anonymous May 2nd, 2007 03:08AM  
Voodoo is slang for heroine, the song is about heroine, the snakebite is the injection, the candles raise my desire is about the anticipation of cooking heroine, just another awesome song about drugs

qris24 May 1st, 2008 03:50PM  
All I know is I found myself listening to this song over and over again one night until the lyrics "Never did I wanna be here again, And I don't remember why I came" hit me like a ton of bricks and I said "Oh No! I've been voodooed into listening to this song over and over again!!" then I snapped out of it and said "cool"

Nidhal_Boubaker May 31st, 2008 04:53PM  
Sully Erna's lyrics are always about his own feelings. It's not bout drugs but it's a very cool song if we understand its meaning. All godsmack's songs are about the same feelings, sometimes the raise (awake, I stand alone...) & sometimes about the fall (goin down, asleep, make me believe...). This feelings are like a spiral that turn is Sully's head (that is why "spiral") so if we listen to all songs, we will understand that song: it combines the raise (I'm not the one who so far away): here Sully feel that he is alive, that he is not far from others humans thoughts, this feeling can be brought by some pain (we feel pain if we are real, alive) here comes the meaning of "when I feel the snake bite". Then he describes his actual situation "no more meaning...to stay": here he feels so far from this world (the fall) but he wanna make a change & feel himself (I'm coming back again). He repeats "I'm not the one who's so far away" to persuade himself that.

LL July 26th, 2008 12:01PM  
Absolutely about heroin. There really isn't any other logical interpretation and given the fact that I now know that they changed the lyrics, I'm 100% positive.

anonymous April 25th, 2009 10:09PM  
It's about heroine

Vivo May 31st, 2009 12:22AM  
This is not about heroine. It was based off a film called "Serpent and the Rainbow" as some one had just said. Sully, the writer of the song, is part of the Whiccan religion and it really shows through the song. People do think it's about heroine becaues of the "Snake bite enters my veins..." After the songs end, there is a two minute silence and you hear this precussion instrument bonus. You can hear the band members and producers talk about how they put this peice together (it's faint though, so listen carefully) and you'll hear people shouting, "Voodoo".

zarman September 3rd, 2009 08:06PM  
Okay, this song really has no exact meaning to the artist Sully Erna. This and the song Serenity have NO MEANING WHAT SO EVER TO THE BAND. Running Blind on the other hand is about on the verge of when they were going to almost break up. I saw them in concert at Rock the Ink 2008 Providence ( first concert in 1.5 yrs ) but they had shows since then now. But Sully Erna said that about it when I met him. Also for all you smack fans out there... SMACK THIS!

anonymous November 8th, 2009 10:21PM  
Yes...this song is most definitely about addiction...but "awesome song about drugs"??? WTF?? He doesnt want to go anywhere near "the snake", but the addiction draws him in. Coming from a heroin addict, this song is an extremely powerful song. The hatred for your drug, but for some reason your demons draw you back. Not a "good drug song" but a VERY powerful song.

anonymous November 9th, 2009 10:58PM  
I think you're supposed to use your own experiences to get what you want out of the song (like the addiction thing)