Slipknot: Wait And Bleed Meaning
Song Released: 1999
Wait And Bleed Lyrics
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...
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I'm christian too, also a slipknot fan, but where the heck did you guys get the idea that he was possesed doing a ritual? Now if it said i gather around one of those star things and dance to worship satan i could see but it just seems that alot of other christians always have to relate confusion to satan, like in the dark ages, (if we don't no wat it is it must be SATAN!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh). I agree and think the song means that it is someone who has an alchohol ploblem and is suffering and wants to stop but can't. I get this from when he says that "I can't controll my shakes" and "is it a dream or a memory" as if he blacked out and forgot as many do when drunk. Boy i still don't get where satan got in the equation.
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I think it might be about drugs... In particular alcohol. When one is a serious alcoholic they can get to the point where they vomit blood until they die from destroying their... Esoghagus (you know what I mean). So the shell could b his body and he could be bleeding internally. Not to mention alcoholics and drug addicts can get to the point where they get so lost in their addiction that they arent aware of how they got to where they are... Anyone read a story called the swimmer? You will get what I'm trying to say from that. Also I think some addicts have a strong sense of self loathing. If yall find this interesting or valid you can email me at kevin.anderson123@yahoo.com
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i think Corey is singing about people always telling him what to do. He doesn't like what they want him to be. They change him from himself. and the inside my shell i wait and bleed line would be about how he is slowly dying inside because he isn't what he wants to be. the GET OUT OF MY HEAD I DONT NEED THIS would refer to people telling Corey how to be.this could be wrong and personally, i think Corey writes lyrics so there can be multiple meanings, with most easily fitting into individuality. however i do dispute all of the lyrics sites where they say "Everything is 3D blasphemy. that doesn't even make sense. i think he says "Everything is turning back for me."
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some interpretations are wrong...srry to say it but song writers make songs to say something and if its taken the wrong way ppl get the wrong idea. all songs have a purpose and meaning...personally, i am christian but thinking neutrally, ppl that think that this song is about being posessed are assuming Slipknot is satanic. i personally dont think that and would agree that this is Coreys story of suicide
Sincerely
Jake -
STOP TELLING PEOPLE THEIR INTERPRETATIONS ARE WRONG god slipknot's music doesn't have just one meaning their songs are pure energy and emotion so each one of their songs has no limitations on meaning that's what's good about them so crank up the music and get lost in the maddness
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ok...whoever said he was being possessed is pretty retarded...i can almost guarentee that most of your opinions are based on the (stupid) thought that Slipknot is satanic, which they arent...and just from my (athiest) opinion, demons dont exist. i would agree 100% with the suicide theory...DUH
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my opinion on this song is forever changing but my most recent and most occuring conclusion is this it's about how sometimes the world or even your life in specific is unfair unjust or just too much and you feel like even if life is killing you all you can do is wait and bleed. mabey im right mabey im wrong mabey a little of both but i think that everyone takes a song like wait and bleed and it can mean alot of things that's why slipknot is so awsome they relate to everyone because there are nine of them and a little bit of each one of them comes through in their music to give off what each of them feel at that exact moment in the song it seems to be more alive than any music because you can feel them living in it. you can feel THE PULSE OF THE MAGGOTS. i mean isn't that why they number 0-8 cause if they are not together then they are not the nine.
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I've felt the hate rise up in me...
same pattern pissing him off seeing someone himself deserting his morals for the sake of duty
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves...
together we pray that the ones we put our trust in will return even if we say we loath them
I wander out where you can't see...
went out of my comfort zone and stood out feeling like everyone was watching me
Inside my shell, I wait and bleed...
Out in the tool shed waiting for daddy to come and beat me with the belt sander, makes him happy to release his anger into my body, and I want to please daddy
I wipe it off the tile, the light is brighter this time
tile is smooth and replacable, so much easier to detach from if you know what you are getting into from the beginning
Everything is 3D blasphemy
You haven't seen a thing and I can tell because your confidence is your facade you think allows you to you think you can go on fooling yourself into believing the pain won't catch up with you
My eyes are red and gold, the hair is standing straight up
Kidney failure symptoms of a patient holding on to waste for way too long, he is full of it, his pecker is hard and ready to perform and it will and it does and he is not going to fool you intimidate uhuh you knows this part
This is not the way I pictured me
didn't think I would ever want to be controlled for the sake of freedom
I can't control my shakes, how the hell did I get here?
alcohol withdrawl symptoms, I chose to let the moment sweep me under (did we)
Something about this, so very wrong...
not in control of anything, wants to take what He thought he paid for and finds it was nothing
I have to laugh out loud, I wish I didn't like this
must orgasm I know I will feel better but my body will not let me out fast enough and the ride that I hate is the ride I have to take to get to the release
Is it a dream or a memory?
Going to do it again anyway why not and the face and the and the do not matter, repeats over and over in and out of my head, starts and ends in an instant
Get outta my head because I don't need this
pleading with himself trying to fool himself into believing he can beat the pattern
Why didn't I see this?
thinking he sees what has been bothering him all along and that he is confident now not wanting to call it hope because he never had a desire for it before, he questions what hope is, not something he can see or allowed himself to see, for now
I'm a victim - Manchurian candidate
declaring himself the sinner and taking responsibility for his own actions thinking by saying it faking it that this hope he is searching for will be ushered onto the stage
I have sinned by just
Makin' my mind up and takin' your breath away
thinks he killed the demon the drive the impulses that make him want to come inside to be beaten according to what he was told to do taught to do only this time he starts to see that he was betrayed from the word go
You haven't learned a thing
if you are reading this you think you got it figured out
I haven't changed a thing
nothing new here just a scramble for money like usual
My flesh was in my bones
and my sexual desires haunt me and my body can't keep up time can not go fast enough
The pain was always free
what was joyous and exciting is a chore to me now but I do it anyway and my body tells me I like it and it shows everyone I like it so I must like it no question I like it, the pain, f-me now d-it!
And it waits for you!
and it being the body, the shell, the tool shed, the lifestyle, waits for you to take me to town rock me down shake me to the core and lose all inhibitions in an effort to release the built up pain that won't fall no matter how much we hit it
so do it it is natural and one of these days I am going to screw you into a wall the way you need need me to and you will look me straight in the eyes and say I did not feel a thing and get off on me the way you thought you always wanted -
What I think this song is about is a bad acid trip,
"the light is brighter this time everything is 3d blasphemy My eyes are red and gold, the hair is standing straight up
This is not the way I picture me
I can't control my shakes, how the hell did I get here?
Something about this, so very wrong
I have to laugh out loud, I wish I didn't like this
Is it a dream or a memory?"
The reason why I think that, is because he is shaking and laughing and he wishes he didn't like the feeling he is getting because he knows that its bad for him but he loves the way he feels from it and if you have ever done anything like that you would know that you don't know if your dreaming or if your awake or what is going on all you know is that you feel good and you don't want it to end -
you know none of you are getting information freom coreys own mouth. its all about websites. in the slipknot book, it says the song was written by corey after he tried commiting suicide but failed.
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I think Jack Nicholson in Anger Management put it best when he said, " there are two kinds of angry people, people who stand in line at the super market complaining about a coupon and then there's the cashier who stays quiet until one day he explodes and shoots everyone in the building," this song is about the cashier
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I definetely think that this is based upon one of the band member's experiences, because unlike other genres, rock and metal of this type usually have an emotional root based within the song, so yeah...
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Quite honestly, I think this song is about a guy going through a hard time in his life. Yes, that's what everyone else says, but hear me out. The first 2 lines, (I think it's air, myself, but oh well.) "I felt the air(hate) rise up in me, kneel down to clear the stone of leaves..." I personally interpret that as someone who's getting hugely pissed off, so he kneels in a corner or something and starts venting, or clearing himself, clearing his mental ground, if you will. And the line that says, "I have sinned by just making my mind up..." I think that has something to do with someone who has someone who either a) believes that he is above corey, or whoever corey is singing for, b) is a higher rank in a job, etc., or c) is a fucking control freak. And the major line in the whole song, "Inside my shell I wait and bleed..." essentially, he's waiting for whatever challenging element is threatening him to pass by waiting it out in sorrow, or just plain hate and anger. The first couple of lines in the first verse, "I wipe it off on tile, the light is brighter this time/everything is turning back for me(blasphemy)/my eyes are red and gold(my hands are letting go)/ this is not the way I pictured me..." I think mean he sees a beast or a devil inside himself, or, what I heard, (the words in the parentheses,) he's letting go of his grip on life. "You haven't learned a thing/I haven't changed a thing/My flesh was in my bones/The pain was always free." Yeah...I don't really get the second line... (My flesh was in my bones) but the rest is as if the person he is singing to hasn't learned a thing about the singer's personal monstrosity. Also, since he hasn't changed a thing, he hasn't changed his demonic appearance, nor is he planning on it. "The pain was always free" means that no matter what he did, he always got suffering and misery for no cost, no reason, whatsoever.
Ok, before you all start bitching about how I'm wrong or whatever, this is ONLY what I think, ok? Fucking live with it. -
Why the fuck would it be about the menstrual cycle? THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT IS A MAN!
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