Nine Inch Nails – Another Version of the Truth

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"Another Version of the Truth" as written by Trent Reznor

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    General Comment:It starts out I picture a man playing piano.. a memory maybe.. then when the music comes in I think of him looking over a destroyed world..
    Flag DJgifon April 19, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I think, like a lot of songs on Year Zero this song is purely to create an image.

    The Great Destroyer ends with chaotic noise, the sound of the world being destroyed by The Presence or whatever... then quiet building piano comes in. When everything goes clear, that's the moment when people see "the world they set on fire" and realise they've been brainwashed by the government's version of the truth.

    I love Trent's instrumentals... =]
    Flag weemansyndrome256on May 05, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:kileak,

    which ff7 song are you referring to? Ive searched and searched and cant find one that sounds like another version of another version (bad joke)

    I think this song really sounds like art decade by david bowie though
    Flag bangbus151on January 05, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This song gives me goosebumps.


    To Zygmunt83;
    If you were very curious, perhaps you'd have googled "Another Version of The Truth". Basically after downloading the album as a casual NIN fan, I found myself propelled into Year Zero and now nearly obsessed with NIN, and this song is what caused that. I'm glad I googled Another Version of The Truth that day.
    Flag capital ton September 06, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I agree with a lot of what other people have said. I think it's a follow up to the song Meet Your Master. In meet your master, i think a group of rebels or the aliens have captured a politician from America, and begin showing him the truth. at first he resists, or shrugs it off, staying in his "it's all good" mindset. this is when the static is. but, eventually he realizes all the atrocities and wrongs that humanity has committed, and the state they have put the world in, and that the end is near. this is when the sound stops, and piano completely takes over.
    this is a great instrumental. it's not a warm place, but it's still awesome.
    Flag zach_massacreon May 26, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Not sure if anyone has said this, I just quickly scanned the comments, but it sounds almost like you could put this song and "In This Twilight" together into one song, like "Another Version of The Truth In This Twilight" - another way to look at the darkness all this has plunged our world into. I feel he may be saying that it's better that we've destroyed the perversion that we turned our world into, and we start again from nothing. All the lights are out, and civilization has to start anew. Just a thought that came to my mind..anyone else?
    Flag PatientOneon April 01, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:This song is amazing! And has anyone heard the Kronos Quartet cover of this? (It's on Halo: 25)
    Flag bane IIon January 09, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Anyone else notice that the piano part in the beginning is an exact copy of the theme song to Final Fantasy VII?
    Flag Kileakon October 16, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I think it's just to slow the pace of the album down for the last two songs. It's a pretty song, just definately not one to listen to in the car.....
    Flag PikachusNightmareon September 03, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i always listen to this when i ride the bus through my shithole town of Dorchester, MA. It gives me hope and provides some kind of sanctuary in my head. Call me crazy but i love it.
    Flag aocrkidon June 04, 2007   Link

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