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Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails


Background information
Origin Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Genre(s) Industrial Rock
Alternative Rock
Industrial Metal
Years active 1988—present
Label(s) Island Records
TVT Records
Interscope Records
Rykodisc
Nothing Records
The Null Corporation
Associated acts Marilyn Manson
How to Destroy Angels
Filter
Exotic Birds
Tapeworm
Pigface
Saul Williams
Website Website
Members
Trent Reznor
Former members
Chris Vrenna
Richard Patrick
Josh Freese
Alex Carapetis
Charlie Clouser
Alessandro Cortini
Jerome Dillon
Robin Finck
David Haymes
Danny Lohner
Lee Mars
Justin Meldal-Johnsen
Ron Musarra
Aaron North
Ilan Rubin
Nick Rushe
Jeff Ward
Jeordie White
James Woolley
Ralf Dietel



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Nine Inch Nails Album


The Downward Spiral (03/08/1994)
03/08/1994
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A Warm Place
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Dead Souls (Japanese bonus track)
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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 religions 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

I am the needle in your vein
and I control you
I am the high you can't sustain
and I control you
I am the pusher I'm a whore
and I control you
I am the need in you for more
and I control you

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 the 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

. . .


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 I'm 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

Nothing can stop me now
Nothing can stop me

Nothing can stop me now
Nothing can stop

. . .


He sewed his eyes shut because he was afraid to see
He tries to tell me what I put inside of me
He's got the answers to ease my curiosity
He dreamed a God up and called it Christianity
Your God is dead and no one cares
If there is a hell I will 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
Your God is dead and no one cares
Drowning in his own hypocrisy
And if there is a hell I will see you there
Burning with your God in humility
Will you die for this?

. . .


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 come 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 come down

All the pigs are all lined up
I give you all that you want
Take the skin and peel it back
Now doesn't that 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 come down
Maybe afraid of it let's discredit it let's pick away at it
I want to watch it come down

All the pigs are all lined up
I give you all that you want
Take the skin and peel it back
Now doesn't that make you feel better?
The pigs have won tonight
Now they can all sleep soundly
And everything is all right

. . .


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 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

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
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

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

. . .


You had all of them on your side, didn't you?
You believed in all your lies, 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
He's the living end to the cattle he deceives
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 did you get so big?
How did you get so strong?
How did you get so hard?
How did it get so long?

You had to give them all a sign, didn't you?
You had to covet what was mine, didn't you?

The ruiner's a collector he's an infector serving his shit to his flies
Maybe there will come a day where 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 did you get so big?
How did you get so strong?
How did you get so hard?
How did it get so long?

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

. . .


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,
There's no escape from this,
My new consciousness.
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 of 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 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..
Might just slip away!

It won't give up, it wants me dead.
Goddamn this noise inside my head...

. . .


i'm losing ground
you know how this world can beat you down
i'm made of clay
i fear i'm the only one who thinks this way
i'm always falling down the same hill
bamboo puncturing this skin
and nothing comes bleeding out of me just like a waterfall i'm drowning in
2 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 [4x]
don't you tell me how i feel [3x]
you don't know just how i feel

i stay inside my bed
i have lived so many lives all in my head
don't tell me that you care
there really isn't anything, 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 [4x]
don't you tell me how i feel [3x]
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 am a big man
(yes I am)
And I 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

Well, 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 (my fucking gun)

. . .

A Warm Place

[No lyrics]

. . .


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

. . .


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

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 loneliness
I now know 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 no
Oh my precious whore no, oooh, oh,
My disease my infection no
I am so impure no, ah no, ah no, ah no

. . .


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
A lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash

Everything's blue
In this world
The deepest shade of mushroom blue
All fuzzy
Spilling out of my head

. . .


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
I 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
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.

. . .


Someone take these dreams away
That point me to another day
A duel of personalities
A stranger to reality

They keep calling me
They keep calling me
Keep on calling me
They keep calling me

When figures from the past stand tall
And mocking voices ring the hall
Imperialistic house of prayer
Conquistadors who took their share

They keep calling me
Keep on calling me
They keep calling me
Keep on calling me

Calling me, calling me [x2]

They keep calling me
Keep on calling me
They keep calling me
Keep on calling me

. . .


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