The Fragile

Album: The Fragile (1999)
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  • She shines
    In a world full of ugliness
    She matters
    When everything is meaningless

    Fragile
    She doesn't see her beauty
    She tries to get away
    Sometimes
    It's just that nothing seems worth saving
    I can't watch her slip away

    I won't let you fall apart
    I won't let you fall apart
    I won't let you fall apart
    I won't let you fall apart

    She reads the minds of all the people as they pass her by
    Hoping someone can see
    If I could fix myself I'd
    But it's too late for me

    I won't let you fall apart
    I won't let you fall apart
    I won't let you fall apart
    I won't let you fall apart

    We'll find the perfect place to go where we can run and hide
    I'll build a wall and we can keep them on the other side
    But they keep waiting and picking, and picking, and picking
    And picking, and picking, and picking
    And picking, and picking, and picking

    It's something I have to do (I won't let you fall apart)
    I was there, too (I won't let you fall apart)
    Before everything else (I won't let you fall apart)
    I was like you (I won't let you fall apart) Writer/s: Trent Reznor
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

  • Salvatore John Allan Fisher The Goat from UranusThis song freaking mean.
  • Ollie from Berkhamsted, United Kingdomyeah but be so sure. just cos he did that live. lots of things go down in the studio. things we will never see unless its dream theater ugh
  • Brigette from Melbourne, Australiathis is my favourite song by them, right next to march of the pigs.
  • Sara from Crack Springs, Wyawesome song....very well done another beautiful peice by the industrial GOD
  • Jamie from Faversham, Kent, EnglandPerhaps he did the tamborine thing live but during the studio recording he did the broken glass?
  • Stacey from St.petersburg, FlBeautiful
  • Mike from Chicago, Il
    The idea that the 'crashing drum sound' was achieved by putting broken glass in the bass drum is completely incorrect. It was, in fact, achieved by placing a tamborine on top of the floor tom. This is evident in the performance of the song on the 1999 VMAs.
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