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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   Oct 29th 2008 !⃝

   I was told that it's about a man obsessing over a woman... I'm not sure if she left and took off or if she never existed... but he goes around killing people for parts of their bodies that remind him of her. Then he takes all the body parts and puts them together to re-make the girl he's obsessing over and he realizes its not good enough..she can't be real.
2. musikatgigma

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   Jun 22nd 2008 !⃝

   I think the song is not all about a girl whom she taught to be perfect for him like a dream girl or a soul mate or anything that is synonymous to it. I think its a song of love slowly transitioning to hatred.
3. anonymous

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   Jun 15th 2008 !⃝

   In part one the girl is ignored by everyone. The people are rushing past her and she can't get their attention. I think that may lead into part 2. I think the girl is dead because she committed suicide by jumping over the bridge she keeps on leaning over in part one. She may have killed herself because she was depressed and alone. That is why the butterfly is part of it. She needs something to keep her company so she waits for the butterfly to come out of its cacoon but it keeps on flying away every time she catches it. And in part 2 she is floating around because she is either trying to find someone -possibly the butterfly?- or because she is finally at peace and she is trying to fly around?
   
   Or she could be a figment of someone's imagination- possibly an alter ego or an imaginary person someone put together- and that is why in part one it says that she makes him sad and "I can't make her real". She may make him sad because she isn't real and he wants her to be, and in part two it keeps on saying "I can't make her real" just like it does in part one.
   
   I don't know. Just trying to make a little sense of what is in my twisted head
4. qris24

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   May 1st 2008 !⃝

   I personally think that most of this album is about sitting on your ass and not making your dreams come true.
   The lyric "All I need to make it real is one more reason" sums it up. In other words the female represents the idea whether it be a female your in love with or just a dream you have that you want to make real but you talk yourself out of it and come up with excuse after excuse why you can't do it but convince yourself that if you have just one more good reason then you'll go for it. And of course it's a never ending cycle- "All I need is one more reason..." "...Just one more..." "...O.k. That one wasn't good enough, give me one more..."
5. anonymous

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   Apr 14th 2008 !⃝

   !!!!FROM SLIPKNOT WEB SITE!!
   
   "
   
   Vermilion Pt 1
   I think it might be the way corey describes how he felt or feels for his wife (or you could just relate it as you like a chick and this is how you feel around her or about her) That he has finally found someone in his life...and really nothing can describe...it's just that special to him...but has a twist to it..that in the end as much as the obsession starts to build you start noticing little things about the person you haven't before...fights happen..disagreements and the perfect person you thought you had before..isn't so perfect anymore..and there is just something...he doesn't know what it is that just draws him to her.
   
   'Vermilion Pt. 1' is about the enrapturing, the buildup, the anticipation and the neurosis," says Taylor.
   
   
   Vermilion Part 2
   Vermilion Pt. 2" is a haunting continuation of the "Vermilion" story, complete with acoustic guitar, violin and singer Corey Taylor's pained, vulnerable delivery. The melody and the overriding theme run through both versions, making them integral pieces to the same complex puzzle. "The differences (between the two tracks) are subtle — 'Vermilion Pt. 1' is about the enrapturing, the buildup, the anticipation and the neurosis," says Taylor. "'Part 2' is the aftermath, the pieces that have to be picked up later, and maybe the guilt of having lived through it."
   
   "
6. anonymous

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   Mar 7th 2008 !⃝

   Think real hard...."she seems dressed in all of me...." "seeps through and covers me"...."she isn't real-I can't make her real"
   
   This song is about his MASK.
7. anonymous

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   Nov 25th 2007 !⃝

   Vermilion is fading from dark red to reddish orange.
   Scarlett is a dark red. So if it's a song for Corey's wife, then why would the song be fading form red to reddish orange when Scarlet is red? this song leaves me thinking a lot. It's a great song and I'm having a hard time figuring it out.
8. Harky093

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   Apr 2nd 2007 !⃝

   I don't know what you guys are thinking but the only person on the ball is Prongs666
9. anonymous

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   Mar 15th 2007 !⃝

   My interpretation is that the song doesn't have anything to do with a girl or any form of wanting or needing. Just like the first one but a more calm paced sound. Vermilion pt.2 I believe is a song not based on a girl that is not his but a woman who is in a extreme case of being out of sync with her world.the woman is not a woman but vermilion (painting something a violent red) witch is a word describing change in who someone is which like I said is out of sync with what everybody else is doing. The album subliminal versus it self was aiming to describe the change in their music. They evolved (or stepped down) to instead of a hype inverted saint sound anti god and the heavens (heretic anthem, my plague, wait and bleed) from verbally violent and vived to more about their lives. The entire album was based on that change (all but the nameless) perlude nearly shouted it out. So what I am getting at is vermilion pt.2 along with pt.1 is a song about a female going through the same thing. She doesn't exist to the people around her but he knows she is there "she is dressed in all of me". even in the video the woman moving slow while everyone else zooms by. The woman being slipknots music (the new slipknot) everyone else being the rock industry.
10. anonymous

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    Dec 15th 2006 !⃝

    And I always thought it was about true freedom... How people want it, but they realize that it's unattainable in our world.
11. anonymous

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    Sep 18th 2006 !⃝

    This song was written about my (female)cat! One day I woke up, and she was nowhere to be found, yet my door was locked and shut! No windows were open as far as the eye can see. The cat that kept me company for so many years was not real! Yet, I won't let that built up inside of me. I can't make her real~! Corey said so himself!
    
    And that's that! ........ Now fuck off!
12. anonymous

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    Sep 12th 2006 !⃝

    I get the point but I still can't figure out what the hell the video clip means...Any ideas? What's with the flying dead woman?
13. anonymous

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    Jul 30th 2006 !⃝

    Six years ago, shawn crahan [clown]'s wife past away.
    So the band decided they were going threw this song and vermillion in, in dedication to shawn.
14. prongs666

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    Jul 17th 2006 !⃝

    I don't get the flower idea...Just watch the music video...
    
    Like I said...Its the aftermath of what happened it pt 1.
15. anonymous

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    Jul 13th 2006 !⃝

    Ok, this is a bit of a leftfield idea, so perhaps is just an example of finding something if you look hard enough.
    
    I think that this song is about a flower anthropomorphised as a woman. In fact, I think it is about a bright red Dahlia flower.
    
    The clues are all there!

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