Slipknot - Wait And Bleed Meaning

Song Released: 1999

Wait And Bleed Lyrics

I've felt the hate rise up in me...
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves...
I wander out where you can't see...
Inside my shell, i wait and bleed...

I've felt the hate rise up in me...
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves...
I...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 30th 2006 !⃝

   No, actaully it IS a bathtub...the only reason we know this is because the guy who first posted it got it from the Slipknot website...soo yea...it's a bathtub.
2. anonymous

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   Mar 16th 2006 !⃝

   Ok moron, did you ever think that maybe in fact his shell, is his fucking body!!!
   I think there are possible suicidal element to this song, but I think it's more about a "plague" that has got control of him. He has an evil side, like a dual personality, that is causing him to harm people, including himself. It lives deep within him, in his subconscious.
   
   The lyric about him being manchurian candidate alludes to this more, as the original story of manchurian candidate was about a man being brainwashed by communists to become a political assassin, like the character in the song is being slowly "brainwashed" by his plague.
   
   I don't have time to analize it further, but I feel this is the jist of it.
3. anonymous

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   Feb 25th 2006 !⃝

   When he says ''in my shell'' that's just anouther way of saying bathtub.
4. anonymous

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   Feb 22nd 2006 !⃝

   Question??? How do you know that it was a guy in a bath tub j/w
5. anonymous

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   Feb 11th 2006 !⃝

   Wait and Bleed is about a man who is dreaming that he is lying in a bathtub bleeding to death from his wrists. As the song progresses, the man realizes that he, in fact, isn't dreaming, and he just "waits and bleeds".