NINE INCH NAILS LYRICS The Fragile (1999) 1. Somewhat Damaged 2. The Day The World Went Away 3. The Frail 4. The Wretched 5. We're In This Together 6. The Fragile 7. Just Like You Imagined 8. Even Deeper 9. Pilgrimage 10. No, You Don't 11. La Mer 12. The Great Below 13. The Way Out Is Through 14. Into The Void 15. Where Is Everybody? 16. The Mark Has Been Made 17. Please 18. Starfuckers, Inc. 19. Complication 20. I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally 21. The Big Come Down 22. Underneath It All 23. Ripe (With Decay) 1. Somewhat Damaged so impressed with all you do tried so hard to be like you flew too high and burnt the wing lost my faith in everything lick around divine debris taste the wealth of hate in me shedding skin succumb defeat this machine is obsolete made the choice to go away drink the fountain of decay tear a hole exquisite red fuck the rest and stab it dead broken bruised forgotten sore too fucked up to care anymore poisoned to my rotten core too fucked up to care anymore in the back off the side far away is a place where I hide where I stay tried to say tried to ask I needed to all alone by myself where were you? how could I ever think it's funny how everything that swore it wouldn't change is different now just like you would always say we'll make it through then my head fell apart and where were you? how could I ever think it's funny how everything you swore would never change is different now like you said you and me make it through didn't quite fell apart where the fuck were you? 2. The Day The World Went Away I'd listen to the words he'd say but in his voice I heard decay the plastic face forced to portray all the insides left cold and gray there is a place that still remains it eats the fear it eats the pain the sweetest price he'll have to pay the day the whole world went away 3. The Frail [instrumental] 4. The Wretched just a reflection just a glimpse just a little reminder of all the what abouts and all the might have could have beens another day some other way but not another reason to continue and now you're one of us the wretched the hopes and prays the better days the far aways forget it it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to, did it? it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to, did it? now you know this is what it feels like now you know this is what it feels like the clouds will part and the sky cracks open and god himself will reach his fucking arm through just to push you down just to hold you down stuck in this hole with the shit and the piss and it's hard to believe it could come down to thisback at the beginning sinking spinning and in the end we still pretend the time we spend not knowing when you're finally free and you could be but it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to it didn't turn out quite the way that you wanted it now you know this is what it feels like now you know this is what it feels like you can try to stop it but it keeps on coming you can try to stop it but 5. We're In This Together I've become impossible holding on to when when everything seemed to matter more the two of us all used and beaten up watching fate as it flow down the path we have chose you and me we're in this together now none of them can stop us now we will make it through somehow you and me if the world should break in two until the very end of me until the very end of you awake to the sound as they peel apart the skin they pick and they pull trying to get their fingers in well they've got to kill what we've found well they've got to hate what we fear well they've got to make it go away well they've got to make it disappear the farther I fall I'm beside you as lost as I get I will find you the deeper the wound I'm inside you for ever and ever I'm a part of you and me we're in this together now none of them can stop us now we will make it through somehow you and me if the world should break in two until the very end of me until the very end of you all that we were is gone we have to hold on all that we were is gone we have to hold on when all our hope is gone we have to hold on all that we were is gone but we can hold on you and me we're in this together now none of them can stop us now we will make it through somehow you and me even after everything you're the queen and I'm the king nothing else means anything 6. The Fragile she shines in a world full of ugliness she matters when everything is meaningless fragile she doesn't see her beauty she tries to get away sometimes it's just that nothing seems worth saving I can't watch her slip away I won't let you fall apart she reads the minds of all the people as they pass her by hoping someone can see if I could fix myseld I'd - but it's too late for me I wont let you fall apart we'll find the perfect place to go where we can run and hide I'll build a wall and we can keep them on the other side ...but they keep waiting ...and picking... it's something I have to do I was there, too before everyhting else I was like you 7. Just Like You Imagined [instrumental] 8. Even Deeper I woke up today to find myself in the other place with a trail of footprints from where I ran away it seems everything I've heard just might be true and you know me (well you think you do) sometimes, I have everything - yet I wish I felt something do you know how far this has gone? just how damaged have I become? when I think I can overcome it runs even deeper and in a dream I'm a different me with a perfect you we fit perfectly and for once in my life I feel complete and I still want to ruin it afraid to look as clear as day this plan has long been underway I hear them call I cannot stay the voice inviting me away do you know how far this has gone? just how damaged have I become? when I think I can overcome it runs even deeper everything that matters is gone all the hands of hope have withdrawn could you try to help me hang on? it runs... I straight I won't crack on my way and I can't turn back I'm okay I'm on track on my way and I can't turn back I stayed on this track gone too far and I can't come back I stayed on this track lost my way can't come back 9. Pilgrimage [instrumental] 10. No, You Don't smiling in thier faces while filling up the hole so many dirty little places in your filthy little worn out broken down see through soul baby's got a problem tries so hard to hide got to keep it on the surface because everything else is dead on the other side teeth in the necks of everyone you know you can keep on sucking until the blood won't flow when it starts to hurt it only helps it grow taking all you need (but not this time) no, you don't and just for the record just so you know I did not believe that you could sink so low you think that you can beat them I know that you won't you think you have everything but no, you don't no, you don't no, you don't no, you don't no, you don't 11. La Mer and when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home nothing can stop me now 12. The Great Below staring at the sea will she come? is there hope for me after all is said and done anything at any price all of this for you all the spoils of a wasted life all of this for you all the world has closed her eyes tried faith all worn and thin for all we could have done and all that could have been ocean pulls me close and whispers in my ear the destiny I've chose all becoming clear the currents have their say the time is drawing near washes me away makes me disappear I descend from grace in arms of undertow I will take my place in the geat below I can still feel you even so far away 13. The Way Out Is Through all I've undergone I will keep on underneath it all we feel so small the heavens fall but still we crawl all I've undergone I will keep on 14. Into The Void tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away talking to myself all the way to the station pictures in my head of the final destination all lined up (all the one's that aren't allowed to stay) tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away tried to save a place from the cuts and the scratches tried to overcome the complications and the catches nothing ever grows and the sun doesn't shine all day tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away 15. Where Is Everybody? did you happen to catch or did it happen so fast what you thought would always last has passed you by is everything speeding up or am I slowing down just spinning around and I don't know why all the pieces don't fit thought I didn't give a shit I never wanted to be like you but for all I aspire I am really a liar and I'm running out of things I can do I'd like to stay but every day everything pushes me further away if you couls show help me to know how it's supposed to be where did it go? pleading and needing and bleeding and breeding and feeding exceeding where is everybody? trying and lying defying denying crying and dying where is everybody? well okay, enough, you've had your fun but come on thare has to be someone that hasn't yet become so numb and succumb and god damn I am so tired of pretending of wishing I was ending when all I'm really doing is trying to hide and keep it inside and fill it with lies open my eyes? maybe I wish I could try pleading and needing and bleeding and breeding and feeding exceeding where is everybody? trying and lying defying denying crying and dying where is everybody? 16. The Mark Has Been Made [instrumental] 17. Please this is how it begins push it away but it all comes back again all the flesh all the sin there was a time when it used to mean just about everything just like now breathe, echoing the sound time starts slowing down sink until I drown (please) I don't ever want to make it stop and it keeps repeating will you please complete me? never be enough to fill me up watch the white turn to red it fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead all my life yeah yeah yeah yeah, but it just left me dead (well guess what?) the world is over and I realize it was all in my head now everything is clear I erase the fear I can disappear (please) I don't ever want to make it stop you can never leave me will you pleaseb complete me never be enough to fill me up 18. Starfuckers, Inc. my god sits in the back of the limousine my god comes in a wrapper of cellophane my god pouts on the cover of the magazine my god's a shallow little bitch trying to make the scene I have arrived and this time you should believe the hype I listened to everyone now I know that everyone was right I'll be there for you as long as it works for me I play a game it's called insincerity starfuckers starfuckers starfuckers, inc. starfuckers I am every fucking thing and just a little more I sold my soul but don't you dare call me a whore and when I suck you off not a drop will go to waste it's really not so bad you know once you get past the taste, yeah (asskisser) starfuckers starfuckers starfuckers, inc. starfuckers all our pain how did we ever get by without you? you're so vain I bet you think this song is about you don't you? don't you? don't you? don't you? now I belong I'm one of the chosen ones now I belong I'm one of the beautiful ones 19. Complication [instrumental] 20. I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally as black as the night can get everything is safer now there's always a way to forget once you learn to find a way how in the blur of serenity where did everything get lost? the flowers of naivete buried in a layer of frost the smell of sunshine I remember sometimes thought he had it all before they called his bluff found out that his skin just wasn't thick enough wanted to go back to how it was before thought he lost everything then he lost a whole lot more a fool's devotion swallowed up in empty space the tears of regret frozen to the side of his face the smell of sunshine I remember sometimes I've done all I can do could I please come with you? sweet smell of sunshine I remember sometimes 21. The Big Come Down there is a game I play try to make myself okay try so hard to make the pieces all fit smash it apart just for the fuck of it bye bye oooh got to get back to the bottom bye bye oooh the big come down isn't that what you wanted? bye bye oooh find a place with the failed and forgotten bye bye oooh isn't that really what you wanted now? there is no place I can go there is no way I can hide it feels like it keeps coming from the inside there is a hate that burns within the most desperate place I have ever been try to get back to where I'm from the closer I get the worse it becomes the closer I get the worse it becomes there is no place I can go there is no place I can hide it feels like it keeps coming from the inside 22. Underneath It All all I do I can still feel you numb all through I can still feel you hear your call underneath it all kill my brain yet you still remain crucified after all I've died after all I've tried you are still inside all I do I can still feel you you remain I am stained 23. Ripe (With Decay) [instrumental]