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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 number 8, 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 ----------------------
You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes ... When the band visited New York for the first time to sign the record deal with Roadrunner, Mick says "That all came from a schizophrenic street person in New York. He was running around, screaming it at everyone. Though I think his choice of actor was pretty cool. He was off his shit (the schizo that is)." Joey says "It's not necessarily about Marlon Brando's eyes, it's a pivotal figure of Marlon Brando being the untouched guy that he is and eye's being such a strong word, because that song is about Corey's dad and how he doesn't know him. So we're using a figure that everyone knows to amplify the song and with california being such a big fucking state. Like we just use them as articles or examples of a picture. Like the whole motto is unless you're going to be strong enough or realize what the outcome has been in life, don't try to see something that you're not going to fucking see."
Wait and Bleed ----------------------
"It's about this guy thats keeps having repeatative black and white dreams of himself lying in a bath of blood with his wrists slit... and one day he wakes up and he finds this dream a reality but he doesn't want to believe this so he trys to fall back asleep and wake up normally so he basically '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 fuck, 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 --------------------
Its about how one radio station in Slipknot's home town Des Moines, who constantly refused to play Slipknot on the air, and was constantly putting the band down, but when they got famous, the station began playing their songs like every day...
Tattered And Torn----------------------
Tattered and Torn is best understood by us as a song about a person hurting his or her self,
and hiding from "the things that make me hurt".
Frail Limb Nursery-------------------
For those of you who are wondering who the voice of the girl right before the song: 'Purity' belongs to...Well...It's Purity...The dead girl the song is about. Some little boy had been talking to her and stuff and recorded her voice...She is telling him a story...If you can't understand the dead girl's words they go like this: 'She lay there as if she was in a trance...Her long eyelashes fluttering...and she said to him: 'I lie beyond the sea'...and then all of a sudden her head dipped back and she vanished. Gone. Gone without a trace, (Slipknot put a backwards message here and i will have it up in this site soon), do you know what it's like to live with that? The only one who knew me, gone. I know what you want I can give it to you. Cough...I'm tired...tired and hungry...tired' That is what she says...It's pretty fucked up.
Purity ----------------------
The song Purity was written when Corey came across a website located at http://www.crimescene.com/purity/index.html. 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: 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: 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? he had written quotes from Edgar
Allen Poe and lots of fucked up things on the box
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 ------------------------
I personally feel that 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 are not going to be there cuz they're worried about themselves and themselves only and really don't give a flying fuck.. And when you fall on your fucking face you better get the hell up fast.
Diluted------------------------------
Diluted is a song written (in my opinion) 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.
Only One------------------------
The meaning to Only One is all too obvious... Corey is pissed off that some asshole's been talking some serious shit about him. Not only is he pissed, but he is going to rectify the situation by finding the fucker and breaking his fucking face.
Scissors------------------------
Number 1, drummer Joey Jordison wrote the lyrics to the song Scissors. It seems as if the song is about a person peeling away his skin and cutting open his own body. Scissors is probably the most emotion-filled song anyone's ever heard. Some compare the end of the Slipknot CD to the end of KoRn's Daddy, because both vocalists go off completely. However, Jonathan Davis's whimpers are absolutely dogshit compared to Corey Taylor's screams of agony.
The "extra" lyrics at the end of Scissors are improv! Not even # 8 himself
could tell you what they are without listening to the song again
Eeyore----------------------------
Eeyore is the hidden
track- Slipknot was based on the theory that we would never give up any style
of music that we loved to play -for anyone- that we would gel things together
under the name slipknot- it goes from all styles from beginning to end
Corey: "Eeyore" is just about this one fucking guy from Des Moines, Iowa - he
has long blonde fucking hair and he is a prick to people in the fucking pit
he's a Thor looking jerkoff- he loves our band but he's a dick to everyone in
the pit -he likes to hit fucking chicks-the song is about me losing my mind
and just tearing the shit out of him.
Me Inside---------------------
I think 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. I forget where I read this... KAQ or somewhere like it. It says that the spanish there is incorrectly spelled, but it translates to something like "We're ugly and we stink but we're" ... something or other, I forget. I'll post back if I can dig it up again.
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). -cough limp dickspit-cough-
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