Nine Inch Nails

I hurt myself today,

To see if I'd 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.

I feel, my hatred grow all the more extreme.

She spreads herself wide open to let the insects in.

Sheleaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been.

She has the blood of reptile just underneath her skin.

Seeds from a thousand others drip down from within.

Oh my beautiful liar,

Oh my precious whore.

My disease my infection,

I am so impure.

I stay inside my bed

I have lived so many lives all in my head.

And don't tell me that you care

There really isn't anything now, is there?

You would know, wouldn't you?

You extend your hand to those who suffer

To those who know what it really feels like

To those who've had a taste like that means something.

And oh so sick I am

And maybe I don't have a choice.

And maybe that is all I have?

And maybe this is a cry for help?

Covered in hope and vaseline,

Still cannot fix this broken machine,

Watching the hole it used to be mine,

Just watching it burn in my steady systematic decline

Of the trust, I will betray.

Give it to me, I throw it away.

All of my fears came true.

Black and blue, and broken bones.

You left me here, i'm all alone.

My little piggy needed something new.

I used to be so big and strong,

I used to know my right from wrong,

I used to never be afraid,

I used to be somebody.

I used to have something inside,

Now just this hole that's open wide.

I used to want it all,

I used to be somebody.

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 would keep myself,

I would find a way.