Songs & Lyrics
The Lovers
“The Lovers” appears on Add Violence (2017) and has remained in Nine Inch Nails setlists from I Can't Seem To Wake Up 2017 to the present.
- Record type
- Lyrics available
- Classification
- Official NIN composition
- First record
- Halo 31 · Add Violence
- Known versions
- 5
Song details
About This Song
Five titled versions are documented.
- Classification
- Official NIN composition
- First documented release
- Halo 31 · Add Violence
- Release date
- July 21, 2017
- Track position
- 2
- Running time
- 4:09
- Tempo
- 115 BPM
- Known versions
- 5
Live History
- Performance span
- I Can't Seem To Wake Up 2017 through present
Versions
- The Lovers
- The Lovers (Main)
- The Lovers (Instrumental)
- The Lovers (Acapella)
- The Lovers (Live At Rehearsals)
Related Records
- Official multitracks available
Sources: NIN Wiki — The Lovers, revision 68249 (reviewed September 28, 2026). NIN Wiki song record
Words
Lyrics
(I can hear you breathing)
I’ve slipped out of time again
Leaving all of you behind
And I’m free
To return to the place where I already am
And have always been
If I just really looked and allowed myself
To see
The confusion is seducing me warm, flowing
Wide his eyes
Summer
Hypnotize they see inside of me
Hot swollen skin want me take me perfect embrace
Black and bloody
Rotten and perfect
The center has moved on and all that’s left is free
Finally
Finally
Everyone seems to be asleep but me
Take me
Into the arms of the lovers
Free
Take me into the arms of the lovers
[Part two]
Oh I see you floating there
How could I ever hope to forget
Always rearranging
These words are a lie a mirror reflecting in a mirror of a lie
A light shines still always
Shadows in every word
Beneath black eaves
Please don’t leave me here
I could stop it
Maybe I could stop it (if I wanted to)
But I’m not the one driving anymore
I know who I am
But I know who I am
Right?
(Please don't leave me here with you)
Take me
Into the arms of the lovers
Free into the arms of the lovers
Into the arms of the lovers
Please
Into the arms of the lovers
I am free
Into the arms of the lovers
The Lovers arrive [Beginning of First Chorus]
The Lovers return [Beginning of Second Chorus]
I am godlike
I am
I am singularity
Coliseum calling with its night that could last forever
Breathing moments
Perfect
Take me
Take all that's left
I am free
Finally
Combined and perfect
Finally
Lyrics reproduced with permission for non-profit educational use.
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