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742617000027:
Just a sample track. The sample, stating "The whole thing I think is sick" came from a Eroticshop and was mixed by Craig, the sample was also used in another song, "Violent Memories" by the House Of Krazees. The title of the song is the barcode number from the bands boiler suits, and the Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat album, it is copyrighted by Slipknot for them to abuse as much as they want. "The whole thing, I think, is sick" this is certainly not Corey speeded up and slowed down, etc... . When Slipknot played this song in concert, it opened their set and was often accompanied by a clip which is taken from a film called "Gummo". The sample can be found when the two kids are smashing and breaking car windows. Check out the film it will mess with your brain. At shows they also opened with the sample: "You have nothing to contribute to this so stay the fuck out!", this is apparently from "The Negotiator".

Slipknot somestimes started their shows with a funny song called "Get Behind Me Satan (and push)".The song is by Billie Jo Spears and it's of her album from 1968 entitled 'THE VOICE OF BILLIE JO SPEARS'.The song is mixed by Craig.It starts with the real song,and then "Get Behind Me Satan" begins to replay over and over and then "Satan" begins to replay a couple of times.And then the sample "You have nothing to contribute to this so stay the fuck out!" (read more above) blasts out and to 742617000027...the crowd goes wild.Pretty cool.

Sic:
(sic) is a literary term that an author includes after a line of text that indicates that s/he knows it's wrong, but s/he's including it, it means "said in content". The name of this song has been adopted by Slipknot as one of their main phrases. The sample at the start "Here comes the Pain" was taken from the film "Carlito's Way", it occurs just as Al Pacino runs into an empty room after fleeing to the toilets, the scene is actually quite uneventful.

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." Joey says: "It's not necessary 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 realise what the outcome has been in life, don't try to see something that you're not going to fucking see." The sample in the begining "Ease your subconcious" was taken from a techno song.Eyeless was the last song that was recorded on the s/t album along with Surfacing.

Joey: "It's not necessary 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 realise 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 that's keeps having repetitive 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 tries to fall back asleep and wake up normally so he basically 'Waits and Bleeds'"

Surfacing:
New National Fucking Anthem
The lyric, "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" speaks for itself. According to Shawn '6' Crahan the song, for him, means that you don't have to answer to anything or anyone. Paul has his own interpretation of the song: "Basically, we dedicate it to the kids as their new national anthem. It's our way of saying don't worry about everybody else. Just worry about yourself. Don't worry about the people judging and the people coming down on you and all the fake crap. Stick to what you believe in. You'd have to get Corey to get his full meaning since he writes all the lyrics....A lot of the stuff we like to leave it for people to decide anyway." On the "Spit it Out" single this song was played live in Webster Theatre in Hartford, CT. At the start Corey says "Hartford", not "Aardvark" as many thought. DICTIONARY: "Surface - become perceptible after being hidden".The song was written in like 10 minutes,I wrote the first half and Joey wrote the second. - Corey
The sound in the beginning is not done by Craig as some of you thought,it is done by Mick #7,it began with Mick playing in the studio...he played that sound and Corey was like....let's use it!! Surfacing was the last song that was recorded on the s/t album along with Eyeless.

Spit it out:
"Spit It Out" was written in retaliation to childish mudslinging by a handful of individuals who worked at a local radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. These individuals worked hard to keep Slipknot off the air. The song was broadcast in fragments on Mancow's Morning Madhouse after, the station threatened to pull Mancow's show from their station. It was also right after Slipknot were pulled from a slot on a live concert in Chicago hosted by Mancow; thanks to same said individuals at the aforementioned radio station.

The sample you hear in the middle of the song,is actually a sample from a radio station in Des Moines called 'Lazer 103.3.

But I'll find you - Comin' up behind you!

Spit it out (x2)

All you wanna do is drag me down
All I wanna do is stamp you out

[[[[Sample is in this area.]]]]

'Bout time I set this record straight
All the needlenose punchin' is makin' me irate

Tattered and Torn:
Tattered and Torn was taken of the original album, MFKR. One interpretation: It is basically about him killing himself by slitting his wrists ( i.e. "Driven to the verge of/ I make you my enemy" "Open my wrists/ Give me my lessons/ Tearing myself apart/ from the things that make me hurt"). The song was written by Shawn and Anders (ex-vocalist) originally, with the Anders' pieces altered by Corey for the self-titled album. Shawn says he doesn't care if you don't like it, when they played it in clubs things were often thrown at them.

Frail Limb Nursery:
Frail Limb Nursery is a kind of an intro for Purity.It's not really a song just a little drumming in the end.It's pretty much 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.

Purity:
"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" - Corey Taylor

Me Inside:
This song was added to the re-released self-titled album due to the removal of Purity + Frail Limb Nursery. It is adapted from Purity and the demo, Despise and the same basic structure can be seen within the song.

One interpretation of the song is that it is about someone who is fed up with another person and their actions. This person could either be a girl friend or simply an enemy and it seems as though that person has made him do something he's not wanted to do, something which he has failed at, "Fall on my face". The song talks of how he "snaps" and does something which is not mentioned but seen by the phrases, "Gone", "You keep mocking me - But you will never again", "Snap! Your face was all it took", "Giving in to what has got me". Another Interpretation: It's about Corey's rage and how he hates it when shit happens to him , the worst thing you can do to Corey is mock him, he hates that more then anything. Just mostly about his rage and how he hates things.

This song, although a new replacement is also an older song which was around during the time in which Anders was in the band,
Anders: "I've got that album-unwrapped of course. I collect vinyl. The last time I heard "Me Inside", I was the one singing it. I'm interested in hearing what it sounds like now, but I'm not opening the vinyl for it. Shit. I don't have a record-player anyhow. Oh well. " "The Me Inside (as I originally titled it) was written and first performed in 1997, about 5 months before I quit the band. It was one of the songs on the "unreleased" album

In the end of this song it goes "Somos feos apestamos y pero reinamos joto muthafucka" which is Spanish and means in English 'we're ugly , we stink , but we reign , queer muthafucka'.

Liberate:
"About someone, probably a high school kid, who is just scared to death about everyone and everything-probably someone who gets picked on and beat up daily and must go to great lengths to avoid it. You know, like going to the gym ten minutes early or ten minutes late so you don't cross paths with the punks who you know will kick your ass if they see you." - Brian B (maggot)

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." - Corey Taylor

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. Read the lyrics and decide for yourself what ya think.

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.The sample "I haven't got time for the living." is taken from the movie "Cemetery Man" it is played twice in a row at the "1:58" part of the song.Actually the sample you can download here below is the real sample clip from the movie,it goes "Go away,I haven't got time for the living" ,but in the song it only goes "I haven't got time for the living".The movie is known as "Dellamorte Dellamore" everywhere outside the U.S.

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:
Joey wrote the lyrics to this one and you would have to ask him what it means... At the end of Scissors the lyrics are improvisation and Corey would have to re-listen to the song to know what they are.There is an old version of this song called "Heartache & a pair of Scissors" and is very simular to this one.You can get it life from the " mfkr1.com " website.

Eeyore:
"It's 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 get things together under the name slipknot - it goes from all styles from beginning to end." - Shawn Crahan
The sound "Take that motherfucker" in the end of the song,is taken from a song by Ice Cube called "What They Hittin'foe?",the sound appears at the end of the song.Also, there's a hidden sample right after the "Take That motherfuck!" sample, it's very hard to hear it, but it's possible.It's about 1 second after "Take That motherfuck!",so put Eeyore on and try to notice it.This sample is from a computer game called "Duke Nukem" and it goes "AH, much better!".

 

Get This:
I think that Corey is just saying that he hates all those shitty bands who think they are so big and stuff.This song is very heavy and it has got a lot of anger in it. The voice you hear in the begining of the song, "Give me a scream,Corey!" is the voice of their producer Ross Robinson. - MegaMaggot

Interloper:
DICTIONARY: "Interloper - An Intruder, A person who interferes in others' affairs especially for profit."
Not much info on this song yet, just the fact that the sample in this song "As soon as this camera's off,he's gonna fuck that little dog" is made by Craig
#5 the sampler,it is taken from a movie called "Shakes the Clown" which is about a bunch of drunken clowns
who like to beat people up.In the old days, they used to start this song with a funny little sample from Craig.It's the song Apple Of My Eye sung by some little girl.It can be heard on the OMAHA show bootleg ,right before they begin Interloper.

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Last modified: 05/09/05