You should check out Ruiner from the same album.
It always somewhat bothered me that most people seem to think the main point of the song is “I wanna f you like an animal”, when the lines that resonate with me the most are “my whole existence is flawed” and “I’ve got no soul to sell”.
the real kicker is that if you combine this with the album year zero you will realize that “help me” is the subconscious of society, where no one is encouraged to be them self but some one else that you believe is you
society from very young age does not allow the self to develop, and gives you drugs booze sex and violence to distract from the fact you never met you you never been yourself…
that is the actual “help me” and you can find that back in tool songs and nine inch nails songs … people who discovered them self
then there is the other thing, because you do not know yourself, you lie to yourself without knowing and your subconscious is struggling with that, and tries to get you back to REALITY but society does not want that
as you are a teenager or early twenty they have not taught you how to think but what to think, and so you only have the options given to you, not thought by you… and the options given will not get you closer to yourself (god?)
first find yourself then understand that "pleasure and relief are not things to obtain but are rewarded when you done something good … but you gotta be patient for that not a patient…
it is funny to connect things ain’t it…
this is a mild commercial song… listen to the BROKEN album… Trent is so dark he bought the TATE house where she was murdered and recorded this album in it. a new artist, Marilyn Mansion learning his art via Trent. look at the video “Gave up” it’s in the TATE basement with a young newbie Marilyn Mansion. Marilyn was … an obsessed fan that had dark thoughts about replacing Trent. Trent obviously 1 upped that… this song is about politicians btw. one of the guys in the video was a symbol of Sadomazo community and died from it eventually. there is a NIN video that got banned was too crazy… a few were… where he gets on a torture machine and gets chopped up like in hellraiser… “happyness in slavery”
Help me get away from myself.
Isn’t two - god meaning divided god or Satan?
I like how the bissected [pig?] behind him appears like bloody angel wings.
whilst slightly late try reacting to Johnny Cash’s cover of the Nine Inch Nail’s song “Hurt” by Trent Reznor, Trent I believe after hearing Johnny’s version basically went “You OWNED THIS SONG, we are not worthy”, it was also Johnny Cash’s last song before his wife and he passed.
Imagine if Trent is singing from the position of a drug and himself, ‘I want to desecrate you, I want to penetrate you’, ‘you bring me closer to god’. Everyone goes straight to sex!
I’ve always view Trent’s lyrics in a different way. He has always had issues with his record labels. When he sings of sexual things he’s hinting at call and response about the music industry. When he speaks about drug5 he is speaking about love. Love songs are about drug5
You should be a writer…the way you dissect these songs is uncanny.
You’re ruining your records by leaning them like that.
Congratulations on being one of the few people I’ve ever seen to get a correct read on what this song is about.
I don’t think she knows what the artist truly trying to express…because after all art is freedom of expression.
Its amazing that the man did everything he could to not make this radio friendly and it still blew up!
Yeah… I’m pretty sure this person isn’t a therapist. She’s a person who likes the song. I’m 100 on that.
I’m still here in this bed that I crawled in
I hope that I’m someone else in the morning
He is a self loathing individual. This song was seriously misinterpreted, due in part to the video. Reznor had his hands in all things NIN, including the video, his own fault.
You should do Hurt and also the Still album
NIN is definitely intentional with the vulgarity, much is the same way Tool is on occasion. Sometimes you have to say something that jars people to get them to listen to the rest of what you are saying. Sometimes the message you are delivering is powerful and needs to be heard, and will otherwise get lost. What you said about the line “I want to fuck you like an animal” is so accurate. I think even with that relatively shocking line, many people just vibe to the song because the beat makes you want to, but miss the whole message. But without that line the entire message also gets lost. I am so glad you heard the whole message and understand the power of his words. Everything he says in between the chorus really delivers his message.