• Portuguese Translation

Jim Root:

That’s a song that Clown [Shawn Crahan, percussion] wrote. It’s basically a song that he had in his head from when we were at Paul’s funeral and it’s kind of like the music that was running through his head when we were carrying Paul in his casket because we were all – the band were all – his pall bearers. So he got all that feeling out in that tune and then Corey [Taylor, vocals] added vocals to it and it’s a pretty cool little piece. It’s very ambient.

– via theMusic.com.au

Corey Taylor:

It’s pronounced ‘XX’, but it’s supposed to represent a couple of different things. It’s the 19th year of the band’s existence, and it’s also a metaphor for stage two, because track one on the Iowa album was (515), and this is XIX, so in Roman numerals it’s almost like a double of that. So it represents the new start and seeing where the road leads to. Lyrically, it’s really about getting back up on your feet after getting smashed in the mouth, basically. It’s just kind of the start of, you know, what would become to me the second stage of the band’s career.

– via Kerrang!