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Nine Inch Nails – Hurt lyrics
I hurt myself today,
To see if I'd still feel.
I focus on the pain,
The only thing that's real.
The needle tears a hole,
The old familiar sting;
Try to kill it all away,
But I remember everything.

What have I become,
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know,
Goes away in the end.
You could have it all,
My empire of dirt.
I will let you down,
I will make you hurt...

I wear this crown of shit,
Upon my liar's chair,
Full of broken thoughts,
I cannot repair.
Beneath the stains of time,
The feelings disappear.
You are someone else,
I am still right here.

What have I become,
My sweetest friend?
Everyone I know,
Goes away in the end.
And you could have it all,
My empire of dirt,
I will let you down,
I will make you hurt.

If I could start again,
A million miles away,
I would keep myself,
I would find a way.
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Songwriters: Trent Reznor
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    It could possibly be about drugs "the needle tears a hole" and shooting up makes him numb so he hurts himself just to feel something. Or maybe he just feels like he's losing himself and his friends. "i will let you down, i will make you hurt" could mean someone has caused him so much pain and to believe he's a bad person and he wants them to know his pain.
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