Mistaken NIN Lyrics

[TinDefacto]

I'm seventeen but I've been listening to NIN since I was really little when my parents would play PHM nonstop for me. I was convinced it was an album meant for kids to teach them valuable life lessons. For instance, rather than "Terrible Lie!" I heard simply "Don't Lie!" I also thought that "I was up above it" was "Always have a buddy".

Also, only very recently did I realise that the chorus of Wish didn't go, "Wish there was something real in this world for you!"

And this isn't a misheard lyric exactly, but I've lived most of my life thinking it was "A Violent Fluid", which always perplexed me.

[hobochic]

"Me I'm Not"

This song always makes me laugh because I can't hear anything but Trent asking the driver to make a stop to buy some candy. The whole song supports this and is a clear statement about his inner fight with his candy addiction:

well it's happening
never planned on this
you've got something I need
kind of dangerous
and I'm losing control
I'm not used to this
what you want from me
I'm not used to this

I can't shut it off
this thing I've begun
and it's hard to tell
just where it's coming from
and it's hard to see
what I'm capable of
and it's hard to believe
just, what I've become

hey, candy stop?
me, I'm not
hey, candy stop?
me, I'm not
hey, candy stop?
me, I'm not
hey, candy stop?
me, I'm not

I can swallow it down
keep it all inside
I define myself
by how well I hide
I feel it coming apart
well, at least I tried

I can win this war
by knowing not to fight
if I take it all back
someway, somehow
if I knew back then
what I know right now

hey, candy stop?
me, I'm not
hey, candy stop?
me, I'm not
hey, candy stop?
me, I'm not
hey, candy stop?
me, I'm not

[jesus]

>_>
Copy of A: "she Im not the only one"
Came Back Haunted: "I got something you have to she.."

[piggy]

When I was a teenager and had yet to actually read the lyrics to "Closer", I thought it said "help me think I'm somebody else" instead of "help me become somebody else".

[Halo Infinity]

When I was a teenager and had yet to actually read the lyrics to "Closer", I thought it said "help me think I'm somebody else" instead of "help me become somebody else".

I actually heard that too. And on my first few listens of Closer, I thought that "Through every forest, above the trees, within my stomach, scraped off my knees. I drink the honey inside your hive. You are the reason I stay alive." part was just some kind of moaning and/or mumbling to add to that part of the song." I'm definitely glad I was wrong about that part, looking back at it now.

[piggy]

I actually heard that too. And on my first few listens of Closer, I thought that "Through every forest, above the trees, within my stomach, scraped off my knees. I drink the honey inside your hive. You are the reason I stay alive." part was just some kind of moaning and/or mumbling to add to that part of the song." I'm definitely glad I was wrong about that part, looking back at it now.

I used to think that about the "will you die for this" part in "Heresy". I didn't find out it was words instead of noises (and that the lyric line wasn't just booklet-only) until Leviathant pointed it out like, a long ass time ago. That blew my mind wide open, actually.

[Fred]

Back when The Slip came out, I kept mishearing these lines in Echoplex:

I built this place with broken parts
Just like they said

In my ears, they somehow became

I built this place with broken pots
December's here

[pigpen]

God damn! Do it again, and then it then it comes faster.

Angels Bleed from the Tainted touch of my cold ass

We're sharing something real, we're sharing something true,
we're sharing something real in this world, FUCK YOU.

This isn't mental ass.

Help me think I'm somebody else

[Dryalex12]

speaking of Closer........I want to fuck you like an Elmo

[GlitchyFlame]

You Know What You Are: "I had to patch up butt cracks in the holes that I have to hide" instead of "I had to patch up the cracks and the holes that I have to hide"

[Jdirty661]

Copy of A

I am little pieces,little pieces,little pieces
Pieces that were picked up on the way
Imprinted with a purpose,with a purpose,with a purpose
A purpose that's become quite clear today

What i hear

I eat little pizzas, little pizzas, little pizzas
Pizzas that I picked up on the way
Imprinted with a purpose,with a purpose,with a purpose
My purpose has become quite clear today

[slave2thewage]

Count. Down. Julien

What. A. Ramadan.

[Microwave Jellyfish]

Ha! You just reminded me that I used to mishear the "inside your hive" line in Closer (Precursor). I thought he was saying "Los Angeles". Seriously. For a time I didn't even realize it was those breakdown lyrics from the "original" Closer.

[hellospaceboy]

From Down In It:

I used to be so big and strong.
I used to know my right from wrong.
I used to never be afraid.
I used to be so funny.

[utterben]

"You're. Just. Too. Fizzy cool. For me."

[arsenic]

http://nineinchflan.ytmnd.com/

[GrayscaleRain]

When we were first transcribing the lyrics from the new With_Teeth songs way back when, he played Getting Smaller and I thought he said "I still got one good arm that I can beat myself off with."

XD I was corrected, of course, but it was still funny/embarrassing.

[Dryalex12]

Closer
-----
I want a duck shaped like a triangle.
I want an eel running in your insides

You can have my ass in your face.

I drink the honey
With a spatula.
I am your Easter Bunny
I stay alive
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Happiness in Slavery

A penis
TASTES GREAT
FIRST GRADE
SLASH GRADES
-----
Hurt

MY Swedish freind
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Last

I threw this fucking dice
This is a mental ass
-----------
Only
I just need a wart to hurt myself
and it warts
need a dick!
there is no BBQ!
there is only meat!
------
Sin

I'm just an F-A-G to be disgraced
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Survivalism

I got my violence and I also got botulism

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The Prefect Drug

I got my head, but my head is on Neverland

You are the prefect rug
the prefect shrub
the Prefect truck
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WITH THE TEETHUH

Let the teeth thud
AWITH TEH TEETHUH
who left the TV on?

[Ryan]

This isn't a mistaken lyric, but still a mistake all the same.

Was just reading this page:

http://www.ninwiki.com/And_All_That_Could_Have_Been_(halo)

Artwork

The photo used for the top half of the DVD cover is taken from inside a bomb shelter that David Carson found at a home he purchased. In a 2003 TED talk[3], Carson explained further:

"There was some bomb shelter built, apparently in the '60s Cuban missile crisis. And I asked the real estate guy what it was as we were walking by, and he goes, 'It's something to do with the sewage system.' I was, O.K.; that's fine. I finally went down there, and it was this old rusted circular thing, and two beds, and very kind of creepy and weird. And also, surprisingly, it was done in kind of a cheap metal, and it had completely rusted through, and water everywhere, and spiders. And I thought, you know, what were they thinking? You'd think maybe cement, possibly, or something. But anyway, I used this for a cover for the Nine Inch Nails DVD, and I've also now fixed the bomb shelter with duct tape, and it's ready."

It is probably safe to assume that the photo used for the cover of the CD and the inner cover of the DVD is also from the bomb shelter, as it appears to be a blurred image of rusted metal.


The bold part above is what I'm referring to. For the longest time (well, until now) I've always looked at the standard CD cover of AATCHB and thought it was an afternoon sky with clouds and the NIN logo floating in it; like a desolate sunset/afternoon-scape. Anyone else mistake that cover too?

Also, did we ever find out WTF is actually on the cover of "Still"?

[TinDefacto]

For the longest time (well, until now) I've always looked at the standard CD cover of AATCHB and thought it was an afternoon sky with clouds and the NIN logo floating in it; like a desolate sunset/afternoon-scape. Anyone else mistake that cover too?

That's really interesting. I had always figured it was a picture taken during the show of some type of mist or fog and green lights.

But that reminds me: the cover of TFA. From the first time, I have always seen it as a profile view of an angry cartoon face and to this day can't see it as anything otherwise. The long petals on top look like hair, the bottom one curving up the chin, the petal where the glint is the eye, and the one underneath it the partially-open mouth. Surely I can't be the only one, no?

[DigitalChaos]

Last

This is a mental ass

I originally heard "This is a mental house" which made no goddamned sense in context of the rest of the lyrics.

[piggy]

We didn't find out what's on the cover of Still, but it's funny because I was staring at that cover a few days ago, pondering that. I've always thought that maybe it's a photo of some stuff that's underwater, but I really have no clue.

[sgtkabukisbukaki]

CAME BACK, CAME BACK HOME DEAD. CAME BACK HOME DEAD. CCACACACA CAME HA HA HOME DEAD>. thanks to a lame youtube "lyric video" some douchebag uploaded.

[nooneimportant]

My personal favorite is during Sin...

Trent says "You give me the anger, you give me the nerve," but I sometimes hear it as "You give me the anger, you give me the runs."

I guess it works within the context of the song? I don't know, I'm sorry.

[Fangster_]

In Two

"Money, have to burn"
Oh it's actually "Bleed, have to purge"

Well, shit.

[TinDefacto]

3:37 on "Running": "I'm runnin' out of money now, I'm runnin' out..."

[Brownd]

"Got money, I'll do anything for you"
And then the song was about love and divorce

[Yoshata]

I just realized, if the misheard lyrics were true in the above two posts, it'd be sad, but also somewhat hilarious.

1989: "Got money, I'll do anything for you!"

2013: "I'm runnin' out of money now, I'm runnin' out..."

[Halo Infinity]

1989: "Got money, I'll do anything for you!"

I also heard the same exact thing by mistake.

[Halo Infinity]

Various Methods Of Escape - A line of lyrics blooping in my head.