Lyrics for Popular Nine Inch Nails' Songs

The Nine Inch Nails have created a number of hits in the years of their musical existence. The lyrics to their songs are deep, sometimes vulgar and always rich in meaning. The following are the lyrics for some of the popular songs by Nine Inch Nails.

"Closer"

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 wanna fuck you like an animal.
I wanna feel you from the inside.
I wanna 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 wanna fuck you like an animal.
I wanna feel you from the inside.
I wanna 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.

"Hurt"

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,
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
On 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.

"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.

"March of the Pigs"

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.

Now doesn't that make you feel better?
The pigs have won tonight,
Now they can all sleep soundly
and everything is all right. ight.