Nine Inch Nails

The Only Time

Duration: 4:47 • BPM: 94 • ninwiki
Appearances
Pretty Hate Machine (October 20, 1989)
Live
Performed 189 times
First time: October 21, 1988
Last time: February 14, 1995
Personnel
Composer(s):
Trent Reznor
Producer(s):
John Fryer , Keith LeBlanc , Trent Reznor
Engineer(s):
Doug DeAngelis , Flood , Kennan Keating , Keith LeBlanc , Ken Quartarone
Mixer(s):
Keith LeBlanc
Lyrics
i'm drunk
and right now i'm so in love with you
and i don't want to think too much about what we should or shouldn't do
lay my hands on heaven and the sun and the moon and the stars
while the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car
nothing quite like the feel of something new

maybe i'm all messed up
maybe i'm all messed up in you

but this is the only time i really feel alive
this is the only time i really feel alive

i swear
i just found everything i need
the sweat in your eyes the blood in your veins are listening to me
well i want to rip it up and swim in it until i drown
my moral standing is lying down
nothing quite like the feel of something new

maybe i'm all messed up
maybe i'm all messed up in you

but this is the only time i really feel alive
this is the only time i really feel alive

i can't help thinking christ never had it like this