nine inch nails: the downward spiral
1 mr self destruct 2 piggy 3 heresy
4 march of the pigs 5 closer 6 ruiner
7 the becoming 8 i do not want this
9 big man with a gun 10 a warm place 11 eraser
12 reptile 13 the downward spiral 14 hurt
mr self destructi 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 goi give you all you need to know
i drag you down i use you upmr self destruct
i speak religion's 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 goi give you all you need to know
i drag you down i use you upmr 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 you have 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 goi give you all you need to know
i drag you down i use you upmr self destructproduction: flood and trent reznor
mixing engineer: alan mouldertexture generating guitars: adrian belewpiggy
hey pigyeah youhey pig piggy pig pig pigall of my fears came true
black and blue and broken bones you left me here i'm all alone
my little piggy needed something newnothing can stop me nowi don't care anymore
nothing can stop me nowi just don't carehey 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 younothing can stop me now
i don't care anymorenothing can stop me nowi just don't care
nothing can stop me nowyou don't need me anymore
production: flood and trent reznormixing engineer: alan moulderheresy
he sewed his eyes shut because he is 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 up a god and called it christianityyour 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 nameyour god is dead and no one cares
drowning in his own hypocrisyand if there is a hell i will see you there
burning with your god in humilitywill you die for this?production: trent reznor
mixing engineer: alan mouldermarch of the pigsstep right up march push
crawl right up on your kneesplease 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 downall the pigs are all lined up
i give you all that you wanttake 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 teethbite 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 downnow doesn't that make you feel better?
the pigs have won tonightnow they can all sleep soundly
and everything is all rightproduction: trent reznormixing engineer: alan moulder
closeryou 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 animali want to feel you from the inside
i want to fuck you like an animalmy 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 its' your sex i can smell
help me you make me perfect, help me become somebody else
i want to fuck you like an animali want to feel you from the inside
i want to fuck you like an animalmy whole existence is flawed
you get me closer to godthrough every forest, above the trees
within my stomach, scraped off my kneesi drink the honey inside your hive
you are the reason i stay aliveproduction: flood and trent reznor
mixing engineer: alan moulderspecial hi-hat programming: floodruiner
you had all of them on your side, didn't you?
you believe 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
believethe ruiner's your only friend well he's the living end to the cattle he
deceives
the 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 you 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 when those that you keep blind will suddenly
realizemaybe it's a part of me you took to a place i hoped it would never go
and maybe that fucked me up so 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 you get so long?what you gave to memy perfect ring of scars
you know i can see what you really areyou didn't hurt me nothing can hurt me
you didn't hurt me nothing can stop me nowproduction: flood and trent reznor
mixing engineer: alan moulderthe becoming
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 had some second thoughts
he's covered with scabs and he is broken and sore
the me that you know doesn't come around muchthat part of me isn't here anymore
all pain disappears it's the nature of my circuitry
drowns out all i hear there's no escape from this my new consciousness
that me that you know used to have feelings
but the blood has stopped pumping and he's 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 just slip away
it won't give up it wants me deadgoddamn this noise inside my head
production: flood and trent reznormixing engineer: alan moulder
ring mod guitar: adrian belewarp 2600: floodi do not want thisi'm losing ground
you know how this world can beat you downi'm made of clay
i fear i'm the only one who thinks this wayi'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 placei do not want this
i do not want thisi do not want thisi do not want this
don't you tell me how i feeldon't you tell me how i feel
don't you tell me how i feelyou don't know just how i feeli stay inside my bed
i have lived so many lives all in my headdon'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 liketo those who've had a taste
like that means somethingand oh so sick i amand maybe i don't have a choice
and maybe that is all i haveand maybe this is a cry for helpi do not want this
i do not want thisi do not want thisi do not want this
don't you tell me how i feeldon't you tell me how i feel
don't you tell me how i feelyou don't know just how i feel
i want to know everythingi want to be everywhere
i want to fuck everyone in the worldi want to do something that matters
production: trent reznormixing engineer: alan moulder
drum performance: stephen perkinsdrum treatments: flood and trent reznor
big man with a guni am a big man(yes i am)and i have a big gun
got me a big old dick and ii like to have funheld against your forehead
i'll make you suck itmaybe i'll put a hole in your head
you know, just for the fuck of iti can reduce you if i wanti can devour
i'm hard as fucking steel, and i've got the power
i'm every inch a man, and i'll show you somehowme and my fucking gun
nothing can stop me nowshoot shoot shoot shoot shoot
i'm going to come all over youme and my fucking gunme and my fucking gun
production: trent reznormixing engineers: bill kennedy, sean beavan
additional guitars: danny lohnersteakhouse: tommy leea warm place
production: flood and trent reznormixing engineer: alan mouldereraserneed you
dream youfind youtaste youfuck youuse youscar youbreak youlose mehate mesmash me
erase meproduction: flood and trent reznormixing engineer: alan moulderreptile
she spread 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 withinoh my beautiful liar
oh my precious whoremy disease my infectioni am so impure
devils speak of the ways 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 limitlessoh my beautiful liar
oh my precious whoremy disease my infectioni am so impure
production: flood and trent reznormixing engineer: alan moulder
the downward spiralhe couldn't believe how easy it was
he put the gun into his facebang!(so much blood from such a tiny little hole)
problems have solutions
a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flasheverything's blue
in this worldthe deepest shade of mushroom blueall fuzzyspilling out of my head
production: trent reznormixing engineer: alan moulderdrums: andy kubiszewskihurt
i hurt myself todayto see if i still feeli focus on the pain
the only thing that's realthe needle tears a holethe old familiar sting
try to kill it all awaybut i remember everythingwhat have i become?
my sweetest friendeveryone i knowgoes away in the endyou could have it all
my empire of dirti will let you downi will make you hurti wear my crown of shit
on my liar's chairfull of broken thoughtsi cannot repair
beneath the stain of timethe feeling disappearsyou are someone else
i am still right herewhat have i become?my sweetest friendeveryone i know
goes away in the endyou could have it allmy empire of dirti will let you down
i will make you hurtif i could start againa million miles away
i would keep myselfi would find a way