Sunday Song Lyric:

I have not posted many Sunday Song Lyrics of late, but having recently seen another Nine Inch Nails concert — quite a different experience than that Neil Diamond show I saw earlier in the year — I cannot help myself.

Among the better songs on the new album, With Teeth, is “Right Where It Belongs.” Trent Reznor may have intended the song to be a political statement — it seemed that way at the show — but it’s certainly open to other interpretations as well. In any event, here are the lyrics:

See the animal in his cage that you built
Are you sure what side you’re on?
Better not look him too closely in the eye
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on?
See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart
And it’s all
Right where it belongs

What if everything around you
Isn’t quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you want it to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks?
Would you find yourself
Find yourself afraid to see?

What if all the world’s inside of your head
Just creations of your own?
Your devils and your gods
All the living and the dead
And you’re really all alone?
You can live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can’t find the woods
While you’re hiding in the trees

What if everything around you
Isn’t quite as it seems?
What if all the world you used to know
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you want it to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself
Find yourself afraid to see?

Post-Script: Longtime readers may recall that I posted another Nine Inch Nails song as a Sunday Song Lyric in March 2004.