Later referenced in the hook of “Peep Show”

“On your mark, get set girl, now here we go
Racin' off to see yo' peep show”

Many are idealistic, believing that a single action or a life spent working can change the fate of man. In all, we are but atoms, put together temporarily and destined to drift apart again. From personal life to the universe, little we do impacts this destiny. Trent realizes this, and states it outright, for anyone who’ll listen.

T.I. plays on America’s Most Wanted, a show and list by the same name of the top criminals under investigation by the FBI. T.I.’s no stranger to crime, having served prison sentences on and off over his career. While serving as crime’s most wanted man, he is also everyone’s top feature, a superman that everyone wants a piece of.

He is also alluding to the tour him and Wayne were currently doing called “Americaz Most Wanted”.

The issue at hand is not trust, but life: Trent has reached a point near the bottom of the emotional rollercoaster. He cannot change the course even if he wanted to: the track has been made. Anyone around him, after years of torment and pain, can clearly see the rocky bottom below. The question was always “when,” not “what.”

As one’s self (ie. ego) is constituted from pieces of identifications and ideas – such as “I am liberal person” – these elements also bring or carry with them something more, which is, all that is related.

For example, being ‘a liberal person’ might bring with it an oppositive stance towards the values of ‘a conservative person’, or an identification to the image of ‘a chill person’ might bring among it some presumptive towards mild drug use – even if these qualities did not originally be part of the person in question.

Now the author-protagonist claims that he has discovered the so far “hidden” or “obscure” meaning of everything that he is, of everything that has formed him. As if that would have lead him to his destiny. Fate has ultimately guided him to this point.

This is an acknowledgement of how one has formed himself through identification to other people and elements of images and language in order to form a sense of self – which is now thrown into question since the unauthentic nature of this process is realized. Every bits that an individual has used as source material for this concept of “me” has been copied from someone else, who has copied it from someone else, who has copied it from someone else – ad infinitum. In this respect, originality is a myth.

The same applies to language: human being is born into the symbolic network of words which will come to define and divide us from body to feelings to actions to thoughts. How can one be original, since the words and their meaning has been there before one has been even born? They have been said and written already, and thus, in a sense, been “used”. The same goes for thoughts: they are formed through words, ie. language. One just can’t make up his own language to think something previously unthinkable through it – atleast it requires one’s original language (mother tongue) to start with.

This leads to the conclusion of the third line: “assembled into something.” It recognizes that actually one hasn’t been able to form oneself as much that oneself has been formed – by forces and elements outside of the individual in question.

Interestingly, the line “a copy of a copy of a copy” is directly taken from the film “Fight Club,” directed by David Fincher, for whom Trent Reznor has written the original soundtrack on his recent films. “Fight Club,” in turn, was influenced by NIN’s 1994 album “The Downward Spiral.”