cage, be you? A cage of self deceit? I don't know, but this song is great. And apart of its appeal is that Trent is seemingly posing questions to the listeners that they should answer themselves. But that seemed to only lead to arguments, where the point to the song actually got lost, which was to enjoy it. My take on it... | Reviewer: Mike K. | 12/18/08 I believe this song refers to the fact that people love to convince themselves that everything is all right when in reality there're going through hell. Thus they are "afraid to see" what is really there, the true face of the world. While I detest religion, as I do believe that several conflicts in the world today could have been avoided if not for religion (i.e. Sunni vs. Shiite), I do not think that there are any religious undertones in this song. If you think there are, take a listen to Coldplay's Viva La Vida album and you'll see that there are definately no religious undertones in this song. I think your seeing ghosts in the mist 2/24 as far as religious indoctrination goes. Review By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Review the song Right Where It Belongs The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "Nine Inch Nails" Music | |
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