Somewhat Damaged Lyrics
So impressed with all you do
Tried so hard to be like you
Flew too high and burnt the wing
Lost my faith in everything
Lick around divine debris
Taste the wealth of hate in me
Shedding skin, succumb defeat
This machine is obsolete
Made the choice to go away
Drink the fountain of decay
Tear a hole, exquisite red
Fuck the rest and stab it dead
Broken, bruised, forgotten, sore
Too fucked up to care anymore
Poisoned to my rotten core
Too fucked up to care anymore
Broken, bruised, forgotten, sore
Too fucked up to care anymore
Poisoned to my rotten core
Too fucked up to care anymore
In the back, off the side, and far away
Is a place where I hide, where I stay
Tried to say, tried to ask, I needed to
All alone by myself, where were you?
How could I ever think, it's funny how
Everything that swore it wouldn't change is different now
Just like you would always say, we'll make it through
Then my head fell apart and where were you?
How could I ever think, it's funny how
Everything you swore would never change is different now
Like you said, you and me make it through
Didn't quite, fell apart, where the fuck were you?
Tried so hard to be like you
Flew too high and burnt the wing
Lost my faith in everything
Lick around divine debris
Taste the wealth of hate in me
Shedding skin, succumb defeat
This machine is obsolete
Made the choice to go away
Drink the fountain of decay
Tear a hole, exquisite red
Fuck the rest and stab it dead
Broken, bruised, forgotten, sore
Too fucked up to care anymore
Poisoned to my rotten core
Too fucked up to care anymore
Broken, bruised, forgotten, sore
Too fucked up to care anymore
Poisoned to my rotten core
Too fucked up to care anymore
In the back, off the side, and far away
Is a place where I hide, where I stay
Tried to say, tried to ask, I needed to
All alone by myself, where were you?
How could I ever think, it's funny how
Everything that swore it wouldn't change is different now
Just like you would always say, we'll make it through
Then my head fell apart and where were you?
How could I ever think, it's funny how
Everything you swore would never change is different now
Like you said, you and me make it through
Didn't quite, fell apart, where the fuck were you?
About
Genius Annotation
“Somewhat Damaged” is the first track on the Left side of the double disc The Fragile, the third studio album from Nine Inch Nails, released in 1999.
It primarily builds using percussive samples, without many melodic elements. The first part of the song is in a ¾ time signature before turning into a 4/4 time signature superimposed over a ¾ time signature.
Journal entry from The Fragile sessions in 1999 detailing the revision of the end of “Somewhat Damaged”.
Journal entry from The Fragile sessions in 1999 published on nin.com detailing further work on “Somewhat Damaged” and also the unused music video for “The Day the World Went Away”.
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- 1.Somewhat Damaged
- 3.The Frail
- 4.The Wretched
- 6.The Fragile
- 8.Even Deeper
- 9.Pilgrimage
- 10.No, You Don’t
- 11.La Mer
- 12.The Great Below
- 14.Into the Void
- 17.Please
- 19.Complication
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Guitars
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Mastering Engineer
Engineer
Vocals
Recorded At
Nothing Studios
Release Date
September 21, 1999
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