Slipknot: Vermilion Pt. 2 Meaning

Vermilion Pt. 2 Lyrics

She seemed dressed in all of me
Stretched across my shame
All the torment and the pain
Leaked through and covered me
I'd do anything to have her to myself
Just to have her for myself

Now I don't know what to do
I don't know what to...

1. anonymous

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   Jun 28th 2010 !⃝

   I think that it could possibly be about suicide.When he says all i need is one more reason to make it real.Maybe.This is just my opinion.Wrong or right the song is great.
2. anonymous

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   Jan 30th 2010 !⃝

   i think its about corey's vision of the perfect woman for him. In part one he is dealing with his inability to find her and it driving him insane. Part two pertaning to him letting go realizing that she does not exist and he will never find her. if you pay close attention to the video for part one you realize she is reaching out trying to make contact with the people and things around her. the video for part two she is flying around as if it is the thoughts of her in his head and it ends with her being placed on the ground while he sings "she isn't real i can't make her real" signifing that he has come to terms with her nonexistence
3. edpiper

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   Jan 16th 2010 !⃝

   Singing about a woman who does not love him/knows he exists
   "The unrequited dream"
4. anonymous

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   Jan 14th 2010 !⃝

   I believe that both songs are essentially about perfection. Vermilion Pt. 1 is a sort of daydream where he can imagine what she is like. Pt. 2 is the realization that he can truly never have her because perfection does not exist in our world. I also think that Pulse of the Maggots follows Vermilion because it is a statement about what Slipknot is about musically and emotionally. Vermilion says what he really wants, but Pulse of the Maggots says why he can't have that perfection. Pt. 2 is that quiet sadness at that realization. I do think this is probably about Corey Taylor's wife. If it isn't, then simply put, I think it is about that perfect soul mate that all of us silently yearn for. "She isn't real. I can't make her real." We know what we want, but it can never be real in this world. It's beautiful, and painful. That's why I love it.
5. anonymous

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   Nov 9th 2009 !⃝

   Vermillion is a dual-sensed word;
   1- a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge
   
   2- Vermillion: is the shine of a persons lips
   
   They both meanings compact and match with corey taylors marriage with scarlet
6. jazzy12

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   Oct 12th 2009 !⃝

   to me it seems kind of like he is singing about the woman he loves destroying herself, maybe drink, self harm etc... and he can't handle it i dunno...
7. FOXWRIGHT

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   Sep 6th 2009 !⃝

   No actually vermillion is another name for scarlet . . . scarlet being the name of craig jones' (the mixer for slipknot) who died . . . wife who had died . . . the song was written by craig to show how much he loved her i guess. i am not sure how she died i belive it was suicide. this is also why the members of slipknot wear the "Death masks" masks modled from their actually faces. hence the lyrics "carve my name in my face" not sure what that has to do with the true meaning but its part of the song soooo . . . .
8. anonymous

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   Sep 3rd 2009 !⃝

   How about: all of you are right!?
   The song is finished and stands for his own now
   and most of us finds something intimate in it.
   What the song is for corey is not the same for me, same for you.
9. anonymous

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   Aug 5th 2009 !⃝

   well i thin this song is about this gut who is crazily obsessed about this girl...
   ("She is everything and more... The solemn hypnotic
   My Dahlia, bathed in possesion
   She is home to me
   I get nervous, perverse, when I see her it's worse
   But the stress is astounding")-from prt 1
   
   and when you go onto prt2, the song is about how he can never have her, so the only way he can have her is through MURDER, so he can always be with her... :P
   
   
10. Peter_Cyco

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    Mar 6th 2009 !⃝

    Sicslipknotxx. you're full of shit. no one person is the biggest slipknot fan. we are all just pulsating maggots.
    viva la slipknot
11. anonymous

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    Feb 23rd 2009 !⃝

    It's about Corey breaking up with his wife scarlett and how he misses her and es trying to apologize about all the things he done how he wants to get back the unattainable

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
12. ambigu

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    Feb 14th 2009 !⃝

    It's about music.The one with good lyrics that is not popular (,,she's a song that nowone sings'').Where's the art (,,she's a mith that I have to believe'').

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
13. anonymous

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    Dec 9th 2008 !⃝

    Vermillion pertains to a certain shade of red found only on one's lips. From this we can deduce that the song is about a woman or an invalid name... Seeing the lyrics of the song we can suggest again that the song is about a woman leaving the invalid name well, invalid. Upon review of the lyrics we see that Corey (or whoever it is written to) loves this one woman to death and cannot have her yet can't let go of her. "She was everything to me, the unrequited dream. A song that no-one sings, the unattainable." To answer the question as to whether the girl is real or not is unclear based on the lyrics (and not of a third party). "She's a myth that I have to believe in. All I need to make it real is one more reason." -Desolat3
14. HeianKata

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    Nov 22nd 2008 !⃝

    Care has to be taken to whether you are interpreting the video (the wind-tossed dead girl), or the lyrics, try not to mix them. If you do, it is ok, but make sure that you mention the relationship between both.
    
    There is a psycological theory approach that presents that man wants what is unattainable. This is highlighted in the works of Shakespeare to Slipknot and beyond.
    
    Indeed, when analysing, 'pt.2' has to be meassured against 'pt.1' What this simply means that you have to have an understanding of 'pt.1' before moving onto 'pt.2'
    
    In a nutshel, 'pt.1' is the desire that one man may have about the unatainable woman, and then attaining the unattainable, "...the night that she came home, forever..." Where home is his heart.
    
    So, what is pt.2 then? Pt2 (in the name) could mean one of two things:
    
    1) another version of pt.1
    2) the continuation of pt.1
    
    For me, pt.2 is simply the acknowledgement that what he once had with her, will never happen again. He wants her, but at the same time, he want's to forget her too--but he can't. He wants to move on, and he does, but she is still there in his heart.
    
    It is a bitter sweet experience and feelings that he wishes he did not have, but is glad that he has it.
    
    I hope this helps.
15. anonymous

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    Nov 22nd 2008 !⃝

    Upon judging the video after listening to the lyrics, I got the idea that the song was about a man trying to make his fantasy come true, which so happened to be a girl, but he is never able to. This is represented by the video, which shows a dead girl getting flung about the sky in a dreary little prairie scene. It's almost as if he is trying to play God, trying to bring her into life, rising the lifeless body up to awaken her only to realize that in the end, she will never awaken. To say that "she isn't real" is to mean that she is not of this dimension anymore; she's long gone. This is one possible, depressing point of view.
    
    Honestly, it's likely just a stalker thing, but anyhoo. I like my interpretation more. =)

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