Nine Inch Nails: Right Where It Belongs

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This song is so powerful to me when you mix the lyrics with the imagery. Notice that the crowd flips their middle fingers at Bush. Sadly Trent Reznor recently hinted that he's finished making music. The worst news that I've heard.

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Nine Inch Nails: Right Where It Belongs

See the animal in his cage that you built,
Are you sure what side you're on?
Better not look him too closely in the eye,
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on?
See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart
And it's all, right where it belongs

What if everything around you,
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is that all you want it to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks,
Would you find yourself, find yourself afraid to see?

What if all the worlds inside of your head,
Just creations of your own?
Your devils and your Gods, all the living and the dead
And you really are alone?
You could live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can't find the woods
While you're hiding in the trees

What if everything around you,
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you used to know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is that all you want it to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks,
Would you find yourself, find yourself afraid to see?

[Swamp Gas]

Pretty Cool and Serene song, although they keep you off balance with the shock aspect. Reznor actually has a pretty good voice.

[KNOWTHIS]

Trent is a very deep, emotional person. I’ve seen him cry on stage when performing some of these songs. You can tell that they are very personal and dear to him.

I still get the chills when I hear this song because it means so much to me as well. It questions reality in every sense. Is life but a very convincing dream-like illusion that we’ve all bought in to? Can we learn to see beyond the veil? If we could, would we even have the courage to see what’s on the other side? In a sense we are all just animals living in a cage that most of us are not even aware of yet. "Are you sure what side of the glass you are on"? We can however break free at any time. But the illusion is very cunning and tempting. It keeps sucking us back in to the matrix.

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article391138.ece
Top scientist asks: is life all just a dream?

“If that trend were to continue, then we can imagine computers which will be able to simulate worlds perhaps even as complicated as the one we think we’re living in.

“This raises the philosophical question: could we ourselves be in such a simulation and could what we think is the universe be some sort of vault of heaven rather than the real thing. In a sense we could be ourselves the creations within this simulation.”

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He cries in this one.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZYYiqNn8E4

[Swamp Gas]

Apr 9, 2009 3:48:15 GMT -5 KNOWTHIS said:

Top scientist asks: is life all just a dream?

A Dream Within a Dream

Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep - while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

[KNOWTHIS]

Nice classic poem. It still holds true today. Deep thinkers of years past.