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02. Wish

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
This is the first day of my last days
Built it up now 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 but I can't turn back
But I want to but I can't turn back
But I want to but I can't turn back
But I want to but I can't turn back
But I want to but I can't turn back
But I want to but I can't turn back
But I want to but I can't turn back

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

03. Last

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
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 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 fix me up
Come come gotta let me inside of you
Come come come on you've gotta fill me up
Come come gotta let me get through to you

This isn't meant to last
This is for right now
This isn't meant to last
This is for right now
This isn't meant to last
This is for right now
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 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
This isn't meant to last
This is for right now
This isn't meant to last
This is for right now
This isn't meant to last
This is for right now
This isn't meant to last (I wish I could put)
This is for right now (the blame on you)
This isn't meant to last (I wish I could put)
This is for right now (the blame on you)
This isn't meant to last (I wish I could put)
This is for right now (the blame on you)
This isn't meant to last (I wish I could put)
This is for right (the blame on)

I want you to make me
I want you to take me
I want you to break me
And I want you to throw me away
I want you to make me
I want you to take me
I want you to break me
And I want you to throw me away
I want you to make me
I want you to take me
I want you to break me
And I want you to throw me away
I want you to make me
I want you to take me
I want you to break me
And I want you to throw me away

05. Happiness In Slavery

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
Slave screams he think 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
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
Happiness in slavery
Happiness in slavery
Happiness in slavery
Happiness

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

Happiness in slavery
Happiness in slavery
Happiness in slavery (slavery)
Happiness in slavery (slavery)
Happiness in slavery (slavery)
Happiness in slavery (slavery)
Happiness (slavery)
Happiness (slavery)
Happiness (slavery)
Happiness (slavery)
Happiness (slavery)
Happiness (slavery)
Happiness (slavery)
Happiness (slavery)
Happiness (slavery)
Happiness (slavery)
Happiness
Happiness (slavery)
Happiness (it controls you, it controls you)
Happiness (it controls you, it controls you)
Happiness (it controls you, it controls you)
Happiness (it controls you)

06. Gave Up

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
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
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
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 me
Smashed up my everything
Smashed up all that was true
Gonna smash myself to pieces
I don't know what else to do

Covered with 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

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 me
Smashed up my everything
Smashed up all that was true
Gonna smash myself to pieces
I don't know what else to do

I tried
I gave up
I tried
I gave up
I tried
I gave up
I tried
I gave up
I tried
I gave up
I tried
I gave up
I tried
I gave up
I tried
And I gave up

Smashed up my sanity
Smashed up integrity
Smashed up what I believed in
Smashed up what's left of me
Smashed up my everything
Smashed up all that was true
Gonna smash myself to pieces
I don't know what else to do (throw it away)

Smashed up my sanity
Smashed up integrity (throw it away)
Smashed up what I believed in
Smashed up what's left of me (throw it away)
Smashed up my everything
Smashed up all that was true (throw it away)
Gonna smash myself to pieces
I don't know what else to do (throw it away)

Smashed up my sanity
Smashed up integrity (throw it away)
Smashed up what I believed in
Smashed up what's left of me (throw it away)
Smashed up my everything
Smashed up all that was true (throw it away)
Gonna smash myself to pieces
I don't know what else to do (throw it away)

Smashed up my everything
Smashed up all that was true (throw it away)
Gonna smash myself to pieces
I don't know what else to do (throw it away)
(throw it away)
(throw it away)
(throw it away)
(throw it away)

07. Physical

Music & lyrics by Adam Ant, Marco Pirroni
(Eat your heart out Steve)

I wanna take you maybe
I wanna take you out
I wanna wine and dine you
Oh I wanna twist and twist and shout
I want you hot in my arms
So soft on my bed
You get the key to my heart
Oh when you wear that sweet dress

But you're too physical
Physical
To me
You're just too physical
Physical no
To me

I want your rough house baby
I want this right in your ear
You let me feel your danger
I let you make this feeling clear here
I want the touch of your charms
The heat of your breath
I wanna say all those things
That would be better unsaid
No

But you're too physical
Physical
To me
You're just too physical
Oh
You're too physical
For me
You're too physical
To me
You're really just too
Just too
Just too
Really fuck
No

God damn it

You're just too physical
You're just too physical
Too fucking physical
No, no, no, no, no, no
Oh you're too physical
Just too physical
Just too

08. Suck

Music & lyrics by Atkins, Rieflin, Barker, Reznor
There is no god up in the sky tonight
No sign of heaven anywhere in sight
All that was true is left behind
Once I could see now I am blind
Don't want your dreams you try to sell
This disease I give to myself

How does it feel?
How does it feel?

She makes it sweeter than the sun
I get too tight I come undone
I bow my head to confess
The temple walls are made of flesh
Runs up my arms 'till I'm on track
Itches my skin right off my back
I'll heal your wounds
I'll set you free
I'm Jesus Christ on ecstasy

How does it feel?
How does it feel?

I am so dirty on
On the inside
I am so dirty on
On the inside
I am so dirty on
On the inside
I am so dirty on
On the inside

No

How does it feel?
How does it feel?

Suck (suck)
Suck (suck)
Suck (suck)
Suck (suck)

A thousand lips a thousand tongues
A thousand throats a thousand lungs
A thousand ways to make it true
I want to do terrible things to you