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Down in It > That's What I Get > Kinda I Want To > Sanctified > The Only Time

SICNH and Terrible Lie are ridiculously good songs for me

it does, but i find it kind of long, and the instrumental gets tedious imo

SICNH is probably top 10 NIN songs of all time for me—it may my favorite vocal performance he's ever done

What do you think SICNH is about

At its most literal, it seems to be about grief—the struggle to cope with the death of a significant other, when the wound is still at its freshest and most open. As for who it is, I'm not sure.

The first verse seems to suggest that it's a lover:

I still recall the taste of your tears
Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears
My favorite dreams of you still wash ashore
Scraping through my head till I don't want to sleep anymore

But the second verse seems to suggest that it may be family, guardian, or mentor:

You always were the one to show me how
Back then I couldn't do the things that I can do now
This thing is slowly taking me apart
Grey would be the color if I had a heart

Can't have been his grandmother, because she died during the Fragile era.

Or maybe it's not about anyone in particular, and it's metaphorical.

In this place it seems like such a shame
Though it all looks different now, I know it's still the same
Everywhere I look you're all I see
Just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be

The third verse is where my own personal projections start taking hold, because of how vague the lyrics are, and actually, I think I'd like to keep it personal for now. I will say that it makes me think of the narrator entering the home of the person he's lost, and how strange it is to see it so quiet and empty, despite still being the same place. He then hallucinates, seeing the person everywhere, tormenting him with memories of "who [he] used to be."

The song is only uncommonly played live, and sometimes, Trent starts weeping a little bit as he's performing it. It has to be about someone's death.

I too will join in this NIN discussion between Prehistoric and Verb.