For me personally the last minute of this song is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever.

Why is the last minute of this song the most perfect thing ever

I used to use this music video to teach students the characteristics of Gothic literature. It's still one of the best music videos out there.

Can’t believe that Trent was ever ashamed of this video, as it is one of my favorites. “Turn off the sun, pull the stars from the sky, The more I do to you, The more I die”

I know it is trendy to criticize JK Rowling right now, but no one can deny Severus Snape was one of the most talented musicians of our time.

They performed this when I saw them a few weeks ago. Was NOT expecting it since they never played it live at all until around 2018. The stage was bathed in green light. It was incredible.

To all the hi fi rush gamers: explore the rest of the NIN music catalog you won't regret it

Me in 2008 playing Rock Band: "Hey this song's really fun on drums!" Me 15 years later hearing this song in Hi-Fi Rush: *"YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"*

I used to rush home right after school to catch this video. There was a period of time where MTV would play this video right around 3pm everyday

The chaos of the drum solo into the melodic "without you" part is one of my favorite parts of any song ever written. Just brilliant

Hi-Fi rush gamers where you at, come indulge and the amazement that is NIN

I can't believe the game ended with one of my favorite NIN songs.

The production on this still sounds incredible. It could be released today and you would never know it is 24 years old.

This is my favourite music video ever. I love the imagery, the blue/dark green/black colours, the Edgar Allen Poe type gothic visual flair x Victorian aesthetic. The smoky water shots, especially when he's half in it looks incredible especially towards the end; those two women wearing the oversized hats and how it drapes over them on the hill, the maze. Everything!

I remember when the local radio said they would play a new NIN song from the Lost Highway soundtrack. I waited for hours for the song to play, then hit record on my tape deck. I played this song over and over for hours.

I imagine John Johannes watching as a teen and thinking "Man it'd be so cool to fight this guy in as a final boss."

I recall being 11 years old, recording this song from the radio onto a cassette and playing it nonstop. Good times.

Oh yes, when Trent was a vampire.

I absolutely love Trents performance in this video. He just encapsulates this mad count in his victorian mansion. His movements, his acting, the feeling of madness he oozes, something about it is hypnotizing.

This is by far the best "What We Do In The Shadows" episode. Laszlo's vocal ranges are impressive.

The perfect rug man. Really ties the room together.

I thought the video was about a father who has lost his child and begins a descent into madness due to grief, guilt, and addiction. In any case art is up to interpretation and this is a beautiful piece of art.

Local man with a robot arm on his way to fight an evil CEO.

words can’t describe how happy i am that more people are discovering this song through hifi rush

My wife just brought home the perfect rug and I played this song for her

Trent says this is his least favorite song he’s ever written. Seriously Trent?! It’s a masterpiece! Not to mention the video…..absolutely breathtaking. Not only does it look beautiful, but the plot not only is heartbreaking….but it brings so much more impact to the song. It’s brilliant. Hauntingly beautiful.

The Perfect Song.

17 years on and this is still the best music video I've ever watched.

I got my head but my head is unraveling Can't keep control can't keep track of where it's traveling I got my heart but my heart's no good You're the only one that's understood I come along but I don't know where you're taking me I shouldn't go but you're wrenching, dragging, shaking me Turn off the sun pull the stars from the sky The more I give to you the more I die And I want you You are the perfect drug You make me hard when I'm all soft inside I see the truth when I'm all stupid-eyed The arrow goes straight through my heart Without you everything just falls apart My blood just wants to say hello to you My soul is so afraid to realize How very little there is left of me And I want you You are the perfect drug (Take me with you) Without you everything just falls apart It's not as much fun to pick up the pieces

The end of the song always hurts. I feel it to my core. When I'm really down, it makes me weep.

The production design and visuals for this video are awesome. Still one of my favorite alternative tracks and videos from the 1990s.

I was shocked Tengo Gameworks added this masterpiece to hi-fi Rush for the final Bossfight what an absolute great song to add to a wonderful game 🤟🏻🤟🏻

Damn didnt expect to ever see this on KZfaq What a day

Directed by Mark Romanek. It's been a while since NIN had a video of this visual quality. I miss people like Romanek or Floria Sigismondi doing these crazy, dark videos.

big salute to all the kids just discovering this from Hi-Fi Rush

This is still one of my favorite songs by this band.

Trent may hate this video, but I think it is a sublime work of art.

I clearly remember when this first came out and was playing on MTV. I know Trent doesn't like this song but I love it. And the visuals! Like some kind of Victorian Edgar Allan Poe x Edward Gorey x Wuthering Heights, green fairy induced nightmare, it was perfect.

the end of this song is absolutely beautiful..

I just got a new coffee mug and i love it. You are the perfect mug, the perfect mug, the perfect mug.🎵

The NIN marketing tactics is to upload 2 videos. One video that will quickly be banned by YT and another for comments about the banned video. It got people interested and hooked..It's the perfect drug.

Finally!! thank you for posting the entire video on KZfaq!

The Line 'Without you, everything falls apart reminds me of a relationship I was in during my twenties that ended unpleasantly.

Everyone going on about Snape needs to realize when this came out this was totally Dracula.

I love that the video is not about a "lost lover", but a "lost" child. A dead child and the pain and insanity of the memory; or a visitation? VERY Gothic. Amazing.

The way the opening strings sound like liquid glugging out of a bottle is absolutely perfect.

People don't ever seem to remember that Trent learned piano from his grandmother as a small child and it has been remarked about him having an "ordinary middle-class childhood"; however, he was considered an introvert. Then worked as an assistant recording engineer and janitor at Right Track Records in Cleveland, OH which is where he taught himself everything about recording, during the studio's down time, as the owner decided to let him work on his own demo's for free. He has earned a BS Degree in Computer Engineering from the distinctive Allegheny College and has a registered IQ score of 170, which is the same score as Einstein. During the making of "The Downward Spiral" album, he rented the Sharon Tate House near Los Angeles, where six people had been murdered by members of The Manson Family in 1969. Reznor lived in what essentially is the master bedroom, where he isolated himself away in the closet, which he converted into a sound recording booth, with a new Apple laptop computer, loaded with some excellent sound engineering software, where he created everything himself, except for the drums. While living in the Tate Murder House he befriended a tall skinny kid, who idolized Reznor and took the residence's reputation as part his stage name ― Marilyn Manson. They remain friends. He's the consummate perfectionist, who refuses to be dictated too; nor, will he ever compromise his vision. One recording studio found out, as he so infamously mailed them a letter from himself, who had cut his own contract into shreds. Another studio was undercut by Reznor, who had notoriously released his own music for free, so his fan's could copy and redistribute his work, just because he refused to give into studio management's demands regarding his "violent content and liberal use of profanity". Reznor has been a longtime proponent of self-creating, self-orchestrating, self-composing, self-promoting, as well as self-producing your own music, which gave way to the DIY production revolution, now seen on a multitude of online platforms ― So now, you can be your own maverick, due to his many talents. Reznor wrote this single for the David Lynch film "Lost Highway", which is the reason why he indulged the video's director Mark Romanek, who accurately depicted the Macabre Edwardian Era aesthetic, based on two distinct Gothic-Horror writers. So, whenever people say Trent Reznor is a music genius ― It's all very, very true ......!!!! * Side Note: If you require further analysis, as well as an intellectual challenge, then analyze the video's three distinct themes and references by looking into director Mark Romanek. The video's director took inspiration from two distinct American author's: Edward Gorey (1925-2000) who authored ‘‘The Hapless Child’’ (1961) and his abecedarian books ‘‘The Gashlycrumb Tinies’’ (1963) and ‘‘The Chinese Obelisks: Fourth Alphabet’’ (1970). The central figure of Gothic-Horror literature is Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), who's works employ the death of a beautiful woman as a main plot, such as ‘‘Annabel Lee’’ (1849), ‘‘The Raven’’ (1845), ‘‘Berenice’’ (1835), ‘‘Ligeia’’ (1838), ‘‘Morella’’ (1835) and, ‘‘The Fall of the House of Usher’’(1839), but also as the heavy absinthe drinker Edgar Allen Poe was alleged to be, but also ‘‘The Imp of the Perverse’’ (1845) and ‘‘The Tell-Tale Heart’’ (1843) are in comparison to the music video.

I love the whole look of this video and feel of this song. Perfect. It has an Edgar Allen Poe/horror imagery to it.

This video makes me want to write a gothic romance novel.

I love the outro so much that I wish it was it's own track in itself that was more fleshed out.

Gotta thank Hifi Rush for making me discover NIN, what an amazing song for a final boss.

Mark Romanek made a BRILLIANT work on this video, it’s as timeless as the own song.

I read somewhere that Trent hated this. I just don't understand. This is the most beautiful video and song. I have always loved this.

I love the whole song, and I'm not a drum player by any means (piano player), but the last drum solo part is just MASTERFUL. Especially with all the lighting choreography. This video is wicked. NIN FOREVER.

"Your adventure.... ends here."

I remember almost 20 years ago watching this for the first time on the Closure VHS and being blown away. Always loved the effects and aesthetic of this video.

Feel like this song perfectly encapsulates the feeling of indulging a bad habit or addiction, riding the high of it, then the depression that follows.

30 years later. This is still the perfect song...the perfect song... the perfect song....

I've always loved this song. I'm older now and revisiting some of my old shit. This hits so close now. Still amazing but feels more real now.

As a Nine Inch Nails fan and an Edward Gorey fan, this was basically my absolute perfect video

Cloudy skies + last chorus "take me with you" are so unreal... Big Love 🖤

What a phenominal way to end a video game. congrats to everyone in the comments who just beat HFR for the first time!

As a long time fan I feel the ‘shotgun’ sound and that absolutely beautifully EQ’d guitar riff along with the haunting piano was THE high tide of the sound of NIN.

It's Bizarre and Gothic. Tribute to absinthe, the green fairy that inspired the artists.

What an unexpected and delightful surprise. I haven’t seen this full video since it aired on MTV years ago. I’m so glad Trent finally decided to share it here despite it not being a song that he has historically liked. It’s a masterpiece of raw emotion meticulously articulated.

Awesome to play in Hi-Fi Rush!!

It may not be one of Trent's favourite tracks because he felt like it was rushed but it's one of my favourite NIN songs. I love the drum solo and the last minute outro is amazing.

I remember not liking this song the first time I heard it. Now it's one of my all-time favourite songs. Great lyrics, high energy, incredible drums, seariing vocals. And the ending. Wow.

One of the most beautiful music videos ever made..

I wonder why Mr.Reznor doesn't like this video... Thousands of NIN fans love it so much❤

Chai, Chai, Chai, Chai.

It was so awesome growing up in the 90's.

This is a MASTERPIECE, both musically and visually. love it.

1997 Absinthe was the scariest drug!😱

So this R-rated song is now on a T-rated video game, Hi-Fi Rush!

Huh. The Gary Oldman in Dracula crossed with Dark Keanu Reeves look suits him.

My 13 year old self was obsessed with song back in 96. Still such a great song!

So many great times growing up with MTV in the 90s. My best friends would come over and spend the whole night watching music videos, Beavis and Butthead, and Aeon Flux.

I was 10 years old and we just had gotten Satellite TV. I was excited to finally see a music video on MTV. 5am in the morning before school and this was the first Rock music video I ever saw. I was fucking mesmerized and terrified at the same time. Changed my fucking life and never looked back since.

Aaaaaand I'm back in the late 90's. Damn I've missed you SO MUCH.

RIP Happiness in Slavery 2019-2019

Rediscovering NIN ..... Awesome...

I remember meeting trent reznor once.. in manchester.. he was with a guy called "beer man", he took a picture of me outside the triangle (I had a manson top on) didnt know who he was as i had a one track mind back then haha, big fan of NIN these days (i know he helped greatly with antichrist superstar but didnt know they fell out after.. a passage in mansons biography i believe..and never knew he owned nothing interscope at the time..) long time ago.. wish i knew what i did now haha trent was very "under radar" back then for kids my age..

WOW! after several years, finally here I can enjoy the official video. My perfect drug |m|

This is all 3 types of NIN songs in one travel-sized package.

Hands down the best song by NiN. So many different movements

a young Severus Snape singing about Lilly Potter 😭 there's no denying it. seriously though my fav song and vid from NIN. I know he hated it but so many loved this video ❤ its perfect.

2:28 = the start of some of the most incredible music ever made.

The best choice for the final boss, thanks hi-fi rush

Trent - What Should I do? Atticus - Put The Happiness In Slavery Video On KZfaq! Trent - I Don't Know, It Might Get Blocked... Atticus - Put The Perfect Drug On KZfaq As Well. Trent - All Right, Fine.

Love this song and so perfect to heard this in Hi-Fi Rush. Wonderful game, wonderful song, wonderful boss. Tango Gamework make a true love letter to music.

Probably one of the most impressively produced, exciting impactful songs I've ever heard. A great inspiration to me.

I don't know why everyone says he looks like Snape, He looks like Sirius Black.

This video is sooo beautiful! The visuals are stunning. I love the frantic plucking and sensual chorus.

I come back to watch this one again from time to time. Still with you. We need some remastered video, Trent.

Nine Inch Nails - being loved by gamers since 1996, reminded in 2023

One of my favorite songs of all time. Also, Severus Snape: the music video.

It was my favorite NIN video when it came out. It still is.

I sure miss the 90s. Songs of fairh and devotion, Wish, Wedding album, Enter The 36 Chambers.....😊

Still so good even after all these years.