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Slipknot - Wait And Bleed Song Meanings
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Lyrics:
I've felt the hate rise up in me...
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves...
I wander out where you can't see...
Inside my shell, i wai...
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anonymous
May 25th, 2007 05:42PM
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From what I've read off of other websites, Wait and Bleed is basically about a man bleeding to death from slit wrists. If you pay attention, the song sounds somewhat hypnotic. The person who is bleeding to death is experiencing a hypnotic affect from being isolated. There is a certain type of person who likes to be isolated, because it is relaxing for them. This song portrays that bit of relaxation in a very grim way. Also, there is a lot of fear portrayed in the song, because the person bleeding to death knows that he is leaving everything in his life behind, thus Corey's scream of "goodbye!". The song also leaves a statement about suicide, how instead of bleeding to death you could have spent that time recovering from whatever was getting you down. Now about the lyrics, I think when Corey sings "inside my shell I wait and bleed", the person's shell refers to isolation, because the person bleeding to death is by himself. It could also mean that the person either can't help himself from bleeding to death or doesn't want to, and just watches himself from his "shell", or his mind, bleeding to death. In the first verse after the opening chorus, there is a lot of panic and self loathing. This maybe portrays the feelings of one who is slowly dying. There is panic because the person dying doesn't want to die. Thus, there is a lot of build up as the person starts to die. This can be quite true with most cases of suicide. What usually happens is right before the person dies from committing suicide, he or she thinks "oh god, what have I done", because when they are finally faced with the situation in which they really are going to die, they are suddenly hit with the fact that they are saying goodbye to EVERYTHING. The first verse uses imagery to describe the shock and panic the person feels when he is suddenly faced with the situation in which he is going to die. In the first verse, Corey screams "I wipe it off on tile","My eyes are red and gold", and "How the hell did I get here". The next verse after the second chorus is about how the person dying is being brain washed as he slowly bleeds to death. Corey screams about being a "victim" and a "Manchurian candidate". The third verse is the rush of panic as the person realizes suddenly that he is about to die and says goodbye to everything in his life. Thus, the verse opens up with a new guitar line and Corey's scream of "goodbye!". "You haven't learned a thing, I haven't changed a thing, the flesh was in my bones, the pain was always free" basically means the person dying is acknowledging and feeling an extremely powerful feeling of guilt about the fact that he just watched himself bleed to death, and that any hope he had of stopping the bleeding was gone. Finally, the last chorus is sung with a deep growl in the back of Corey's voice to indicate that the person's life is about to end.
anonymous
February 11th, 2006 05:47PM
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Wait and Bleed is about a man who is dreaming that he is lying in a bathtub bleeding to death from his wrists. As the song progresses, the man realizes that he, in fact, isn't dreaming, and he just "waits and bleeds".
anonymous
March 16th, 2006 07:21PM
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Ok moron, did you ever think that maybe in fact his shell, is his fucking body!!!
I think there are possible suicidal element to this song, but I think it's more about a "plague" that has got control of him. He has an evil side, like a dual personality, that is causing him to harm people, including himself. It lives deep within him, in his subconscious.
The lyric about him being manchurian candidate alludes to this more, as the original story of manchurian candidate was about a man being brainwashed by communists to become a political assassin, like the character in the song is being slowly "brainwashed" by his plague.
I don't have time to analize it further, but I feel this is the jist of it.
sicslipknotxx
April 14th, 2006 07:01PM
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Ok, this song is about Corey's story. He attempted suicide by slitting his wrists in a bathtub. Its on the website. www.metabolic66.com. go there. I'm the biggest maggot ever.
heartagramXfailure
March 12th, 2007 01:19AM
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http://www.black-goat.com/song_slipknot.php
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Wait and Bleed is about a man who is dreaming that he is lying in a bathtub bleeding to death from his wrists. As the song progresses, the man realizes that he, in fact, isn't dreaming, and he just "waits and bleeds".
This is why someone said bathtub people. 'Cuz it came from an actual site. A slipknot sit with a hole other bunch of slipknot shit.
anonymous
May 27th, 2007 10:04PM
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I would like to make a change to my interpretation. I no longer believe this song is about suicide. It is often imagined that right before someone dies from committing suicide, the person regrets it. However, most experts on suicide, who have interviewed people who tried to kill themselves, claim that people who commit suicide think no such thing, and that they were dead set on killing themselves. Because the song portrays a lot of panic and denial over the fact that the person is going to die, the song is not about suicide. Rather, the song is about a person who bleeds to death against his will. In addition, the lyrics to the song do not explicitly state that the person is bleeding to death from slit wrists. Even if other websites state that bleeding from the wrists is what the song is about, how does one know that the site got this information from a reliable source? And even if the site claims to have used the most reliable source one can think of (ex. a quote from the song writer himself), how does one know that the site is just making this up to get credibility? The lyrics are the most credible source for the meaning of the song, and the lyrics merely state "inside my shell I wait and bleed". He might have won a knife fight on the street and bled to death before he could help himself, or got shot by a motorcyclist and bled to death, or who knows. Something along those lines. The rest of my interpretation seems accurate. The bottom line is I no longer think that the song is about suicide and the person bleeding to death isn't necessarily bleeding to death from slit wrists.
anonymous
June 2nd, 2007 12:09AM
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Ok, I'm not even a slipknot fan, I don't consider myself a maggot, this is one of the few songs I actually like by them seeing that I'm a christian and proud of it. but I don't need to be a maggot to realize what this song is saying. It has nothing to do with suicide...well in a way it does, but not normal suicide, but it can lead to his death. He is talking about preforming a ritual in a graveyard and being possessed after summoning a demon, its kinda obvious. Though I'm not satanic, I no a lot about it. If he was committing suicide in a bath tube, explain why the chorus say "I felt the hate rise up in me,kneel down clear the stone and leaves, I wonder out were you can't see."? you can't find the meaning of a song by one line"inside my shell I wait and bleed" and even that line suggests being possessed. wen your possessed, your not you, you have no control over yourself, your basically just a puppet of the demon, nothing but a shell. and for the rest of it, if you haven't realized, demons aren't the happiest things in the world, so if you were possessed, don't you think you would feel nothing but hatred? that's all demons are about, hatred and evil, I would no, I've seen them.then "kneel down clear the stones and leaves. There clearing a spot to preform the ritual. I've never done this, but I pretty much know the basics, find a graveyard(hence the fact that there would be spirits), draw a pentagram on the ground, put burning candles at the 5 points, and begin the ceremony of summoning demons. To do this, you would need to clear out a spot on the ground" clear the stones and leaves". He wonders out in the graveyards were he won't be seen "I wonder out were you can't see". now for the verses, "my eyes are red and gold, my hair is standing strait up, this is not the way I pictured me, I can't control my shakes, how the hell did I get here, something about this so very wrong, I have to laugh out loud, I wish I didn't like this". ok so far this whole song has been pretty self explanatory but w/e. His eyes are red and gold and his hair is standing up because HE IS GETTING POSSEsSED NOT DIEING! DUH =p. That doesn't happen if your dieing in a bath tube lol. why would you hair stand up?lmfao yall are dumb.just listen to the song.i can't control my shakes? you wouldn't shake uncontrollably if your were dying from lack of blood.... you would be DRAINED OF ENERGY, YOU COULDN'T SHAKE AROUND IF U WANTED TO! MUCH LESS UNCONTROLLABLY.
anonymous
June 5th, 2007 02:52AM
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Sweet interpretation dude. I agree... Sort of. but corey's even said himself that his songs are very general and open to interpretation.
to chip in my two cents worth [chrisitian also] I always thought that he was mourning a loved one that was taken from him against their own will. [say a murder or massacre or something terrible like that] and the waiting and bleeding in his shell is referring to his feelings for revenge, but mixed in with his revenge is a deep mourning and sorrow. Hence the 'goodbye' bridge.
i believe the first verse is referring to his murder of a the person responsible for the death of said 'loved one'.
the realisation that he is sadistic and actually enjoyed murdering someone 'something about this, so very wrong. I have to laugh out loud, I wish I didn't like this'. The 'eyes red and gold' could be referring to his loss of control; he's gone insane during the murder. 'i can't control my shakes, how the hell did I get here?'
the second verse is post-murder. He is feeling guilt and pleading with the guilt in him to leave. 'get out of my head I don't need this' he's explaining to his guilt that he had no option because of revenge 'i'm a victim - manchurian candidate' [referring to being controlled by his rage against the taking of his loved one and having to kill someone to counter this]
he then admits to the person he killed that it was a conscience decision 'i have sinned by making my mind up and taking your breath away'
the third 'verse' is referring to himself. 'you' is himself and of course 'I' is himself. He says 'i haven't learned a thing, I haven't changed a thing' [i have only created grief for everyone else, me murdering that person hasn't fixed any problems]
'My flesh was in my bones the pain was always free' [i will always feel the same pain of grief and killing someone has only added to it]
'it waits for you' no matter how much you try to escape the guilt, anguish, grief and pain, it is always there waiting for you
anonymous
June 12th, 2007 04:28AM
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That's pretty damn good. Kinda freaky though, if you think about it. I never thought about SlipKnot being Satanic, but still, if they were Satanic, I don't think they'd be telling how awful being possessed is, they'd probably be supporting it. How do you explain, "You haven't learned a thing, I haven't changed a thing, my flesh was in my bones, the pain was always free" though?
oifvet
June 15th, 2007 02:15PM
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I thought that the shell was being in my own head. That's just me.
anonymous
October 4th, 2007 06:56PM
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My feeling is it is drug use and abuse.
each new line is one line of the song
first line he feels need for drug use, the hate of day to day life
second line Many user go to a place like a rock to use
third out in the woods out of sight using
four "in his shell" or head he waits and bleeds waits for the effects and bleed or is losing his self each time he uses
he start to feel the effects
geting high
eyes are red hair a mess
he fells a little regret for using
starts to shake from drugs,confused about where he is
he regrets for using
flash backs or bad memoriess being brought bad to mind
it is a little confusing but I think this is what the song means to me at least
anonymous
November 12th, 2007 01:25AM
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The people saying it's about a satanic ritual and demonic possession, hate to break it to but your theory is fucking retarded.
First of all Slipknot are not a satanic cult.
Whatever this song is about, only the band members of Slipknot could tell you.
I don't know if this is right, but a site I found had this piece of information.
In the lyrics when Corey says, "I am a victim, a Manchurian Candidate!," he is referring to a movie from 1962 about communist mind control.
anonymous
November 21st, 2007 05:22PM
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This song is about a man that is lying in a bath tub bleeding to death. But at first he thinks that he is dreaming, until he realizes that it isn't a dream, it's coming true. That's the lyrics when he is going to (wait and bleed) to death.
anonymous
November 30th, 2007 02:15PM
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I think all of you are right, its your own Interpretations that's why slipknots music is so great, you don't no what to expect and even if you do argue about the lyrics, slipknot fans have such a bond or something more, that when it is all said and done all us maggots go to the concerts and beat the shit out of each other and after that you see the same people that were beating the shit out of each other, in a bar having a beer, and its cool like that so STOP YOUR BITCHING and just remember that People=Shit
Love,
Miller
anonymous
March 15th, 2008 12:49PM
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I personally believe this song is about Corey's alcoholism, the lines:
How the hell did I get here?
Something about this, so very wrong...
I have to laugh out loud, I wish I didn't like this
Is it a dream or a memory?
is about Corey drinking so much he had no idea who he was or where he was.
I also think this song is about his wife threatening to leave him and Corey wanting to change and become a more dedicated father and husband, and to put all his demons behind him.
anonymous
November 15th, 2008 10:20AM
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Ok I use to be a person that though slipknot was all about suicide and stuff, but if you read the lyrics and stuff, and think deeply you will see that this song is about the person who he has become and technically he hates it trying to eliminate suicide is the point of this song.....and he is not cutting himself either. Does he actually say inside my self I cut myself and bleed? No he is just bleeding ok!
anonymous
December 10th, 2008 05:52PM
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I always saw this as someone being tortured, and they can't do anything, (being in a shell)
If you want to get the satanic thing in there, maybe that's why he was taken jigsaw-esque
my guess
anonymous
January 15th, 2009 01:29PM
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Im 14 and I'm christian and I got to a christian school too, I totally agree with the guy who was saying he was posessed, it makes perfect sense
anonymous
January 15th, 2009 01:34PM
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Why the fuck would it be about the menstrual cycle? THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT IS A MAN!
anonymous
January 23rd, 2009 08:00PM
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Quite honestly, I think this song is about a guy going through a hard time in his life. Yes, that's what everyone else says, but hear me out. The first 2 lines, (I think it's air, myself, but oh well.) "I felt the air(hate) rise up in me, kneel down to clear the stone of leaves..." I personally interpret that as someone who's getting hugely pissed off, so he kneels in a corner or something and starts venting, or clearing himself, clearing his mental ground, if you will. And the line that says, "I have sinned by just making my mind up..." I think that has something to do with someone who has someone who either a) believes that he is above corey, or whoever corey is singing for, b) is a higher rank in a job, etc., or c) is a fucking control freak. And the major line in the whole song, "Inside my shell I wait and bleed..." essentially, he's waiting for whatever challenging element is threatening him to pass by waiting it out in sorrow, or just plain hate and anger. The first couple of lines in the first verse, "I wipe it off on tile, the light is brighter this time/everything is turning back for me(blasphemy)/my eyes are red and gold(my hands are letting go)/ this is not the way I pictured me..." I think mean he sees a beast or a devil inside himself, or, what I heard, (the words in the parentheses,) he's letting go of his grip on life. "You haven't learned a thing/I haven't changed a thing/My flesh was in my bones/The pain was always free." Yeah...I don't really get the second line... (My flesh was in my bones) but the rest is as if the person he is singing to hasn't learned a thing about the singer's personal monstrosity. Also, since he hasn't changed a thing, he hasn't changed his demonic appearance, nor is he planning on it. "The pain was always free" means that no matter what he did, he always got suffering and misery for no cost, no reason, whatsoever.
Ok, before you all start bitching about how I'm wrong or whatever, this is ONLY what I think, ok? Fucking live with it.
anonymous
February 3rd, 2009 09:20PM
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I definetely think that this is based upon one of the band member's experiences, because unlike other genres, rock and metal of this type usually have an emotional root based within the song, so yeah...
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