nirvanalover April 17th, 2006 10:59PM  
the song is about drug addiction and how it eats you up inside sucking away your life like a tapeworm and at the end of the song the person is going to die from drug overdose Sitting in my room with a needle in my hand the the name needles refers to needle injected drugs such as heroin

soad_zack_182 April 21st, 2006 06:36PM  
This song, as daron said was about, is about being a junkie... He said the following

Serj - This song is called needles

Daron - This song is about being a JUNKIE!

this was at the Reading Festival, you can find it on limewire

take it easy

zackky

anonymous June 26th, 2006 01:55PM  
This song has 2 meanings to it the first one is about the goverment described as a parasites but you give the goverment power by the stupid american drug addict so the tapeworm is not only the goverment but also the american drug user.

anonymous July 24th, 2006 09:34AM  
I'm thinking it's about drugs. I'm just wondering what, "just waiting for the tomb of some old dying man" means. I thought it meant that doing drugs makes your age go up faster.

anonymous October 9th, 2006 08:40PM  
Haha when I saw this song live daron said "this song is called straight out of your fucking ass"

anonymous May 24th, 2007 06:33AM  
I know this song is about a junkie, but when I first heard this song I thought the tapeworm was a girlfriend who was a bitch. I thought it was one of the only songs with SOAD talking about girlfriend problems.

anonymous October 30th, 2007 11:45AM  
It is quite obvious this represents the drugs in solitary confinement. When it says the tomb of some old dying man, that man is referring to Daron (who is singing that part at this point) when he dies of his o.d.

anonymous April 19th, 2009 10:25AM  
I would think this song is about the addiction to drugs and how they lead peoples lives and control them. Example: tapeworm tells me what to do.

anonymous September 4th, 2009 08:38AM  
My original interpretation of this song was psychic vampirism - that is causing someone to pity you in order to control them. The singer is hopelessly in love with a person he knows is despicable, and cannot stop obeying them. They are like a parasite. But on reflection I think the whole junkie idea is probably better.

psycho199 December 18th, 2009 03:30PM  
Personally, I believe this song is about how people claim to be intoxicated during murders by drugs and instead of the drug abuse charges being added to the murder charges,it is used to abolish a little bit of the punishment of the murder. "my tapeworm tells me where to go/ what to do." The tapeworm is the drugs. Drugs mess you up, and so do tapeworms, but neither tell you where to go and/or what to do. "pull the tapeworm out of your a**" is pretty much saying: get over it, you can control yourself while intoxicated just like you can pull a tapeworm out of your a** (it is a fact that you can pull out a tapeworm in that manner, even though it is disgusting.)"I'm sitting in my room with a needle in my hand waiting for the tune of some old, dying man," obviously, this is the point where they're abusing drugs, and want someone to die. I'm only 13, please rate.