I take no credit. Check me out on Facebook: www.facebook.com www.nin.com “And All That Could Have Been” is the seventh track on Still, which was released with the Deluxe Edition CD version of And All That Could Have Been and was available for mail-order with the purchase of the DVD version and is currently available for order through nin.com. The song is considered an outtake from The Fragile, much like “The Great Collapse” from Things Falling Apart. It may be one of NIN’s most complex songs regarding time signature, as the verses are in 7/4, the choruses in 4/4, and part of the bridge in 6/8. “AATCHB” features guitar distortion and the layering of multiple guitar effects often found in songs of the “Shoegaze” subgenre—bands such as My Bloody Valentine (with whom NIN’s usual mixer, Alan Moulder, worked) and The Jesus and Mary Chain (who NIN opened for back in 1989). This is the only available version. Softly falling rain, continued from the end of “The Day the World Went Away,” begins the song, soon joined by quiet atmospheric synthesizers playing sustained, ascending notes. These lead into the first verse, a still-quiet 7/4 combination of soft electric guitars and Reznor’s melodic vocals. The verse gives way to a quiet, instrumental bridge where bass guitar and piano join in, playing the melody and chord sequence from the climax of “The Great Below” in 4/4. A second verse, again in 7/4, interrupts this bridge with a return to the verse guitars, vocals, and icy percussion …