Follow the Leader Song Meanings

It's On!

"It's On" is my shit peer pressure song. Me being so stressed out going out and partying. Everybody's just going 'Come on dude, it's on.' That's partying, it's alcohol, cocaine, women. All that wrapped into one. I wrote a song about it. And the chorus I talked about Why am I really doing this? It's all my fault that I'm doing this because all the alcohol, the booze an the chicks do is just make it worse. They just rearrange all the problems in a different order that I can deal with at that moment." - Jonathan Davis

Freak on a Leash

Similar lyrically to No Place to Hide, about how Jon's friends treat him differently now. Jon says - " It's about me being paraded around in front of everybody, and also about my hatred of life."

Got The Life

"That's a song baggin' on myself. How everything's always handed to me. How I look up to God and don't want this anymore. Like I want something more out of life than all this. And I've got everything I really need but I sometimes don't like. I don't know how to explain it. I have to let it sit through the songs more to actually get into what I write. I truly know, really, the meanings of the songs almost. That's what I'm getting out of it right now." - Jonathan Davis

Dead Bodies Everywhere

"That was the song about my parents trying to keep me out of the music business. My father was in it and he knew how it was and I totally understand now that I have a son. I want Nathan to be a musician but I him don't want him to go through the hell I went through. That's the same thing my Dad was doing. A lot of people can relate to it, because it's like the Dad's wanting their sons to be football players and their sons want to be doctors or something. That peer pressure its like trying to make them something they're really not. And the Dead Bodies thing is like so I did it and all I got out of it was dead bodies everywhere and got all traumatized. Thanks a lot Dad, Mom." - Jonathan Davis

Children of the Korn

Collaboration with Ice Cube. "People are gonna fucking shit themselves when they hear this. It's just so bad-ass. It is about how parents hate me for doing what I do. It's saying 'Chill out and let me do my shit!' It's like old school hip-hop with breakbeats and '80s new wave guitars. A whole big clusterfuck, with all these things going on. But we're not duelling at each other, like I do with Fred Durst on 'All In The Family' - I do a verse, the Ice Cube does one. There's no real chorus. It's weird!" - Jonathan Davis

B.B.K.

"Big black cock! That's what I call a jack and coke. Those little glasses they serve in Europe and everything. That's what I named it, big black cock. And that's another song about me dealing with the pressures of this album and how I, you know, I'm trying to kill myself, but you know? Do I really want to kill myself? Things I'm just questioning myself. Most of this is self-structured." - Jonathan Davis

Pretty

"It's a story about this little girl that came into the coroner's office when I was working there and she was fucked by her dad. She was an 11 month old little baby girl. Her legs were broken back behind her and he just fucked her like a toy doll and chucked her in the bathroom. It was the most heinous thing I've ever seen in my life and I still have nightmares about it." - Jonathan Davis

All in the Family

"That was really fun to do. Me and Fred were just roasting each other saying the shit we always wanted to say." - Jonathan Davis

Reclaim My Place

"This one is about the whole band and about all my life being called a homosexual. And then I became this big rock star in a band and I'm still called a fag even by my own band. So it's like I was fuckin' pissed off at them. It's like erase them all because I'm gonna reclaim my place and say hey, they owe a lot to me for what I did, and I owe a lot to them back. But, it still kinda sucks. I've never ever gotten away from that fag fuckin' title. Just because I'm a sensitive kinda guy. Kinda feminine it really sucks." - Jonathan Davis

Justin

"It was the first song written for the album. The song is about a 16 year old boy with colon cancer, and his dream was to meet KoRn. It came true with the Make A Wish Foundation. "It was like... why would your last wish be to meet us? We're just a band. I know we have impact on people's lives, but that was just so heavy to me. So we wrote a song about it. We call him in the hospital. He's always so drugged up, and he goes, 'Oh my god!! You Guys are callin me!' It's really cool, but...it's really heavy." - Jonathan Davis

Seed

"Seed. That's all about the same thing again. I, laying in bed in my hotel room, thinking about do I really need all this stuff? All this pressure on me? Because I'm a stressed out freak. It's about Nathan, it's about every time that I look into his eyes, I see myself how I used to be, innocent and stress free. I'm kind of jealous of it. It really sucks, I used to be that way. It's like I have to work so hard at this thing in my life. I have to become a stressed out freak. I put food on the table for my child. Every time I look in his eyes, I just see myself staring right back at my ass laughing. I was like care free, innocent as a child. It's really weird and I'm really jealous of it." - Jonathan Davis

Cameltosis

"That's a love song. It's about women in general, women who hurt me. It's Tre's lyrics. He's going on about chicks and my chorus is like I'm so scared to love anyone and really let them in after I got hurt really really bad by a girl. I've let Renee in a little bit, to be honest, but I'll never be that in love ever again. That's what I'm saying, if you've loved twice, you're gonna get fucked, 'cause you usually do." - Jonathan Davis

My Gift To You

"It is a love song. Its about my fantasy of Fuck my chick and killing her. Me and her used to do this thing where she'd leave a note on my pillow -10 ways she'd like to kill me. It's like some sicko fetish. I don't know, we're weird or whatever. But she was always bitching "Why don't you write me a love song?" I'm like "Ok here i wanna fuck you and kill you." - Jonathan Davis

Earache My Eye

(A hidden song) A cover of a Cheech and Chong song with Cheech Marin making a special appearance.

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