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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   Jan 15th 2009 !⃝

   Im 14 and I'm christian and I got to a christian school too, I totally agree with the guy who was saying he was posessed, it makes perfect sense

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2. anonymous

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   Dec 10th 2008 !⃝

   I always saw this as someone being tortured, and they can't do anything, (being in a shell)
   If you want to get the satanic thing in there, maybe that's why he was taken jigsaw-esque
   my guess
3. anonymous

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   Nov 15th 2008 !⃝

   Ok I use to be a person that though slipknot was all about suicide and stuff, but if you read the lyrics and stuff, and think deeply you will see that this song is about the person who he has become and technically he hates it trying to eliminate suicide is the point of this song.....and he is not cutting himself either. Does he actually say inside my self I cut myself and bleed? No he is just bleeding ok!
4. anonymous

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   Apr 18th 2008 !⃝

   This song is undoubtedly about the menstrual cycle

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5. anonymous

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   Mar 15th 2008 !⃝

   I personally believe this song is about Corey's alcoholism, the lines:
   
   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?
   
   is about Corey drinking so much he had no idea who he was or where he was.
   
   I also think this song is about his wife threatening to leave him and Corey wanting to change and become a more dedicated father and husband, and to put all his demons behind him.
6. anonymous

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   Nov 30th 2007 !⃝

   I think all of you are right, its your own Interpretations that's why slipknots music is so great, you don't no what to expect and even if you do argue about the lyrics, slipknot fans have such a bond or something more, that when it is all said and done all us maggots go to the concerts and beat the shit out of each other and after that you see the same people that were beating the shit out of each other, in a bar having a beer, and its cool like that so STOP YOUR BITCHING and just remember that People=Shit
   Love,
   Miller
7. anonymous

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   Nov 21st 2007 !⃝

   This song is about a man that is lying in a bath tub bleeding to death. But at first he thinks that he is dreaming, until he realizes that it isn't a dream, it's coming true. That's the lyrics when he is going to (wait and bleed) to death.
8. anonymous

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   Nov 14th 2007 !⃝

   Yeah you guys are all dumbasses because the song was written by joey jordenson not buy corey taler so you guys are all the biggest dumb shits I have ever seen
   Love, Miller

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9. anonymous

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   Nov 12th 2007 !⃝

   The people saying it's about a satanic ritual and demonic possession, hate to break it to but your theory is fucking retarded.
   
   First of all Slipknot are not a satanic cult.
   
   Whatever this song is about, only the band members of Slipknot could tell you.
   
   I don't know if this is right, but a site I found had this piece of information.
   
   In the lyrics when Corey says, "I am a victim, a Manchurian Candidate!," he is referring to a movie from 1962 about communist mind control.
10. anonymous

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    Oct 4th 2007 !⃝

    My feeling is it is drug use and abuse.
    
    each new line is one line of the song
    
    first line he feels need for drug use, the hate of day to day life
    
    second line Many user go to a place like a rock to use
    
    third out in the woods out of sight using
    
    four "in his shell" or head he waits and bleeds waits for the effects and bleed or is losing his self each time he uses
    
    he start to feel the effects
    
    geting high
    
    eyes are red hair a mess
    
    he fells a little regret for using
    
    starts to shake from drugs,confused about where he is
    
    he regrets for using
    
    flash backs or bad memoriess being brought bad to mind
    
    it is a little confusing but I think this is what the song means to me at least
11. anonymous

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    Sep 10th 2007 !⃝

    Well personality I think it is about a man or woman who is having trouble in there lives and they think they may be dreaming but in all reality it is all real and they do not kno how to handle it
12. anonymous

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    Jul 2nd 2007 !⃝

    WAIT AND BLEED is about this man dreaming of lying in a bath tub of blood with his wrists slit and bleeding to death but then the man wakes up and realizes that he in fact isn't dreaming and he just WAITS and BLEEDS. It's SLIPKNOT's first single ever and was the first SLIPKNOT song I ever heard.

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13. anonymous

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    Jun 17th 2007 !⃝

    If they were satanic, they might talk bad about it because if they don't like it its not like they can just leave, if your in a satanic cult, that preforms all the rituals and possessions, the only way out is by death, and that is true. I've seen and heard a lot about it and if you leave, its almost like a gang, they find you and kill u. Sometimes they even carve pentagrams into your stomachs wile your alive and you bleed to death(the really serious groups) I no that was probably to much info but I'm just saying just because he gets possessed doesn't mean he likes it, and I'm not saying he actually was or this song actually happened to cory, so don't freak out on me.(by the way, I'm the kid who posted those 2 long interpretations about being possessed)

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14. oifvet

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    Jun 15th 2007 !⃝

    I thought that the shell was being in my own head. That's just me.
15. anonymous

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    Jun 12th 2007 !⃝

    That's pretty damn good. Kinda freaky though, if you think about it. I never thought about SlipKnot being Satanic, but still, if they were Satanic, I don't think they'd be telling how awful being possessed is, they'd probably be supporting it. How do you explain, "You haven't learned a thing, I haven't changed a thing, my flesh was in my bones, the pain was always free" though?

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