Slipknot: Duality Meaning

Song Released: 2004

Duality Lyrics

I push my fingers into my eyes...
It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache...
What Is made of all the things I have to take...
Jesus, it never ends, it works it's way inside...
If the pain goes on...
Aaaaaaaah!

I have screamed until...

1. anonymous

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   Oct 9th 2009 !⃝

   The song is about the separation of your unified self into the ego self. Where "Reality" is merely an illusion set up by your ego self. Only you can create what happens in your "Reality", and only you can change it.
   
   Put me back together
   Or separate the skin from bone
   Leave me all the Pieces, then you can leave me
   alone
   Tell me the reality is better than the dream
   But I found out the hard way,
   Nothing is what it seems!

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
2. Big_Bob

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   Jul 19th 2009 !⃝

   This song is about just how bad headaches can get. It even talks about how it's made of all the medicines he has to take because after he takes so much he realizes their not doing crap for him.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
3. Freddi

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   Jun 10th 2009 !⃝

   hmm u know oedipus ?
   i think its possible that "i push my fingers into my eyes" refers to this greek tale
   
   perhaps this song is about fortune. i do not think like slipknot do but perhaps they think that all what u do and will do is prearranged.
   
   the sentence " all i have is insane" fits to this theory.
   
   oedipus thought that he can avoid bad things he is going to do with staying out of home and perhaps everybody of us think that you can avoid bad things in ur future. BUT !! if u "realize" ,like oedipus and slipknot, that the future is determined then u cant hide and u are caught in your own doings. u are an antihero.
   
   and why u go insane ? why u wanna hurt urself ? because u cant handle with ur disability to change things.
4. bruisemeister

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   Apr 15th 2009 !⃝

   Its simple. Its choosing the lesser of two evils. Sticking your fingers in you eyes hurt. However, it beats the pain of a bad headache. Two dual pains. Which is worse? Bad marriage or divorce? Dead end job or unemployment? Giving up fried food or health problems? It goes on and on.
5. Peter_Cyco

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   Mar 6th 2009 !⃝

   duality is about feeling like your life is a clash and trying to find some clarity. oh yeah, and how did that dude think the top guy was trying to pretend to be corey. dumbass!
6. jiveass

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   Jan 1st 2009 !⃝

   This song used to always made me think about chronic headaches but then I got cancer and started going through chemotherapy. This song, to me anyway, really does a good job of explaining the emotions of a person going through more aggressive cancer and chemo. You get the disease and then you get pumped full of drugs that drive you fucking insane and are really just slowly killing you and you have no choice, inner hell or death. In that it is sort of like a crossroads only with two very hellish paths.
7. KingNecro

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   Dec 29th 2008 !⃝

   i myself agree with the mental pationt phycical pain idea it sounds like he is trying to forget his past wrongs and mastaces by doing phisical harm. duality the word means 4 to forces to go basicly at war: good and evil, light and dark, fire and ice mental sadness phisical pain just creating balence. all i got is insain is talking bout how life is hard enough to drive some one insain. the other sumit sound more like it bt i like this one as well make enough sence to be conted
8. anonymous

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   Dec 11th 2008 !⃝

   they're called subliminal verses for a reason. anyone who cant get past the literal meaning of this song should not be on this website
9. anonymous

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   Dec 11th 2008 !⃝

   The song is way the hell more than just a migraine...you're retarded for thinking that. read more than the chorus.
10. anonymous

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    Nov 15th 2008 !⃝

    This song is confusing, but even though this might not make sence, but this song is about having many choices in front of you, having no clue wich path to choose, take my advice many people think this song is about being emo, and stuff but its not if it was it would be something about cutting yourself ok, so this song is confusing but it has some meaning into it.
11. anonymous

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    Sep 18th 2008 !⃝

    Umm... for the guy who said this was about schizophrenia, I think you're close, but not quite. I'm pretty sure the song is about multiple personality disorder, and the song title "Duality" sure seems to point in that direction.
12. anonymous

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    Sep 11th 2008 !⃝

    ADDICTION.
13. moderator

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    Aug 29th 2008 !⃝

    I'm not sure what the song is about, yet it reminds me of my muscular dystrophy. How it feels to me that the pain is endless.
14. anonymous

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    Jun 19th 2008 !⃝

    I saw the song as you have a pain in one place, you cause pain somewhere else to forget about the original, for say "I push my fingers into my eyes... It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache..."
15. anonymous

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    Dec 11th 2007 !⃝

    I think it is about facing yourself, no matter if you like yourself our not, and dealing with your faults and problems.

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