1. 742617000027
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.
2. (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.
3. Eyeless
There are a few interpretations of the song Eyeless. When Slipknot came to New
York for the
first time, they ran into a schizophrenic man who was running around yelling the
phrase "You
can't see
California
without Marlon Brando's eyes!" That was the main inspiration for the
song. Eyeless is also about Corey's father, as seen in the phrase "I am my
father's son, cause
he's a phantom, a mystery, and that leaves me NOTHING!"
4. Wait and Bleed
Wait and Bleed is about a man who is dreaming that he is lying in a bath tub
bleeding to death
from his wrists. As the song progresses, the man realizes that he, in fact,
isn't dreaming, and
he just "waits and bleeds".
5. 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.
6. Spit It Out
Spit it out is obviously an angry song, written in retaliation to a Des Moines,
Iowa radio station
who liked to bash Slipknot and not play their material. Two years later, Spit It
Out is in that
station's regular rotation.
7. Tattered and Torn
Tattered and Torn is rather quite mysterious. Shawn Crahan said "If you
understand Tattered and
Torn, then you understand the clown."Shawn was the creator of Tattered and
Torn".
8. Me Inside
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. It translates
to "WE ARE UGLY, WE ARE STINKY BUT WE RULE IN HERE FAGGOT MOTHERFUCKER!"
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. No Life
I 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 will not be there because they're worried about
themselves
and themselves only and really don't give a fuck about you. And when you fall on
your
fucking face you better get the hell up fast.
12. 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.
13. Only One
The meaning to Only One is all too obvious... Corey is pissed off that some
asshole has 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 killing the mother fucker.
14. 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.
Close to the end of
the song, there is a lot of dispute of what is happening with there is
coughing, laughing and so on. In my point of view, I think there are all
watching some sort of
porno with some woman eating shit. The coughing is actually Chris Fehn, because
he is about
to puke while watching the video.
15. Eeyore
Eeyore is the hidden track- Slipknot was based on the theory that they would
never give up
any style of music that we loved to play, for anyone, that they would get 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.
16. 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
17. Frail Limb
Nursery
It's basically a clip of Purity telling a story to the young boy who took care
of her while she
was buried. He would bring her food in exchange for her telling him extravigant
stories
