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i can't believe
that what i feel
is finally happening to me
make it hurt
and point a finger
at my insecurites
well i guess i just don't understand
about those complexities in your mind
and i guess i just don't understand
why this world seems so unkind
maybe
maybe just one
i get just what's coming
maybe
maybe just once
i get what's coming to me
so once again
the way you feel
you'll never ever stay the same
and i'm to blame
i wonder just who made
the rules up for this game
well i guess i just don't understand
about what you want and what you need
and i guess i just don't understand
about why this is how it has to be
maybe
maybe just one
i get just what's coming
maybe
maybe just once
i get what's coming to me
so go around
you say those thousand things
you think you have to say
look at me
and tell me love's not such
a hard word word anyway
well how can you can count on me
i thought you realized for sure
and how can you just believe
i thought i deserved a little more
maybe
maybe just once
i get what's coming
maybe
maybe just once
i get what's coming to me
oh god
what's coming
oh god
what's coming to me
that what i feel
is finally happening to me
make it hurt
and point a finger
at my insecurites
well i guess i just don't understand
about those complexities in your mind
and i guess i just don't understand
why this world seems so unkind
maybe
maybe just one
i get just what's coming
maybe
maybe just once
i get what's coming to me
so once again
the way you feel
you'll never ever stay the same
and i'm to blame
i wonder just who made
the rules up for this game
well i guess i just don't understand
about what you want and what you need
and i guess i just don't understand
about why this is how it has to be
maybe
maybe just one
i get just what's coming
maybe
maybe just once
i get what's coming to me
so go around
you say those thousand things
you think you have to say
look at me
and tell me love's not such
a hard word word anyway
well how can you can count on me
i thought you realized for sure
and how can you just believe
i thought i deserved a little more
maybe
maybe just once
i get what's coming
maybe
maybe just once
i get what's coming to me
oh god
what's coming
oh god
what's coming to me
Lyrics submitted by iNclet
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I personally love this song, even though it's a tad new wave-y. You can really tell that this was done during his transition from the Exotic Birds to NIN.
"Of course, Beth. I mean, there was plenty of girls around for a quick pop. That's what I wanted. But I gotta tell you, you were good."
I haven't seen the start in any of the lyrics I've come across. Maybe I just have a different version?
Beginning: "...not just because you could do stuff to me, but because you really cared..." and there's more but you probably get the gist
Midpoint: "..so we st down on his (this?) bed, and he said (price?) wheat the hell do you think this place is..." as above, you get it if you've heard it.
it's always piqued my curiosity
BTW, Maybe Just Once is one of my three fav NIN songs, the others being "A Warm Place" and "La Mer"
But I still like it. : ]
Come on people.... this song was written way before he discovered Marilyn Manson and while Courtney Love was trying to graduate high school...
"maybe, just once, i'l get what's coming to me."
At any rate, this song can be taken one of two ways, which is up to us, the audience (which is why music/poetry are such great mediums):
either
1) the speaker has been hurt too many times and wants "true love" like everyone else seems to have (good karma), as seems to be the case in Verse 1 and seemingly Verse 2.
"maybe, just once, i'l get what's coming to me."
or
2) the speaker realizes he has hurt too many females he's dated and, after his last encounter, realizes that eventually he will be hurt = (bad karma); Verse 2 (from a certain point of view) and Verse 3.
"maybe, just once, i'l get what's coming to me."
Even the ending is cryptic:
"oh god what's coming, oh god what's coming to me"
Is the speaker reacting to Love or to Heartbreak?
"maybe, just once, i'l get what's coming to me."
Throughtout the song, his tone of voice, and the lyrics in general, don't really reveal the emotion one way or the other.
"maybe, just once, i'l get what's coming to me."
In my opinion, this song all comes down to one thing: personal perspective.
At least, in my opinion.
"maybe, just once, i'l get what's coming to me."
However, I'm sure Trent Reznor is a real prick, he's obviously arrogant. I mean, when I saw him live he said to the audience, "what was that, did you say Rob Zombie sucks?" Haha. His asshole persona is pretty funny and almost attractive, but I'm sure it screws up alot of things in his personal life and is damaging to relationships. But still...a long time, maybe he was just a really nice guy that kept getting hurt. I wouldn't know though, I'm just a fan, not his shrink.