Personally this song identifies with my life in the sense of rejection leading into worse thoughts. Once rejected... fear overcomes you and that makes it even harder to try again, and again. The more you fail, the more you blame yourself, hence the great below. It's yourself making yourself go lower, and lower, yet you can still feel the pain lower and lower. Once you hit the Great Below, or sever depression, its so hard to climb back up. This brings sadness because of the loss of confidence. It's about a kind of death, but not actual death. I believe it's a part of you dying and it keeps getting pulled away until it hits rock bottom. And the roots of how your mentality got there are still apparent, hence why you can still feel the original source of the disease.
I thank Trent Reznor for expressing his emotions, ideas, thoughts and accidents through his art. I can connect and identify on so many levels that I don't know if I'd be any better than I am now after hearing his talent.
Personally this song identifies with my life in the sense of rejection leading into worse thoughts. Once rejected... fear overcomes you and that makes it even harder to try again, and again. The more you fail, the more you blame yourself, hence the great below. It's yourself making yourself go lower, and lower, yet you can still feel the pain lower and lower. Once you hit the Great Below, or sever depression, its so hard to climb back up. This brings sadness because of the loss of confidence. It's about a kind of death, but not actual death. I believe it's a part of you dying and it keeps getting pulled away until it hits rock bottom. And the roots of how your mentality got there are still apparent, hence why you can still feel the original source of the disease. I thank Trent Reznor for expressing his emotions, ideas, thoughts and accidents through his art. I can connect and identify on so many levels that I don't know if I'd be any better than I am now after hearing his talent.