Nine Inch Nails

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Song score

Rhythm	9.5
Melody	9.5
Instruments	9.4
Lyrics	9.7
Vocal	9.4
This song has been reviewed 37 times. Overall score for this song, 9.5.

Song video: video submitted by Michael Fankhauser on 23-04-2007

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Nine Inch Nails - Closer Lyrics

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Song details
Title	Closer
Artist	Nine Inch Nails
Album	The Downward Spiral (1994) , Track 5 , Closer to God [single] (1994) , Track 9
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Rank	4,380 (+618) history
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Song lyrics

Send "Closer" ringtones to your cell

You let me violate you
You let me desecrate you
You let me penetrate you
You let me complicate you

Help me
I broke apart my insides
Help me
I’ve got no soul to sell
Help me
The only thing that works for me
Help me get away from myself

I want to fuck you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside
I want to fuck you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to god

You can have my isolation
You can have the hate that it brings
You can have my absence of faith
You can have my everything

Help me
Tear down my reason
Help me
It's your sex I can smell
Help me
You make me perfect
Help me become somebody else

I want to fuck you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside
I want to fuck you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to god

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

Send "Closer" ringtones to your cell

lyrics submitted by Serpent

lyrics corrected by penny lane on 05-03-2008

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25-05-2004 00:12 sweet_J_
17,089 posts	I just love this song!!
25-05-2004 00:27 yawn
1,060 posts	I heart this song too!
06-06-2004 05:14 AngelKiTTEN
34 posts	this song is awesome
25-06-2004 23:52 MusicJunkieGirl
9 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Good album, good song. SMASH HIT!
27-06-2004 03:54 dubblebubble63
33 posts	this song is really good, but Pretty Hate Machine is a better CD
28-06-2004 19:42 weirddrummer
6 posts	Awesome fucked up love song. This is on my top 10 favorite rock songs of all time.
12-07-2004 01:14 Kristen_70377
1 posts	This song rocks. And I wanna fuck any guy and every guy like a animal if he think the same...
16-07-2004 16:03 hermis
201 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Really weird song at first but you get used to it. But have you seen the video? It's so gross.. And this is not one of the best of NIN's songs, I think.
22-07-2004 21:29 MrSelfDestruct
18 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal This is one of the songs NIN is most famous for. It is certainly not the best, but not the best for Nine Inch Nails is still better than most songs today. The music video is...strange.
24-08-2004 03:56 MisfitsChick
84 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal I love this song, it friggin rocks...
25-08-2004 15:22 doctor_monroe
4 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal like an animal my friend like an animal pure beauty towards rogh sex and rougher music trent your a genius
27-08-2004 16:39 nirvanafreak90
1,189 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal the video is sooo hot! and so is this song and! Trent Reznor
28-08-2004 22:41 Lirahum
3 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal This is a kick @$$ song. It's got a cool beat, great lyrics, and still maintains the Nine Inch Nails type of music. Trent Reznor is a cool fucking artist. Considering what I'm into sexually, this is a great sex song for S&M. Torture, yay!
30-08-2004 15:58 HighOnHate
298 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal hahaha, this song is so legendary! Deffo a sing along one! Turn it up real loud and its fucking amazing! I want to fuck this song like an animal..well to an extent.
07-10-2004 05:05 rock67angel
1,418 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal NIN<3
14-10-2004 21:10 thedecoy
1,240 posts	this is an awesome song, a little kinky lol, but awesome!!
14-10-2004 21:36 the_BurnInAtOR
3,204 posts	I wanna fuck you like an animal...
25-10-2004 02:53 ryssikel
9 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal This.is.song.kicks.ass. The best love song ever, and the lyrics are skull-blowing, might I add. My brother sang this song to his boyfriend. Like, squee.
25-10-2004 17:59 unloved4life
2 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal this song is fuckin alsome can't wait for new stuff
30-10-2004 04:26 bassrocker14
546 posts	The first time I heard this song I was like uhhh....THIS SONG ROX!!! I love the beging....and the video is just insane....I love when he spins in mid-air. I wanna do that
03-11-2004 01:47 dead rose
507 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal i love this song NIN kicks ass
08-11-2004 08:14 ilovecrystal
49 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal the video is the nastiest video i've ever seen on television but i like the end of the song the best
16-11-2004 19:09 HighOnHate
298 posts	This song is so legendary man. I love it, oviously its not as great as Something I Can Never have. but still it shows trent is still friggin awsome! Trent, I hail thee
29-12-2004 02:45 Carlz89
190 posts	NIN are awesome. Closer is awesome. Even Deeper is awesome. I love NIN. People always ask and argue; "Who's better, NIN or Korn?" Well, definatley Korn. But I love NIN anyway.
22-01-2005 17:16 SCN
1 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal The monotonous beat which I would have found annoying in most others songs is hypnotizing rather than irritating. Even though the magic monotony of the pounding electric bass, static-like snare and rapid high hat (which seriously sets the tone) would not detract from the quality of the song had it stayed the same throughout the entirety...it still switches up near the chorus and brings the beat full-circle in an amazing beat which even further hypnotizes the listener. The music can be argued to not even be actual music, as the only recognizable instruments used are piano, guitar and some type of carnival-like pipe organ. However, in my opinion, Closer is a song that is far more musical than most: the way all the sounds and noise come together in such an attractively filthy way that the instrumentals are what make the song come together audibly. The lyrics and vocals are a part of the song which separate it from being an amazing all-you-can-eat buffet of audio clips you can never fill up on to an emotional, mental and (depending on the person) sexual roller coaster. “Help me. I broke apart my insides...” “...I’ve got no soul to sell...” “...the only thing that works for me: help me get away from myself. I wanna fuck you like an animal.” These lyrics show the desperation and lust for the addressed in the song. Being in such a horrible place, only the absolute physicality of this one person can fix anything. “You can have my isolation...” “...you can have my absence of faith. You can have my everything.” These lyrics show his trust and perhaps love that still exist in the sess-pool of lust that has taken him over. Though he is ruled by his lust, he still trusts this person enough to give gifts which are mostly impossible to give, and he may be in love with this person as well, as the above mentioned gifts usually are not given only out of lust. The vocals Trent Reznor provides are a direct reflection and correlation to the lyrics. The vocal performance both on the record and in live concert are nothing short of a perfect shadow of the lyrics themselves. Gritty, yet beautiful. Harsh, yet soft. Loving, yet spiteful. The video is less universal and more personal to Trent Reznor, and provides a look into his mind and what he was thinking when this song was first wrote. In other words, it’s fan-f*cking-tastic.