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01. The Eater Of Dreams

Music by Trent Reznor, Alessandro Cortini
[instrumental]

02. Copy Of A

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
I am just a copy of a copy of a copy
Everything I say has come before
Assembled into something into something into something
I don't knoe for certain anymore
I am just a shadow of a shadow of a shadow
Always trying to catch up with myself
I am just an echo of an echo of an echo
Listening to someone's cry for help

Look what you had to start
Why all the change of heart?
You need to play your part
A copy of a copy of a
Now look what you've gone and done
Well that doesn't sound like fun
See I'm not the only one
A copy of a copy of

I am little pieces little pieces little pieces
Pieces that we picked up on the way
Imprinted with a purpose with a purpose with a purpose
A purpose that's become quite clear today

I am just a finger on a trigger on a finger
Doing everything I'm told to do
Always my intention my intention your intention
Doing everything you tell me to

Look what you had to start
Why all the change of heart?
You need to play your part
Copy of a copy of a
Now look what you've gone and done
Well that doesn't sound like fun
See I'm not the only one
A copy of a copy of a

03. Came Back Haunted

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
The throat is deep and the mouth is wide
Saw some things on the other side
Made me promise to never tell
You know me I can't help myself, no
Now I got something you have to see
They put something inside of me
The smile is red and its eyes are black
I don't think I'll be coming back

I don't believe and I
I had to see
Came back haunted
Came back haunted
I said goodbye and I
I had to try and I
Came back haunted
Came back haunted

Everywhere now reminding me
I am not who I used to be
I'm afraid this has just begun
Consequences for what I've done

I don't believe and I
I had to see
Came back haunted
Came back haunted
I said goodbye and I
I had to try and I
Came back haunted
Came back haunted
You tried to tell me but I
I couldn't stop myself now I
Came back haunted
Came back haunted

Just can't stop
Came back haunted

04. Find My Way

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
Lord my path has gone astray
I'm just trying to find my way
Wandered here from far away
I'm just trying to find my way
You were never meant to see
All those things inside of me
Now that you have gone away
I'm just trying to find my way

I have made a great mistake
Pray the lord my soul to take
The ghosts of who I used to be
I can feel them come for me
It looks as thought you're here to stay
I'm just trying to find my way

I have been to every place
I have been to everywhere
I'm just trying to find my way
Oh dear lord hear my prayer

05. All Time Low

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
Go
I've heard all I need to know
Your voice in fucking echo stereo
Well this particular scenario
Looks like another all time low
Why did you go and let them in
See this is where the fun begins
You haven't even pierced the skin
Just wait till you see what is coming

Get down on the floor
Shut the goddamn door
Been down this road before
We're coming back for more

So give me just a little baby
Just something to get by
This is gonna last forever baby
We'll get to the other side
And we will live forever baby
And stretch across the sky
I will follow right behind you baby
We are never gonna die

Hey
Everything is not okay
We lost too much along the way
The passengers arrived today
It looks as though they're here to stay
This paranoia turns to fear
Just who was whispering in your ear?
Pretending but I know you hear
(just how'd we fucking end up here?)

So give me just a little baby
Just something to get by
This is gonna last forever baby
We'll get to the other side
And we will live forever baby
And stretch across the sky
I will follow right behind you baby
We are never gonna die

We're never gonna die
How did we get so high?

06. Disappointed

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
If I were you
I wouldn't trust
A single word
I say
Think by now
You should know
Nothing's going
To change
All of this
Theater
I wouldn't waste
Your voice
Comes a day
You figure out
You never had
A choice
(and I am part of the reason)

Can I ask you something?
What did you expect?
So disappointed
With what you get
Do you ever want to
Just get out of here
Disappointed
Disappear

Look at you
Superman
With all the world
To save
You think by now
You'd figure out
That nothing's going
To change

Can I ask you something?
What did you expect?
So disappointed
With what you get
Do you ever want to
Just get out of here
Disappointed
Disappear

07. Everything

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
I survived everything
I have tried everything
Everything
And anything

All the walls begin to dissolve away
Feel your hands begin to shake
And just who you think you used to be
All begins to bend and break

Wave goodbye
Wish me well
I've become something else
Something else
(just as well, really)

But this thing that lives inside of me
Will surely rise and wake
And his seed that bleeds right through me
As it comes to grab and take

I am home
I believe
I am home
I am free
I am home
I can see
Always here
Finally

08. Satellite

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
Data trails
Like fingernails
Scratch across the sky
Hard to know
Figure out
Tell the truth from lies
Everywhere
Listening
Every word you say
Think I found
A way around
Yeah I think I found a way
Well, come on

Satellite
I'm watching you
I'm one step ahead
Satellite
I'm part of you
I'm inside your head

Yes we can
Yes we did
Eliminate the spread
Better watch
What you think
What was that you said?
Everywhere
Everything
And every word you say
Think I found
A way around
Yeah Ihink I found
A way

I know you're up there somewhere
So very high

09. Various Methods Of Escape

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
Hallucinate in high fidelity
The pieces of a plan
Construction of the highest quality
Built from my own hand
A line of lyric looping in my head
Nobody listening
I guess it really doesn't matter anymore
I guess it doesn't mean a thing

I've got to let it go
I've got to get straight
Why'd you have to make it so hard
Let me get away

An effigy wondrous to behold
A statement so profound
A place to bury every thing I did
And burn it to the ground
The fire illuminates our final scene
The past repeats itself
I can not tell the difference anymore
I can not trust myself

I've got to let it go
I've got to get straight
Why'd you have to make it so hard
Let me get away

10. Running

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
I followed you again this morning
Just close enough to feel you near
Pretending everyone could see me
Just slip away and dissapear

They're right behind they're so inclined they're all aligned we're undermined as good as blind I'm out of time
So hard to find so well-defined they're all aligned they're intertwined we're undermined they're so inclined
We're right behind so hard to find as good as blind I'm out of time

I'm running out of places I can hide from this
I'm running out of places I can hide from this
I'm running out of ways to keep on hiding this
I'm running out of places I can hide from this

I had a friend I think who knew me
I couldn't seem to make him stay
I know they're watching waiting for me
I know I'll never get away

I'm running out of ways to keep on hiding this
I'm running out of ways to keep on hiding this
I'm running out of places I can hide from this
I'm running out of ways to keep on hiding this

11. I Would For You

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
What a pathetic string of words
Just leave them lying on the floor
The warning posted on the door
Not over here not anymore
There was a place that could have been
Step over all that used to be
Since you've invited yourself in
Some things I'd rather you not see

See I keep lying to myself
Don't know what else there is to do
If I could be somebody else
Well, I think I would for you

Didn't seem like something more?
So long I can't remember when
And this has happened all before
And this will happen all again
And I only have myself to blame
And I only have myself to blame

See I keep lying to myself
Don't know what else there is to do
If I could be somebody else
Well, I think I would for you

12. In Two

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
Split,
Split into
Something else
Shed
Your precious skin
Save yourself
Bleed
Have to purge
What you were
Yes
Yes of course
This is going to hurt
Nature is violent
The very nature of this is violence
No no no no no that was someone else
No no no no no no no that wasn't me

It's getting harder to tell the two of you apart
It's getting harder to tell the two of you apart
I don't believe you can even remember which one you are
It's getting harder to tell the two of you apart

Thrive
Just become
Your disease
Leave
Them behind
You are free
Take
What you want
What you deserve
Yes
Yes of course
This is going to hurt

It's getting harder to tell the two of you apart
It's getting harder to tell the two of you apart
I don't believe you can even remember who you are
It's getting harder to tell the two of you apart

I just don't know anymore
I just don't know

13. While I'm Still Here

Music & lyrics by Trent Reznor
Only thing I've ever done
Ticking time is running out
Closest I have ever come
Ticking time is running out
Oh so tired on my own
Ticking time is running out
Best days I have ever known
Ticking time is running out

Yesterday. I found out the world was ending

A little more
Every day
Falls apart
Slips away
Well I don't mind
I'm ok
Wish it didn't have to end this way

These four walls are closing in
Ticking time is running out
Oh all the things that might have been
Ticking time is running out
Watch young lovers walking by
Ticking time is running out
God forgive me if I cry
Ticking time is running out

A little more
Every day
Falls apart
Slips away
I don't mind
I'm ok
Nothing ever
Stays the same
While we can
Remember when
We always were
Yes, even then
Stay with me
Hold me near
While I'm still here

14. Black Noise

Music by Trent Reznor
[instrumental]