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Just a sample track. The title of the song is the barcode number from the bands boiler
suits, and the "Mate, Feed, Kill, Repeat" album.
(sic):
(sic) is a literary term that an author includes after a line of text that indicates
that he or she knows it's wrong, but is including it anyway.
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 necessarily about Marlon Brando's eyes, it's a pivotal
figure of Marlon Brando being the untouched guy that he is and "eyes" 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 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:
"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!" That's basically standing up and saying
'Look dude, I don't care what you do. I don't care who you are. I don't care what you
believe in. I don't give a shit about anything you're a part of. I'm trying to be me.
I don't belong in your society? Well, fine. Guess what? I don't give a shit.
I'm not trying to be accepted in your (society). Just don't judge me. I'm over
here doing my thing. I'm not even asking for your attention and you're pushing it on me.
Leave me alone.'" - Shawn Crahan (6)
Spit it Out:
"Spit It Out" was wrote in retaliation to childish mud-slinging 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 aforementioned radio station.
Frail Limb Nursery:
This track is very closely related to "Purity". Crimescene.com explains it to an extent.
See, supposedly, while Purity was buried a little boy found her and would come visit
her and stuff and once brought a tape recorder. The transcript from their supposed
conversation is on Crimescene.com. Everything said on the track can be found in the
transcript.
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", says Corey Taylor. For more info on the story of Purity Knight, check out
Crimescene.com
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.", says Corey Taylor.
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 gel
things together under the name Slipknot- it goes from all styles from beginning to end.",
says Shawn Crahan.
"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", claims Corey Taylor
