Songs & Lyrics
The Big Come Down
“The Big Come Down” 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 three Halo releases in 3 titled versions.
- Classification
- Official NIN composition
- First documented release
- Halo 14 · The Fragile
- Release date
- September 21, 1999
- Track position
- 23
- Running time
- 4:12
- Tempo
- 81 BPM
- Known versions
- 3
Live History
- Performance span
- Fragility v2.0 through Wave Goodbye · Tension 2013 Tour · NIN + QOTSA Tour through NIN 2014 Latin America Tour · Europe + Asia 2018 through present
- Live debut
- April 3, 2000 · Los Angeles, CA
Versions
- The Big Come Down
- The Big Come Down (Instrumental)
- The Big Come Down (Beside You In Time)
Sources: NIN Wiki — The Big Come Down, revision 67498 (reviewed September 28, 2026). NIN Wiki song record
Words
Lyrics
Try to make myself okay
Try so hard to make the pieces all fit
Smash it apart
Just for the fuck of it
Bye bye oooh
Got to get back to the bottom
Bye bye oooh
The big come down isn't that what you wanted?
Bye bye oooh
Find a place with the failed and forgotten
Bye bye oooh
Isn't that really what you wanted now?
There is no place I can go there is no way I can hide
It feels like it keeps coming from the inside
There is a hate that burns within
The most desperate place I have ever been
Try to get back to where I'm from
The closer I get the worse it becomes
The closer I get the worse it becomes
There is no place I can go there is no place I can hide
It feels like it keeps coming from the inside
Lyrics reproduced with permission for non-profit educational use.
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