Slipknot

Released: August 28, 2001

Songwriter: Corey Taylor Jim Root Craig Jones Sid Wilson Mick Thomson Chris Fehn Joey Jordison Paul Gray Shawn Crahan

Producer: Slipknot Ross Robinson

[Intro : Corey Taylor]
Yeah
Yeah
Come on !
Here we go again, motherfucker
Yeah

[Verse 1 : Corey Taylor]
Come on down and see the idiot right here
Too fucked to beg and not afraid to care
What's the matter with calamity anyway?
Right? Get the fuck outta my face
Understand I can't feel anything
It isn't like I wanna sift through the decay
I feel like a wound like I got a fucking gun against my head
You live when I'm dead

[Interlude : Corey Taylor]
One more time, motherfucker

[Verse 2 : Corey Taylor]
Everybody hates me now, so fuck it
Blood's on my face and my hands
And I don't know why I'm not afraid to cry
But that's none of your business
Whose life is it ? Get it ? See it ? Feel it ? Eat it ?
Spin it around so I can spit in its face
I wanna leave without a trace
'Cause I don't wanna die in this place

[Chorus : Corey Taylor & Shawn Crahan & Chris Fehn]
People equal shit
People equal shit
People equal shit
People equal shit

[Post-chorus : Corey Taylor, Shawn Crahan & Chris Fehn]
People equal shit, what you gonna do ?
People equal shit, 'cause I'm not afraid of you
People equal shit, I'm everything you'll never be
People equal shit, yeah !

[Verse 3 : Corey Taylor]
Come on !

It never stops, you can't be everything to everyone
Contagion, I'm sitting at the side of Satan
What do you want from me?
They never told me the failure I was meant to be, ya
Overdo it, don't tell me you blew it
Stop your bitching and fight your way through it
I'm not like you, I just fuck up
Come on, motherfucker, everybody has to die
Come on, motherfucker, everybody has to die

[Chorus : Corey Taylor & Shawn Crahan & Chris Fehn]
People equal shit
People equal shit
People equal shit
People equal shit
People equal shit

People equal shit, yeah
People equal shit, yeah
People equal shit, yeah
People equal shit, yeah

[Chorus : Corey Taylor & Shawn Crahan & Chris Fehn]
People equal shit
People equal shit
People equal shit
People equal shit
People equal shit, what you gonna do ?
People equal shit, 'cause I'm not afraid of you
People equal shit, I'm everything you'll never be
People equal shit

[Outro : Corey Taylor]
Got that, right ?

Slipknot is a metal group based in Des Moines, Iowa. They were formed in 1995, and are well known for their live shows and their image of nine masked performers. They are one of the most important bands of the NWOAHM (New Wave of American Heavy Metal).

The band released their demo album Mate, Feed, Kill, Repeat on October 31st, 1996. Slipknot went through several lineup changes before settling with their most known Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray, Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn “Clown” Crahan, Mick Thompson, and Corey Taylor.

This core line-up rose to the spotlight after their self-titled debut in 1999 which contained the breakout singles “Wait and Bleed” and “Spit it Out.” They would go on to release Iowa (2001), The Subliminal Verses (2004), and All Hope Is Gone (2008), and .5: The Gray Chapter (2014) and We Are Not Your Kind (2019). The band has sold millions of records worldwide.

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