With Teeth

On a PDF poster (containing lyrics and credits) posted to the With Teeth site and later made physically available to members of The Spiral as part of the welcome package, several extra songs were alluded to but not featured on the album. All of these songs contained lyrics in some form, though they were not entirely legible. These songs are: "Message To No One", "The Warning", and "The Life You Didn't Lead". On May 5, 2005, in the Access section of nin.com, a fan submitted the question: "In the .pdf file for the lyrics to the With Teeth album, there are what appears to be songs listed with lyrics that do not appear on the DualDisc CD/DVD album. Those songs include "Home," "Message To No One" and "The Life You Didn't Lead". Will these songs be released ever?" Reznor simply replied with "?"

On a PDF poster (containing lyrics and credits) posted to the With Teeth site and later made physically available to members of The Spiral as part of the welcome package, several extra songs were alluded to but not featured on the album. All of these songs contained lyrics in some form, though they were not entirely legible. These songs are: "Message To No One", "The Warning", and "The Life You Didn't Lead". On May 5, 2005, in the Access section of nin.com, a fan submitted the question: "In the .pdf file for the lyrics to the With Teeth album, there are what appears to be songs listed with lyrics that do not appear on the DualDisc CD/DVD album. Those songs include "Home," "Message To No One" and "The Life You Didn't Lead". Will these songs be released ever?" Reznor simply replied with "?"

A song with the title "The Warning" is on Year Zero. When the 2019 Definitive Edition vinyl of With Teeth was released, the aforementioned poster was re-created as part of the packaging. Lyrics to "The Warning" were made legible and it was finally revealed that the track from Year Zero has its origins in the track from the With Teeth sessions. In a late 2003 pre-release article from Alternative Press a song named "My Dead Friend" was mentioned. Whether this is an earlier name for a song that does appear (such as "Beside You In Time") or simply didn't make the cut, is so far unknown. It is speculated that it may have become "This Isn't The Place". Similarly, there is a possibility that "The Life You Didn't Lead" informed or inspired "The Lovers".

A song with the title "The Warning" is on Year Zero. When the 2019 Definitive Edition vinyl of With Teeth was released, the aforementioned poster was re-created as part of the packaging. Lyrics to "The Warning" were made legible and it was finally revealed that the track from Year Zero has its origins in the track from the With Teeth sessions. In a late 2003 pre-release article from Alternative Press a song named "My Dead Friend" was mentioned. Whether this is an earlier name for a song that does appear (such as "Beside You In Time") or simply didn't make the cut, is so far unknown. It is speculated that it may have become "This Isn't The Place". Similarly, there is a possibility that "The Life You Didn't Lead" informed or inspired "The Lovers".

In January 2020, two separate CDs surfaced that purported to contain songs from With Teeth in various states of completion, as well as outtakes that had not previously been mentioned.The first CD was labeled With Teeth Selections on the front cover and had five tracks that were all released on the final album in some form. With Teeth Tentative Sequence 12.23.04 is printed on the spine, but this may be a mistake caused by re-using the artwork from a previous release (and forgetting to change the spine title), as this release is more of a sampler and does not contain the full sequence of the album. This CD was sold on eBay by Amoeba Music. The tracklisting correlates with pre-release info reported by Kerrang! magazine [5], including "Getting Smaller" and "Right Where It Belongs" having the working titles of "Getting Smaller Every Day" and "Cages", suggesting that they may have had a copy of this CD. In the wake of the first CD's auction being discussed on a NIN collecting Facebook group, a collector posted photos of his similar-looking double CD labeled With Teeth Unfinished 11.30.04. This collector had previously posted a photo of his full NIN collection in 2018, with this CD appearing in it. They claimed that they got it from their cousin, whose friend had worked as an intern at Interscope Records. The first disc contains all of the album tracks (some possibly finished, some labeled as demos) in what ended up being the final album running order. The second disc contains outtakes and demos, including previously unknown outtakes named "Cover It Up", "Good Day", and "The End". "Cover It Up" was claimed by the CD's owner to be an early version of "The Idea Of You".

In January 2020, two separate CDs surfaced that purported to contain songs from With Teeth in various states of completion, as well as outtakes that had not previously been mentioned.The first CD was labeled With Teeth Selections on the front cover and had five tracks that were all released on the final album in some form. With Teeth Tentative Sequence 12.23.04 is printed on the spine, but this may be a mistake caused by re-using the artwork from a previous release (and forgetting to change the spine title), as this release is more of a sampler and does not contain the full sequence of the album. This CD was sold on eBay by Amoeba Music. The tracklisting correlates with pre-release info reported by Kerrang! magazine, including "Getting Smaller" and "Right Where It Belongs" having the working titles of "Getting Smaller Every Day" and "Cages", suggesting that they may have had a copy of this CD. In the wake of the first CD's auction being discussed on a NIN collecting Facebook group, a collector posted photos of his similar-looking double CD labeled With Teeth Unfinished 11.30.04. This collector had previously posted a photo of his full NIN collection in 2018, with this CD appearing in it. They claimed that they got it from their cousin, whose friend had worked as an intern at Interscope Records. The first disc contains all of the album tracks (some possibly finished, some labeled as demos) in what ended up being the final album running order. The second disc contains outtakes and demos, including previously unknown outtakes named "Cover It Up", "Good Day", and "The End". "Cover It Up" was claimed by the CD's owner to be an early version of "The Idea Of You".

Tracks claiming to be from the five-track CD were posted to archive.org the same month as the eBay sale, but were found to be elaborate fakes. Neither release has actually been shared on the Internet, to date. However, in 2026, the collector who bought the With Teeth Selections auction stated that the songs on the sampler were just the final album versions, as far as they could remember. Both CDs were brought to the attention of Rob Sheridan, who stated on Twitter that the five-track CD "appears to be one of the ones I made (printing out on a home printer on cut-out CD insert template paper) that we sent out to record industry people and potential collaborators." He also commented on the veracity of the double CD. When asked on a subscriber-only Patreon Q&A about the "new" outtakes on the double CD, he stated, "I should probably not comment any further on that one, it's really not my place to talk about unreleased NIN stuff."

Tracks claiming to be from the five-track CD were posted to archive.org the same month as the eBay sale, but were found to be elaborate fakes. Neither release has actually been shared on the Internet, to date. However, in 2026, the collector who bought the With Teeth Selections auction stated that the songs on the sampler were just the final album versions, as far as they could remember. Both CDs were brought to the attention of Rob Sheridan, who stated on Twitter that the five-track CD "appears to be one of the ones I made (printing out on a home printer on cut-out CD insert template paper) that we sent out to record industry people and potential collaborators." He also commented on the veracity of the double CD. When asked on a subscriber-only Patreon Q&A about the "new" outtakes on the double CD, he stated, "I should probably not comment any further on that one, it's really not my place to talk about unreleased NIN stuff."