Self-Titled Song Meanings

Blind

This song's about when Jon used to get high all the time and he couldn't find his way back to reality. "Dig through the grey that clouds my mind", is talking about the smoke that was around him.

Ball Tongue

This is about a guy that KoRn worked with for a T-shirt. He had like a pierced tongue or a wart on his tongue and he was a dick to them.

Need To

Need To is about being in a relationship with someone you love so much but you are too scared to get close to them because you're paranoid that they may stop loving you.

"You pull me closer, I push you away, You tell me it's okay, I can't help but feel the pain"

Jon was used to being fucked over by people that he loves. Everytime he thought he was getting too close he would push her away.

"I hate you .... Fuck you, bitch"

Jonathan already resents the girl because he's so confident that she will end up breaking his heart. He hates her before she has even done anything.

Clown

KoRn was playing a show in San Diego and this skinhead guy came up and said, 'Fuck you! Go back to Bakersfield!' I didn't understand that and I bent down and he tried to swing at me. Our road manager Jeff knocked his ass out. The guy that swung at him had a knife so Jon has scars on his back.

Divine

Jon wrote this song because he was pissed off cuz' some guy tried to take a girl away from him.

Faget

Jon says about Divine, "Everyone thinks I'm bashing gay people in this song, and I'm not. It's really about me going through high school being called 'pussy', 'queer', and all that stuff, about getting picked on by all these jocks." The HIV tattoo is really a fuck you to all the people who have made fun of him.

Shoots and Ladders

KoRn wrote this song because of all the "little kids sing these nursery rhymes and they don't know what they originally mean. Everyone is so happy when singing but 'London Bridge' is about the Black Plague. All of them have these evil stories behind them. The lyrics are all from nursery rhymes, and a lot of nursery rhymes go back to the Middle Ages. They're actually pretty twisted if you know the stories behind them, like about Black Death and stuff."

Predictable

Another relationship cliche that Jon finds so predictable. Every relationship that he goes into he is going to find himself hurt at the end. He wonders why there is any point in it at all because he'd rather die than feel the pain.

"I can in every way, mistake the pain I feel inside. It comes to me, evil thoughts are creeping through my mind"

How can he deal with the situations of a failed relationship. If he can't have them no one can.

Fake

This is a song with a theme similar to Clown. Everyone around him hides behind an image of what their peers want them to be.

"I can't stand the sight of you, I can't stand what you put me through. Your life's a lie, that you hide. Is it that terrible being you inside?"

Jonathan is persecuted for being himself rather than being another person trying to fit in with the crowd.

"You try so hard to be wanted. False emotions tells you fronted. I think being a person relies on one thing. Be yourself, let you come through"

Everyone wants to fit in so badly that they'll change their appearance and opinions to that of the mainstream crowd.

"Fake, you'll regret it, you'll regret it"

Once they are older they will realize that they've wasted their youth by trying to be something they're not.

Lies

This song has the same theme as Clown and Fake, Lies picks on those who are too afraid to be themselves. People who hide behind a conformed society

"I want you to see the life you have disguised" "Do you ever see from outside your fears"

He is pointing out those who fear they too will be persecuted if they step outside the line of individuality.

Helmet in the Bush

"It's about a speed problem that I had. You know, you do a lot of speed and -- if you're a male -- your penis retracts severly." - Jonathan Davis

In the song he says: 'Please God let me sleep tonight.' Jonathan had trouble sleeping, becuase that's what speed does to you. The guy heard at the beggining of the song is La Caco, a friend of the band. His real name is Michael and like taco bell. He's a really Nice Guy and he has been friends with the band for years.

Daddy

"People think Daddy was written because my dad fucked me up the ass, but that's not what the song's about. It wasn't about my dad or my mom. When I was a kid I was being abused by someone else and I went to my parents and told them about it. They thought I was lying and joking around, so they never did shit about it. They didn't belive it was happening to their son." - Jonathan Davis

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