When I was pregnant with my son, the ONLY THING that calmed him, was playing N.I.N. through head phones wrapped around my stomach. He spent the 19 short years of his life IMMERSED in " all things Trent." He died in 2016... 2 days after he turned 19.... from cardiomyopathy. 6 years later, wrapping this song around my ears is the ONLY THING that keeps me from giving up the ghost. I miss you DWE 😭💔 P.s.. Trent ... I still pray for your grandma.... Anyone who understands, knows too much... My heart is for you. 💙 Edited 04.21.24 a couple people have asked, so I will clarify. My son lived with me. He went to bed just like normal on the night of 13 September, 2016. The next morning, I found him in his bed, not moving, not breathing. I called 911. (It took them 45 minutes to get there. ) I tried CPR.... I'm 5 feet 5 inches. My son is six feet. I TRIED I TRIED I TRIED I FAILED. The coroner said he had an enlarged heart. He died from Cardiomyopathy. 19 years and 2 days old. Shortly before my son died, he said he hopes he gets to do ONE thing in his life that really matters because he doesn't deserve to have life as good as he has it. I think his death has shown that compassion and sincere support can be found in the least likely of places. Now that he's gone, I'm always terrified that there's never going to be anyone to remember him with me. But I feel like other NIN fans TRULY DO care. If my son were here today, he would say, look for that one friend of family member, or class mate or Co worker, or whomever it is, that is always on the outside. The person who is never cool or popular the person who never gets invited anywhere. Get to know them. Become their friend. You may just find something that you can't buy for all the material riches in the world.
It’s been an honor to be alive during nin existence. Every album released perfectly fit to what was going on in my life and even today as I’m older and they are older I still feel connected to his music no matter what.
its timeless music. i can still remember sitting in the mall parking lot as a teenager listening to a cassette i just bought....an album titled pretty hate machine....i was blown away by it...that was 1989 i think.
I could listen to Nine Inch Nails all day. They are one of the only bands that I have consistently liked since middle school. I'm 22 now, going on 8 years of being a fan.
I hear you. I bought My first nails CD when i was 11 (1993). Pretty Hate Machine. It had been out for about 4 years at the time. 6 months later The Downward Spiral was released. That album changed my life. Been a fan for over 20 years now. I'm seeing NIN in August and am every bit as excited as when i first saw them in 1996.
I discovered him around 6 years ago when I was 20. Pretty "late" in his career. I can listen to any of Trent's work on a daily basis and never get sick of it. He has so much material and it is all so deep and fulfilling that I'll be enjoying it until the day I die. I just hope he keeps making music for another 20 years. He's as good as ever right now.
XD When I was 14, I made my mom buy The Downward Spiral for me. I used to sit in my room for hours listening. I will be 34 this year and I still love this music. Fuck this just makes me cry...
I was in my teens and beginning to wrap my mind around abuse I experienced as a child. The honest sorrow and anger in Reznor's voice - I could relate that to the disgust and anguish I felt. It changed the way I viewed the world and was a catalyst to feel what I needed to, in order to move on.
I still think Trent is one of the most underrated talents of our time , one of those where when he moves on to that great below , people are going to look at his body of work and just go WOW . What a remarkable talent .
He isn’t underrated, he won big awards, it’s not like he’s this industrial underground artist. His music is the closest to mainstream pop as it gets, i’d call it industrial pop. I don’t mean he’s a bad artist, i like NIN, but they’re easy listening compared to other underground industrial acts who are the real geniuses behind industrial music.
It was a grey day and I had just started a fire to get rid of old stuff from my mothers house. She was ill in cancer and had spent her last 4 months at the hospital. I started throwing things on the fire, memories that I had no room for. This song started playing on my iPod and everything felt like a film. First time i heard it. So emotional. I played the last two minutes over and over again till the fire was out. It became the soundtrack of my mother and will always stay with me. Amazing song.
Listened to this song a lot while my dad was dealing with liver cancer from his long abuse of alcohol. It was a short battle and he passed away in the middle of the night. This song perfectly matches the feeling deep down that him and I will never be able to mend our relationship. Just thought I'd share some emotions
The first time I listened to this song I was strugling with pancreatic cancer myself, I called my gf at that time to tell her about this beautiful song but she didn't answer, she was pregnant and was being taken to the hospital for a problem in her cervix. She had an abortion that day. After my parents died of old age, without the opportunity to have a grandson/daughter, I listened to this song for answers, over and over. Then I died of cancer, but fortunately, we got wifi here in hell so I can tell my story. Trent used to say, if there is a hell, I'll see you there, so I'm here, waiting patiently for him.
Aaaah I see wat u did there they have used nineinchnails forever to movies look at the movie seven at the beginning or man on fire I man on fire list goes on and on
This is the only song I found in all these years that gives me a little of each feeling. Not the typical sad song that makes you cry, no the best song that gives you nostalgia, not the perfect song that makes you feel joy. It's just a song that gives you a piece of everything, like life is. Is the song of the past, is a song for the present, and for what is yet to come.
This version of this song makes me bawl my eyes out. It reminds me of my dad and the months leading up to his suicide. Nine Inch Nails is really good at hitting the mark with my various emotions. All of them.
Cory Meece not as deep or as well as trent reznor. and reznor uses metaphor that everyone can relate to. rappers are so direct and specific and they lack a lot of metaphor that it's hard to relate to their stuff unless you're an angry black guy living in a similar situation.
Cory Meece Unfortunately rap lacks musical nuance... not that beats aren't sick, they just don't reflect the emotional spectrum required to make an all-consuming song.
This is one the songs I can see myself listening anytime anywhere in the world... at a funeral, in a train, at night in bed, during end of the world, a distant old memory.
I jammed this constantly during my dads short 3 week battle with cancer. It was too late by the time they caught it and he was in too much pain so he was drugged up those last 3 weeks of his life. My father and I were always at odds with eachother and the worse part was there was so much I wanted to say but was afraid to and he could hardly say anything anyway so I just stayed hiding in my room until he passed.
Despite the quagmire of pain on the road so many have taken by journeying with Trent Reznor from the beginning, there are times when something so unmistakably beautiful graces my senses that this man pulled from the depth of his mind. Truly, few artists in this world reach such a level. But a handful every century and this man stands among the 20th and 21st century as something to aspire toward in soul moving music.
"Thought he had it all, before they called his bluff. Found out that his skin just wasn't thick enough. Wanted to go back to how it was before. And although he'd lost everything, right then he lost a whole lot more." -Trent Reznor
My dog passed away from complications after surgery..he's the 10% that wasnt gonna fully recover...put him to sleep..today..looked him in the eyes and whispered to him as he fell...
One of the best musicians of his generation, the piano fills the void and paints the perfect contrast between low and high pitches and tones, masterpiece
The day my whole world went away was .09.14.16, when my son died from cardiomyopathy 2 days after turning 19. I grew up listening to N.I.N. I played it for him when he was in my tummy..... Trent was his obsession. R.I.P. D.W.E.
his music is so dark, real and easily understood in your darkest moments. There's happy, fake music. Then there's real and cruel music. This is what makes Trent, in my opinion, one of the greatest musicians out there. Though most of his music is dark and tragic, it fits and is so relatable. Life has many dark and tragic moments, it brings comfort listening to an artist who knows exactly what you're going through. Keep it real Trent, you'll always be my favorite.
Some of us feel more comfortable in the not so sunshine lollipops feel. Trent Reznor is a comfortable place to be ok with that. That aside he is an amazing musician as are the people who have worked with him through out the years. Truly magic.
Trent has always had a song for me, this being one of my favorites. It somehow brings tranquility and peace even when dealing with things that makes everyday so challenging. Family issues are so much harder around the holidays. This is why I wish away this part of the year...no one can love or get along...
2 year old comment, But thank you for your service. We civilians could never understand what you guys went through there. Regardless of the purpose of the war, You laid it down and took care of what Was demanded. Thank you.
curling up in a ball crying, this song ringing through my mind like the white noise that some parts of life give you. everything seems so fragile and delicate when i hear this song, like your entire life is leading up to one moment of final pain. to all of you out there that feel the same way when you hear this song, i hope that you all can find comfort in realising that your pain is alike to many others, despite the fact you may not believe so. love everyone, and live for those you love (if you dont like other people, then give care and love to yourself).
I’ve luved Trent since the 80’s whether it’s the “darkest moments” or just LIFE in general. He definitely feels or understands the “hurt” many of us know.
I'd listen to the words he'd say but in his voice I heard decay the plastic face forced to portray all the insides left cold and gray there is a place that still remains it eats the fear it eats the pain the sweetest price he'll have to pay the day the whole world went away
Cody Osborn The lyrics are saying that "the whole world went away" when Jesus died and Christianity was born. A derogatory message against Christianity. "The plastic face forced to portray" is the Crucifix. "The insides left cold and gray" means he doesn't believe Jesus was Christ, God's son or anything more than any other person on Earth and He didn't resurrect after crucifixion because His insides and organs died, just like everyone else. I'm a Christian, so I'm not saying this because I believe it.
I knew this song (and NIN) from the trailer for Terminator Salvation back in 2009, but I heard this version for the first time in The Bear S2. Amazing piece, every version fits on a different mood and hits perfectly
This song helps when you feel you're whole world is going to fall apart. No reason, no explanation: just the feeling of not being where you're supposed to be, doing what you're supposed to do. Not knowing the answers to questions you cannot even come up with. The start is desperate, the ending is stimulating, like a mantra: it helps you level with yourself. I'm not making sense, am I? But then again, neither is the human mind.
Born in 84 I grew up listening to nine inch nails and have all the respect for Trent a great artist and in the end this song is part of all of us and we all can relate to it is what brings us all together as brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers..
This song makes me think of my relationship I have with god and the depression I go threw everyday, the build up is the strength to carry threw to the next, Trent’s music has a pain that is easy to relate to
if you told me the same guys who did 'Head like a Hole' made this incredibly relaxing song when NIN first hit it big I probably wouldn't have believed you
This reminds me of Gramps when he and Granny first visited me on May of 2017. Gramps had only three months left to live. His death was at August 15th, 2017. Rest in peace, old timer. Me and Granny will never forget you.
There is no public statement from Trent on what this song means as far as i can tell. It could and probably is about Popsicles and his hatred of them. I'm pretty sure that's it.
i cant thank you enough for this trent, you gave me the words. i thought i was alone all these years, and now i cant deny that i was wrong. you cant live life without death. you cant experience happiness without having been in pain.
Tomorrow will be one year since my girlfriend took her life. This song always makes me think of that day specifically, “The Day The World Went Away.” I’m still completely broken and I can’t say that “time heals all wounds.” I miss her so much and life doesn’t make sense without her. I wish I could leave, too, but I can’t. All I want is to be with her again. I somewhat like Nine Inch Nails before she died, mainly songs from ‘Pretty Hate Machine.’ I didn’t like TDS or The Fragile. Those albums were too rough for me and I couldn’t get into them. Last August, about a month after Ever died, I took my dive into NIN. I’d say Nine Inch Nails is my 2nd favorite band now (Depeche Mode will always be my #1 favorite). Trent Reznor has helped me so much. Through his lyrics, I know that I’m not alone. I feel like he understands me. Music helps me make sense of life. If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to someone. Your pain just gets passed on to the people who care about you.
How addiction feels literally one minute everything is fine you're social having fun then suddenly you look up and the funs stopped you're on your own and your world does go away replaced with chemical joys and living for the next fix constantly on and off thinking of it like it's the most important thing in your mind
In a way it means more than the album version, it gets to the bit where you want to break out and scream with anger, but it never takes off like that, you are just left with... numbness. This is how it feels when you loose a loved one, you want to shout at the world for what's happened, but there's nothing there, but an uneasy mix of numbness and acceptance. It's the day the world went away, and that is all that's left... numbness.
I probably started listening to NIN a little too early. Even then I was amazed by how intricate his music was and how he put emotions directly into music. Gave me chills then, gives me chills now. This is and always will be true music. No matter what Trent does be it happy or otherwise, I'll listen to it a love it.
This is my favourite version. This and the solo from To Live is to Die immediately take me to my memories of my parents who have since passed. The music...the music.
I remember first hearing NIN. It was the music song/video 'we're in this together now' in 1999. Trent is simply amazing every aspect. All of his songs carry a deep meaning and are beautifully written.
Questo brano mi fa volare verso un paradossale senso di malinconia riguardo ciò che si lascia e un senso di ottimismo inerente ciò a cui si va incontro... Bellissimo e introspettivo viaggio interiore! 👍
That's what makes it so perfect...It's poetic, beautiful, and bittersweet. Every moment of it moves inevitably closer to tragedy any way you look at it, and finally, the ultimate tragedy. Each precious second of our insignificant lives is spent simply trying to distract ourselves with some small happiness, to feel loved- a brief dream in a cruel and unforgiving world where in the end, happiness is the exception and no one survives.
It resonates through the words she said , into a past , this life so divinely decayed And all those memories slowly played To remind me, that we left it all so grey Nothing touched her heart, but so I craved Will today be the same , as the day we tried to save Tears at both end dried with a plastic life that swayed and deep somewhere in our own separate ways We keep pretending , bitter thoughts hidden inside ourselves we say to ourselves , let there be happiness at the other end But the truth is so clouded, that we were once friends Now rendered calm and silent, in time through a painful trend I still see your picture through some closed eyes in pain I see you smile and bring some heavenly rains into a life , thats dead by heart where this desert remains But its just fragile corner at the left of my brain I wish you are happy to see me gone And thats what makes me write this song
Trent Reznor is the only artist that I've seen so far that talks about inner struggle and not about Fame and Fortune and making tons of money and the last time I saw Nine Inch Nails was with Soundgarden it was amazing
I remember clearly the first time I listened to "The Downward Spiral". This song (and its other versions) reminds me of it. I was 18, had been playing guitar for four years and starting to write music I would let someone else listen to. That album blew my mind. It was something so different yet so aesthetically pleasing in an aural sense. All the loud and quiet used in ways you "weren't supposed to" the waves of mood throughout it, from sheer Punk to Lou Reed to a Tori Amos type of tenderness in his voice. I thought, the feeling was what it must have been like when people first heard "Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
This song makes me think so much of my father in the months before he died of cancer, choking and drowning on fluid filling his lungs. I remember that morning when I walked into the room and saw the empty body, not a sign of life left beyond the lack of decomposition yet to reach it, considering he wouldn't be in the ground until nearly a week later. I always fucking hated funerals. Too damn sad. Too goddamn disrespectful; dwelling too much on the death and not enough on the life.
AqueousHeart I had the same feeling at my mom's funeral. As a matter of fact, since then my feelings towards death totally changed. I also hate funerals. Great song, 'though....
I really don't believe there's nothing much to it. I mean: we live, then we die and that's it! Unfortunately those are my beliefs. I really envy those that are religious and everthing, but I'm not one of those...
i NEED to get hold of 'still' this, along with leaving hope, is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ive ever come across. i just want there to be more of it...
NIN pierces through the bullshit and reaches your soul. Reading the comments here is proof of that. Forget politics, forget mainstream media, forget it all for a moment and connect through the genius of this artist. The human experience. You are all amazing.
I’m just now discovering “The Fragile” in 2022 and the second time I heard this track I literally lost it. I couldn’t explain the emotions I was feeling. This is an interesting remix, but the original is like floating through time and space.
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When I was pregnant with my son, the ONLY THING that calmed him, was playing N.I.N. through head phones wrapped around my stomach.
He spent the 19 short years of his life IMMERSED in " all things Trent."
He died in 2016... 2 days after he turned 19.... from cardiomyopathy.
6 years later, wrapping this song around my ears is the ONLY THING that keeps me from giving up the ghost.
I miss you DWE 😭💔
P.s.. Trent ... I still pray for your grandma.... Anyone who understands, knows too much... My heart is for you. 💙
Edited 04.21.24 a couple people have asked, so I will clarify. My son lived with me. He went to bed just like normal on the night of 13 September, 2016.
The next morning, I found him in his bed, not moving, not breathing. I called 911. (It took them 45 minutes to get there. ) I tried CPR.... I'm 5 feet 5 inches. My son is six feet. I TRIED I TRIED I TRIED I FAILED.
The coroner said he had an enlarged heart. He died from Cardiomyopathy. 19 years and 2 days old.
Shortly before my son died, he said he hopes he gets to do ONE thing in his life that really matters because he doesn't deserve to have life as good as he has it.
I think his death has shown that compassion and sincere support can be found in the least likely of places.
Now that he's gone, I'm always terrified that there's never going to be anyone to remember him with me. But I feel like other NIN fans TRULY DO care.
If my son were here today, he would say, look for that one friend of family member, or class mate or Co worker, or whomever it is, that is always on the outside. The person who is never cool or popular the person who never gets invited anywhere. Get to know them. Become their friend. You may just find something that you can't buy for all the material riches in the world.
Too bad im the only one saying this but I'm sorry
@@santirocks Thank you so much. 🤗
@@lindakay9552 of course!
rad
This just made me cry so hard. Thank you for sharing that.
Trent Reznor is completely unique artist and hauntingly intelligent, groundbreaking in a way Pink Floyd was...genuine artistry.
atomi62 My 2 favorite bands of all time. Lmao I love it!!
My favorite bands too
Hes underrated in my opinion.
NIN are great and Trent an assett, Pink Floyd? No.
I wholeheartedly and passionately agree. I'd throw Caspian in that category as well.
reminds me of my 7 year heroin addiction....Definitely the soundtrack to that day I had my first hit...5 years clean today
Lyanna Targaryen Nice work that is impressive!
Keep kicking ass!
Lyanna Targaryen A glorious hug from me!
Just try beating Clonazepam and your heroin addiction will seem like a vacation
Kaecilius don't understand the point of this comment trying to 1-up on struggle
It’s been an honor to be alive during nin existence. Every album released perfectly fit to what was going on in my life and even today as I’m older and they are older I still feel connected to his music no matter what.
He. Its only Trent in NIN.
His music has hit me in this way also. Every song fits a moment in my life whether happy or sad.
@@vitalixy3578 man u can say they for singular. not tryna be gronky troll but ur not even grammar nazi properly hahaha
its timeless music. i can still remember sitting in the mall parking lot as a teenager listening to a cassette i just bought....an album titled pretty hate machine....i was blown away by it...that was 1989 i think.
I continue to be entranced and moved by his artwork. Thanks you!
I could listen to Nine Inch Nails all day. They are one of the only bands that I have consistently liked since middle school. I'm 22 now, going on 8 years of being a fan.
I hear you. I bought My first nails CD when i was 11 (1993). Pretty Hate Machine. It had been out for about 4 years at the time. 6 months later The Downward Spiral was released. That album changed my life. Been a fan for over 20 years now. I'm seeing NIN in August and am every bit as excited as when i first saw them in 1996.
I discovered him around 6 years ago when I was 20. Pretty "late" in his career. I can listen to any of Trent's work on a daily basis and never get sick of it. He has so much material and it is all so deep and fulfilling that I'll be enjoying it until the day I die. I just hope he keeps making music for another 20 years. He's as good as ever right now.
Dude same...but since 5th grade ..am now 38
XD When I was 14, I made my mom buy The Downward Spiral for me. I used to sit in my room for hours listening. I will be 34 this year and I still love this music. Fuck this just makes me cry...
It's awesome. Been jamming since at least 2004 to them. Great in concert too!!! Top 5 shows I've been too.
R.i.p the mother of my children, baby we miss you and will never stop loving you
I was in my teens and beginning to wrap my mind around abuse I experienced as a child. The honest sorrow and anger in Reznor's voice - I could relate that to the disgust and anguish I felt. It changed the way I viewed the world and was a catalyst to feel what I needed to, in order to move on.
Someone is feeling that way now. You could make it all go away
Me too.
I’ve been there too, friend. The realization that I can do better by someone else was the start of my healing.
GOD
I like this- makes you feel what you need to, then you can move on.
I still think Trent is one of the most underrated talents of our time , one of those where when he moves on to that great below , people are going to look at his body of work and just go WOW . What a remarkable talent .
He's not underrated at all. Those who know it goes without saying.
But I feel ya on the comment
Hall Of Fame career. A tortured genius who overcame his battles.
Wut... underrated? Academy award winner, Golden globe award winner, Emmy award winner....
He isn’t underrated, he won big awards, it’s not like he’s this industrial underground artist. His music is the closest to mainstream pop as it gets, i’d call it industrial pop. I don’t mean he’s a bad artist, i like NIN, but they’re easy listening compared to other underground industrial acts who are the real geniuses behind industrial music.
Trent is the very definition of the tortured artist. Brilliant and beautiful
Ask any mother, the birthing of new life is full of pain, anxiety and uncertainty, but it's not torture, it's beauty. :)
It was a grey day and I had just started a fire to get rid of old stuff from my mothers house. She was ill in cancer and had spent her last 4 months at the hospital. I started throwing things on the fire, memories that I had no room for. This song started playing on my iPod and everything felt like a film. First time i heard it. So emotional. I played the last two minutes over and over again till the fire was out. It became the soundtrack of my mother and will always stay with me. Amazing song.
So sorry about your mother.
stop guys I'm crying already
Listened to this song a lot while my dad was dealing with liver cancer from his long abuse of alcohol. It was a short battle and he passed away in the middle of the night. This song perfectly matches the feeling deep down that him and I will never be able to mend our relationship. Just thought I'd share some emotions
The first time I listened to this song I was strugling with pancreatic cancer myself, I called my gf at that time to tell her about this beautiful song but she didn't answer, she was pregnant and was being taken to the hospital for a problem in her cervix. She had an abortion that day. After my parents died of old age, without the opportunity to have a grandson/daughter, I listened to this song for answers, over and over. Then I died of cancer, but fortunately, we got wifi here in hell so I can tell my story. Trent used to say, if there is a hell, I'll see you there, so I'm here, waiting patiently for him.
When just a song becomes so powerfull, and inmortalizes those powerfull moments. That's just unexplainable
This is John Conner. If your listening to this...you are the resistance...
oooh yeah :D
Aaaah I see wat u did there they have used nineinchnails forever to movies look at the movie seven at the beginning or man on fire I man on fire list goes on and on
I knew you were real!!!!!
This is the only song I found in all these years that gives me a little of each feeling. Not the typical sad song that makes you cry, no the best song that gives you nostalgia, not the perfect song that makes you feel joy. It's just a song that gives you a piece of everything, like life is. Is the song of the past, is a song for the present, and for what is yet to come.
Yeah, they’re pretty smart with this RocknRoll stuff. Lots of metaphorical stuff I’ve geeked on since my early teens. Like, how tf did you know?🧐
Pretty sure that what he meant it as plus trying to also say how bad we fucked this planet helps
I am listening to this while writing a script. Your words captured the essence of this song perfectly.
This version of this song makes me bawl my eyes out.
It reminds me of my dad and the months leading up to his suicide.
Nine Inch Nails is really good at hitting the mark with my various emotions. All of them.
I'm sorry about your dad. I'm worried about mine.
Sorry about your loss , stay strong .
Hope it all works out .
god damn that comment almost made me :'(
+mr5elfde5truct my dad worries me too. He's tried
I love how Trent is the only artist that writes exclusively about inner struggle. No artist comes close in my opinion.
Plenty of artists rap about inner struggle .. It's not an uncommon thing
Cory Meece not as deep or as well as trent reznor. and reznor uses metaphor that everyone can relate to. rappers are so direct and specific and they lack a lot of metaphor that it's hard to relate to their stuff unless you're an angry black guy living in a similar situation.
Cory Meece Unfortunately rap lacks musical nuance... not that beats aren't sick, they just don't reflect the emotional spectrum required to make an all-consuming song.
ZombieDeathRace Then you have to listen to Gopher Guts, Daylight or Fumes from Aesop Rock.
Pete Agassi I agree with you. I can relate to his music in so many ways. I can feel what he is saying. Helps me get through hard times.
This is one the songs I can see myself listening anytime anywhere in the world... at a funeral, in a train, at night in bed, during end of the world, a distant old memory.
I jammed this constantly during my dads short 3 week battle with cancer. It was too late by the time they caught it and he was in too much pain so he was drugged up those last 3 weeks of his life. My father and I were always at odds with eachother and the worse part was there was so much I wanted to say but was afraid to and he could hardly say anything anyway so I just stayed hiding in my room until he passed.
Say it now. ❤️❤️
The beauty of this version of this song is beyond me.
Despite the quagmire of pain on the road so many have taken by journeying with Trent Reznor from the beginning, there are times when something so unmistakably beautiful graces my senses that this man pulled from the depth of his mind. Truly, few artists in this world reach such a level. But a handful every century and this man stands among the 20th and 21st century as something to aspire toward in soul moving music.
"Thought he had it all, before they called his bluff.
Found out that his skin just wasn't thick enough.
Wanted to go back to how it was before.
And although he'd lost everything, right then he lost a whole lot more."
-Trent Reznor
You're right. It's just a tragedy that these days all he seems to care about is dressing like Bono and selling overpriced collector vinyl.
so well said
Phil Thompson yeah he's getting rich off his vinyl editions. I was wondering how he had the opportunity to work on 30 years of composing
Hear! Hear!
My dog passed away from complications after surgery..he's the 10% that wasnt gonna fully recover...put him to sleep..today..looked him in the eyes and whispered to him as he fell...
For my grandma. You were the light in my life.
One of the best musicians of his generation, the piano fills the void and paints the perfect contrast between low and high pitches and tones, masterpiece
The day my whole world went away was .09.14.16, when my son died from cardiomyopathy 2 days after turning 19.
I grew up listening to N.I.N.
I played it for him when he was in my tummy.....
Trent was his obsession.
R.I.P. D.W.E.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
I'm so sorry
@@brostoevsky8481 thank you so much. 🤗
نفسو بالسما.
It’s something we say here in Lebanon, it goes something like “he’s in heaven”.
May he rest in peace.
@@Danny-wv8ec thank you. 💙
his music is so dark, real and easily understood in your darkest moments. There's happy, fake music. Then there's real and cruel music. This is what makes Trent, in my opinion, one of the greatest musicians out there. Though most of his music is dark and tragic, it fits and is so relatable. Life has many dark and tragic moments, it brings comfort listening to an artist who knows exactly what you're going through. Keep it real Trent, you'll always be my favorite.
100% agree. Identifiable. Relatable. It is a mirror. We see ourselves reflected in his Music.
Happy music is not just fake music. There are different emotions you can put into your music, it's real if you put your soul in it.
Some of us feel more comfortable in the not so sunshine lollipops feel. Trent Reznor is a comfortable place to be ok with that. That aside he is an amazing musician as are the people who have worked with him through out the years. Truly magic.
Well said my friend 🙌
Same. My number 1 always!
Trent has always had a song for me, this being one of my favorites. It somehow brings tranquility and peace even when dealing with things that makes everyday so challenging. Family issues are so much harder around the holidays. This is why I wish away this part of the year...no one can love or get along...
I used to fall asleep listening to the "Still" album when I was in Iraq.
2 year old comment,
But thank you for your service.
We civilians could never understand what you guys went through there.
Regardless of the purpose of the war,
You laid it down and took care of what
Was demanded. Thank you.
@@br4d048 Purpose of war? Greed and political interest. There's nothing brave about sending innocent people far away just.. for nothing.
@al112v4 well to be fair LOT of people were manipulated by the establishment to go to war
curling up in a ball crying, this song ringing through my mind like the white noise that some parts of life give you. everything seems so fragile and delicate when i hear this song, like your entire life is leading up to one moment of final pain. to all of you out there that feel the same way when you hear this song, i hope that you all can find comfort in realising that your pain is alike to many others, despite the fact you may not believe so. love everyone, and live for those you love (if you dont like other people, then give care and love to yourself).
I’ve luved Trent since the 80’s whether it’s the “darkest moments” or just LIFE in general. He definitely feels or understands the “hurt” many of us know.
The quality of the comments on this video is above average.
I never expect anything else when true music is involved.
Even more so with songs like this.
Check out the comments on “something I can never have” live.
I'd listen to the words he'd say
but in his voice I heard decay
the plastic face forced to portray
all the insides left cold and gray
there is a place that still remains
it eats the fear it eats the pain
the sweetest price he'll have to pay
the day the whole world went away
+ART shadow MAKE UP Thank you, Queen Marjorie.
...what does it mean... Do you think?
Cody Osborn The lyrics are saying that "the whole world went away" when Jesus died and Christianity was born. A derogatory message against Christianity. "The plastic face forced to portray" is the Crucifix. "The insides left cold and gray" means he doesn't believe Jesus was Christ, God's son or anything more than any other person on Earth and He didn't resurrect after crucifixion because His insides and organs died, just like everyone else. I'm a Christian, so I'm not saying this because I believe it.
Raining BlackAndBlue Wow, that's powerful. Thanks for the explanation
that's one way, i guess.
there's other ways. See songmeanings.com/songs/view/18604/
It's the year the whole world went away
2020
imo it went away in 2012
2021lol
I knew this song (and NIN) from the trailer for Terminator Salvation back in 2009, but I heard this version for the first time in The Bear S2. Amazing piece, every version fits on a different mood and hits perfectly
Love the use of this in The Bear!
Sunny summer, 20 years old, headphones, NIN in full blast, shirtless, skating all day long and getting injured. 20 years ago...
This song helps when you feel you're whole world is going to fall apart. No reason, no explanation: just the feeling of not being where you're supposed to be, doing what you're supposed to do. Not knowing the answers to questions you cannot even come up with. The start is desperate, the ending is stimulating, like a mantra: it helps you level with yourself.
I'm not making sense, am I? But then again, neither is the human mind.
I feel ya ❤
Born in 84 I grew up listening to nine inch nails and have all the respect for Trent a great artist and in the end this song is part of all of us and we all can relate to it is what brings us all together as brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers..
He wrote this when his Grandmother died.
the one that raised him?
His Grandmother Clara.
@@riotjohndoe bitch what?
@@johnthetampon6940 what tha fuck are you on about?
@@hellohello4438 me too. r.i.p.
and in the end dirt is heavier than your gold always
This song makes me think of my relationship I have with god and the depression I go threw everyday, the build up is the strength to carry threw to the next, Trent’s music has a pain that is easy to relate to
This track puts me at peace.
Thought about suicide tonight...but when I listen to Trent's music I stop and think. Thank you NIN
if you told me the same guys who did 'Head like a Hole' made this incredibly relaxing song when NIN first hit it big I probably wouldn't have believed you
i love the weight of the jewels and the dirt ..dirt wins ...then the feather symbolic of the soul floating to heaven
I hope trent made this not knowing how many people would die for his music
"This place...can you get me out of it?"
"You created me. I can do anything you want me to."
*SLAMS GUITAR*
its like a dream i had this morning
I was there when it came out. The web site was great back than.
This reminds me of Gramps when he and Granny first visited me on May of 2017. Gramps had only three months left to live. His death was at August 15th, 2017.
Rest in peace, old timer. Me and Granny will never forget you.
TDTWWA was 09.14.16.
The day my son died from cardiomyopathy. 19 years 2 days old. Trent was his Perfect Drug.
Sorry for your loss!
@@candleg72 thank you. It never gets easier.
@@lindakay9552 You're Welcome! I know! I lost my BF last year!
@@candleg72 I'm so sorry
@@lindakay9552 Thank You So Very Much!
I would love to sit on a hill top and just watch everything burn & sink to it's demise.
I would like that too.
jasonkingj69 frfr 💯
Me too
The sweetest price we'll have to pay, the day the whole world goes away...
There is no public statement from Trent on what this song means as far as i can tell. It could and probably is about Popsicles and his hatred of them. I'm pretty sure that's it.
I would hope with seven minutes left on my death bed I could listen to this on my way out. I've always felt this was a goodbye.
Exactly !!
RIP Gramps. Love you buddy
i cant thank you enough for this trent, you gave me the words. i thought i was alone all these years, and now i cant deny that i was wrong.
you cant live life without death. you cant experience happiness without having been in pain.
Beautiful display of intelligent design in creation.
Tomorrow will be one year since my girlfriend took her life. This song always makes me think of that day specifically, “The Day The World Went Away.” I’m still completely broken and I can’t say that “time heals all wounds.” I miss her so much and life doesn’t make sense without her. I wish I could leave, too, but I can’t. All I want is to be with her again.
I somewhat like Nine Inch Nails before she died, mainly songs from ‘Pretty Hate Machine.’ I didn’t like TDS or The Fragile. Those albums were too rough for me and I couldn’t get into them. Last August, about a month after Ever died, I took my dive into NIN. I’d say Nine Inch Nails is my 2nd favorite band now (Depeche Mode will always be my #1 favorite). Trent Reznor has helped me so much. Through his lyrics, I know that I’m not alone. I feel like he understands me. Music helps me make sense of life. If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to someone. Your pain just gets passed on to the people who care about you.
i'm here with you bro
How addiction feels literally one minute everything is fine you're social having fun then suddenly you look up and the funs stopped you're on your own and your world does go away replaced with chemical joys and living for the next fix constantly on and off thinking of it like it's the most important thing in your mind
Same bro
i wish people would understand his lyrics, what he was doing... its MAGNIFICENT.
the sweetest price you have to pay indeed.
In a way it means more than the album version, it gets to the bit where you want to break out and scream with anger, but it never takes off like that, you are just left with... numbness. This is how it feels when you loose a loved one, you want to shout at the world for what's happened, but there's nothing there, but an uneasy mix of numbness and acceptance. It's the day the world went away, and that is all that's left... numbness.
I probably started listening to NIN a little too early. Even then I was amazed by how intricate his music was and how he put emotions directly into music. Gave me chills then, gives me chills now. This is and always will be true music. No matter what Trent does be it happy or otherwise, I'll listen to it a love it.
Love you Trent. Never stop being you.
one of the best songs ever made( the still acoustic version)
I could always identify with nice inch nails music. When I was a teenager I was feeling what he was singing about.
Came here from Westworld and I'm so thankful for that! Love this masterpiece!🎉
Most beautiful melody i ever heard. Something incredible.
Most perfect comment I ever read. Ya wouldn't wanna be me.
RIP Root ! You will live forever in the Machine !
*cries inconsolable*
When i die...
Bury me with this song and NIN discography in cascet.
This is my favourite version. This and the solo from To Live is to Die immediately take me to my memories of my parents who have since passed. The music...the music.
I remember first hearing NIN. It was the music song/video 'we're in this together now' in 1999. Trent is simply amazing every aspect. All of his songs carry a deep meaning and are beautifully written.
Questo brano mi fa volare verso un paradossale senso di malinconia riguardo ciò che si lascia e un senso di ottimismo inerente ciò a cui si va incontro... Bellissimo e introspettivo viaggio interiore! 👍
this song is perfection...brings me back
This song never grows old. I always get the emotion in it.. it's just raw on a plate no frills, just it is what it is...and I like it :)
I wish I could start over when I first heard these beautiful song
That's what makes it so perfect...It's poetic, beautiful, and bittersweet. Every moment of it moves inevitably closer to tragedy any way you look at it, and finally, the ultimate tragedy. Each precious second of our insignificant lives is spent simply trying to distract ourselves with some small happiness, to feel loved- a brief dream in a cruel and unforgiving world where in the end, happiness is the exception and no one survives.
Beautiful imagery to accompany this powerful music. Thank you!
This is one of my favorites.
I desperatly want NIN world tour.
I dedicate this song to my dead grandfather in Pakistan who just died last week
It resonates through the words she said ,
into a past , this life so divinely decayed
And all those memories slowly played
To remind me, that we left it all so grey
Nothing touched her heart, but so I craved
Will today be the same , as the day we tried to save
Tears at both end dried with a plastic life that swayed
and deep somewhere in our own separate ways
We keep pretending , bitter thoughts hidden inside ourselves
we say to ourselves , let there be happiness at the other end
But the truth is so clouded, that we were once friends
Now rendered calm and silent, in time through a painful trend
I still see your picture through some closed eyes in pain
I see you smile and bring some heavenly rains
into a life , thats dead by heart where this desert remains
But its just fragile corner at the left of my brain
I wish you are happy to see me gone
And thats what makes me write this song
Trent Reznor is the only artist that I've seen so far that talks about inner struggle and not about Fame and Fortune and making tons of money and the last time I saw Nine Inch Nails was with Soundgarden it was amazing
Thats prob the best concert u will ever see tbh.
My son was born stillborn January 1 2018. I miss him lots
I remember clearly the first time I listened to "The Downward Spiral". This song (and its other versions) reminds me of it. I was 18, had been playing guitar for four years and starting to write music I would let someone else listen to. That album blew my mind. It was something so different yet so aesthetically pleasing in an aural sense. All the loud and quiet used in ways you "weren't supposed to" the waves of mood throughout it, from sheer Punk to Lou Reed to a Tori Amos type of tenderness in his voice. I thought, the feeling was what it must have been like when people first heard "Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
Still rockin 10 years later
such an amazing artist, producer, performer and writer
Still. Right where it belongs.
Sean Ferrell Beside you in time
It's beyond despair, it comes back to hope. It's always been the theme.
393 people had so many tears in their eyes that they missed the thumbs up button .......
This song makes me think so much of my father in the months before he died of cancer, choking and drowning on fluid filling his lungs. I remember that morning when I walked into the room and saw the empty body, not a sign of life left beyond the lack of decomposition yet to reach it, considering he wouldn't be in the ground until nearly a week later. I always fucking hated funerals. Too damn sad. Too goddamn disrespectful; dwelling too much on the death and not enough on the life.
AqueousHeart I had the same feeling at my mom's funeral. As a matter of fact, since then my feelings towards death totally changed. I also hate funerals. Great song, 'though....
N Rodrigues Beautiful song. Years have passed and I've grown out of some issues, but I still have much more learning to do.
N Rodrigues And if I may, what are your opinions of death?
I really don't believe there's nothing much to it. I mean: we live, then we die and that's it! Unfortunately those are my beliefs. I really envy those that are religious and everthing, but I'm not one of those...
AqueousHeart i'm too busy living to worry about dying
Will be playing at my funeral on repeat.
im pretty sure the whole world would stay
Cutflood That's pretty narcissistic considering that you are playing this song at your own funeral
He's probably referring to his world. Don't be so harsh guys lol
Couldn't agree more, plus a fuck load more of his masterpieces!
John Haggard ;)
i NEED to get hold of 'still'
this, along with leaving hope, is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ive ever come across. i just want there to be more of it...
NIN pierces through the bullshit and reaches your soul. Reading the comments here is proof of that. Forget politics, forget mainstream media, forget it all for a moment and connect through the genius of this artist. The human experience. You are all amazing.
Perfectly stated. Yes. So true.
My favourite song of all time. When i wanna shut the world out i close my eyes n listen to this.
Such an appropriate song for this day and age of uncertainty. Very humbling to be refreshed.
I’m just now discovering “The Fragile” in 2022 and the second time I heard this track I literally lost it. I couldn’t explain the emotions I was feeling. This is an interesting remix, but the original is like floating through time and space.
Trent sure knows how to work them heart strings
cuts into my daily psyche i cannot explain. We have a connection from early on. He understands pain....and I struggle with........thank you Trent.
My world just walked out on me a month ago...ty NIN
Piękne, fantastyczne, już 20 lat tego słucham. Nie nudzi się.
I'll be 25 year old soon. Trent was 34 when he released this song. Fucking glad I am
I think this is the most beautiful version of a beautiful song.
Chills every time.
this song reminds me of great loss an inspires me to keep moving on. brilliant