SLIPKNOT LYRICS

1. Slipknot

Pentex sucks! Pentex sucks!!
They drain the life force of my tribe
Pentex sucks!

Bonegnawers suck! Bonegnawers suck!!
They roll around in garbage bins
All Bonegnawers suck!!

(Pentex is bleeding but night is falling)

The Black Hand sucks! The Black Hand sucks!!
Those wyrm-tainted bastard leeches
Black Hand sucks!

If I had my way! If I had my way!
I'd rend them all ripped and torn
ALL THAT SUCKS DIES!!

(Sweet smell bleeding glow is melting me)

I bring my klave into battle
Shifting into Crinos - I slay wyrmfoe
Then I step sideways....

You can't see me, for I hide within the Umbra

2. Gently

Gently my mind escapes into the relaxing mode of pleasure
A pleasure that will 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 'til I wish to retrieve it

Yes I will stay here for awhile for I need the break
A break from the prisons of life
and everything that lay in the palm of life's hands, life's hands

This moment's incredible
It's out of this world
Too bad I must always leave it
But that's life

That's life
THAT'S LIFE
THAT'S LIFE
THAT'S LIFE
THAT'S LIFE!

Shift [5x]

3. Do Nothing/Bitchslap

The system has failed and you have failed with it
No time to care, just time to say "Who gives a shit?"
My mind boils as I've decided I'm through
Fuck your position in life. I'm taking vengence on you

I break down the walls of the political arena
Cast the vote on FN-FAL, yeah, we'll be seein' ya!
(protect yourself)

I want to put a cap right in your asshole
You step to this, you're gonna pass
for a lump of dogshit in the grass
So, be on your way and get some class

Bitchslap

Chop down the big-wigs, shoot the telelvisions, too
My mind boils in life as I've decided I'm through
The guilty of crimes will be hung from the trees
Spit and punches arise from you and me

Sit back and do nothing if that's what you want to do
I will have my reign as king, when I take vengence on you

4. Only One

[Lyrics differ from the same-titled song off of the album "Slipknot" (1999)]

Pain - Made to order
Pain - Made to order
Pain - Made to order
Pain

Slippin', slappin', scattin' on my back
Tryin' to relax
Thinkin' about the facts of the cracks runnin'
Through the pack
Division of thought about the
War to be fought
For tryin' to mend the ranks
Still I get no thanks

They say they mean no disrespect
But dis is in effect
I take to heart the part
I play every day
Uniformed is one thing
Stupid is another
Keep runnin' your mouth but
Don't call me brother

But I'm tryin' to find someone
On my side
Cuz bangin' heads all the time starts to grind
At my gear and at my will
But persistent I am still so when
One insubordinate fucker tries to test me

Blow to the head
An entrail rend
Guts on the floor
But you want more
Shows you the strength
Of the tenth rank
Pain's the only way to
Teach kids these days

Opened your eyes
You've realized
Talk back to me
Your punk-ass dies!

Only one of us walks away! [x4]

I'm all you'll know
Where will you go
Valhalla's gone
With your soul

Only one of us walks away! [x2]
Only one of us walks away! (Walks the fuck away!) [x2]

5. Tattered And Torn

[differs from 1999 version]

(Tattered and torn)
That's where my soul is worn
(Tattered and torn)
That's when i was born
(Tattered and torn)
I broke away from me
(Tattered and torn)
I knocked me to my knees

(Tattered and torn)
I drink my own cells
(Tattered and torn)
A decomposing well
(Tattered and torn)
Roaches in my head
(Tattered and torn)
I become the living dead

Tattered and torn

Tearing myself apart
from the things that make me hurt

6. Confessions

I know you don't want to see. I know you're not part of me
But you wonder just the same. So I'll let you in on this game
What's on the top is just the beginning of the protectorate that keeps Gaia spinning
It never ends, and with the gifts Luna sends, to the apocalypse
on we defend for the right to live in a perfect world
For our past mistakes, extinction we are hurled
Trying to make amends for the Impergium, as Weaver and the Wyld and a bitch called the Wyrm

(You don't want to know)
All the power of the Wyld that runs through me, yet the reason why is an answer that eludes me

(You don't want to see)
Our viewpoint on what mankind is doing, that black inside when frenzy is brewing

(You don't want to feel)
The sorrow that my heart holds in knowing just where my hopes and dreams are going

(I won't let you be)
Caught up in a war that you are not part of. I sign this letter Your Father, With Love.

I'm trying to set my mind free. I'm sorry you never knew me.
My soul is in recession. Painful to make this confession.

7. Some Feel

Some feel I don't exist
Never believing in what they see
Some feel that I am not fair
I leave no time for repentance

Tearing the vail Mending the vail
Tearing the vail

Some feel I bare the mark of man
A misguided philosophy
Some feel I kill for fun
I kill for life!

I can't escape what Gaia's left for me / No more
I can't deny the lack of morality / No less
Need time to think need time to think
Need to spill blood so I can drink
Take whay they give take what they give
Some feel I'm dead yet still I live

They don't know I'm immortal
They don't know they're just cattle
They don't know I'm eternal

Eternal

8. Killers are Quiet

Cycle of life and death supposedly
goes 'round and 'round yet it stops with me
Glorious hunter of my faith I have sinned
Killers are quiet like the the breath of the wind

Filling the shadows with forms of my own
Raised by kindred of Get I was born
Abomination world in disarray
Killers are quiet when they seek the vitae

Reflection beckons a portal shard
Spiritual quest I must stay in guard
Stepping sideways betweens worlds I shift
Killers are quiet when they are born with the gift

Beautiful Anguish cast out by my race
Now one that's Ageless I save my own face
I write my own laws with Death I break bread
Killers are quiet when they come from my head







SLIPKNOT LYRICS