Head like a hole, Black as your soul. I'd rather die than give you control. - Trent Reznor

While I was working on Downward Spiral, I was living in the house where Sharon Tate was killed. Then one day I met her sister. It was a random thing, just a brief encounter. And she said: "Are you exploiting my sister's death by living in her house?" For the first time, the whole thing kind of slapped me in the face. I said, "No, it's just sort of my own interest in American folklore. I'm in this place where a weird part of history occurred." I guess it never really struck me before, but it did then. She lost her sister from a senseless, ignorant situation that I don't want to support. When she was talking to me, I realized for the first time, "What if it was my sister?" I thought, "Fuck Charlie Manson." I went home and cried that night. It made me see there's another side to things, you know?

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel.
I focus on the pain,
the only thing that's real.

You let me violate you. You let me desecrate you.
You let me penetrate you. You let me complicate you.
Help me, I broke apart my insides.
Help me, I've got no soul to sell.
Help me; the only thing that works for me.
Help me get away from myself. I want to fuck you like an animal.
I want to feel you from the inside.
I want to fuck you like an animal.
My whole existence is flawed.
You get me closer to God.