Lights in the Sky

Track 11 on Definitive NIN: Quiet Tracks

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The song’s somewhat devotional lyrics are reminiscent of those of both “We’re in This Together” and “The Fragile”. The song’s accompanying art is vague, but may represent… Read More

May. 5, 20081 viewer9.8K views

Lights in the Sky Lyrics

[Verse 1]
She's mostly gone some other place
I'm getting by in other ways
Everything they whispered in our ear is coming true
Try to justify the things I used to do - believe in you

[Chorus 1]
Watching you drown, I'll follow you down
I am here right beside you
The lights in the sky have finally arrived
I am staying right beside you

[Verse 2]
I tried to stay away, just in case
I've come to realize, we all have our place
Time, time has a way, you know, to make it clear
And I have my role in this:
I can't disappear or leave you here

[Chorus 2]
Watching you drown, I'll follow you down
And I am here right beside you
The lights in the sky are waving goodbye
And I am staying right beside you

About

The song’s somewhat devotional lyrics are reminiscent of those of both “We’re in This Together” and “The Fragile”.

The song’s accompanying art is vague, but may represent a light in the sky, a whirlpool (As in “Watching you drown; I’ll follow you down”) or possibly even a halo (in the sense of the literal meaning or the NIN catalogue system). It is also one of the three pictures in The Slip that have no red lines.

Curiously, the track overlaps into “Corona Radiata” and shares its tempo (55 BPM), but whether the tracks are otherwise related is possible but unknown.