Override

Track 15 on .5: The Gray Chapter (Special Edition)

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“Override” is the first track on the bonus disk of Slipknot’s .5: The Gray Chapter. In an interview with Kerrang! Magazine, Corey Taylor spoke about the song: “Override”… Read More

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Override Lyrics

[Verse 1]
The ghosts have given up, familiar haunts have had enough
Too much thought will give you doubt, now they found you
It's safer in a cage, they can tell you what to say
All your dreams come with a price, so they own you
But what did you expect?
Was it too much to protect?
Did you understand they had selfish intentions
When they were pulling you in opposite directions?

[Chorus]
You don't know the hell that's coming
Everybody get on the ground
You don't know the hell that's coming
Everybody get on the ground
We are the override
We are the override

[Verse 2]
The dead don't know, the dead are lonely, a fascination fades
When this mercy execution says it's over
You follow as preferred, now their plans are undeterred
Who can bring them in to supersede? it's over
Even hate starts out as love
Sometimes when it's all you want
Maybe satisfaction will take you for granted
When all that's left is the emotion you abandoned

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[Chorus]
You don't know the hell that's coming
Everybody get on the ground
You don't know the hell that's coming
Everybody get on the ground
We are the override
We are the override

[Verse 3]
You clawed out from nothing, and I sent you back
Fought to the metal and law's what you lacked
Covered in sores, you cannot be the one
You are the answer to why we have risen

[Bridge]
You are not the way
You are judged to be afraid
You are simple and unchanged
We believe you should give up
Give up, give up, give up, give up
Satisfaction will take you for granted
When all that's left is a life you abandoned

[Chorus]
You don't know the hell that's coming
Everybody get on the ground
You don't know the hell that's coming
Everybody get on the ground
We are the override
We are the override
Yeah!

[Outro]
Give up
Give up
Give up
Give up
Give up
Give up
Give up
Give up

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About

“Override” is the first track on the bonus disk of Slipknot’s .5: The Gray Chapter.

In an interview with Kerrang! Magazine, Corey Taylor spoke about the song:

“Override” is another song about maybe some of the bands that have come in the wake of this band’s absence, and how certain groups have taken music in perhaps a more negative direction, and I don’t mean lyrically or just from an outside thing, but just the way music is treated, much more like a commodity than creativity, and this is us basically saying that ‘Okay, your time is done. We’re not going to allow you to turn music into car insurance or hamburgers and shit like that.'