Songs & Lyrics
Please
“Please” appears on The Fragile (1999) and has returned in setlists across multiple touring eras.
- Record type
- Lyrics available
- Classification
- Official NIN composition
- First record
- Halo 14 · The Fragile
- Known versions
- 3
Song details
About This Song
Available on two Halo releases in 3 titled versions.
- Classification
- Official NIN composition
- First documented release
- Halo 14 · The Fragile
- Release date
- September 21, 1999
- Track position
- 18
- Running time
- 3:30
- Tempo
- 120 BPM
- Known versions
- 3
Live History
- Performance span
- Fragility v1.0 · With Teeth Spring Arena Tour
- Live debut
- November 20, 1999 · Vienna, Austria
Versions
- Please
- Please (Instrumental)
- Please (+Appendage)
Sources: NIN Wiki — Please, revision 67494 (reviewed September 28, 2026). NIN Wiki song record
Words
Lyrics
It begins
Push it away but it all comes back again
All the flesh
All the sin
There was a time when it used to mean just about everything
Just like now
Breathe, echoing the sound
Time starts slowing down
Sink until I drown
(Please) I don't ever want to make it stop
And it keeps repeating
Will you please complete me?
Never be enough
To fill me up
Watch the white
Turn to red
It fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead
All my life
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, but it just left me dead
(Well guess what?)
The world is over and I realize it was all in my head
Now everything is clear
I erase the fear
I can disappear
(Please) I don't ever want to make it stop
You can never leave me
Will you please complete me?
Never be enough
To fill me up
Lyrics reproduced with permission for non-profit educational use.
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