| Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This is my first post here, so feel free to ignore me because I'm a newbie and, therefor, a complete idiot. The way I think of this is, the "character" in the album never actually kills himself. He's not that lucky. In both of these last two songs, the suicide is just an idle fantasy that he never goes through with. In "The Downward Spiral," the screams and such are a metaphor for his mad desperation to make the pain go away. In the song "Hurt," he gets his wish; it doesn't hurt anymore. The pain is gone, but he has become so dehumanized that there's nothing else left. He is the living dead. |
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