anonymous April 13th, 2006 08:11AM  

this song is appealing to the people of america and other parts of the world to realise that the goverment suck and they are butt fucking all of us the government is described as a tapeworm that controls you "my tapeworm tells me where to go" "my tape worm tells me what to do" "pull the tape worm out of your ass" take the government out of your life! the government is the tapeworm which is described as a parrasite, if the shoe fits.........

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.