the downward spiral

he couldn't believe how easy it was
he put the gun into his face
bang!
(so much blood from such a tiny little hole)

problems have solutions
a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash

everything's blue
in this world
the deepest shade of mushroom blue
all fuzzy
spilling out of my head

this song would be the narrator's final act of desperation. the climax of the descent. he feels that through suicide, he can escape into a world of no problems, or rather, just escape from these problems. a very cold, direct poem.
-broken

notice that he chooses a gun to kill himself with. phallic symbols yet again. this is also the only song with a narrator, the others being told exclusively from the character's point of view. the beginning is told by some completely uncaring observer who seems more interested with how much blood is pouring out of the hole in the character's head than what it all means. this observer might be the uncaring world where the character found himself living, a world that thinks as it reads his obituary "isn't that interesting?" and then promptly forgets him. he, for his part, doesn't think of what he's done or what he's leaving behind as he dies, perhaps because it would be too painful to see it all flash before his eyes rather than simply watching it fade away.
-alexa

i think the downward spiral song, not the album, is about suicide (pretty obvious). It's about pain and a guy who can't think of a reason to live. who hates life and needs to end it. numb, apathetic, and seeing the end of the pain as death.
-renee