Something I Can Never Have

"Something I Can Never Have" is the fifth track by industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from the 1989 debut album, "Pretty Hate Machine". According to Loren Coleman, the song deals with suicidal themes.
Tom Breihan from Pitchfork Media gave a positive review to the song, stating that the song portrays "an absolute mastery" with "its haunted, minimal piano figure and a few hushed synth tones slowly, letting in sputtering static, faraway door-slam drums, and quiet little counter-melodies." When the song was re-released in 2006, Rob Mitchum referred to it as a "'Goodbye Blue Sky' rip-off" .
A "deconstructed" version of the song was also included in the live album "And All That Could Have Been". The accompanying live music video, with Jerome Dillon was also released.
The song was used in the 1994 film "Natural Born Killers".
Covers.
This song has been covered by Dutch dark wave band, Clan of Xymox, in its 2012 album "Kindred Spirits", and by the band Flyleaf for . In July 2014, Tori Amos covered the song on her Unrepentant Geraldines Tour. A version of the song was used in the fifth episode of the HBO series "Westworld" in 2016.