"Something I Can Never Have" is the fifth track by industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from the 1989 debut album, Pretty Hate Machine.
He felt that Fryer's production gave the track a "dreamy quality", as the piano is heavily filtered and features a large amount of reverb.
[7] Following the song's main topic, Reznor struggled with depression during the five years following the release of The Downward Spiral in 1994;[8] his health worsened when he began abusing alcohol, cocaine, and other drugs, just to complete rehab in 2001.
[9] 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.
"[2] When the song was re-released in 2006, Rob Mitchum referred to it as a "'Goodbye Blue Sky' rip-off".