(SIC)
(SIC) is a literary term that an author includes after a line of text that indicates that she or he knows it's wrong, but she or he is including it.
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'"
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 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.
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. |
