Slipknot

Iowa - 2001

1. (515)
2. People=Shit
3. Disasterpiece
4. My Plague
5. Everything Ends
6. The Heretic Anthem
7. Gently
8. Left Behind
9. The Shape
10. I am hated
11. Skin Ticket
12. New Abortion
13. Metabolic
14. Iowa



1. (515)


-no lyrics



2. People=Shit


Here we go again, motherfucker

Come on down, and see the idiot right here
Too fucked to beg and not afraid to care
Whatīs the matter with calamity anyway?
Right? Get the fuck outta my face
Understand that i canīt feel anything
It isnīt like I wanna sift through the decay
I feel like a would, like I got a fuckinī
Gun against my head, you live when Iīm dead

One more time, mother fucker

Everybody hates me now, so fuck it
Bloodīs on my face and my hands, and I
Donīt know why, Iīm not afraid to cry
But thatīs none of your business
Whose life is it? Get it? See it? Feel it? Eat it?
Spin it around so i can spit in its face
I wanna leave without a trace
Cuz I donīt wanna diein this place

People = Shit
People = Shit (Whatcha gonna do?)
People = Shit (Cuz I am not afraid of you)
People = Shit (Iīm everything youīll never be)
People = Shit

It never stops - you canīt be everything to everyone
Contagion - Iīm sittinī at the side of Satan
What do you want from me?
They never told me the failure I was meant to be
Overdo it - donīt tell me you blew it
Stop your bitchinī and fight your way through it
Iīm - not - like - you - I - just - fuck - up

Cīmon mother fucker, everybody has to die

People = Shit
People = Shit (Whatcha gonna do?)
People = Shit (Cuz I am not afraid of you)
People = Shit (Iīm everything youīll never be)
People = Shit



3. Disasterpiece


I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound
I wanna push my face in and feel the swoon
I wanna dig inside, find a little bit of me
Cuz the line gets crossed when you donīt come clean

My wormwood meets your pesticide
Youīll never get out, coz you were never alive
I am infinite, I am the infant finite
Come a little closer and Iīll show you why

No one is - safe
Noises, noises, people make noises
people make noises when theyīre sick
Nothing to do except hold on to NOTHING

How does it feel to be locked inside another dream
That never had a chance of being realized?
What the fuck are you lookinī at?
Iīll tell you what youīre lookinī at
Everyone you ever fuckinī laughed at

Look in my eyes for the answers - typical
I can feel it underneath like a miracle
Everybody in the world needs more than
Lies and consequences to poser them
Once again, itīs me and no one else
I canīt remember if there was a someone else
Itīs not mine, itīs not fair, itīs outta my hands
And itīs shaking - youīll never take me

No one is - safe
Noises, noises, people make noises
People make noises when theyīre sick
Nothing to do except hold on to nothing

Nothing!

Hate - Hate ainīt enough to describe me
Scream - Somewhere between screaming and crying
Iīm not supposed to behere
Iīm not supoosed to be

Why - When do I get to know why?
Bitter - Bitter as the stink of when I try
Iīm not supposed to be here
Iīm not supposed to be

Pull your hands away
Iīm gone - goodbye - itīs so depressing
Withering away
Take a look - inside - my soul is missing
All I have is dead, so Iīll take you with me
Feel like Iīm erased - so kill me just in case

Covet - Everything around meīs mine
Sty - Canīt see through the sties in my eyes
Iīm not supposed to be here
Iīm not supposed to be

Down - Scratching and clawing all the way
Stay - You wonīt let me fucking stay
Iīm not supposed to be here
Iīm not supposed to be

Live - Is there another way to live?
Die - Cuz itīs the only way to die
Iīm not supposed to be here
Iīm not supposed to be



4. My Plague


Iīm in conniptions for the final act you came here for
The one derivative you manage is the one I abhor
I need a minute to elaborate for everyone the
Everyday bullshit things that you have done

Your impossible ego fuck is like a
Megalomaniacal tab on my tongue
You fuckinī touch me I will rip you apart
Iīll reach in and take a bite out of that
Shit you call a heart...

I donīt mind being ogled, ridiculed
Made to feel miniscule
If you consider the source, itīs kinda pitiful
The only thing you really know about me is...
...thatīs all youīll ever know

I know why you blame me (yourself)
I know why you plague me (yourself)

Iīm turning it around like a knife in the shell
I wanna understand why, but Iīm hurting myself
I havenīt seen a lotta reasons to stop it
I canīt just drop it
Iīm just a bastard, but at least I admit it
At least I admit it

I know why you blame me (yourself)
I know why you plague me (yourself)

Kill you - fuck you - i will never be you
Kill you - fuck you - i will never be you
I canīt fuckinī take it anymore
A snap of the synapse
And now itīs fuckinī war
Kill you - fuck you - i will never be you



5. Everything Ends


You are wrong, fucked, and overrated
I think Iīm gonna be sick and itīs your fault
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything
I havenīt slept since I woke up
And found my whole life was a lie, motherfucker
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything

Shallow skin, I can paint with pain
I mark the trails on my arms with your disdain
Everyday itīs the same - I love, you hate
But I guess I donīt care any more...
Fix my problems with the blade
While my eyes turn from blue to gray
God, the worst thing happened to me today
But I guess I donīt care anymore...

You are wrong, fucked, and overrated
I think Iīm gonna be sick and itīs your fault
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything
I havenīt slept cince I woke up
And found my whole life was a lie, motherfucker
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything

My flaws are the only thing left thatīs pure
Canīt really live, canīt really endure
Everything I see reminds me of her
God I wish I didnīt care anymore
The more I touch, the less I feel
Iīm lying to myself that itīs not real
Why is everybody making such a big fucking deal?
Iīm never gonna care anymore

What the hell am I doing?
Is there anyone left in my life?
What the fuck was I thinking?
Anybody want to tell me Iīm fine?
Where the hell am I going?
Do I even need a reason to hide?
I am only betrayed
I am only conditioned to die



6. The Heretic Anthem


Iīm a pop star threat and Iīm not dead yet
Got a super dred bet with an angel drug head
Like a dead beat winner, I want to be a sinner
An idolized bang for the industry killer
A hideous man that you donīt understand
Throw a suicide party and Iīm guaranted to fucking snap
Itīs evilsonic, itīs pornoholic
Breakdowns, obscenities, itīs all I wanna be

If youīre 555, then Iīm 666
If youīre 555, Iīm 666
Whatīs it like to be a heretic?

Everybodyīs so infatuated
Everybodyīs so completely sure of what we are
Everybody defamates from miles away
But face to face, they havenīt got a thing to say
I bleed for this and I bleed for you
Still you look in my face like Iīm somebody new
TOY - nobody wants anything Iīve got
Which is fine, because youīre made of
Everything - Iīm - not

If youīre 555, then Iīm 666
If youīre 555, Iīm 666
Whatīs it like to be a heretic?

30 seconds, 16, 8, 4, lemme tell you why
I havenīt the slightest, Iīm teaching your brightest
Theyīre listening, clamoring
All the money in the world canīt buy me
Go ahead, lie to me
Tell me again how youīre tortured
I wanna know how you followed your orders so well
Youīre full of shit
You had a dream, but this ainīt it



7. Gently


Gently, my mind escapes into the relaxing
world of pleasure, a pleasure thatīll take
my mind off the reality of my life,
my past life... life as I know it now.

And whatever may come, it slowly
disappears to somewhere in the back
of my mind. It will remain there,
until I wish to retrieve it.

Yes, I will stay here for a while,
for I need the break. A break from the
pressures of life, and everything
that lays in the palm of lifeīs hands.

This mode is incredible. Itīs out of
this world. Too bad I must always leave it...
... but thatīs life.



8. Left Behind


Iīve known faces that have disappeared in time
Find me wrapped in glass and slowly soaked in lime
All my friends have pictures made to make you cry
Iīve seen this and wondered what Iīve done to
Calcify...

(I ignore you)
As I close my eyes, I feel it all slipping away
(I come toward you)
We all got left behind, we let it all slip away

I canīt stand to see your thalidomide robot face
Donīt even try it! You had be a liar just to
Infiltrate me - Iīm still drowning

(I ignore you)
As I close my eyes, I feel it all slipping away
(I come toward you)
We all got left behind, we let it all slip away

Take...this...away...
I can feel it on my mouth
I can taste you on my fingers
I can hear you like the holy ghost
And kill you if you get too close



9. The Shape


Too tragic to stay with you
Too static to try for you
These scars, they swallow hard
The part of the past thatīs hollow and dark
Too horrid to kill for you
Too sordid to die with you
Unstable as always, come down
Everything else is just dust and sound

Separate (Iīve lost my only way)
Separate (Iīve lost my only way)
Separate (Iīve lost my only way)
See the shape (Broken and thrown away)

Iīd give it all away, come take it all away
You canīt resent the fear
Somebody tell me how I got here
Iīd give it all to you, come take it, itīs all for you
The noise is so damn loud, but
Everything else is just dust and sound

I donīt wanna do this anymore
Everythingīs shit - everythingīs been taken
Forsaken - gotta start it over cuz Iīm hearing it
Backwards - Donīt make sense - Donīt feel better
Whoīs better? Itīs not that simple
You gotta figure it out before you make things difficult
Itīs not a word, itīs a problem, the problem was easy
Draw your conclusions - solutions?
Anybody else wanna run?
Contorting, distorting - I am undone
One less propaganda nightmare fixture
Are you getting the picture?



10. I am hated


The whole world is my enemy - and Iīm a walking target
Two times the devil with all the significance
Dragged and raped for the love of a mob
I canīt stay - because I canīt be stopped
Eat motherfuckers alive who cross us
I know youīre all tired of the same olī bosses
Let me tell you how itīs gonna be
Iīm gonna kill anyone who steps up in front of me

Welcome to the same olī fucking scam
Same olī shit in a dead fad

Everybody wants to be so hard
Are you real or a second rate sports card?
They all lost their dad or their wife just died
They never got to go outside - shut up
Nobody gives a fuck
it doesnīt change the fact that you suck

(We are) The anti-cancer
(We are) The only answer
Stripped down, we want you dead
But whatīs inside of me, youīll never know
(We are) Bipolar gods
(We are) You know what we are
My life was always shit
And I donīt think I need this anymore

Now Iīm not pretty and Iīm not cool
But Iīm fat and Iīm ugly and proud - so fuck you
Standing out is the new pretension
Sreamline the (sic)ness, half-assed aggression
You gotta see it to believe it, we all got conned
All the mediocre sacred cows we spawned
Put your trust in the mission
We will not repent - this is our religion

(We are) The anti-cancer
(We are) The only answer
Stripped down, we want you dead
But wahtīs inside of me, youīll never know
(We are) Bipolar gods
(We are) You know what we are
My life was always shit
And I donīt think I need this anymore

I am hated
You are hated
We are hated

Everything sucks and I can prove it
Everybody dies, shuffle on, remove it
Idividuals, indispensable
Iīm the paradox deity vessel
...the other side holds no secret
But this side is done, I donīt need it
Before you go, you should know youīre breaking down
Youīll be rotten by the time youīre underground

(We are) The anti-cancer
(We are) The only answer
Stripped down, we want you dead
But whatīs inside of me, youīll never know
(We are) Bipolar gods
(We are) You know what we are
My life was always shit
And I donīt think I need this anymore

(We Are) The source of conscience
(We Are) Distorted sentients
Thereīs only one thing left
And I canīt leave until itīs sated
(We Are) The absolute
(We Are) Controlling you
Theyīre closing in, I canīt escape
I am hated



11. Skin Ticket


Zero and zero is nothing but zero
Cancer and people conspire together
Running and running and going forever
Collected and sampled, starving for zero

Come see my cage - built in my grain

Minus the inside and minus the circle
Inhabit the riddle and fill in the hovel
Wherein and herein, between us and near us
Zero and zero is nothing but zero

Come see my cage - built-in migraine

Keeping myself alive...
through your empathy



12. New Abortion


Iīm ethereal, my children are legion, serial
They stick to my skin like beloved cysts
I tear away with my nails and teeth and fists
Touch the hands of inverted saints
Follow my heart through the threaded pain
Callow man is a sentinel screaming
I see the future; the future is bleeding

Sores, every goddamn minute I can feel īem now
Like a virus, you will never kill me now
Goinī underground, cominī on like hepatitis
Weīre out - and you canīt reshape us
Another bug in the construct
Tearinī up the main bus B
Zeros and ones are everything - execute me

Everywhere you look, itīs like they know
Their fingerprints are hidden by control
This is where the line is drawn, see
You canīt take my soul away from me

What do you need to see? Ya feel the impact?
Gotta retract - everybody get back
What is this? Itīs like a big conspiracy
Fields of dejected morbid progeny
They always say that itīs always our fault
But everything we say is taken with a grain of salt
Man, itīs always the same, if we talk or complain
We only wanna upset the balance
Howīs it feel to be the New Abortioin?
The only generation to suffer extortion

Everywhere you look, itīs like they know
Their fingerprints are hidden by control
This is where the line is drawn, see
You canīt take my soul away from me

You canīt take my soul away from me



13. Metabolic


Gone - I couldnīt murder your promise
Right before my eyes
The revolutions of my psychosis
Kept me outta the way

Once - inside - all I hold is ash...

Fail - suppressing every feeling
Iīm in so much pain
I have every fuckinī right to hate you
I canīt take it!

The hardest part was knowing that I could never be you
Now all I do is sit around and wish I could forget you

My demise - I took a life worth living and
Made it worth a mockery
I deny - I fold, but they keep on coming
(Stop) Iīm always ready to die
But youīre killing me

Who are you to me? Who am I to you?
Is this a lesson in nepotistic negligence?
By default, you are my only link to the outside
Psychosomatic suicide
Where were you when I was down?
Can you show me a way...
To face everyday with this face - goodbye

My demise - I took a life worth living and
Made it worth a mockery
I deny - I fold, but they keep on coming
(Stop) Iīm always ready to die
But youīre killing me

When I blur my eyes, they make the whole
World breath - I see you fucking me
And I am absolutely controlly every urge
To mutilate - the one and only answer
So much for memories...
I wanna derss in your insecurities
And be the perfect you - Iīm through
Iīm out-stretched out for all to loathe
Here we go - the ultimate irony



14. Iowa


elax... itīs over, you belong to me I fill your mouth with dirt Relax... itīs over
you can never leave I take your second digit with me... Love... You are... my first
I can barely breathe I find you fascinating You are... my favorite
lay you down to sleep Itīs all that I can do to stop... Love... So blue... so broken
paper doll decays I havenīt left you yet So cold... subversive
your eyes are full of bleach Tomorrow
I will go away again... Love...

You are mine, you will always be mine
I can tear you apart - I can recombine you all
I want is to covet you all
You belong to me
I will kill you to love you


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