Critical Darling Lyrics
Yeah
[Verse 1]
God's in a coma
Put faith in a life support
Running away won’t feel the same
If you reach your metaphysical last resort
Oh, malevolence and purgatory give you pause
It's a miracle you haven't broken any laws
We are not entitled to surviving
So keep your friends and your enemies thriving
[Refrain]
(Good for you) What a cliché
(Just not true) What a giveaway
(What comes now) Can’t be the last one
Falling down
[Pre-Chorus]
Every time this happens
I'm breaking a promise
I made to a version of me
Why can't I covet
And keep it away
From the leeches who want to deceive?
What is coming has begun
It's something that you gotta see
We lie and say that it's too late for some redemption
What is coming has begun
An ending I won't live to see
We tell ourselves it can't be hell if there's no heaven
[Verse 2]
Once again, we got suffocated
In a sick perversion of a spider’s web
Crawling over all the spent digested pieces
Celebrate the dead
Here come all the judging eyes
Gotta pave the road with your best intentions
I only wish you could picture a future
That doesn’t resemble your crazy inventions
[Refrain]
(Good on you) I don't mean it
(Dream come true) I don’t need it
(What goes up) Another hollow one
Must come down
[Pre-Chorus]
Every time this happens
I'm breaking a promise
I made to a version of me
Why can't I covet
And keep it away
From the leeches who want to deceive?
What is coming has begun
It's something that you gotta see
We lie and say that it’s too late for some redemption
What is coming has begun
An ending I won't live to see
We tell ourselves it can't be hell if there's no heaven
[Bridge]
A mirror only works if you open your eyes
But even then you have to understand what's inside
The easy part is always hardest to see
I know you'll never guess, but darling, you're so critical
Darling, you're so critical
Oh, you're so critical
[Verse 3]
Oh, this is a cave-in
The weight of the catalyst
Just wait, let the games begin
Gonna tell you all about it for the savages
[Refrain]
(Good for you) Not another one
(Just not true) Not another one
(What comes now?) This world is
Falling down
Every time this happens
I'm breaking a promise
I made to a version of me
Why can't I covet
And keep it away
From the leeches who want to deceive?
[Chorus]
What is coming has begun
It's something that you gotta see
We lie and say that it's too late for some redemption
What is coming has begun
An ending I won't live to see
We tell ourselves it can't be hell if there's no heaven
[Outro]
It's begun
Oh, you're so critical
Yeah
Oh, you're so critical
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About
“Critical Darling” is the 6th track on Slipknot’s album ‘We Are Not Your Kind’.
As pointed out by sasha fergsn in a Russian translation of the song, “critical darling” is “a set phrase denoting the object of sympathy and flattering (at times unjustifiably) reviews by critics in the art, film, music and other industries. There is a play on meaning with the phrase ‘Darling, you’re so critical’”.
Q&A
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There are some bits in there that we robbed from an arrangement that I had called “The Hundreds” from the previous record [2014’s .5: The Gray Chapter], but then it didn’t end up making that record. It was like, “Well, what if we throw this little interlude in the middle, and get a little peek of it at the beginning?” This has a really cool turnaround from the choruses, and the chorus has a really great vocal hook melody—it’s undeniable.
- 1.Insert Coin
- 2.Unsainted
- 5.Nero Forte
- 6.Critical Darling
- 8.Red Flag
- 9.What’s Next
- 10.Spiders
- 11.Orphan
- 12.My Pain
- 14.Solway Firth
