I love how no one said anything. =(

15 minutes? You waited 15 minutes for an answer? wtf...

I think the song is about music, fame and Trent thinking(hoping?) he won't stay in the spotlight much longer. Wasn't he afraid he couldn't write music anymore after he sobered up?
I think the last verse is about the music never dying, but the (personal) fame he and other musicians have/had fading away. Eventuay they will all be just musicians from a certain era, but the music might keep influencing people. Just like with cassical composers.

That's interesting... But yeah I've always thought about it as someone died, and he misses them. Or not even he, just whoever the main character of the song is. (and yeah I'm not used to these forum things, so 15 minutes seemed like a long time. D= )

Oh. Okay. =/

Black Heart Procession? If they're anything like NIN I'll listen to it. =]

I feel it as either losing a loved one and being able to reconnect in the afterlife, or losing yourself and remembering what you once were and only in the end will the two halves be able to reconcile themselves.

TR's lyrics are very special - they're open for interpretation in so many ways.

Definitely time travel.

ReznorsApostle posted:

That when you strip away all this shyt that makes up our life, and can share that with another human being, you and whoever else is involved in that purge, will live forever without time.

That's cute. =]

NIN has a history of making the music itself as interpretive as the lyrics, so with the irregular beat and everything fading in and out, droning...

So I think its kind of a backwards overture for With Teeth (the album) as a whole. Everything is somewhat confused and coming from a completely different perspective until they're all blurring into one, Beside You In Time being the filter, and Right Where It Belongs being the result.



Here's the lyrics to save some people the time:

I am all alone this time around
Sometimes on the side I hear a sound
Places parallel I know it's you
Feel the little pieces bleeding through

And all this goes on
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
This goes on
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on

Now that I've decided not to stay
I can feel me start to fade away
Everything is back where it belongs
I will be beside you before long, and on,
This goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
This goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on

We will never die
Beside you in time
We will never die
Beside you in time

Zachma123 posted:

It seems to have references to the recurring Fragile line "I can still feel you even so far away". The "you" he is referring to, I like to think, is the same person that the entire Pretty Hate Machine is about, and that the song "Piggy" and many others are about. Basically someone who touched him so deeply and then took it away and scarred him for the rest of his life and pitted him down in a hole of self destruction, depression, and addiction.
Anyways, this is With Teeth, and I like to think the entire album is about recovery from inflicted scars. Perhaps this song isn't specifically about recovery, but maybe it is acceptance of his scars and everything that has happened to him previously and living and functioning with them without fighting against them.

I just wonder who that person is though? I definitely aggree a lot of his stuff seems directed towards a person. It's so amazing how his albums overlap, though. And you can see certain things from one in another.

When I hear this song I am reminded of my mother who died in december of 2001 from cancer.

So from a personal viewpoint I think it is about someone he loved that died but only because of how the song makes me feel.

eh, stupid reason for thinking such but I'm not really one to analyze songs and pick them apart. If a song makes me feel a certain way it just does and I embrace it. It destroys the moment when you know what the song is really about.

Marienessesom posted:

That's interesting... But yeah I've always thought about it as someone died, and he misses them. Or not even he, just whoever the main character of the song is. (and yeah I'm not used to these forum things, so 15 minutes seemed like a long time. D= )

15 minutes can be really long. Depends on where you are, what you're doing.

Have you ever heard the expression that Gods time is way off of ours? Like a day in Gods' time is a thousand years in our time? I think of that when I hear this song. And I think of love, and beauty. All encompassing beauty; like when you see something that you can just marvel at for a long period of time. Beside You In Time - No matter where, no matter what. I'm there for you. Love.

c9

ChaseNine posted:

Marienessesom posted:

That's interesting... But yeah I've always thought about it as someone died, and he misses them. Or not even he, just whoever the main character of the song is. (and yeah I'm not used to these forum things, so 15 minutes seemed like a long time. D= )

15 minutes can be really long. Depends on where you are, what you're doing.

Have you ever heard the expression that Gods time is way off of ours? Like a day in Gods' time is a thousand years in our time? I think of that when I hear this song. And I think of love, and beauty. All encompassing beauty; like when you see something that you can just marvel at for a long period of time. Beside You In Time - No matter where, no matter what. I'm there for you. Love.

c9

Wow that is awesome! That's my favorite explanation yet. =] I thought it had something to do with love, too. I really like thinking of it that way.

Everytime I hear this song I think "Dr Who" - apart from the 'time' reference, I really have no idea why...

I believe that it's another way fo describing an impossible love, that the love seems so impossible, it feels like living on different times, but still, you can see, hear your love.