Lyric discussion by christkilla 

For the person who asked what does "Head like a hole" mean I would venture to guess that he means to say empty headed.

As for the meaning of the song, I recall reading an interview with Reznor in an underground magazine back when this album first came out and no one had really heard of him yet. In the interview he discussed how he had been raised by his ultra religious grandparents on a farm in, I believe it was, Pennsylvania. He spoke of how the album was at the same time about both his loathing of religion and his love affair with his crack pipe.

Based on that, I'll leave it to ya'll to decide what this song is actually about :-)

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