Nine Inch Nails
Not The Actual Events
1. Branches/Bones
Still can make out pieces with the opening sewed shut
Yeah, parts of me are slowing down, time is speeding up
Spiders crawling everywhere, infected Japanese
You can tell all your friends you're just a tourist, but you can't understand what they have planned until you try to leave
Feels like I've been here before
Yeah, I don't know anymore
And I don't care anymore
Feels like I've been here befo-
Cold and black and infinite, with nothing left to lose
If you try to keep the flies away, the makeup hides the bruise
Her branches are the bones that break, become a perfect line
And no he won't just be a man who's sometimes, he won't just be a man who's sometimes...
Feels like I've been here before
Yeah, I don't know anymore
And I don't care anymore
I think I recognize
Yes, I have been here before
Yeah, I don't care anymore
Don't give a fuck anymore
Yeah, I don't care...
2. Dear World,
Yes, everyone seems to be asleep
Hey look, you didn't even know this
Couldn't even tell
Just when it started... happening
Maybe just as well
After all, everything is getting unfamiliar now
Trajectory in decline
And we've become obsolete
A frame at a time
I'm locked inside here
Have to stay
With people who aren't here
All the way
Pictures and faces
On display
With people who aren't here
All the way (all the way)...
It is coming, and you didn't even notice, yeah you didn't even notice... (you were missing)...
[Left channel:]
Dear world, I can hardly recognize you anymore
And yet I remain certain
There is an answer in you
I feel like I have lived so long sometimes
Run out of things to try to do
I can't concentrate my way out
What about?...
I have been entirely patient
No, no, not this time
[Right channel:]
I am leaving because I can't recognize who I have been
You go on spoiling
Hey look, it's happening
Without me you didn't even notice
Of course it's been happening all along, permanent intervals
As you become obsolete, who are you?
Oh this place...
I can't concentrate
I begin to go through another of that we have been
But I know I can't trust myself with this again
I'm locked inside here
Have to stay
With people who aren't here
All the way
Pictures and faces
On display
With people who aren't here
All the way (all the way)
All the way (all the way)
All the way (all the way)
Yes, everyone seems to be asleep
3. She's Gone Away
You dig in places 'til your fingers bleed
Spread the infection, where you spill your seed
I can't remember what she came here for
I can't remember much of anything anymore
She's gone, she's gone, she's gone away
She's gone, she's gone, she's gone away
Away...
A little mouth opened up inside
Yeah, I was watching on the day she died
We keep licking while the skin turns black
Cut along the length, but you can't get the feeling back
She's gone, she's gone, she's gone away
She's gone, she's gone, she's gone away
She's gone, she's gone, she's gone away
She's gone, she's gone, she's gone away
Away...
(Are you still here?)
4. The Idea of You
Maybe that was somebody else
Maybe, I was somebody else
I'm somebody, for what that's worth, if that means anything anymore
I think there's something just wrong with me
I have been wondering, when did you know?
You know, really know?
No no no no, I don't think that's going to happen here
You missed all that on the way out
Remember, I don't want to remember anymore
Maybe I was somebody else?
Just go back to the idea of me
Just go back to the idea of me
Just go back to the idea of me
Just...
(Wait!) None of this
(Wake!) Is happening
(Wait!) None of this
(Wake!) Is happening
(Breathe!) None of this
(Believe!) Is happening
(Hey!) None of this
(You tell yourself!) Is happening
Oh and
If I start to tell you anything, please don't pay attention
That's not really me in there, I would never do that
Just go back to the idea of me
Go back to that idea
Can you even hear me over here?
Can't you feel it happening?
Everything absorbing liquid twitching forming something terrible
The sores are gone
And you can hardly tell now but
There was someone else who isn't here anymore
(Wait!) None of this
(Wake!) Is happening
(Wait!) None of this
(Wake!) Is happening
(Breathe!) None of this
(Believe!) Is happening
(Hey!) None of this
(You tell yourself!) Is happening
(Wait!) None of this
(Wake!) Is happening
(Wait!) None of this
(Wake!) Is happening
(Breathe!) None of this
(Believe!) Is happening
(Hey!) None of this
(You tell yourself!) Is happening
(Wait!) None of this
(Wake!) Is happening
(Wait!) None of this
(Wake!) Is happening
(Breathe!) None of this
(Believe!) Is happening
(Hey!) None of this
(You tell yourself!) Is happening
(Wait!) None of this
(Wake!) Is happening
(Wait!) None of this
(Wake!) Is happening
(Breathe!) None of this
(Believe!) Is happening
(Hey!) None of this
(You tell yourself!) Is happening
(Wait!)
(You tell yourself!)
Hey! Wait! Can you hear? (Can you hear?)
It gets (it gets) so lonely in here
Hey! Wait! Can you hear?
It gets (it gets) so lonely in here
5. Burning Bright (Field on Fire)
I'm goin' back
Of course I am
As if I ever had a choice
Back to what I always knew I was
On the inside
Back to what I really am
Look at this pathetic place I made
With little bits of sticks and hair, and anything I found along the way
And tell yourself you know
You're not really what you know you are, you know?
Of course you do
I think I may have listened to you
I think I may have even, listened to you!
At the height of my demise
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
I am forgiven, I am free
I am a field on fire
I am forgiven, I am free
I am a field on fire
Oh my god I missed you, it's been so long
I am stronger than I have ever been in my decline
Now I know, I know, I know for certain
Now I know, for certain
Shedding any
Burn, motherfucker!
Carry the carcass and throw it on
Pull up a chair and watch
The flies come roaring out
And will surround the entire world
And blacken out the sky and every last one of you
Like a plague of locusts
Like an exit, like an end, like the end
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
(Breathe, breathe, breathe)
Break through the surface and
I am forgiven, I am free
I am the field on fire
I am forgiven, I am free
I am the field on fire
I am forgiven, I am free
I am the field on fire
I am forgiven, I am free
I am the field on fire
It's getting hard to know which side is the dream
I can't tell if I am dreaming anymore
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