Stone Sour - My Name is Allen Meaning

My Name is Allen Lyrics

Hope I'm not hopeless
Gathering focus
I have no pity for a prison that died

Don't even say it
Consider the source again
Your indecsion let me make up my mind

The normally vacant
Will make you contageous
What does it matter when the...

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   Apr 11th, 23:03 !⃝

   I think it’s about [him] choosing to get rid of his old self, moving onto being the better and less-problematic version of himself. It’s not just a choice though, I think he has gotten to a point in his life where he’s realizing he HAS to choose who he is going to be; and that ultimately, if he doesn’t choose to fully embody the better version of himself, the problematic version of himself WILL “win”, or continue to mess him up, until he fully embodies that side of himself — which he knows would have unimaginably bad outcomes.
2. anonymous

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   Mar 3rd 2019 !⃝

   I believe its about split personality. Corey talking about his role as stone sour's lead singer and slipknots lead singer. Slipknot being the more darker one and stone sour more reasonable.
3. anonymous

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   Aug 28th 2017 !⃝

   It is about a person being lost, trying to get help but there is "nobody out there", so in order to survive, he has to do "what must be done" which could be a range of normally non-human activity - at the expense of one side of a dualistic reality. "You would have done it too" means there wasn't any choice in the matter, and to me relates to not having the luxury we are so used to...
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   Feb 11th 2017 !⃝

   I think it's about a two personas living in one mind.
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   Apr 30th 2015 !⃝

   Definitely a song about schizophrenia

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6. anonymous

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   Feb 26th 2015 !⃝

   Allen: is god
   a prison that died: the planet that is dying
   Consider the source again: is the end of human
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   Apr 9th 2013 !⃝

   It's not about abortion it's about himself fighting his darker side if you read his story he finds a person that looks like him but is much more edible he later finds out the name of the person is Allen after that he finds out that Allen is him but his darker side
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   Dec 2nd 2012 !⃝

   abortion

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