quishy August 5th, 2009 04:06PM  
well i thin this song is about this gut who is crazily obsessed about this girl... ("She is everything and more... The solemn hypnotic My Dahlia, bathed in possesion She is home to me I get nervous, perverse, when I see her it's worse But the stress is astounding")-from prt 1 and when you go onto prt2, the song is about how he can never have her, so the only way he can have her is through MURDER, so he can always be with her... :P

anonymous September 3rd, 2009 05:58PM  
How about: all of you are right!? The song is finished and stands for his own now and most of us finds something intimate in it. What the song is for corey is not the same for me, same for you.

FOXWRIGHT September 6th, 2009 09:31PM  
No actually vermillion is another name for scarlet . . . scarlet being the name of craig jones' (the mixer for slipknot) who died . . . wife who had died . . . the song was written by craig to show how much he loved her i guess. i am not sure how she died i belive it was suicide. this is also why the members of slipknot wear the "Death masks" masks modled from their actually faces. hence the lyrics "carve my name in my face" not sure what that has to do with the true meaning but its part of the song soooo . . . .

jazzy12 October 12th, 2009 11:19AM  
to me it seems kind of like he is singing about the woman he loves destroying herself, maybe drink, self harm etc... and he can't handle it i dunno...

anonymous November 9th, 2009 10:10PM  
Vermillion is a dual-sensed word;
1- a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge

2- Vermillion: is the shine of a persons lips

They both meanings compact and match with corey taylors marriage with scarlet

anonymous January 14th, 2010 10:48PM  
I believe that both songs are essentially about perfection. Vermilion Pt. 1 is a sort of daydream where he can imagine what she is like. Pt. 2 is the realization that he can truly never have her because perfection does not exist in our world. I also think that Pulse of the Maggots follows Vermilion because it is a statement about what Slipknot is about musically and emotionally. Vermilion says what he really wants, but Pulse of the Maggots says why he can't have that perfection. Pt. 2 is that quiet sadness at that realization. I do think this is probably about Corey Taylor's wife. If it isn't, then simply put, I think it is about that perfect soul mate that all of us silently yearn for. "She isn't real. I can't make her real." We know what we want, but it can never be real in this world. It's beautiful, and painful. That's why I love it.

edpiper January 16th, 2010 05:31PM  
Singing about a woman who does not love him/knows he exists
"The unrequited dream"

anonymous January 30th, 2010 09:37PM  
i think its about corey's vision of the perfect woman for him. In part one he is dealing with his inability to find her and it driving him insane. Part two pertaning to him letting go realizing that she does not exist and he will never find her. if you pay close attention to the video for part one you realize she is reaching out trying to make contact with the people and things around her. the video for part two she is flying around as if it is the thoughts of her in his head and it ends with her being placed on the ground while he sings "she isn't real i can't make her real" signifing that he has come to terms with her nonexistence