anonymous February 3rd, 2009 09:20PM  
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...

ambigu February 14th, 2009 03:13AM  
,,Inside my shell i wait and bleed'' it means that he suffers in his soul,mind but nobody else could see that. Metaphor.

Peter_Cyco March 6th, 2009 10:00PM  
I think Jack Nicholson in Anger Management put it best when he said, " there are two kinds of angry people, people who stand in line at the super market complaining about a coupon and then there's the cashier who stays quiet until one day he explodes and shoots everyone in the building," this song is about the cashier

MiTHMoN April 3rd, 2009 04:25AM  
DO NOT READ THIS
To start, I would just like to say I can understand most of your interpretations, but just as a little something else consider this (weird and random) interpretation.

It is about a religious person who has lost grip on reality and they are in a powerful dream where they are in the past.

Confusion sets in, as well as memories of bad times:
"I feel the hate rise up in me"

They come across a grave stone that they have long forgotten of someone they cared about:
"Kneel down to clear the stone of leaves"

They panic, and run/stumble away:
"I wander out where you can't see"

They are powerless to do anything, there is fear and confusion running through their veins. The shell being their mind, the waiting being for the shock to pass:
"Inside my shell, I wait and bleed"

They come back, to double check if this is real, and clear more dirt and leaves off the gravestone, it gets brighter:
"I wipe it off the tile, the light is brighter this time"

Things seem to have a fake holiness, such as the light:
"Everything is 3D blasphemy"

As tears of pain, and knowledge of a forgotten death come back, the hair stands up on their body in shock. Red is the colour of their eyes after crying, gold is the colour of wealth(wealthy with new knowledge):
"My eyes are red and gold, the hair is standing straight up"

They didn't think they'd break down like this:
"This is not the way I pictured me"

They are shaking with fear, confusion and disorientation:
"I can't control my shakes, how the hell did I get here?"

They don't think they belong in this place and time, it isn't right:
"Something about this, so very wrong..."

They stop and think to themselves "it must be a dream, this can't be real" even though they are unsure. The laughter is to help reassure themselves, but deep down they like to be scared:
"I have to laugh out loud, I wish I didn't like this"

They start to bring themselves back to reality, and see that it may just be a dream or memory:
"Is this a dream or a memory?"

They struggle to remove the memories/thoughts from their mind:
"Get outta my head coz I don't need this"

They realise it is a halucination/memory/holy vision:
"Why didn't I see this?"

They tell their cult that they had a vision from God, and despite the fact they are unsure if it really was from God, they say it was:
"I'm a victim - Manchurian candidate"

It turns out it wasn't a holy vision, and they regret telling people it was. They have sinned by claiming it as fact when they weren't entirely sure:
"I have sinned by just making my mind up and taking your breath away"

Even after making the false claim, and retracting it, the cult still take it as truth, and he realises how obsessed and blind they are:
"You havn't learned a thing, I havn't changed a thing"

The mistake of falsely claiming a vision was ignored, so they didn't get any punishment (this time), so were saved by being the one who claimed it. Flesh meaning pain, bone meaning protection, the pain was stopped because they weren't harmed:
"The flesh was in my bones"

And usually it is easy to receive pain, but the cult refuse to harm them and reassure them that they are a person of importance. Pain was always free before, but now it isn't:
"The pain was always free"

Even though the pain is avoided this time, it was just luck. Next time false information is claimed as God's word, there will be consequence. "It" refers to consequence:
"And it waits for you!"

The "goodbye" part is about the thought that they think they are in the next life already, because of all of the light and unrealistic surroundings.

DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS 'interpretation'.
I said at the top "DO NOT READ THIS".
I love Slipknot's music and this is not an attack or disrespect to them, I just thought I'd give you some extra reading if you bothered to read this (probably low rated) 'interpretation'. Also, I am going to rate this 1 star if I can rate my own interpretation.

music_man92 May 12th, 2009 09:30AM  
you know none of you are getting information freom coreys own mouth. its all about websites. in the slipknot book, it says the song was written by corey after he tried commiting suicide but failed.

onewayhell May 29th, 2009 12:27PM  
What I think this song is about is a bad acid trip,

"the light is brighter this time everything is 3d blasphemy My eyes are red and gold, the hair is standing straight up
This is not the way I picture 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
Is it a dream or a memory?"

The reason why I think that, is because he is shaking and laughing and he wishes he didn't like the feeling he is getting because he knows that its bad for him but he loves the way he feels from it and if you have ever done anything like that you would know that you don't know if your dreaming or if your awake or what is going on all you know is that you feel good and you don't want it to end

HowCouldYou June 4th, 2009 12:49PM  
I've felt the hate rise up in me...
same pattern pissing him off seeing someone himself deserting his morals for the sake of duty
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves...
together we pray that the ones we put our trust in will return even if we say we loath them
I wander out where you can't see...
went out of my comfort zone and stood out feeling like everyone was watching me
Inside my shell, I wait and bleed...
Out in the tool shed waiting for daddy to come and beat me with the belt sander, makes him happy to release his anger into my body, and I want to please daddy

I wipe it off the tile, the light is brighter this time
tile is smooth and replacable, so much easier to detach from if you know what you are getting into from the beginning
Everything is 3D blasphemy
You haven't seen a thing and I can tell because your confidence is your facade you think allows you to you think you can go on fooling yourself into believing the pain won't catch up with you
My eyes are red and gold, the hair is standing straight up
Kidney failure symptoms of a patient holding on to waste for way too long, he is full of it, his pecker is hard and ready to perform and it will and it does and he is not going to fool you intimidate uhuh you knows this part

This is not the way I pictured me
didn't think I would ever want to be controlled for the sake of freedom
I can't control my shakes, how the hell did I get here?
alcohol withdrawl symptoms, I chose to let the moment sweep me under (did we)
Something about this, so very wrong...
not in control of anything, wants to take what He thought he paid for and finds it was nothing
I have to laugh out loud, I wish I didn't like this
must orgasm I know I will feel better but my body will not let me out fast enough and the ride that I hate is the ride I have to take to get to the release
Is it a dream or a memory?
Going to do it again anyway why not and the face and the and the do not matter, repeats over and over in and out of my head, starts and ends in an instant

Get outta my head because I don't need this
pleading with himself trying to fool himself into believing he can beat the pattern
Why didn't I see this?
thinking he sees what has been bothering him all along and that he is confident now not wanting to call it hope because he never had a desire for it before, he questions what hope is, not something he can see or allowed himself to see, for now
I'm a victim - Manchurian candidate
declaring himself the sinner and taking responsibility for his own actions thinking by saying it faking it that this hope he is searching for will be ushered onto the stage
I have sinned by just
Makin' my mind up and takin' your breath away
thinks he killed the demon the drive the impulses that make him want to come inside to be beaten according to what he was told to do taught to do only this time he starts to see that he was betrayed from the word go

You haven't learned a thing
if you are reading this you think you got it figured out
I haven't changed a thing
nothing new here just a scramble for money like usual
My flesh was in my bones
and my sexual desires haunt me and my body can't keep up time can not go fast enough
The pain was always free
what was joyous and exciting is a chore to me now but I do it anyway and my body tells me I like it and it shows everyone I like it so I must like it no question I like it, the pain, f-me now d-it!
And it waits for you!
and it being the body, the shell, the tool shed, the lifestyle, waits for you to take me to town rock me down shake me to the core and lose all inhibitions in an effort to release the built up pain that won't fall no matter how much we hit it
so do it it is natural and one of these days I am going to screw you into a wall the way you need need me to and you will look me straight in the eyes and say I did not feel a thing and get off on me the way you thought you always wanted

anonymous June 5th, 2009 12:32AM  
my opinion on this song is forever changing but my most recent and most occuring conclusion is this it's about how sometimes the world or even your life in specific is unfair unjust or just too much and you feel like even if life is killing you all you can do is wait and bleed. mabey im right mabey im wrong mabey a little of both but i think that everyone takes a song like wait and bleed and it can mean alot of things that's why slipknot is so awsome they relate to everyone because there are nine of them and a little bit of each one of them comes through in their music to give off what each of them feel at that exact moment in the song it seems to be more alive than any music because you can feel them living in it. you can feel THE PULSE OF THE MAGGOTS. i mean isn't that why they number 0-8 cause if they are not together then they are not the nine.

anonymous June 14th, 2009 07:04PM  
ok...whoever said he was being possessed is pretty retarded...i can almost guarentee that most of your opinions are based on the (stupid) thought that Slipknot is satanic, which they arent...and just from my (athiest) opinion, demons dont exist. i would agree 100% with the suicide theory...DUH

anonymous June 18th, 2009 06:35PM  
STOP TELLING PEOPLE THEIR INTERPRETATIONS ARE WRONG god slipknot's music doesn't have just one meaning their songs are pure energy and emotion so each one of their songs has no limitations on meaning that's what's good about them so crank up the music and get lost in the maddness

anonymous June 20th, 2009 09:23PM  
some interpretations are wrong...srry to say it but song writers make songs to say something and if its taken the wrong way ppl get the wrong idea. all songs have a purpose and meaning...personally, i am christian but thinking neutrally, ppl that think that this song is about being posessed are assuming Slipknot is satanic. i personally dont think that and would agree that this is Coreys story of suicide Sincerely Jake

anonymous June 26th, 2009 11:22PM  
i think Corey is singing about people always telling him what to do. He doesn't like what they want him to be. They change him from himself. and the inside my shell i wait and bleed line would be about how he is slowly dying inside because he isn't what he wants to be. the GET OUT OF MY HEAD I DONT NEED THIS would refer to people telling Corey how to be.this could be wrong and personally, i think Corey writes lyrics so there can be multiple meanings, with most easily fitting into individuality. however i do dispute all of the lyrics sites where they say "Everything is 3D blasphemy. that doesn't even make sense. i think he says "Everything is turning back for me."

anonymous June 30th, 2009 04:46PM  
I think it might be about drugs... In particular alcohol. When one is a serious alcoholic they can get to the point where they vomit blood until they die from destroying their... Esoghagus (you know what I mean). So the shell could b his body and he could be bleeding internally. Not to mention alcoholics and drug addicts can get to the point where they get so lost in their addiction that they arent aware of how they got to where they are... Anyone read a story called the swimmer? You will get what I'm trying to say from that. Also I think some addicts have a strong sense of self loathing. If yall find this interesting or valid you can email me at kevin.anderson123@yahoo.com

anonymous July 12th, 2009 07:58PM  
I'm christian too, also a slipknot fan, but where the heck did you guys get the idea that he was possesed doing a ritual? Now if it said i gather around one of those star things and dance to worship satan i could see but it just seems that alot of other christians always have to relate confusion to satan, like in the dark ages, (if we don't no wat it is it must be SATAN!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh). I agree and think the song means that it is someone who has an alchohol ploblem and is suffering and wants to stop but can't. I get this from when he says that "I can't controll my shakes" and "is it a dream or a memory" as if he blacked out and forgot as many do when drunk. Boy i still don't get where satan got in the equation.

anonymous July 28th, 2009 07:37PM  
Ok all of you are wrong but the guy at the top is close, the speaker is demon possessed as the demon posseses him he feels hate rise up in him he kneels down in a graveyard and clears the tombs stone of leaves to perform a satanic ritual when he performs the ritual, he hides so that he wont get caught when a demon posseses you, your body is just like a shell and you are trapped inside, slowly dying. the rest is extremely self explanitory and most of it should be taken literally

Invisiblewounds August 11th, 2009 10:40AM  
This song is basically abt a person who has slit his wrists and is experiencing a near death experience where the images of his life are dancing before him in a very bizzare and a twisted way.

Psychosteve October 8th, 2009 02:41PM  
Over time I have learned that this song is indeed about suicide... I've been listening to Slipknot sense before they were famous, and became stuck up fags, but this song is about being possessed and suicide. It's refuring to the state ov possessed insanity your body reaches when the edrinaline ov bloodletting hits you. And when he says "I've felt the hate rise up in me" It's self hatered for what he's doing "Kneel down and clear the stone ov leaves" Means clean me a fresh grave "I wonder out where you can't see" is saying I don't want you to look at me during this. "Inside my shell I wait and bleed" means by himself alone in this possessed state ov insanity all he can do is wait and bleed to death

chefmartin1004 November 2nd, 2009 12:36AM  
Ok so I read everyones interpretation of the song and I'm a huge slipknot fan maggot to the and and I have never seen any statements from Cory Taylor on this song. As I see it it would seem to me that the course is referring to standing in a grave yard feeling regret for killing someone. I think the lyrics to the song reflect the act that was committed and he feels the hate for what he did rising in him and and he clears the head stone of the leaves wandering out where he can see. He's bleeding in side guilt and remorse he keeps saying goodbye, maybe referring to a friend, maybe it was an accident. The rest of the lyrics support this theory in my opinion I guess but what do I know who am I.

anonymous November 8th, 2009 12:52AM  
this song is about a man who is alienated from the rest of the world and isolates himself from other people. he dreams of lying in a bathtub with his wrists slit and soon realizes that he is in fact not asleep but has gone off the edge from being isolated from society and has slit his wrists in a suicide attempt and waits and bleeds

DarknessRend November 10th, 2009 09:48PM  
Wait and Bleed is about a man who is dreaming that he is lying in a bath tub 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". -Corey Taylor