The Hand That Feeds

"The Hand That Feeds"
Single by Nine Inch Nails
from the album With Teeth
Released	March 28, 2005 (2005-03-28)
Genre	Industrial rock new wave revival[1] hard rock[2]
Length	3:38
Label	Interscope
Songwriter(s)	Trent Reznor
Producer(s)	Trent Reznor Alan Moulder
Nine Inch Nails singles chronology
"Into the Void" (2000) "The Hand That Feeds" (2005) "Only" (2005)
Halo numbers chronology
Halo 17 (2002) Halo 18 (2005) Halo 19 (2005)

"The Hand That Feeds" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as the lead single from their fourth studio album, With Teeth (2005).

The single is the highest-charting Nine Inch Nails song on all charts except for Billboard Modern Rock Tracks, where it stayed at number one for five weeks (the following single "Only" stayed at number one for seven non-consecutive weeks), and the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number 31. It is the band's only single to reach the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, as well as their highest-charting single on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, peaking at number two. It was also a crossover hit, crossing over to pop radio as their first top 40 radio hit since "Closer" in 1994 and "Hurt" in 1995, peaking at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.