Nine Inch Nails - Broken

1. Pinion

(instrumental)

2. Wish

this is the first day of my last days
I built it up now I take it apart
climbed up real high now fall down real far
no need for me to stay the last thing left
I just threw it away
I put my faith in god and my trust in you
now there's nothing more fucked up I could do

wish there was something real
wish there was something true
wish there was something real
in this world full of you

I'm the one without a soul
I'm the one with this big fucking hole
no new tale to tell
twenty-six years on my way to hell
gotta listen to your big time hard line bad luck fist fuck
don't think you're having all the fun
you know me
I hate everyone

wish there was something real
wish there was something true
wish there was something real
in this world full of you

I want to but I can't turn back
but I want to

3. Last

gave up trying to figure it out
my head got lost along the way
worn out from giving it up
my soul I pissed it all away
still stings these shattered nerves
pigs we get what pigs deserve
I'm going all the way down
I'm leaving today

come come come on
you've gotta fill me up
come come gotta let me inside of you
come come come on
you've gotta fix me up
come come gotta let me inside of you

still feel it all slipping away but it doesn't matter anymore
everybody's still chipping away but it doesn't matter anymore

look through these blackened eyes
you'll see ten thousand lies
my lips may promise
but my heart is a whore

come come come on
you've gotta fill me up
come come gotta let me inside you
come come come on
you've gotta fix me up
come come gotta let me get through to you

this isn't meant to last
this is for right now
I know it's all getting away
it comes to me as no surprise
I know what's coming to me is never going to arrive fresh blood through tired skin
new sweat to drown me in
dress up this rotten carcass just to make it look alive

come come come on
you've gotta fill me up
come come gotta let me inside of you
come come come on
come come come on
you've gotta fix me up
come come gotta let me get through to you

this isn't meant to last
this is for right now

I wish I sould put the blame on you
I want you to make me
I want you to take
I want you to break me
then I want you to throw me away

4. Help Me I Am in Hell

(instrumental)

5. Happiness in Slavery

slave screams
he thinks he knows what he wants
slave screams
thinks he has something to say
slave screams
he hears but doesn't want to listen
slave screams
he's being beat into submission

don't open your eyes
you won't like what you see
the devils of truth steal the souls of the free
don't open your eyes
take it from me
I have found
you can find
happiness in slavery

slave screams
he spends his life learning conformity
slave screams
he claims he has his own identity
slave screams
he's going to cause the system to fall
slave screams
but he's glad to be chained to that wall

don't open your eyes
you won't like what you see
the blind have been blessed with security
don't open your eyes
take it from me
I have found
you can find
happiness in slavery

I don't know what I am
I don't know where I've been
human junk just words and so much skin
stick my hands thru the cage of this endless routine
just some flesh caught in this big broken machine

6. gave up

perfect little dream the kind that hurts the most
forgot how it feels well almost
no one to blame
always the same
open my eyes
wake up in flames

it took you to make me realize
it took you to make me realize
it took you to make me realize
it took you to make me see the light

smashed up my sanity
smashed up integrity
smashed up what I believed in
smashed up what's left of my
smashed up my everything
smashed up all that was true
gonna smash myself to pieces
I don't know what else to do

covered in hope and vaseline
still cannot fix this broken machine
watching the hole it used to be mine
just watching it burn in my steady systematic decline
of the trust I will betray
give it to me I throw it away
after everything I've done I hate myself for what I've become

I tried
I gave up
throw it away

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