Slipknot - Iowa

People = Shit

 

Here we go again,motherfucker

 

Come on down,and see the idiot right here

Too fucked to beg and not afraid to care

What's the matter with calamity anyway?

Right? Get the fuck outta my face

Understand that I can't feel anything

It isn't like I wanna sift through the decay

I feel like a wound,like I got a fuckin'

Gun against my head,you live when I'm dead

 

One more time,motherfucker

 

Everybody hates me now,so fuck it

Blood's on my face and my hands,and I

Don't know why,I'm not afraid to cry

But that's none of your business

Whose life is it? Get it? See it? Feel it? Eat it?

Spin it around so I can spit in its face

I wanna leave without a trace

Cuz I don't wanna die in this place

 

People = Shit

People = Shit (Whatcha gonna do?)

People = Shit (Cuz I am not afraid of you)

People = Shit (I'm everything you'll never be)

People = Shit

 

It never stops - you can't be everthing to everone

Contagion - I'm sittin' at the side of Satan

What do you want from me?

They never told me the failure I was meant to be

Overdo it - don't tell me you blew it

Stop your bitchin' and fight your way through it

I'M - NOT - LIKE - YOU - I - JUST - FUCK - UP

 

C'mon motherfucker,everbody has to die

 

People = Shit

People = Shit (Whatcha gonna do?)

People = Shit (Cuz I am not afraid of you)

People = Shit (I'm everything you'll never be)

People = Shit

 

 

Disaster Piece

 

I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound

I wanna push my face in and feel the swoon

I wanna dig inside,find a little bit of me

Cuz the line gets crossed when you don't come clean

 

My wormwood meets your pesticide

You'll never get out,cuz you were never alive

I am infinite,I am the infant finite

Come a little closer and I'll show you why

 

(NO ONE IS - SAFE)

Noises,noises,people make noises

People make noises when they're sick

Nothing to do except hold on to NOTHING

 

How does it feel to be locked inside another dream

That never had a chance of being realized?

What the fuck are you lookin' at?

I'll tell you what you're lookin' at

Everyone you ever fuckin' laughed at

 

Look in my eyes for the answers - typical

I can feel it underneath like a miracle

Everbody in the world needs more than

Lies and consequences to power them

Once again,it's me and no one else

I can't remember if there was a someone else

It's not mine,it's not fair,it's outta my hands

And it's shaking - you'll never take me

 

(NO ONE IS - SAFE)

Noises,noises,people make noises

People make noises when they're sick

Nothing to do except hold on to NOTHING

 

NOTHING!

 

(HATE) Hate ain't enough to describe me

(SCREAM) Somewhere between screaming and cring

I'm not supposed to be here

I'm not supposed to be

 

(WHY) When do I get to know why?

(BITTER) Bitter as the stink of when I try

I'm not supposed to be here

I'm not supposed to be

 

Pull your hands away

I'm gone - goodbye - it's so depressing

Withering away

Take a look - inside - my soul is missing

All I have is dead,so I'll take you with me

Feel like I'm erased - so kill me just in case

 

(COVET) Everything around me's mine

(STY) Can't see through the sties in my eyes

I'm not supposed to be here

I'm not supposed to be

 

(DOWN) Scratching and clawing all the way

(STAY) You won't let me fucking stay

I'm not supposed to be here

I'm not supposed to be

 

(LIVE) Is there another way to live?

(DIE) Cuz it's the only way to die

I'm not supposed to be here

I'm not supposed to be

 

 

My Plague

 

I'm in conniptions for the final act you came here for

The one derivative you manage is the one I abhor

I need a minute to elaborate for everone the

Everyday bullshit things that you have done

 

Your impossible ego fuck is like a

Megalomaniacal tab on my tonque

Youu fuckin' touch me I will rip you apart

I'll reach in and take a bite out of that

Shit you call a heart...

 

I don't mind being ogled,ridiculed

Made to feel minuscule

If you consider the source,it's kinda pitiful

The only thing you really know about me is...

...that's all you'll ever know

 

I know why you blame me(yourself)

I know why you plague me(yourself)

 

I'm turning it around like a knife in the shell

I wanna understand why,but I'm hurting myself

I haven't seen a reasons to stop it

I can't just drop it

I'm just a bastard,but at least I admit it

At least I admit it

 

I know why you blame me(yourself)

I know why you plague me(yourself)

 

Kill you - fuck you - I will never be you

Kill you - fuck you - I will never be you

I can't fuckin' take it anymore

A snap of the synapse

And now it's fuckin' war

Kill you - fuck you - I will never be you

 

 

Everything Ends

 

You are wrong,fucked,and overrated

I think I'm gonna be sick and it's your fault

This is the end of EVERYTHING

You are the end of EVERYTHING

I haven't slept since I woke up

And found my whole life was a lie,motherfucker

This is the end of EVERYTHING

You are the end of EVERYTHING

 

Shallow skin,I can paint with pain

I mark the trails on my arms with your disdain

Everyday it's the same - I LOVE YOU HATE

But I guess I don't care anymore...

Fix my problems with the blade

While my eyes turn from blue to gray

God,the worst thing happened to me today

But I guess I don't care anymore

 

You are wrong,fucked,and overrated

I think I'm gonna be sick and it's your fault

This is the end of EVERYTHING

You are the end of EVERYTHING

I haven't slept since I woke up

And found my whole life was a lie,motherfucker

This is the end of EVERYTHING

You are the end of EVERYTHING

 

My flaws are the only thing left that's pure

Can't really live, can't really endure

Everything I see reminds me of her

God I wish I didn't care anymore

The more I touch,the less I fell

I'm lying to myself that it's not real

Why is everybody making such a big fucking deal?

I'm never gonna care anymore

 

What the hell am I doing?

Is there anyone left in my life?

What the fuck was I thinking?

Anybody want to tell me I'm fine?

Where the hell am I going?

Do I even need s reason to hide?

I am only betrayed

I am only conditioned to die

 

 

Heretic Anthem

 

I'm a pop star threat and I'm not dead yet

Got a super dred bet with an angel drug head

Like a dead beat winner,I wanna to be a sinner

An idolized bang for the industry killer

A hideous man that you don't understand

Throw a suicide party and I'm guaranteed to fucking snap

It's evilsonic,it's pornoholic

Breakdown,obscenities it's all I wanna be

 

If you're 555,then I'm 666

If you're 555,I'm 666

(What's it like to be a heretic?)

 

Everbody's so infatuated

Everybody's so completely sure of what we are

Everybody defamates from miles away

But face to face,thay haven't got a thing to say

I bleed for this and I bleed for you

Still you look in my face like I'm somebody new

TOY - nobody wants anything I've got

Which is fine,because you're made of

Everything - I'm - NOT

 

If you're 555,then I'm 666

If you're 555,I'm 666

(What's it like to be a heretic?)

 

3D seconds,16,8,4,lemme tell you why

I haven't the slightest,I'm teaching your brightest

They're listening,clamoring

All the money in the world can't buy me

G0 AHEAD,LIE TO ME

Tell me again how you're tortured

I wanna know how you followed your ordere so well

You're full of SHIT

You had a dream,but this ain't it

 

 

Gently

 

Gently, my mind escapes into the relaxing

world of pleasure,a pleasure that'll take

my mind off the reality of my life,

my past life...life as I know it now.

 

And whatever may come,it slowly

disappears to somewhere in the back

of my mind.it will remain there,

until I wish to retrieve it.

 

Yes,I will stay here for awhile,

for I need the break.A break from the

pressures of life,and everything

that lays in the palm of life's hands.

 

This mode is incredible.It's out of

this world.Too bad I must always leave it...

...but that's life.

 

 

Left Behind

 

I know I know the faces that have disappeared in time

Find me wrapped in glass and slowly soaked in lime

All my friends have pictures made to make you cry

I've seen this and wondered what I've done to

Calcify...

 

(I ignore you)

As I close my eyes,I feel it all slipping away

(I come toward you)

We all got left behind,we let it all slip away

 

I can't stand to see your thalidomide robot face

Don't even try it! You had to be a liar just to

Infiltrate me - I'm still drowning

 

(I ignore you)

As I close my eyes,I feel it all slipping away

(I come toward you)

We all got left behind,we let it all slip away

 

Take...this...away...

I can feel it on my mouth

I can taste you on my fingers

I can hear you like the holy ghost

And kill you if you get too close

 

 

The Shape

 

Too tragic to stay with you

Too static to try for you

These scars,they swallow hard

The part of the past that's hollow and dark

Too horrid to kill for you

Too sordid to die with you

Unstable as always,come down

Everything else is just dust and sound

 

SEPARATE(I've lost my only way)

SEPARATE(I've lost my only way)

SEPARATE(I've lost my only way)

SEE THE SHAPE(Broken and thrown away)

 

I'd give it all away,come take it all away

You can't resent the fear

Somebody tell me how I got here

I'd give it all to you,come take it,it's all for you

The noise is so damn loud,but

Everything else is just dust and sound

 

I don't wanna do this anymore

Everything's shit - everything's been taken

Forsaken - gotta start it over cuz I'm hearing it

Backwards - DON'T make sense - DON'T feel better

Who's better?It's not that simple

You gotta figure it out before you make things difficult

It's not a word,it's a problem,the problem was easy

Draw your conclusions - solutions?

Anybody else wanna run?

Contorting,distorting - I am undone

One less propaganda nightmare fixture

Are you getting the picture?

 

 

I Am Hated

 

The whole world is my enemy - and I'm a walking target

Two times the devil with all the significance

Dragged and raped for the love of a mob

I can't stay - because I can't be stopped

Eat motherfuckers alive who cross us

I know you're all tired of the same ol' bosses

Let me tell you how it's gonna be

I'm gonna kill anyone who steps up in front of me

 

Welcome to the same ol' fuckin' scam

Same ol shit in a dead fad

Everybody wants to be so hard

Are you real or a second rate sports card?

They all lost their dad or their wife just died

They never got to go outside - SHUT UP

Nobody gives a fuck

It doesn't change the fact that you suck

 

(We are) The anti-cancer

(We are) The only answer

Stripped down,we want you dead

But what's inside of me,you'll never know

(We are) Bipolar gods

(We are) You know what we are

My life was always shit

And I don't think I need this anymore

 

Now I'm not pretty and I'm not cool

But I'm fat and I'm ugly and proud - so fuck you

Standing out is the new pretension

Streamline the (sic)ness,half-assed aggression

You gotta see it to believe it,we all got conned

All the mediocre sacred cows we spawned

Put your trust in the misson

We will not repent - this is our religion

 

(We are) The anti-cancer

(We are) The only answer

Stripped down,we want you dead

But what's inside of me,you'll never know

(We are) Bipolar gods

(We are) You know what we are

My life was always shit

And I don't think I need this anymore

 

I AM HATED

YOU ARE HATED

WE ARE HATED

 

Everything sucks and I can prove it

Everybody dies,shuffle on,remove it

Individuals,indispensable

I'm the paradox deity vessel

...the other side holds no secret

But this side is done.I don't need it

Before you go,you should know you're breaking down

You'll be rotten be the time you're underground

 

(We are) The anti-cancer

(We are) The only answer

Stripped down,we want you dead

But what's inside of me,you'll never know

(We are) Bipolar gods

(We are) You know what we are

My life was always shit

And I don't think I need this anymore

 

(We are) The source of conscience

(We are) Distorted sentients

There's only one thing left

And I can't leave until it's sated

(We are) The absolute

(We are) Controlling you

They're closing in,I can't escape

I AM HATED

 

 

Skin Ticket

 

Zero and zero is nothing but zero

Cancer and people conspire together

Running and running and going forever

Collected and sampled,starving for zero

 

Come see my cage - built in my grain

 

Minus the inside and minus the circle

Inhabhit the riddle and fill in the hovel

Wherein and herein,between us and near us

Zero and zero is nothing but zero

 

Come see my cage - built-in migraine

 

Keeping myself alive...

through your EMPATHY

 

 

New Abortion

 

I'm ethereal,my children are legion,serial

They stick to my skin like beloved cysts

I tear away with my nails and teeth and fists

Touch the hands of inverted saints

Follow my heart through the threaded pain

Callow man is a sentinel screaming

I see the future,the future is bleeding

 

Sores,every goddamn minute I can feel 'em now

Like a virus,you will never kill me now

Goin' underground,comin'on like hepatitis

We're out - and you can't reshape us

Another bug in the construct

Tearin' up the main bus B

Zeros and ones are everything - execute me

 

Everywhere you look,it's like they know

Their fingerprints are hidden by CONTROL

This is where the line is drawn,see

YOU CAN'T TAKE MY SOUL AWAY FROM ME

 

What do you need to see? Ya feel the impact?

Gotta retract - everybody get back

What is this? It's like a big conspiracy

Fields of dejected morbid progeny

They always say that it's always our fault

But everything we say is taken with a grain of salt

Man,it's always the same,if we talk or complain

We only wanna upset the balance

How's it feel to be the New Abortion?

The only generation to suffer extortion

 

Everywhere you look,it's like they know

Their fingerprints are hidden by CONTROL

This is where the line is drawn,see

YOU CAN'T TAKE MY SOUL AWAY FROM ME

 

YOU CAN'T TAKE MY SOUL AWAY FROM ME

 

 

Metabolic

 

Gone - I couldn't murder your promise

Right before my eyes

The revolutions of my psychosis

Kept me outta the way

 

Once - inside - all I hold is ash

 

Fall - suppressing every feeling

I'm in so much pain

I have every fuckin' right to hate you

I can't take it!

The hardest part was knowing that I couldn never be you

Now all I do is sit around and wish I could forget you

 

My demise - I took a life wortj living and

Made it worth a mockery

I deny - I fold,but they keep on coming

(Stop) I'm always ready to die

But you're killing me

 

Who are you to me? Who am I to you?

Is this a lesson in nepotistic negligence?

By default,you are my only link to the outside

Psychosomatic suicide

Where were you when I was down?

Can you show me a way...

To face everyday with this face - goodbye

 

My demise - I took a life wortj living and

Made it worth a mockery

I deny - I fold,but they keep on coming

(Stop) I'm always ready to die

But you're killing me

 

When I blur my eyes,they make the whole

World breathe - I see you fucking me

And I am absolutely controlling every urge

To mutilate - the one and only answer

So much for memories...

I wanna dress in your insecurities

And be the perfect you - I'm through

I'm out-stretched out for all to loathe

Here we go - the ultimate irony

 

 

Iowa

 

Relax...it's over,you belong to me,I fill your mouth with dirt

Relax...it's over,you can never leave

I take your second digit with me... Love...

You are...my first,I can breath

I find you fascinating

You are...my favorite,lay you down to sleep

It's all that I can do to stop...Love...

So blue...so broken,paper doll decays

I haven't left you yet

So cold...subversive,your eyes are full of bleach

Tomorrow,I will go away again...Love...

YOU ARE MINE,YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MINE,I CAN TEAR YOU APART

I CAN RECOMBINE YOU

ALL I WANT IS TO COVET YOU ALL

YOU BELONG TO ME

I WILL KILL YOU TO LOVE YOU.(LOVE)