Korn

Released: October 8, 2013

Songwriter: Jonathan Davis

Producer: Don Gilmore

[Verse 1]
Help me, I am freaking and my heart is barely beating
And the demons, they are creeping around
Take me, I am sinking and my lungs are barely breathing
As the angels put me into the ground

[Chorus]
And everybody's peaking!
No one makes a sound!
The shadows are deceiving!
Paranoid and aroused!

[Verse 2]
Slap me, I am shaking and my guts are really aching
And the demons, they're laughing out loud
Spare me, I am fading and my will is dissipating
As the angels put me into the ground

[Chorus]
And everybody's peeking!
No one makes a sound!
The shadows are deceiving!
Paranoid and aroused!

[Bridge]
My mind is debating
These lesions I'm making
This medicine's sedating
The power embracing!
The bullshit I'm facing
My feelings I'm hating
Reality is failing
This shit is degrading!

[Chorus]
And everybody's peeking!
No one makes a sound!
The shadows are deceiving!
Paranoid and aroused!

[Outro]
The bullshit I'm facing
My feelings I'm hating
Reality is failing
This shit is degrading!

Bakersfield friends James “Munky” Shaffer, Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu and David Silveria formed the funk-rock band LAPD in 1989 and moved to Los Angeles with another friend Brian “Head” Welch as their roadie. Later, with Welch as second guitarist, the band named themselves Creep and recorded a demo with pal Ross Robinson.

However, when Shaffer and Welch visited family in Bakersfield, they met Jonathan Davis who added a darker, goth-tinged edge to the band’s heavy groove. Robinson

The band wasn’t dark yet; it had, like, killer grooves and good riffs, but there was some happy edge to it. And when (Davis) walked into the room, it went dark and goth. Basically, during the first song, to audition in the rehearsal room, he started freaking the hell out [laughs]. You couldn’t hear his voice, but you felt chills all over your body, and it was instantly like, “Oh my God, yeah – he’s the one.”

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