 Genius Meanings
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Slipknot – Metabolic
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[Verse 1] / Gone, I couldn't murder your promise / Right before my eyes / The revolutions of my psychosis / Kept me outta the way / [Refrain] / Once inside, all I hold is ash
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Slipknot – Iowa
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Longest song made by the band. In a Q&A with Corey Taylor, he describes the song about “being alone with a corpse.” Recording the song was a trip for Corey since he recorded his
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Slipknot – Left Behind
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Track 8 on Iowa, “Left Behind” was the 2nd single release on the album. It was nominated for the 2002 Grammy for Best Metal Performance (won by Tool – Schism).
The song is
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Slipknot – Metabolic / 742617000027 (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Gone, I couldn't murder your promise / Right before my eyes / The revolutions of my psychosis / Kept me outta the way / Once inside all I hold is ash / Fail
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Slipknot – People = Shit
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“People = Shit” is the second track on Slipknot’s second album Iowa.
We are what we are, we just waste and we ruin and we corrupt, and we destroy,“ so People=Shit basically
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Slipknot – The Heretic Anthem
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Originally called “The Heretic Song,” this song was the first promo single released from Iowa. An anti-single, the song was retitled “… Anthem” when Iowa was released.
Corey
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Slipknot – Disasterpiece
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“Disasterpiece” talks about how Corey Taylor was bullied and how he wants his bully to die.
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Slipknot – Gently
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This is one of 3 songs originating from the “Basement Sessions” recordings in 1993 which were used as a basis for later Slipknot songs. Originally written by Shawn Crahan in high
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Slipknot – My Plague
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The 4th song on Iowa, “My Plague” was also featured on the Resident Evil OST as a “The New Abuse Mix.” It was the 3rd (and last ) single released from the album.
It was nominated
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Slipknot – Circle
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“Circle” is one of the few acoustic songs to appear on Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses). Lyrically, Corey Taylor was inspired by meeting his father for the first time at the age of
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Slipknot – The Shape
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[Intro] / Destroy / Ah! / [Verse 1] / Too tragic to stay with you / Too static to try for you / These scars, they swallow hard / The part of the past that's hollow and dark / Too
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Slipknot – Skin Ticket
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[Verse 1] / Zero and zero is nothing but zero / Cancer and people conspire together / Running and running and going forever / Collected and sampled, starving for zero / [Chorus
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Slipknot – (515)
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Track 1 on Iowa, Slipknot’s 2nd album. “(515),” is named after an area code in Iowa, Slipknot’s home state and the name of this album. 515 is also the sum of 9 consecutive prime
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Slipknot – I Am Hated
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[Verse 1] / The whole world is my enemy, and I'm a walking target / Two times the devil with all the significance / Dragged and raped for the love of a mob / I can't stay because I
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Slipknot – New Abortion
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[Intro] / Yeah / [Verse 1] / I'm ethereal / My children are legion, serial / They stick to my skin like beloved cysts / I tear away with my nails and teeth and fists / Touch the
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Slipknot – Everything Ends
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It’s about the last time I tried to commit suicide, and more to the point, the first day I figured out what life was all about. It’s about the last day in a life I don’t want to
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Slipknot – Gently (Live In London 2002)
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[Verse 1: Corey Taylor] / Gently my mind escapes / Into the relaxing world of pleasure / A pleasure that'll take my mind / Off the reality of my life / My past life, life as I know
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Slipknot – 742617000027
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The opening track on Slipknot’s self-titled studio album from 1999. It links to Track 2, entitled “(sic).”
The voice is sampled from the 1993 documentary Manson and belongs to
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Slipknot – Eeyore (Live In London 2002)
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[Intro] / Eeyore! / Yuh! / [Verse 1] / Oh… / Meet the man that made me / Greet the can I came from / The fucking sacred / Heart of Jesus / Blew it in the back room / Feeling like a
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Slipknot – People = Shit (Live In London 2002)
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[Intro] / Yeah! / Yeah! / Come on! / Here we go again, motherfucker / Yeah / [Verse 1] / Come on down and see the idiot right here / Too fucked to beg and not afraid to care / What
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Slipknot – (sic) [Live]
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Here comes the pain / Enemy, show me what you wanna be / I can handle anything / Even if I can't handle you / Readily, either way it better be / Don't you fucking pity me / Get up
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Slipknot – Vermilion (Live)
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[Verse 1] / She seems dressed in all the rings of past fatalities / So fragile yet so devious, she continues to see / Climatic hands that press her temples and my chest / Enter the
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Slipknot – Surfacing - Live in London, 2002
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Fuck you all! / Running out of ways to run / I can't see, I can't be / Over and over and under my skin / All this attention is doing me in! / Fuck it all! fuck this world! / Fuck
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Slipknot – Liberate (Live In London 2002)
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[Intro] / London, are you fucking ready? / Hands in the air / Jump / Come on / Come on / That's right / Get up your feet and jump / Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump / Come on
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Slipknot – My Plague (New Abuse Mix)
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[Verse 1] / I'm in conniptions for the final act you came here for / The one derivative you manage is the one I abhor / I need a minute to elaborate for everyone the / Everyday
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Slipknot – Spit It Out (Live In London 2002)
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[Intro] / Did you never give a damn in the first place / Maybe it's time you had the tables turned / 'Cause in the interest of all involved, I got the problem solved / And the
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Slipknot – (sic) [Live In London 2002]
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[Intro] / Pain / (Here comes the pain!) / [Verse 1] / Enemy, show me what you wanna be / I can handle anything / Even if I can't handle you / Readily, either way, it better be
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Slipknot – Left Behind (Live In London 2002)
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[Verse 1] / I've known faces that have disappeared in time / Find me wrapped in glass and slowly soaked in lime / All my friends have pictures made to make you cry / I've seen this
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Slipknot – Sarcastrophe (Live)
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¡Hola mi familia! / [Verse 1] / Wallow in the winter of it / Discover what you truly covet / Underneath and far above it / You slither in all kinds of shit / How could you forget
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Slipknot – The Devil In I (Live)
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[Intro] / Step inside and see the Devil in I / Gracias, gracias mi familia / Are you with us out there you beautiful motherfuckers / Here we go / Uno, dos, tres... / Ah!...Ey
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Slipknot – Wait and Bleed (Live)
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I felt the hate rise up in me / Kneel down and clear the stone and leaves / I wander out where you can't see / Inside my shell, I wait and bleed / I felt the hate rise up in me
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Slipknot – Eeyore (Live)
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Compared to the previously released live performances of “Eeyore,” Slipknot lead vocalist Corey Taylor seems to be struggling to scream most of the song. This is the first released
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Slipknot – The Heretic Anthem (Live)
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[Intro] / 8...7...6...6...6...5...4...3...2...1... / (Get your devil horns up in the fucking air) / [Verse 1] / I'm a pop star threat and I'm not dead yet / Got a super dred bet
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Slipknot – Me Inside (Live)
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[Intro: Corey Taylor & Clown] / Inside, inside, inside, inside / Inside, inside, inside, inside / [Verse 1: Corey Taylor] / Giving in to what has got me / Feeling claustrophobic
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Slipknot – Duality (Live)
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[Chorus] / I push my fingers into my eyes / It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache / But it's made of all the things I have to take / Jesus, it never ends, it works its way
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Slipknot – Custer (Live)
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Di-gu-dat, di-gu-dat, di-gu-dat-dat-dat / [Intro] / Yeah / Yeah / Rise / Half-alive and stark-raving free and maligned / For encroaching on the purpose of this commercial-free
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Slipknot – The Heretic Anthem (Live In London 2002)
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If you're 555, then I'm 666 / If you're 555, then I'm 666 / If you're 555, then I'm 666 / If you're 555, then I'm 666 / This song is called: ¡The Heretic Anthem! / 8...7...6...6...
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Slipknot – Disasterpiece (Live In London 2002)
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[Intro: Corey Taylor] / This song is called 'Disasterpiece', here we go / I can't hear you, London...make some noise! / Hold on to something! / [Verse 1: Corey Taylor] / Yeah, I
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Slipknot – Before I Forget (Live)
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[Intro] / Go! / [Verse 1] / Stapled shut, inside an outside world and I'm / Sealed in tight, bizarre but right at home / Claustrophobic, closing in and I'm catastrophic, not again
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Big Sean (Ft. Jay Electronica & Kendrick Lamar) – Control
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“Control” is a braggadocious attempt to revitalize the competitive spirit of the rap game.
Kendrick Lamar sent shockwaves across the internet with his verse that name-drops and
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Slipknot – Eyeless (Live In London 2002)
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[Intro] / Yeah! / [Verse 1] / Insane, am I the only motherfucker with a brain? / I'm hearing voices but all they do is complain / How many times have you wanted to kill
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Slipknot – Spit It Out (Live)
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[Intro] / Did you never give a damn in the first place / Maybe it's time you had the tables turned / 'Cause in the interest of all involved, I got the problem solved / And the
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