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Slipknot

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Iowa
2001

1. "(515)" - :59
2. "People = Shit" - 3:35
3. "Disasterpiece" - 5:08
4. "My Plague" - 3:40
5. "Everything Ends" - 4:14
6. "The Heretic Anthem" - 4:14
7. "Gently" - 4:54
8. "Left Behind" - 4:01
9. "The Shape" - 3:37
10. "I Am Hated" - 2:37
11. "Skin Ticket" - 6:41
12. "New Abortion" - 3:36
13. "Metabolic" - 3:59
14. "Iowa" - 15:05

1. "(515)"

2. "People = Shit"

come on !!

Here we go again mother fucker !!

Yeah !!

Come on down
And see the idiot right here
Too fucked to beg and not afraid to care
What's the matter with calamity anyway
Right...get the fuck out of my face
Understand i can't feel anything
It isn't like i wanna sift through the decay
I feel like a wound
Like i got a fucking gun against my head
You live when i'm dead

One more time mother fucker !!

Everybody hates me now so fuck it
Blood on my face and my hands and i don't know why
I'm not afraid to cry
But that is none of your business

Whose life is it, give it, see it, feel it, eat it
Spin it around so i can spit in its face
I wanna leave without a trace
Cause i don't want to die in this place

People=shit [x4]
(what you gonna do)
(i'm not afraid of you)
(i'm everything you'll never be)

Come on !!

It never stops
You can't be everything to everyone
Contagion i'm sittin on the side of satan
What do you want from me?
They never told me the failure i was meant to be
Overdo it, don't tell me you blew it
Stop your bitchin'
And fight your way through it
I'm not like you
I just fuck up

Come on motherfucker everybody has to die
Come on motherfucker everybody has to die !!

People=shit [x5]
(yeah)
People=shit [x4]
(what you gonna do)
(i'm not afraid of you)
(i'm everything you'll never be)

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 don't come clean

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

(no one is - safe)
Noises, noises, people make noises
People make noises when they're 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 lookin' at?
I'll tell you what you're lookin' at
Everyone you ever fuckin' 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, it's me and no one else
I can't remember if there was a someone else
It's not mine, it's not fair, it's outta my hands
And it's shaking - you'll never take me

(no one is - safe)
Noises, noises, people make noises
People make noises when they're sick
Nothing to do except hold on to nothing

Nothing!

(hate) hate ain't enough to describe me
(scream) somewhere between screaming and crying
I'm not supposed to be here
I'm not supoosed to be

(why) when do i get to know why?
(bitter) bitter as the stink of when i try
I'm not supposed to be here
I'm not supposed to be
Pull your hands away

I'm gone - goodbye - it's so depressing
Withering away
Take a look - inside - my soul is missing
All i have is dead, so i'll take you with me
Feel like i'm erased - so kill me just in case

(covet) everything around me's mine
(sty) can't see through the sties in my eyes
I'm not supposed to be here
I'm not supposed to be

(down) scratching and clawing all the way
(stay) you won't let me fucking stay
I'm not supposed to be here
I'm not supposed to be

(live) is there another way to live?
(die) cuz it's the only way to die
I'm not supposed to be here
I'm not supposed to be

4. "My Plague"

I'm 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 fuckin' touch me i will rip you apart
I'll reach in and take a bite out of that
Shit you call a heart...

I don't mind being ogled, ridiculed
Made to feel miniscule
If you consider the source, it's kinda pitiful
The only thing you really know about me is...
...that's all you'll ever know

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

I'm turning it around like a knife in the shell
I wanna understand why, but i'm hurting myself
I haven't seen a lotta reasons to stop it
I can't just drop it
I'm 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 can't fuckin' take it anymore
A snap of the synapse
And now it's fuckin' war
Kill you - fuck you - i will never be you

5. "Everything Ends"

29
You are wrong, fucked, and overrated

32
I think i'm gonna be sick and it's your fault

22
This is the end of everything

22
You are the end of everything

24
I haven't slept since i woke up

34
And found my whole life was a lie, motherfucker

22
This is the end of everything

22
You are the end of everything

28
Shallow skin, i can paint with pain

33
I mark the trails on my arms with your disdain

2e
Everyday it's the same - i love, you hate

29
But i guess i don't care any more...

23
Fix my problems with the blade

29
While my eyes turn from blue to gray

2e
God, the worst thing happened to me today

28
But i guess i don't care anymore...

29
You are wrong, fucked, and overrated

32
I think i'm gonna be sick and it's your fault

22
This is the end of everything

22
You are the end of everything

24
I haven't slept since i woke up

34
And found my whole life was a lie, motherfucker

22
This is the end of everything

22
You are the end of everything

31
My flaws are the only thing left that's pure

2b
Can't really live, can't really endure

27
Everything i see reminds me of her

25
God i wish i didn't care anymore

26
The more i touch, the less i feel

2b
I'm lying to myself that it's not real

35
Why is everybody making such a big fucking deal?

21
I'm never gonna care anymore

1e
What the hell am i doing?

25
Is there anyone left in my life?

22
What the fuck was i thinking?

26
Anybody want to tell me i'm fine?

1f
Where the hell am i going?

25
Do i even need a reason to hide?

17
I am only betrayed

21
I am only conditioned to die

6. "The Heretic Anthem"

8...7...6...6...6...5...4...3...2...1...
I'm a pop star threat and i'm 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 don't understand
Throw a suicide party and i'm guaranteed to fucking snap.
It's evilsonic, it's pornoholic.
Breakdowns, obscenities, it's all i wanna be.
If you're 555 then i'm 666.
If you're 555 i'm 666.
If you're 555 then i'm 666 (what's it like to be a heretic)
If you're 555 i'm 666. (what's it like to be a heretic)
Everybody's so infatuated
Everybody's so completely sure of what we are
Everybody defamates from miles away
But face to face, they haven't got a thing to say
I bleed for this and i bleed for you
Still you look in my face like i'm sombody new
Toy - nobody wants anything i've got
Which if fine becuase you're made of
Everything - i'm - not!
If you're 555 then i'm 666.
If you're 555 i'm 666.
If you're 555 then i'm 666 (what's it like to be a heretic)
If you're 555 i'm 666. (what's it like to be a heretic)
30 seconds, 16, 8, 4, lemme tell you why
I haven't the slightest, i'm teaching your brightest
They're listening, clamoring
All the money in the world can't buy me.
Go ahead. lie to me.
Tell me again how you're tortured
I wanna know how you followed your orders so well
You're full of shit
You had a dream but this ain't it.
If you're 555 then i'm 666.
If you're 555 i'm 666.
If you're 555 then i'm 666 (what's it like to be a heretic)
If you're 555 i'm 666. (what's it like to be a heretic)

7. "Gently"

2e
Gently, my mind escapes into the relaxing

2f
World of pleasure, a pleasure that'll take

28
My mind off the reality of my life,

2b
My past life... life as i know it now.

25
And whatever may come, it slowly

28
Disappears to somewhere in the back

26
Of my mind. it will remain there,

21
Until i wish to retrieve it.

27
Yes, i will stay here for a while,

2b
For i need the break. a break from the

26
Pressures of life, and everything

2b
That lays in the palm of life's hands.

29
This mode is incredible. it's out of

32
This world. too bad i must always leave it...

19
... but that's life.

8. "Left Behind"

33
I've known faces that have disappeared in time

37
Find me wrapped in glass and slowly soaked in lime

36
All my friends have pictures made to make you cry

3a
I've seen this and wondered what i've done to calcify

13
(i ignore you)

33
As i close my eyes i feel it all slipping away

18
(i come toward you)

34
We all got left behind, we let it all slip away

35
I can't stand to see your thalidomide robot face

34
Don't even try it! you had to be a liar just to

26
Infiltrate me - i'm still drawing

13
(i ignore you)

34
As i close my eyes, i feel it all slipping away

18
(i come toward you)

34
We all got left behind, we let it all slip away

1d
...take...this...away...

1e
I can feel it on my mouth

22
I can taste you on my fingers

27
I can hear you like the holy ghost

25
And kill you if you get to 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 that's 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 (i've lost my only way)
Separate (i've lost my only way)
Separate (i've lost my only way)
See the shape (broken and thrown away)

I'd give it all away, come take it all away
You can't resent the fear
Somebody tell me how i got here
I'd give it all to you, come take it, it's all for you
The noise is so damn loud, but
Everything else is just dust and sound

I don't wanna do this anymore
Everything's shit - everything's been taken
Forsaken - gotta start it over cuz i'm hearing it
Backwards - don't make sense - don't feel better
Who's better? it's not that simple
You gotta figure it out before you make things difficult
It's not a word, it's 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 i'm a walking target
Two times the devil with all the significance
Dragged and raped for the love of a mob
I can't stay - because i can't be stopped
Eat motherfuckers alive who cross us
I know you're all tired of the same ol' bosses
Let me tell you how it's gonna be
I'm gonna kill anyone who steps up in front of me

Welcome to the same ol' fucking scam
Same ol' 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 doesn't change the fact that you suck

(we are) the anti-cancer
(we are) the only answer
Stripped down, we want you dead
But what's inside of me, you'll never know
(we are) bipolar gods
(we are) you know what we are
My life was always shit
And i don't think i need this anymore

Now i'm not pretty and i'm not cool
But i'm fat and i'm 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 spawne
Put your trust in the mission
We will not repent - this is our religion

I am hated
You are hated
We are hated

Everything sucks and i can prove it
Everybody dies, shuffle on, remove it
Individuals, indispensable
I'm the paradox deity vessel
...the other side holds no secret
But this side is done, i don't need it
Before you go, you should know you're breaking down
You'll be rotten by the time you're underground

(we are) the source of conscience
(we are) distorted sentients
There's only one thing left
And i can't leave until it's sated
(we are) the absolute
(we are) controlling you
They're closing in, i can't 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"

I'm 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 'em now
Like a virus, you will never kill me now
Goin' underground, comin' on like hepatitis
We're out - and you can't reshape us
Another bug in the construct
Tearin' up the main bus b
Zeros and ones are everything - execute me

Everywhere you look, it's like they know
Their fingerprints are hidden by control
This is where the line is drawn, see
You can't take my soul away from me

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

Everywhere you look, it's like they know
Their fingerprints are hidden by control
This is where the line is drawn, see
You can't take my soul away from me

You can't take my soul away from me

13. "Metabolic"

2a
Gone - i couldn't murder your promise

19
Right before my eyes

24
The revolutions of my psychosis

1a
Kept me outta the way

29
Once - inside - all i hold is ash...

25
Fail - suppressing every feeling

18
I'm in so much pain

2b
I have every fuckin' right to hate you

15
I can't take it!

3b
The hardest part was knowing that i could never be you

3b
Now all i do is sit around and wish i could forget you

2f
My demise - i took a life worth living and

1c
Made it worth a mockery

2d
I deny - i fold, but they keep on coming

23
(stop) i'm always ready to die

1a
But you're killing me

28
Who are you to me? who am i to you?

2f
Is this a lesson in nepotistic negligence?

34
By default, you are my only link to the outside

1a
Psychosomatic suicide

24
Where were you when i was down?

1d
Can you show me a way...

2e
To face everyday with this face - goodbye

2f
My demise - i took a life worth living and

1c
Made it worth a mockery

2d
I deny - i fold, but they keep on coming

23
(stop) i'm always ready to die

1a
But you're killing me

2d
When i blur my eyes, they make the whole

28
World breath - i see you fucking me

2d
And i am absolutely controlly every urge

2a
To mutilate - the one and only answer

1c
So much for memories...

27
I wanna derss in your insecurities

29
And be the perfect you - i'm through

2c
I'm out-stretched out for all to loathe

24
Here we go - the ultimate irony

14. "Iowa"

Relax...it's over,you belong to me,i fill your mouth with dirt
Relax...it's over,you can never leave
I take your second digit with me... love...
You are...my first,i can breath
I find you fascinating
You are...my favorite,lay you down to sleep
It's all that i can do to stop...love...
So blue...so broken,paper doll decays
I haven't 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.(love)