Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks Album Lyrics

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The Eater Of Dreams

[Instrumental]

 

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Copy Of A

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 am never certain anymore

I am just a shadow of a shadow of a shadow
Always trying to catch up with my self
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
Well you need to play your part
A copy of a copy of a
Look what you gone and done
Well that doesn't sound like fun
So I'm not the only one
A copy of a copy of

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

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

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
Just doing everything you tell me to

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

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

 

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Came Back Haunted

Ha-ha-haunted

The throat is deep and the mouth is wide
Saw some things on the other side
Made me promise to never tell
But you know me, I can't help myself

Now I've 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 it
I had to see it
I came back haunted
I came back haunted

I said goodbye but I
I had to try
I came back haunted
C-c-c-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, yeah

I don't believe it
I had to see it
I came back, I came back haunted
C-c-c-came back haunted

I said goodbye but I
I had to try
I came back, I came back haunted
I c-c-c-came back haunted

I don't believe it
I had to see it
I came back, I came back haunted
C-c-c-came back haunted

I said goodbye but I
I had to try
I came back, I came back haunted
C-c-c-came back haunted

They tried to tell me but I
I couldn't stop myself and I
I came back, I came back haunted
C-c-c-came back haunted

Just can't
Stop
Came back ha-ha-haunted
[x9]

Just can't
Stop

 

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Find My Way

Now my path has gone astray
I'm just tryin' to find my way
Wandered here from far away
I'm just tryin' to find my way...

You were never meant to see
All those things inside of me
Now that you've gone away
I'm just tryin' to find my way...

Uh uh uh ohhh...
Uh uh uh ohhh...
Uh uh uh ohhh... (Ooooooooh)
Uh uh uh ohhh...

I have made a great mistake
Pray The Lord my soul to take
Ghosts of who we used to be
I can feel them come for me
It looks as thought they're here to stay
I'm just tryin' to find my way...

Uh uh uh ohhh...
Uh uh uh ohhh... (Ooooooooh)
Uh uh uh ohhh...
Uh uh uh ohhh...

I have been to everyplace
I have been to everywhere
I'm just tryin' to find my way...

(All I got so far)

 

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All Time Low

Go
I've heard all I need to know
Your voice in fucking echo stereo
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 barely even pierced the skin
Just wait 'til you see what has come in

Get down on the floor
Shut the god damn door
We'll do this all before
They're coming back for more

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

Hey
Everything is not okay
We lost too much along the way
The passengers are out today
It looks as though they're here to stay
This paranoia turns to fear
This too is whispering in your ear
Pretending but I know you hear
That's how we fucking end up here

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

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

Stretch across the sky
Stretch across the sky
Stretch across the sky
Stretch across the sky
Stretch across the sky
Stretch across the sky
Stretch across the sky
Stretch across the sky

 

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Disappointed

If I were you I wouldn't trust
A single word I say
Think by now you should know
That nothing's gonna change

Can I ask you something; what did you expect
So disappointed with what you get
Do you ever want to just get outta here
So disappointed; just disappear

Look at you, Superman
With all the world to change
Think by now you'd figure out
That nothing's gonna change
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 outta here
So disappointed; just disappear

 

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Everything

I survived everything
I have tried everything
Everything everything
And anything

All the walls begin to dissolve away
Do your hands begin to shake, shake, shake, shake, shake?
And just do what you think you used to be
All begins to bend then break, break, break, break

Wave goodbye
Wish me well
I've become
Something else
Something else, something else
It's just the world

But this thing that lives inside of me
The sound that rocks awake, awake, awake, awake, break
And if he depletes what's owed to me
And he comes to grab and take and take and take

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

 

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Satellite

Do your trails, like fingernails
Scratch across, the sky?
Hard to know, figure out
Tell the truth, from lies
Everywhere, listening
Ever word, you say
Think I found, a way around
Ya think I found, a way

Come on
Come on
Come on
Come on
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, despair
Better watch, what you think
What was that, you said?
Everywhere, and everything
And every word, you say
Think I found, a way out
Think I found, a way

Come on

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

Satellite
Satellite, I know you're up there somewhere
Satellite, I know you're up there somewhere
Satellite, (so very high)
I know you're up there somewhere
Satellite, (so very high)
I know you're up there somewhere
Satellite, (so very high)
I know you're up there somewhere
Satellite, (so very high)
I know you're up there somewhere
Satellite, (so very high)
I know you're up there somewhere
Satellite, (so very high)
I know you're up there somewhere
So very high
So very high

 

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Various Methods Of Escape

Hallucinate in high fidelity
The pieces of a plan
Extraction of the highest quality
Blood from my own hand
A line of lyric looping through my head
Nobody listening
It doesn't really matter anymore
Yes it doesn't mean a thing

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

An eye for chasing wonders to behold
Statements so profound
A place to bury everything I did
And burn it to the ground
A fire illuminates the final scene
The past repeats itself
I cannot tell the difference anymore
I cannot trust myself

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

I think
I could
Lose myself in here
I think
I could
Lose myself in here
I think
I could
Lose myself in here
I think
I could
Lose myself in here

I've gotta let go
I've gotta get straight
Why'd you have to make it so hard
Let me get away
Got to let him go
Find another way
Why'd you have to make it so hard
Let me get away

 

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Running

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
There's someone behind you
They're all behind you,
They're on the run
As good as blind,
I'm out of time
Somewhere to find,
So well defined
They're all aligned
They're intertwined
You're undermined
There's someone behind
They recognize,
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 places I can hide from this
I'm running out of places I can hide from this

I had a friend, I think you knew me
I couldn't seem to make you see
I know they're watching me and falling
I know I'll never get away

I'm running out of places I can hide from this
(I'm running out)

 

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I Would For You

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 it used to be
Since you have let yourself come in
Somethings 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 It seemed like something more
So long I can't remember when
All 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
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

 

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In Two

Split,
Split into
Something else
Shed
Precious skin.
Save yourself.
We
Have to purge
What you were.

Yes,
Yes of course,
It's gonna hurt.

Nature is violent
The very nature of this is violent
No, 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 can't believe they can ever remember which one you are
It's getting harder to tell the two of you apart

Slide,
Just become
Your disease.
Leave
Them behind.
You are free.
Take
What you want.
You deserve.

Yes,
Yes of course,
This is gonna hurt.

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

I just don't know anymore [10x]
I just don't know

 

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While I'm Still Here

Only thing I've ever done
/Ticking time is running out/

Closest I've ever come
/Ticking time is running out/

Oh so tired on my own
/Ticking time is running out/

Best days I've ever known
/Ticking time is running out/

Yesterday I found out the world was ending
Yesterday I found out the world was ending

A little more
every day
falls apart and
slips away

I don't mind
I'm okay
wish it didn't
have to end this way


These four walls are closing in
/Ticking time is running out/

Of all the things that might have been
/Ticking time is running out/ yeah

Watch young lovers walking by
/Ticking time is running out/ yeah

God forgive me if I cry
/Ticking time is running out/

A little more
every day
falls apart and
slips away

I don't mind
I'm okay
nothing ever
stays the same

While we can
remember when
always running
even then

Stay with me
hold me near

And I'm still here

 

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Black Noise

[Instrumental]