Slipknot Song Meanings




Slipknot Song Meanings








742617000027



You have probably all seen the famous People=Shit logo or the bar code on the back of Slipknot's jumpsuits... Well, the barcode translates into 742617000027! I don't know where it came from or why though... Apparently it is also on the back cover of Mate, Feed, Kill, Repeat. If you were wondering what the guy is saying in it, its "The whole thing I think is sick!"...




(sic)



This one is about some writer Edgar Allen Poe (Corey's fave author) who used to sign his name as (sic)... Another version is that it has nothing to do with Edgar Allen Poe. It is simply a term used in literature. Writers put it next to a line they know is wrong, but they wanna include it anyways. The first version of this song was called Slipknot and it is on Mate, Feed, Kill, Repeat...




Eyeless



Its about some guy who was came up to Corey in NY, and said "U can't see Californai without Marlon Brando's eyes..." I also heard that the "Its all in your head..." part is about pcychiatrists and doctors in general in rehabs who tell you that there's nothing they can do, and you gotta fix it yourself, cause "its all in your head"...




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", it was something like that...




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...




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 jarbled some words around at this part), 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.' That is what she says...It's pretty fucked up.



Purity



Basically, same story as with The Frail Limb Nursery, except this time its a REAL song.




Prosthetics



The song's based loosely on a 1960's movie called "The Collector" - it is about a guy who kidnaps this girl and basically adds her to his collection and keeps her there - 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 and he goes through the whole collecting thing, at the end of the song he ends up killing her and having sex with her...




Scissors



Joey wrote the lyrics to this one. 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.




Eeyore



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.