It's about how everything that they have said in their songs does exist and is part of the band's inner workings. Kinda like. I guess you could call it a song on how complacent (not caring at all) people are can be sometimes, and that as much as he tries to show himself. He still is called the same thing (chemical burns and the animalistic, I'm just another hardline pseudo-sadistic. I'm just another blank face, pushin-button pull the rage).

Taylor explained the story behind the album's first single, "Duality," which features the repeated line "I push my fingers into my eyes." "Did you ever get that headache that is just not going to go away, and you end up sticking your thumb and middle finger so far into your eyes, just to stop the pain?" he explained. "It usually has to do with making a choice. You get to that point in everyday life when you have to make a decision that you may not want to, but you're kind of pushed into that position.

A lot of people look at this in a very negative way, and in a lot of ways, it is if you continue to try and solve your problems the same way over and over again. That said, this track is also a reflection of what slipknot is. Just when you thought you had us all figured out, give up all hope because you're never, ever going to. Besides, we like it that way! "

Vendetta's basically my way of introducing myself back to the world, and looking around and going "wow". I never really try to take credit for stuff but there are a lot people out there who have been inspired by what we do, so this is my way of going " fair enough, but if youre not gonna keep up, then don't even try to run with me- Corey Taylor on this song.

The song's based loosely on a 1960's movie called The Collector. The Collector is about a guy who kidnaps this girl and basically adds her to his collection and keeps her. It's a weird kind of psychological thing, and Prosthetics takes it a little bit further - where he is put into a deep sick psychosis as he goes through the whole collecting thing, at the end of the song he ends up killing her and having s** with her.

The albums throwback to regrets. It's about in trying to make themsleves known they lost a little of themselves in sheer professionalism. Also, I think is about how corey was still so young and confused when they and him where thrown into their own little spotlight. And he is saying that he never really had a chance to work things out with himself and he won't forget that. Even though the face he wears onstage was spawned faster than he was inside. And that all the choices he makes determine how his life is and he tries to avoid the stopping point. He wants to keep on going.

"This song is not about my disgust of America, but more about its people. I love my country, I love the people that defend my country. I love the people that still exercise their right to disagree and voice their discontent, but there are a lot of people who are disguising politics as religion and dictating taste and turning it into policy, and that hurts me. Obviously you have to have both sides in a democracy, but it just seems like the scales have tipped so fucking far on the one side its untrue "

Vermilion Song Meaningclose or Esc Keyi 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.

What he is saying is that oh my god nothing is right. Bad things keep happing one after another things in the world keep going wrong and his heart hates him. There is no love in his soul anymore at this point. There is also no words for him to speak only feelings to express how hard it is to hurt and he wants to know what the reason God is putting him through all this pain and suffering.