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Slipknot - Vermilion Pt. 2 Song Meanings

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The vocalist is obsessed with someone but he can't seem to get this person because she either doesn't exist or is too perfect for him, and only him.

"A song that no one sings...the unattainable"...but he's not letting it get to him..."but I won't let this build up inside of me. She isn't real. I can't make her real..."

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-02-11 17:17:28     Rating:

Your close to Being Right, the girl isn't real it was a dream that he had about the girl and he desperately wanted her. "She isn't real" supports this. "But I won't let this build up inside of me." is another thing that helped this theory.

Submitted by: prongs666
Added: 2006-02-16 10:52:25     Rating:

Some people say someone isn't real because they are too perfect...besides, Corey wrote this song for his wife, Scarlet, hence the song gets the name Vermilion... btw... The Slipknot website said exactly what I wrote.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-03-01 12:13:31     Rating:

He is trying to put up a perfect facade for this girl. He changes or acts different when he dosen't really mean to when she comes around. I think he is feeling bad about trying to make this person seem so perfect when really she is far from it. I think because he hates how people treat him and that's why he tryed to make her flawless less human as possible but in the end he sees she is opnly human and no ones perfect and to try to make someone perfect is just only dragging yourself down. So he is willing to accept the flaws and he won't let it bother him much anymore.

Submitted by: prongs666
Added: 2006-03-14 14:50:11     Rating:

There is no story line behind this song. Corey is a really open person and he has told interviewers that this song is about his wife... not some bitch that he is trying to impress...

Submitted by: sicslipknotxx
Added: 2006-04-14 19:05:03     Rating:

This song is a take off of the first which is all about a stalker and a girl that's being stalked. Go to the slipknot website metabolic666.com. I'm the biggest maggot ever.

Submitted by: domenic
Added: 2006-05-13 03:36:53     Rating:

The guy above me rocks a bit!

Submitted by: prongs666
Added: 2006-05-18 14:59:24     Rating:

yaa but corey still said that it was written for his wife...just like many other song on the album...stocker or not...

vermilion part 1 = the obsession
vermilion pt 2 = the aftermath

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-07-13 14:49:40     Rating:

Ok, this is a bit of a leftfield idea, so perhaps is just an example of finding something if you look hard enough.

I think that this song is about a flower anthropomorphised as a woman. In fact, I think it is about a bright red Dahlia flower.

The clues are all there!

Submitted by: prongs666
Added: 2006-07-17 10:50:34     Rating:

I don't get the flower idea...Just watch the music video...

Like I said...Its the aftermath of what happened it pt 1.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-07-30 14:30:13     Rating:

Six years ago, shawn crahan [clown]'s wife past away.
So the band decided they were going threw this song and vermillion in, in dedication to shawn.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-09-12 21:59:28     Rating:

I get the point but I still can't figure out what the hell the video clip means...Any ideas? What's with the flying dead woman?

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-09-18 01:27:32     Rating:

This song was written about my (female)cat! One day I woke up, and she was nowhere to be found, yet my door was locked and shut! No windows were open as far as the eye can see. The cat that kept me company for so many years was not real! Yet, I won't let that built up inside of me. I can't make her real~! Corey said so himself!

And that's that! ........ Now fuck off!

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-12-15 10:11:46     Rating:

And I always thought it was about true freedom... How people want it, but they realize that it's unattainable in our world.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-03-15 16:50:43     Rating:

My interpretation is that the song doesn't have anything to do with a girl or any form of wanting or needing. Just like the first one but a more calm paced sound. Vermilion pt.2 I believe is a song not based on a girl that is not his but a woman who is in a extreme case of being out of sync with her world.the woman is not a woman but vermilion (painting something a violent red) witch is a word describing change in who someone is which like I said is out of sync with what everybody else is doing. The album subliminal versus it self was aiming to describe the change in their music. They evolved (or stepped down) to instead of a hype inverted saint sound anti god and the heavens (heretic anthem, my plague, wait and bleed) from verbally violent and vived to more about their lives. The entire album was based on that change (all but the nameless) perlude nearly shouted it out. So what I am getting at is vermilion pt.2 along with pt.1 is a song about a female going through the same thing. She doesn't exist to the people around her but he knows she is there "she is dressed in all of me". even in the video the woman moving slow while everyone else zooms by. The woman being slipknots music (the new slipknot) everyone else being the rock industry.

Submitted by: Harky093
Added: 2007-04-02 13:54:07     Rating:

I don't know what you guys are thinking but the only person on the ball is Prongs666

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-11-25 15:02:45     Rating:

Vermilion is fading from dark red to reddish orange.
Scarlett is a dark red. So if it's a song for Corey's wife, then why would the song be fading form red to reddish orange when Scarlet is red? this song leaves me thinking a lot. It's a great song and I'm having a hard time figuring it out.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-11-25 15:12:47     Rating:

I think it's disillusion since scarlet is dark red, vermilion being dark red fading to reddish orange. He had this image of Scarlet and with time, he found out that that perfect image of scarlet isn't real (through discussions and fights and as he keeps knowing her more, he keeps finding more imperfections) he can't make her real, cause that perfect image is gone and doesn't exist. So the relationship went from Scarlet (the dark red) to Vermilion(dark red to reddish orange). That's MY theory. I don't know if I'm right. but that could be the right one

Submitted by: blahblahblahblahblah
Added: 2007-12-26 21:31:27     Rating:

I think these songs are about a murder. This is just my opinion though I dunno if it's right or wrong. Part one is about the act while part 2 is about the after math it does make sense if you think about it.
Part one is more aggressive and heavier as it's about killing. And the video everything moves fast around her because the murder is focused on her or the fact that she doesn't exist, she's been killed.

Part two is much more softer because he's guilty or whatever. And in the video she's lying on the ground not moving she's dead her bodies been dumped there. It obvious in the lyrics too.

Part one.
Enter the night that she came home Forever.
maybe she's done something to hurt him and he's seen and taken her home and she'll always stay there forever because he killed her there.

Hard to say what caught my attention fixed and crazy.
he can't remember what about her caught his attention in the first place then he remembers it was crazy on both parts or he's now fixed upon killing her and it's driving him crazy.

I exist through my need, to self-oblige She is something in me, that I despise.
he exists through his need of killing linking back to the theory that he's hurt him she's a desire inside of him or love inside of him that he hates from what she's done.

I get nervous, perverse when I see her it's worse. But the stress is astounding It's now or never she's coming home Forever
When he sees her he gets nervous about his deed. Maybe the perverse thing is about a necrophilia (someone who fucks dead people) the stress of killing her is getting heavy so its now or never or it could mean that he's getting perverse because he's going to get such a sick pleasure from hurting her.

Her temples and my chest
maybe when he killed her the temples on her head where on his chest or as he's killing her their on his chest.

She is everything and more The solemn hypnotic My Dalia, bathed in posession
shes everything or was but now he's hypnotised by what she's done she was his god but now she'll forever be bathed in what she's done

She seems dressed in all the rings Of past fatalities So fragile yet so devious
shes dressed in her past deed and when he's hurting her he sees how fragile she is but he just keeps thinking how devious she really is

i won't let this build up inside of me
he has to let his anger out or else he'll go crazy

i don't know what to do when she makes me sad
he doesn't know how to cope when she's upset him in such a way. She's really hurt him and he doesn't know how to cope

Part two.
She seemed dressed in all of me Stretched across my shame,
All the torment and the pain Leaked through and covered me.
I'd do anything to have her to myself,
hes ashamed of killing her all of pain that he caused her of all of the pain that its causing him now is all that he's done he'd do anything to bring her back to life.

I don't know what to do When she makes me sad She is everything to me,.
he dosn't know how to cope with greiving because he's the one who killed her she's still everything to him he misses her.

The unrequited dream,The song that no one sings,The unattainable.She's a myth that I have to believe in,All I need to make it real is one more reason
he uses dream because maybe she was too good to be true she was something that should be impossible or maybe her death should be something that's impossible. The song that no one songs could be meaning no one misses her or is greiving her. The unattainable means that her being brought back to life is impossible the myth part I think means that her being alive or that he didn't kill hers a myth that he has to believe or else he'll go crazy or get arrested all he needs to make others believe or himself is another reason.

A catch in my throat choke Torn into pieces I won't.No.I don't want to be this but I won't let this build up inside of me
hes torn into pieces with what he's done he catches the word murder in his throat and he chokes on sadness he dosn't want to turn himself in or kill himself or whatever but he has to or else he's going to go crazy

either that or it's about a stalker. That's could be why they take of the masks in the video and put on human masks the stalker disguise himself by hiding by the one they want.
just to have her to myself
could be the stalkers desire to have the person.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2008-03-07 13:02:04     Rating:

Think real hard...."she seems dressed in all of me...." "seeps through and covers me"...."she isn't real-I can't make her real"

This song is about his MASK.

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