Nine Inch Nails

Performed 89 times
First time: June 13, 2018
Last time: September 19, 2025

focus?
we didn't even notice
we awake in a place we can barely recognize, yeah
hypnosis
and you can justify it all your back was up against the wall again
(shut up)
silence
add a little violence
and offend and pretend and defend and demand my compliance
and you can always justify the missile trails across the sky
again

so what are you waiting for?
you got what you asked for
did it fix what was wrong with you?
are you less than?
go and look what you gone done
welcome oblivion
did it fix what was wrong with you?
are you less than?

needful
too many fucking people
you'll have to take care of yourselves (you know i've got my hands full)
and you can always justify the missile trails across the sky
again

so what are you waiting for?
you got what you asked for
did it fix what was wrong with you?
are you less than?
go and look what you gone done
come on welcome oblivion
did it fix what was wrong inside?
are you less than?

Performed 69 times
First time: June 13, 2018
Last time: August 22, 2025

[part one]

(i can hear you breathing)
i’ve slipped out of time again
leaving all of you behind
and i’m free
to return to the place where i already am
and have always been
if i just really looked and allowed myself
to see

the confusion is seducing me warm, flowing
wide his eyes
summer
hypnotize they see inside of me
hot swollen skin want me take me perfect embrace
black and bloody
rotten and perfect
the center has moved on and all that’s left is free
finally
finally
everyone seems to be asleep but me

take me
into the arms of the lovers
free
take me into the arms of the lovers

[part two]

oh i see you floating there
how could i ever hope to forget
always rearranging
these words are a lie a mirror reflecting in a mirror of a lie
a light shines still always
shadows in every word
beneath black eaves
please don’t leave me here
i could stop it
maybe i could stop it (if i wanted to)
but i’m not the one driving anymore
i know who i am
but i know who i am
right?
(please don't leave me here with you)

take me
into the arms of the lovers
free into the arms of the lovers
into the arms of the lovers
please
into the arms of the lovers

i am free
into the arms of the lovers

Performed 23 times
First time: September 13, 2018
Last time: September 13, 2022

and if you see my friend
i thought i would again
a single thin straight line
i thought we had more time
carry me
carry me home

surprise
i must have let it get in
started to turn into somebody else
yeah i found myself believing
tick tock tick
time
my feet are nailed to the floor
i always thought we would get there somehow
i always thought there'd be
more

well not anymore
well not anymore
well not anymore

mouth taped shut
crippled and frozen with fear
that maybe happens to somebody else
no that doesn't happen round here
i won’t forget i know who i am
no matter what i know who i am
and what i’m doing this for

well not anymore
well not anymore
well not anymore
and i can't seem to wake up

Performed 8 times
First time: June 15, 2018
Last time: December 8, 2018

you left me here
what am i supposed to do?
i never dared to look inside
just like you told me to
i'm going into you again
and i know you saw it too
and i will keep myself awake
i know what’s coming
i feel it reaching through
there is no moving past
there is no better place
there is no future point in time
we will not get away

the world is bleeding out
it folds itself in two
behind the background world
is always bleeding through

are you sure this is what you want?
as hard as you try not to see it