"KORN" meanings
BLIND
This song is about when Jon got high all the time and couldn't find his way back to reality. "Dig through the gray that clouds my mind", is talking about the smoke that was around him.
BALL TONGUE
This is about a guy that they worked with for a T-Shirt Store. He has somthing like a peirced tongue or a wart on his tongue and he was a dick to them.
CLOWN
"We were all playing a show in SanDiego and this skinhead guy came up and said, 'Fuck You! go back to bakersfeild!' I didn't understand that and I bent down and he tried to swing at me. Our road manger Jeff knocked his ass out. So that song CLOWN..." (the guy also had a knife, and Jon got a scar on his back)
DIVINE
Some guy trying to take a girl away from Jonathan and he was pissed off so he wrote this song.
FAGET
"Everyone thinks I'm bashing gay people in this song, and I'm not. It's really 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 made fun of him).
SHOOTS N LADDERS
"It was written because all these little kids sing these nursery rhymes and they don't kno what they originally meant. Everyone is so happy when singing but 'London Bridge' ia about the black plague. All of them have these evil stories behind them". "The lyrics are all from nursery rhymes, and a lot of nursrey rhmes go back to the middle ages, they are acctually pretty twisted if you know the story behind them, like about Black death and stuff"".
HELMET IN THE BUSH
"Its about a speed problem I had. You know, you do a lot of speed and if your a male your penis retracts serverely". When Jon says: 'Please let me sleep tonight'. Its because Jon had trouble sleeping cause of what it does to you. The guy in the song is a friend of KORN's, Caco. His real name is Michael and likes 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 thats not what the song is about. It wasn't about my dad or mum. 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 any shit about it. They don't believe it was happening to their son. I don't like to talk about it." (Jon's neighbor was the one who abused him)
"LIFE IS PEACHY" meanings
CHI
"Chi is about a lot of alcohol and drug abuse; people think that when they have problems so that they wont have to feel their pain". The song is acctually name after Chi Cheng from the Deftones. Jon says, "We named it after him because he used to call it reggae, and he loves reggae music".
SWALLOW
"Thats about being paranoid. Drug induced paranoia".
LOST
"It's the stereotypical thing about your best friend meeting a chick, then your nothing."
GOOD GOD
"It's about a guy I knew in school who I thought was my friend, but who fucked me. He came into my life with nothing, hung out at my house, lived off me, and made me do shit I didn't want to do. I was into romantic music and he was a mod, and he'd tell me if I didn't dress like a mod he wouldn't be my friend anymore. Whenever I had plans to go out on a date with a chick he would sabotage it, because he didn't have a date or nothin. He was a gutless fucking nothing. I haven't talked to him for years".
MR. ROGERS
"Back in the day when I was a speed freak, um... even further back when I was a little kid watchin' MR ROGERS, that shit was scary. He was a freaky old man... Land of Makebeleive and Me. FuckinMcfeely and shit... made me sick. So back when I was doing speed, like for 5 or 6 days I would be trippin out and my brain would become a freaky place, and get schizophrenic and stuff, and I'd tape it and watch it everyday, over and over again... I don't know, I was sick in the head. As a kid he told me to be polite and all it did was get me picked on. I fucking hate that man. Thanks for making me polite and trusting everyone, and easy to take advantage of. So I spent 3 months on that one song, just tweakin on it, and it was totally just my MR ROGERS obsession, about how evil I thought he was. Pretty much drug induced".
K@#$%! (kunt)
"People think it's sexist bit it isn't. It's more subconcious bitching about all women who've been with me in my life. It's not about women in general, just those women who hurt me. Initially, we wrote it to send to American radio for a joke, because they always chop up all the other songs. So we were going to send a real single seven days later."
WICKED
This song's by Ice Cube from his album "predator". It's sung by Chino from the Deftones.
A.D.I.D.A.S
"It stands for All Day I Dream About Sex. It's about how much of a pervert my ass is, and how I day dream about what a stud I am. But when it comes down to it, Im a fucking pussy and Im in there jacking off."
ASS ITCH
"That was the last song I wrote, and I was so burned at writing out lyrics because everytime I write I get depressed because I start thinking about things, you know? So the whole song is about that. In the chorus it says, 'before day, my sun will be dying'. Its because I put myself on the line all the time and for what? Because people arn't going to be listerning to it anyway."
KILL YOU
"It's about a relative I first met when I was 12. I fucking hate hat bitch. She's most evil, fucked up person I've ever met in my whole life. She hated my guts. She did everything she could to make my life hell. Like, when I was sick she'd feed me tea with tabasco, which is really hot pepper oil. She'd make me drink it and say 'you have to burn that cold out boy'. Fucked up shit like that. So every night when I would go to sleep, I'd dream of killing that bitch. In some sick way I had a sexual fantasy about her, and I don't know what that stems from or why, bit I always dream't about fucking her and killing her.
"FOLLOW THE LEADER" 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, its on'. Thats partying, its 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 im doing this because all the alcoholm the booze and 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."
FREAK ON A LEASH
Similar lyrically to No Place To Hide, about how Jon's friends treat him differently no. Jon says: "Its about being paraded around in front of everyone, and also about my hatred of life."
GOT THE LIFE
"Thats a song baging on myself. How everything is always \handed to me. How I look up to god and don't want this anymore. Like I want somthing 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 song almost. Thats what I'm getting out of it right now."
B.B.K.
"Big black cock! Thats what I call a jack and coke. Those little glasses they serve in europe and everything. Thats what I named it, big black cock. And thats another song about me dealing with the pressures of this album and how I, you know, Im trying to kill myself, but you know? Do i really want to kill myself? Things Im just questioning myself. Most is self structured."
CHILDREN OF THE KORN
Callaboration with Ice Cube. Jon says this about 'Children of the Korn': "people are going to 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!' Its like old school hip hop with breakbeats and '80s new wave guiars. A whole big clusterfuck, with all these things going on. But we're not dueling at each other, like I do with Fred Durst on 'All in the family' - I do a verse, the Ice Cube does on. There's no real chorus. It's weird!"
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 cames true with the Make a Wish Foundation. "It was like...would your last wish be to meet use? We're just a band. I know we have the impact on alot of peoples lives, but that was just so heavy to me. So we wrote a song about it. We call in the hospital. He's always so drugged up, and he goes 'oh my god!! Your guys are callin me!' It's really cool, but...its really heavy.
PRETTY
"Its a story about this little girl who came into the coronors office when I was working there and she was fucked by her dad. She was a 11 month old little baby girl. Her legs were broken back behind her and he fucked her like a toy doll and cucked her in the bathroom. It was the most heinous thing Ive ever seen in my life and I still have nightmares about it."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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 songs 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."
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."
EARACHE MY EYE
A cover of a Cheech and Chong song with Cheech Marin making a special appearance.
If you are offended by language, then I apolagise, these are quotes from Jonathan Davis.