Slipknot song meanings
self-titled
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Just a sample track. The title of the song is the barcode number from the bands
boiler suits, and the "Mate, Feed, Kill, Repeat" album.
(sic)
(sic) is a literary term that an author includes after a line of text that
indicates that he or she knows it's wrong, but is including it anyway.
Eyeless
"You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes". When the band
visited New York for the first time to sign the record deal with Roadrunner,
Mick says "That all came from a schizophrenic street person in New York. He
was running around, screaming it at everyone. Though I think his choice of actor
was pretty cool. He was off his shit."
Joey says "It's not necessarily about Marlon Brando's eyes, it's a pivotal
figure of Marlon Brando being the untouched guy that he is and "eyes"
being such a strong word, because that song is about Corey's dad and how he
doesn't know him. So we're using a figure that everyone knows to amplify the
song and with California being such a big fucking state. Like we just use them
as articles or examples of a picture. Like the whole motto is unless you're
going to be strong enough or realize what the outcome has been in life, don't
try to see something that you're not going to fucking see."
Wait and Bleed
"It's about this guy thats keeps having repetitive black and white dreams
of himself lying in a bath of blood with his wrists slit... and one day he wakes
up and he finds this dream a reality but he doesn't want to believe this so he
tries to fall back asleep and wake up normally so he basically 'Waits and
Bleeds'"
Surfacing
"Fuck it all! Fuck this world! Fuck everything that you stand for! Don't
belong! Don't exist! Don't give a shit! Don't ever judge me!" That's
basically standing up and saying 'Look dude, I don't care what you do. I don't
care who you are. I don't care what you believe in. I don't give a shit about
anything you're a part of. I'm trying to be me. I don't belong in your society?
Well, fine. Guess what? I don't give a shit. I'm not trying to be accepted in
your (society). Just don't judge me. I'm over here doing my thing. I'm not even
asking for your attention and you're pushing it on me. Leave me alone.'" -
Shawn Crahan (6)
Spit it Out
"Spit It Out" was wrote in retaliation to childish mud-slinging by a
handful of individuals who worked at a local radio station in Des Moines, Iowa.
These individuals worked hard to keep Slipknot off the air.
The song was broadcast in fragments on Mancow's Morning Madhouse after the
station threatened to pull Mancow's show from their station. It was also right
after Slipknot were pulled from a slot on a live concert in Chicago hosted by
Mancow; thanks to same said individuals at aforementioned radio station.
Frail Limb Nursery
This track is very closely related to "Purity". Crimescene.com
explains it to an extent. See, supposedly, while Purity was buried a little boy
found her and would come visit her and stuff and once brought a tape recorder.
The transcript from their supposed conversation is on Crimescene.com.
Everything said on the track can be found in the transcript.
Purity
"I still think its real. See the thing whether it's true or not, it's a
real story, that we read about, that fucked our whole world up. Can you imagine
a girl being buried in a box and having all this lecherous bullshit drip down on
her from this guy? and thinking that there is hope, because this kid is taking
some bizarre note to this guy he doesn't even know- thinking that you are
holding on to the shirt of hope -and you wake up and you're dead you're buried
in mud -they find the note about a week later shoved in a library book for gods
sakes -it just hurts your head- it's a case of what is good and bad in people-
the box alone is reason enough to be like, 'I cant stand to be fucking human'-
how can someone fucking do this to somebody? What is inside of us that is so
fucking wrong? he had written quotes from Edgar Allen Poe and lots of fucked up
things on the box", says Corey Taylor. For more info on the story of Purity
Knight, check out Crimescene.com
Prosthetics
"The song's based loosely on a 1960's movie called the collector- it is
about a guy who kidnaps this girl and basically adds her to his collection and
keeps her there -it's a weird kind of psychological thing, and prosthetics takes
it a little bit further -where he is put into a deep sick psychosis and he goes
through the whole collecting thing, at the end of the song he ends up killing
her and having sex with her.", says Corey Taylor.
Eeyore
"It's the hidden track- Slipknot was based on the theory that we would
never give up any style of music that we loved to play -for anyone- that we
would gel things together under the name Slipknot- it goes from all styles from
beginning to end.", says Shawn Crahan.
"Eeyore is just about this one fucking guy from Des Moines, Iowa - he has
long blonde fucking hair and he is a prick to people in the fucking pit he's a
Thor looking jerkoff. He loves our band but he's a dick to everyone in the pit.
He likes to hit fucking chicks. The song is about me losing my mind and just
tearing the shit out of him", claims Corey Taylor.
