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Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Track: Hurt

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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

And 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
Upon my liars 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

And 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 will keep myself
I would find a way
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Nine Inch Nails - Hurt Lyrics
The song lyrics seem to be from a heroin addict/dealers perspective. The references to the needle and killing pain. Dirt is a street term for heroin so his ...
Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover) Lyrics
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Nine Inch Nails - Only Lyrics
And that any concept of what other people are thinking, are imaginary to him (I just made you up to hurt myself). And his realization of this is strange, ...
Nine Inch Nails - In Two Lyrics
Split, split into. Something else. Shed your precious skin. Save yourself. Bleed, have to purge. What you were. Yes, yes, of course. It's gonna hurt
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt (Quiet) Lyrics
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David Bowie - Hurt (with Nine Inch Nails) Lyrics
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Nine Inch Nails - Ruiner Lyrics
How did you get so long? What you gave to me. My perfect ring of scars. You know I can see what you really are. You didn't hurt me nothing ...
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Nine Inch Nails - Hurt [Multimedia Track] Lyrics
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i can't believe that what i feel is finally happening to me make it hurt and point a finger at my insecurites well i guess i just don't understand
Sevendust - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover) Lyrics
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In Flames - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover) Lyrics
Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it. “I overthink and have trouble sleepin' / All purpose ...
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... hurt it only helps it grow. Taking all you need (but not this time) No, you ... It's super easy, we promise! Artists - N · Nine Inch Nails · The Fragile · No, You ...
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This is the probably the hurtiest part-- right after the heartbreak, after you're told it'll never work, that you'll only ever be friends. You put on a brave, ...
Nine Inch Nails - Sin Lyrics
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Nine Inch Nails - Home Lyrics
Everything is catching up with me. I awake to find I'm not at all where I should be. And it feels I'm getting to the end. And it's hard to figure out
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Nine Inch Nails - Please Lyrics
Why practice relationship skills when you can just be in denial?! No one gets hurt, right? "all the sin". he's trying the denial thing out. Tryin to hate ...
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I disagree with most of these comments. I think a lot of people just want to attribute the use of the term pigs to cops because they're angsty teens and dislike ...
Nine Inch Nails - 1,000,000 Lyrics
In Hurt he was thinking "wow, maybe it wouldnt suck if i was somewhere else entirely," and now he is saying "well here i am, and it still sucks.".
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Well you've got me working so hard lately. Working my hands until they bleed. If I was twice the man I could be. I'd still be half of what you need
Nine Inch Nails - Underneath It All Lyrics
I'm sorry but not every song can be about some lover who hurt Trent or some relationship that went sour. If that's the case music certaintly lacks any depth ...
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I pick things up. I am a collector. And things, well things. They tend to accumulate. I have this net. It drags behind me. It picks up feelings
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Nine Inch Nails - Head Down Lyrics
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Nine Inch Nails - The Day The World Went Away (Quiet) Lyrics
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Well, you've got me working so hard lately. Working my hands until they bleed. If I was twice the man I could be. I'd still be half of what you need
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Nine Inch Nails - Closer Lyrics
This is a song about someone who hates themselves and finds an escape in mindless sex. This is in no way a happy party song either. He gets closer to god ...
Nine Inch Nails - Everything Lyrics
Yes, me, too. It makes me happy. And proud, which sounds weird, maybe. I think it took a lot of courage for Trent Reznor to release a joyful and ernest song ...
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I'm gonna watch you drown. I will light the match that burns it all down. You got addicted, deep in. Cast your spells. All the little piggies cannot help ...
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He's being subconsciously summoned to her. He wants to avoid it because, perhaps, it's hurt him in the past, but he's having trouble resisting. "I should not ...
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P3N1X is an ass. trent would hate him also, something like this was up on the official page as a message to him. fuck P3N1X . and fuck anyone who agrees with ...
Nine Inch Nails - The Wretched Lyrics
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Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile Lyrics
Reznor, but I like to pretend he wrote this just for me. It's about watching someone he loves slip further & further away into hurt and sadness, and being ...
Nine Inch Nails - Reptile Lyrics
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Genius Meanings
Nine Inch Nails – Hurt
“Hurt” is the last song on Nine Inch Nails' most popular album, The Downward Spiral, which was released in 1994. The track is riddled with fuzz, distortion, and choppy audio while
Johnny Cash – Hurt
This song, originally written and performed by Nine Inch Nails, is of disputed meaning: is it about self harm, doing heroin, or both? Either way, no matter if it reflects Cash’s
Nine Inch Nails – Ruiner
Trent Reznor stated it was “the hardest song to write” for the record in a 1994 interview. “I still don’t know if I got it right,” he said. “I have such a bad vibe from that song
Nine Inch Nails – Closer
“Closer” is one of Nine Inch Nails‘ more famous songs, and was released as Halo 9 (with different US and UK versions), the second single from their second studio album The Downward
Nine Inch Nails – Piggy
“Piggy” is the second track from Nine Inch Nail’s 1994 album The Downward Spiral. The song was released as a promotional-only single, and as such did not receive a Halo number.
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Meaning of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails
The song "Hurt" is a dark and introspective examination of how one has hurt themselves and others in the past, and how one's world has diminished because o...
Genius Artists
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails is an industrial rock project led by multi-instrumentalist Trent Reznor, the only constant member for many years until Atticus Ross officially joined in 2016, often