Mistaken NIN Lyrics

[Lastentrance]

I wanna fuck you like a pig.

[Kulerage]

Don't have anything too ridiculous, but:

Getting Smaller: Hey and for what in this world
WISH (Not Wish): Where's your dead at?
Sunspots: And everything I'd ever want, is inside of TIER!!!!!!

[Halo Infinity]

The Idea Of You

Actual: "None of this is happening."

What I keep hearing: "Oh yes. It's happening."

[Halo Infinity]

Happiness In Slavery

Actual: "It controls you."

What I keep hearing: "Bad controls you."

[ultimatebdp]

Caught my old roommate singing along to Love is Not Enough right after WT came out and heard this gold...

Actual Lyrics: "For you to go and take this...and smash it apart"

Drunk Roommate's Lyrics: "Forty years ago in TEXAAAAS..."

The second I stopped the music and said, "Wait, wait, WAIT...what did you say???" he got all embarrassed...especially when I pointed out the next lyric doesn't fit his version!!
So, as a good friend does, I still casually throw that confusing line into our conversations and will do so until one of us dies.

[Halo Infinity]

The Collector

Actual: "I am a good boy and I will swallow it all! Swallow it all! Swallow it all! Swallow it all!"

What I keep hearing: "I am a big boy and I will swallow it whole! Swallow it whole! Swallow it whole! Swallow it whole!"

[ultimatebdp]

Burning Bright

Actual: "I'm going back...of course I am..."

What I hear: "I'm going to Hell...of course I am...as if I ever really had a choice"

[Destruct26]

I WOULD FOR YOU
If i could be somebody else
well I think I would for you

if I could pee on someone else
well I think I would on you

[Sliprygoose]

The Wretched

Actual lyric: "But not another reason to continue"

What I hear: "But not another reason not to continue"

Actual lyric: "Back at the beginning. Sinking. Spinning"

What I hear: "Sinking. Swimming."

[Kulerage]

That reminds me. I keep hearing "But not another reason to continue" as "But not another reason out to continue."

[HWB]

Meet Your Master:
Original: Count down, to the end
Gotta make it come faster
Is a coming disaster

My Ears: Goddamn! Julian! Gonna make it come faster, this is gonna be a disaster!


Head Like A Hole:
Original: God money
My ears: Got money

Down In It:
Original: "I was above it, now I'm down in it
My ears: "I was at the party, now I'm down in it


Running:
Orignal: "I'm running out of places I can hide from this"
My ears: "I'm running out of the place, I can die from this"


Burning Bright:
Original:
I AM FORGIVEN
I AM FREEE
I AM..A...FIELD...ON..FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
My Ears:
I AM FORGIVEN
I AM COMPLETE
I AM A FIELD OF FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

(Seriously, at 4:58 it really sounds like Trent goes "I AM COMPLETE")

[insequence]

When I first got into NIN about 10 years ago I always misheard "happiness" at the end of Happiness In Slavery as "A penis" whispered over and over again. Yes, I feel weird about it in retrospect.

And yeah, I always thought the "not/out to continue" thing in The Wretched was strange. I guess it's just the delay or something that catches up with the vocals.

[Disassociative]

I used to mishear shitloads of lyrics, the one that sticks out in my mind right now is from Love Is Not Enough even tough it's a relatively minor one

Actual line
'The tile on the floor, so cold it can sting'

What I heard
'The towel on the floor, so cold it can sting'

[Ryan]

"You've become a virus that's killing off his host" sounds to me like "You've become violent - keeping off his host".

[Halo Infinity]

Every Day Is Exactly The Same

Actual: "Sometimes I think I'm happy here."

What I keep hearing: "Sometimes I think I'm happier."

[clodhopper90]

My girlfriend hears the chorus of Less Than as “I’m Molested.” I can’t unhear this now.

[paul_guyet]

I used to mishear shitloads of lyrics, the one that sticks out in my mind right now is from Love Is Not Enough even tough it's a relatively minor one

Actual line
'The tile on the floor, so cold it can sting'

What I heard
'The towel on the floor, so cold it can sting'

Same. Even to this day.

Also, "The Perfect Drug".

HEARD: "Take me with you / take me, if you want"

IS: "Take me with you / take me with you"

I heard that until the multitracks came out.

[vincenzomilione]

even though the song is called LESS THAN, when i sing the chorus to myself without the recording to correct me, instead of:

are you less than?

i hear:

are you listenin'?

[Bachy]

This ain't a consequence. This is the beginning of the end.

[Ash512]

Dear World :
"And you didn't even notice, and you didn't even notice, and you didn't even notice that you're pissing".

God... is he really that old already?

[Kyle]

When I first got into NIN about 10 years ago I always misheard "happiness" at the end of Happiness In Slavery as "A penis" whispered over and over again. Yes, I feel weird about it in retrospect.

And yeah, I always thought the "not/out to continue" thing in The Wretched was strange. I guess it's just the delay or something that catches up with the vocals.

I always and still do think he's saying "not another reason left to continue" still means the same thing and could have been thrown in to fit the rhythm without necessarily changing the written lyrics

[TinDefacto]

I just realized that the following are not, in fact, the actual lyrics, and now the title of the song makes much more sense:

I am forgiven
I am free
I am not real
I'm fire

[LosingFocus]

Was convinced for years that the line in Burn was "I wanna watch the whole world burn" and no-one could tell me otherwise. This was when I had the NBK OST on cassette only and had lost it. When I got the song again on CD I was upset Trent had rerecorded it with new lyrics. That was, what, 15 years ago? Still convinced I'm right.

[Halo Infinity]

The Becoming

Actual: "It won't give up. It wants me dead. Goddamn this noise inside my head."

What I keep hearing: "Don't give up. It wants me dead. Goddamn this noise in side my head."

The Hand That Feeds

Actual: "You're keeping in step. In the line."

What I keep hearing: "You're keeping it still. And in line."

Please

Actual: "All my life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but it just left me dead."

What I keep hearing: "All my life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and a part of it just left me dead."

[Halo Infinity]

Head Like A Hole

Actual: "God Money"

What I keep hearing: "Got money?"

Down In It

Actual: "I was up above it."

What I keep hearing: "I was gonna better it."

Somewhat Damaged

Actual: "So impressed with all you do."

What I keep hearing: "So embossed in all you do."

Starfuckers, Inc.

Actual: "Now I belong."

What I keep hearing: "Don't argue."

[Harry Seaward]

Good lord somma you guys need hearing aids.

[OSLIN]

good lord somma you guys need hearing aids.

What?!

[Tritnew]

Came Back Haunted

Actual: "The throat is deep and the mouth is wide"

What I heard: "The foot is deep and the mouth is wide

Closer

Actual: "You are the reason I stay alive

What I heard: "You are the reason I'm still alive"

[renton44]

In college I had a roommate who misheard lyrics all the time, anyway I heard him singing 'Last' to himself once. Kinda like once you see something, you can never un-see it.

Real lyrics: "this isn't meant to last, this is for right now, this isn't meant to last"

What I heard: "this is a metal ass, this for right now, this is a metal ass..."

Even right now, I can't stop laughing.

[piggy]

Yup, "metal ass" on that song is an old classic. Peeps been hearing it that way for years.