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| album =''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''
| length =4:06
| BPM = 104| versions =Sunspots<br>Sunspots (Instrumental)| live =N/A[[NIN 2022]]}} ==About=="'''"Sunspots"'''" is the eleventh tenth track on the 2005 release ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]]''.
===Song Credits===
==Appearances==
===Halo AppearancesHalos===
*''With Teeth''
===Seeds===
*''[[The Definitive NIN - Deep Cuts]]''
==Versions==
===Sunspots===
This is the original album version. Driven throughout by consistent drum and bass parts, [[Trent Reznor]]'s layered vocals and muted guitars soon join. The higher, melodic verses are followed by lower pitched vocals in the pre-choruses, then higher again as the choruses are sung in falsetto. The choruses also feature a different chord progression played by bass and distorted guitars, similar to the choruses of "[[Love Is Not Enough]]." The second chorus and following bridge also feature a synthesizer lead that sounds very similar to a blender, perhaps the song's most notable characteristic. This sound was achieved using a device called the French Connection, which is a CV keyboard controller based on the Ondes Martenot.[https://www.theninhotline.com/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=55] The song ends after two repeated choruses with different lyrics and 16 bars of the verse bassline and drums, which stop together just as they began.
===Sunspots (Instrumental)===
Released exclusively through Apple Music.
==Live==
"Sunspots" has [[NIN songs never played live|never been was not performed live]]until 2022, mostly perhaps due to [[Trent Reznor]]'s fear of straining his voice too much, but eventually made its live debut on [[2022/06/21_London,_England|June 21]] at Brixton Academy, London. It has, however had also been performed at a soundchecksoundchecks and rehearsals with vocals. One of those soundchecks can be heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtkdJfF8BOo here]. Starting 2013, albeit without vocals"Sunspots" was interpolated into the outro of "[[Sanctified]]" by [[Alessandro Cortini]].
== Lyrics ==
Sunspots cast a glare in my eyes
Sometimes I forget I’m I'm alive I feel it coming and I’ve I've got to get out of its way I hear it calling and I come cause I can’t can't disobey I should not listen and I shouldn’t shouldn't believe but I do
Yes I do
My life it seems has taken a turn
Why in the name of God would I ever want to return?
Peel off our skin we’re we're gonna burn what we were to the ground Fuck in the fire and we’ll we'll spread all the ashes around I want to kill away the rest of what’s what's left and I do
Yes I do
And nothing can stop me now
And there is nothing to fear
And everything I’d I'd ever want
Is inside of here
I think I used to be someone
Now I just stare into the sun
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