Maybe 10-12 years ago, I was a big Nine Inch Nails fan. I mostly listen to different music these days, but I still like The Fragile quite a lot and go back and have a listen sometimes.
Probably my favorite track on there is the first song on the second disk - "The Way Out Is Through"
All I've undergone
I will keep onUnderneath it all
We feel so small
The heavens fall
But still we crawlAll I've undergone
I will keep on
The lyrics don't really do it justice on paper. The track opens with a light, kind of reflective melody to it, like someone's searching for something, with the first two lines repeated a bunch - "All I've undergone... I will keep on... All I've undergone... I will keep on... All I've undergone..."
The tension in the music builds to a rather intense and almost violence sort of sequence with heavy distortion. Underneath it all. We feel so small. The heavens fall. But still we crawl.
Then it fades out more gently - "All I've undergone... I will keep on... All I've undergone... I will keep on... All I've undergone..."
It won't be for everyone and probably isn't the best Nine Inch Nails song to start with if you're not already a listener. I'm not recommending it if you're not already into the genre. But I like the song quite a lot, I tend to put The Fragile on when things get a little heavy and crazy in my life.
The song calls for a sort of active endurance - keep on, keep on, keep on. Even if the heavens fall - everything falls - you keep on. Even if your willpower is at the absolute bottom of what it could be, when you feel so small - you keep on. You keep moving forwards. You crawl forwards if that's all you've got.
Things go wrong. Keep moving forwards. Things get heavy. Keep moving forwards. Intense demands on your time, a chaotic mix of thins going right and wrong? Keep on. The heavens themselves fall? Keep on. The way out is through. Crawl forwards if that's all you got. And then you get through.