[SlipKnot Song Meanings]

[MFKR Meanings]
"The original slipknot lineup played "Rage". Rage is a CCG (collectible card game, like "Magic"), in which players control tribes of Werewolves, or the Wyrm (werewolves transformed by darkness). Pentex, Bone Gnawers, and The Black Hand were three examples of tribes in rage. The characters (werewolves and wyrm) when hurt to a certain point, would shift into "crinos form", in other words, a wolf or man transforming into werewolf form. Lastly, an option that players had was to "step sideways" into the umbra, into safety. Hope this clears things up with that song."

[MFKR Songs Meanings by Anders Colsefni]
SLIPKNOT is about what parts of the dark world I particularly despise.
GENTLY is about stepping into the "Umbra" or "Spirit World". It's accomplished with the help of any reflective surface.
DO NOTHING/BITCH SLAP is about getting back at the Left-Wing for trying to take away our guns, and other personal freedoms.
ONLY ONE is from the viewpoint of a Garou who plays the part of the peacekeeper most of the time, only to be laughed at by his peers. Finally, he steps up and shows them he means business T & T isn't really about anything.
CONFESSIONS is a letter from a father to a son from whom he's been separated for about 17 years. It arrives about the time of the boy's first transformation.
SOME FEEL is basically the ranting of a "Leach", or vampire. I personally hate them.
KILLERS ARE QUIET (my personal favorite), is about a "Pale One", which is a Garou that has been "embraced" by the Kindred.

I know I still left some words in there that you probably don't understand, but you can do a little research! Go check out one of the White Wolf's Werewolf: The Apocalypse books. You'll then understand everything I say! Good luck, and happy hunting...

[Slipknot S/T Meanings]
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In this track, the phrase "The whole thing I think is sick." is repeated many times. Most people think that it is the voice of Corey, however, it is a sample taken from a Charles Manson documentary. The name of the track was taken from the barcode of Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat.

(SIC)
The letters in (SIC) stand for Said In Context. The word is a literary term an author uses after saying something he knows is wrong, but includes it anyway.(SIC) evolved from the MFKR song Slipknot.

EYELESS
There are a few interpretations of the song Eyeless. When Slipknot came to New York for the first time, they ran into a schizophrenic man who was running around yelling the phrase "You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes!" That was the main inspiration for the song. Eyeless is also about Corey's father, as seen in the phrase "I am my father's son, cause he's a phantom, a mystery, and that leaves me nothing!"

WAIT AND BLEED
Wait and Bleed is about a man who is dreaming that he is lying in a bathtub bleeding to death from his wrists. As the song progresses, the man realizes that he, in fact, isn't dreaming, and he just "waits and bleeds".

SURFACING
The whole basis behind the meaning of Surfacing is that they're trying to say that you really shouldn't give a shit, or be judged by others. That you shouldn't have to answer to "anything or anyone." As part of their show, Slipknot dedicates the song to corrupt rock stars. The song is known as the "new national anthem." The lyrics "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!" are the words of a generation.

SPIT IT OUT
Spit it out is obviously an angry song, written in retaliation to a Des Moines, Iowa radio station who liked to bash Slipknot and not play their material. Two years later, Spit It Out is in that station's regular rotation.

TATTERED AND TORN
Tattered and Torn is best understood as a song about a person hurting his or her self, and hiding from "the things that make me hurt".

FRAIL LIMB NURSERY
It's basically a clip of Purity telling a story to the young boy who took care of her while she was buried. He would bring her food in exchange for her telling him extravigant stories.

PURITY
The song Purity was written when Corey read one story on web. Adrianne Purity Knight was a 20 year old college student who was stalked by an obsessed ex-lover. Eventually, this man ended up burying young Purity in a homemade wooden box alive. She died. Shawn says: "It's like this - whether it's real or not, it affected Corey very much, the thought of it - so it was able to influence him - the song is not directly one hundred percent about it". Corey explains the whole thing: 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?

LIBERATE
As the song kicks off, Corey talks about "sectioning off himself", "putting a wall up", he's trying to protect himself and "survive". He's very angry at what's going on in his life. Hes being persecuted by the people around him and he doesnt like it one fucking bit. Towards the end, Corey seems to go completely insane.

PROSTHETICS
The song's based loosely on a 1960's movie called The Collector. The Collector is about a guy who kidnaps this girl and basically adds her to his collection and keeps her. 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 as he goes through the whole collecting thing, at the end of the song he ends up killing her and having sex with her.

NO LIFE
No Life is saying that everyone is shit. All you have is yourself and your freedom. Everyone is going to turn around and stab you in the fucking back, you have no one to turn to and you can't depend on anyone but yourself. And it really is no kind of life to live on in constant fear, so you end up hiding behind a false "mask" so no one can see what is really inside. When you need someone the most, they will not be there because they're worried about themselves and themselves only and really don't give a shit about you. And when you fall on your fucking face you better get the hell up fast.

DILUTED
Diluted is a song written about a person who is incapable to continue living. They are haunted by others, and themselves, and may have to deal with emotional problems such as MPD, and Schizophrenia. Or maybe he's just extremely depressed. Either way, the lyrics are more than relatable.

ME INSIDE
This song is about psychosis, when everything and anything in your life decides to explode in your head at once and it drives you fucking insane... "Giving in to what has got me- feeling claustrophobic, scarred- sever me from all emotion- life is just to fucking hard". Basically just trying to cope with all this really fucked up corrupt shit in your life and having it make you crazy and sick at the thought of it; it becomes overbearing. Then the spanish at the end is a message to a spanish-speaking friend of the band. It translates to "We are ugly, we are stinky, but we rule in here fagget motherfucker!"

GET THIS
The meaning of Get This is all too clear - the music industry nowadays is littered with fucking bullshit bands, locally, continentally and world-wide, and it makes Corey fucking (SIC)

DESPISE
This song meaning is allmost like "Purity"

[Iowa Meanings]
(515)
Someone is requesting the punishment of bereavement due to what he has done in the past. The reality of life is too much to handle, and the horrific transgression he has committed is in return with costly consequences, which no one is capable to endure. Side fact - 515 is the area code for central Iowa

PEOPLE=SHIT
When asked why "People=Shit" Crahan says "We are what we are, we just waste and we ruin and we corrupt, and we destroy," so People=Shit basically because we are our own worst enemy, we are going to be the end of the earth and no one seems to give a shit. The message trying to get across is that of the human race is depleating itself of the simple pleasures in life and that everyone is now fake. Fake meaning people, society, everyone, is now pretending to be someone else. Not caring about others, and just themselves. In this act, they are a disease put on earth and we must show them the reality of life. They kill themselves, and or others, because they do not know what is going on in the real world because they are so wrapped up in the world politics and media, they hide reality from people because it will scare them. People need to know. People are the #1 cause of destruction on this earth and this needs to change, but the sad fact is, we can't. That is what they are trying to get across.

DISASTERPIECE
The interpretation for this song is that Corey is reminiscing about a former bully that used to pick on him. He has finally snapped from the aggression due to the bully and now wants to kill him. He is also feeling down, because of the fact that he's been on the receiving end of the bullying and he's fed up with all the shit he's forced to deal with. The person who used to pick on him did not believe in him at all, and now Corey is laughing in his face to prove that he was wrong in the end.

MY PLAGUE
Corey is pissed and fed up from posers. The quote "Kill you fuck you I will never be you" is directed to followers. People who are not being themselves, and trying to fit in by acting like someone else. The quote “I know why you plague me” basically means that he knows why people are fucking with him and he is sick of it and of all the posers in this world; people doing things for popularity and so on. The quote “I'll reach in and take a bite out of that shit you call a heart,” is just warning everyone not to push him any further or else he will snap and kill him. The quote “I know why u plague (yourself)” is informing the person that he knows why he is messing around with him, and that he has had enough and he cannot be pushed around any longer.

EVERYTHING ENDS
The song is about a relationship with a woman that has gone sour. The incident was very extreme and Corey is talking about slitting his wrists because of it, and not caring. He is saying that he doesn't care for anyone or anything anymore. He is too unsure of himself and the state he is in to care about anything. The woman he was with thought she was too good for Corey, and began to cheat on him (the quote "And found my whole life was a lie, motherfucker"), and now Corey is extremely mad about this breakup and is snapping and moving into the state of suicide.

THE HARETIC ANTHEM
The Heretic Anthem is about Corey standing his ground of becoming the exact opposite of what people want him to be, to prove a point. The point of not selling out, not following people, not taking orders from people. With lyrics describing man as 555, Satan as 666, and God as 777, the theme of hate once again prevails. It is also a large 'Fuck You' to the music industry and bands that have sold out. It also states that now, Corey is teaching the young of our race (teenagers) which refers to showing them the truth of life. That it's not all pink and happy, that it can be a brutal and scary place at times.

GENTLY
Gently is a song that first appeared with Anders on Slipknot's debut outing, MFKR. This was Anders' interpretation of the song, using his lyrics, "Gently is about stepping into the "Umbra" or "Spirit World". It's accomplished with the help of any reflective surface."

LEFT BEHIND
In Left Behind, there is alot of metaphors of Corey attempting to explain what is happening to him. The basis of the song is that a dear friend of Corey was never actually there. The person was always trying to be someone else, and never said what they wanted to, did what they wanted to, etc. Because of this, Corey cannot deal with it and is ending their relationship. He is extremely depressed and is not too stable of himself and is giving the statement that if the person tries to get close to him again, that he will take drastic actions.

THE SHAPE
In The Shape, Corey is experiencing a huge problem. He is too confused to actually come out and say it, because hes not sure how to deal with it. He uses alot of metaphors trying to get out his feelings, but its so hard that he can only mannage to "beat around the bush" for say.

I AM HATED
In this song, Corey's basis is that he hates the people who jump from band to band, followers, teenyboppers, and they hate him. It's a tic for tac situation. He states that he will never become like them and try to become someone they are not, and that he is proud to be himself. Even if that means being fat, ugly, and not popular. He is proud even with all those things holding him back, and isn't going to let it hold him down and will fight it and become more popular as time goes on. He states that boybands and such are just 'dragged and raped for the love of a mob' which means that they will become the fans play-thing as long as they keep buying their records. They only care about the money and not about the image they give out to their young fans about society and self esteem. They let themselves get pushed around, but no, Slipknot is showing them the exact opposite. They are showing themselves to stand their ground, to prove a point, to get a message across, to reach in to grab the souls of the festering society of todays world, and show them the true reality of their world.

SKIN TICKET
In the song Skin Ticket, Corey feels as though a lot of people in our generation are greedy spoiled bastards with no care for anything but themselves. People have the desire for themselves, and nothing else. They have all these wants, such as possessions, and even more phsycological things. They really do not care how they end up getting it. They just want it. They want for these things, wether it be material or emotional, is incredible. They want and want and never give anything back. These people do not deserve what there wanting though they keep running towards it, thus pushing it back even further.

NEW ABORTION
The interpretation for New Abortion is as follows:with the quote "I'm ethereal, my children are legion, serial They stick to my skin like beloved cysts" Corey is getting across that all of us maggots stick together, we are one, and Corey feels like we are all his children, and he is the guiding light to show us the way. With the quote "Everywhere you look, it's like they know, their fingerprints are hidden by control" He is stating that these parents/authority figures, think they know every little thing about everything. The reality is they have no clue what the younger generatoin is capable of, and they fail to realize this, with all these rules and restrictions.With the Quote "You Cant Take My Soul Away From Me" Corey is saying you do not control me, and you never will. Meaning I am for me. Not for you, get the fuck out of here, I am not your puppet.With the quote "What do you need to see? Ya feel the impact?" He is saying do you need to be shown what we are capable of? Your not going to take our word for it because your stubborn and think your right.The basic overlay of New Abortion is we maggots need to stick together to survive. We will not stand to be pushed around any longer. We will not be looked down upon anymore because there is so much more depth, so much more then what these assholess see. They look, they judge, and that's the end of it. They don't bother to wander beneath the surface of things. They think they're right and really they're so wrong it's pitifull they do not realize we maggots are done with the be-littling. Time to take control.

METABOLIC
In Metabolic, Corey is trying to get across that he isn't perfect. This song is a little phsycotic because with the quote - "The hardest part was knowing that I could never be you" he is saying he knew he wanted to be like his father but he was to imperfect to fill his shoes. The quote "My demise - I took a life worth living and made it worth a mockery" is powerful because he took his life, which was in the begining worth living, and he screwed up so much, he turned it into shit.The quote "I wanna dress in your insecurities and be the perfect you" means, I wanna wear your flaws, and be the ultimate You. The perfect man. But it won't happen because I am to imperfect.The quote "Here we go - the ultimate irony " is that he wanted to be his father but now he is no-where, and he is known by so many, he is important, and his father still hasn't changed. You're in the same place you've always been. The irony factor is if he chose to be exactly like him, he'd be know where I would be too. So, his shitty life, and the shit I was forced to go through, has turned out to be worth it in the end.

IOWA
This 15 minute mammoth is a reworking of the original, Killers are Quiet that can be found on MFKR. The meaning is basically the same as the one from MFKR. The song is about someone who kills women and recreates them in his own image, like a living doll type thing. Corey was pissed during the recording of this song.
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