Not to kill it with over analysis, but what strikes me is how lyrics which, in their original context, are clearly about drug abuse become about dying of a terminal disease. Suddenly talking about how everyone goes away in the end is not about how you drive everyone away but how we all face our own mortality alone. For Reznor, I think it's about wishing that you could fix yourself mentally so that you don't drive your last friend away. For Cash, the wish to start again is much more literal.
I mean, I have to give a hand to both Reznor and Cash, because it takes serious talent to dilute the despair self-hatred into its purest form.
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Date: 2011-01-21 04:40 am (UTC)I mean, I have to give a hand to both Reznor and Cash, because it takes serious talent to dilute the despair self-hatred into its purest form.