What does Duality mean?

Slipknot: Duality Meaning

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Album cover for Duality album cover

Song Released: 2004


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Duality Lyrics

I push my fingers into my eyes...
It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache...
What Is made of all the things I have to take...
Jesus, it never ends, it works it's way inside...
If the pain goes on...
Aaaaaaaah!

I have screamed until...

  1. anonymous
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    Aug 5th 2007 !⃝

    I think it's about schizophrenia."Jezus it never ends and pushed its way inside","the ache","reality is better then the dream","nothing is what it seems".

    "Things I have to take"could be medicine or referring to an addiction like weed which can cause schizophrenia.

  2. anonymous
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    Jul 2nd 2007 !⃝

    Duality was the first single from they're latest album, "Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses". The song is pretty much about what the band went through. It's how the band came real close from being written off and with the help of the fans they made it. It's also a main interpretation for it. Corey explained it's about standing at the cross roads of you're life, looking both WAYS and wondering "Now what am I going to do?" I think it's about making a real BIG decision in life that you may not won't too. It's about how SLIPKNOT waded through all this bullshit, rejoicing, suffering, destroying but most importantly reconnecting as a unit.

  3. anonymous
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    Jun 12th 2007 !⃝

    It's about anything really. It's about all the bullshit that anyone ever in their lives ever has to take and it never stops. Ever heard the phrase kill the mental pain with physical pain? You'd rather push your fingers into your eyes than put up with it

  4. anonymous
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    Apr 17th 2007 !⃝

    i thought it was about how people shove religion down our throat.....

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
  5. moderator
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    Mar 30th 2007 !⃝

    Slipknot songs are hard to interpret. But I think that the song is about not giving up.

  6. anonymous
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    Mar 26th 2007 !⃝

    "I push my finger into my eye" is referring to how one holds their head when they have a migraine. A migraine brought about by making hard decisions. By looking at yourself, and not liking what you see, as well as thinking about how you got there and how to change. That is what I believe the song is about.

  7. anonymous
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    Mar 22nd 2007 !⃝

    Hey, cut the guy some slack. I read somewhere that Corey said that the song was about the headache thing as well, though it probably isn't creditable without a source citation. Stop crediting people without citations, you are uncreditable without it. Don't believe any quotes you read on there that don't have a citation.

    This song is pretty straight forward if you ask me, just look at the lyrics and you'll get a pretty damn good idea what the song is about. If there is a hidden meaning wait for Corey to come forward and say it, don't take someone else's word for it. Sometimes, songs are straight forword, there really doesn't need to be a hidden meaning behind everything.

  8. anonymous
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    Mar 7th 2007 !⃝

    I think its both the cross roads and the headache of making the right decision and being unsure about what one you should choose so you have a headache from a very difficult decision in your life. But who cares what I think?

  9. anonymous
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    Jan 5th 2007 !⃝

    To me the song talks about how hard one's life can be,and the struggle of trying to make it better. Maybe I'm wrong,but that doesn't matter. It's what I think that counts.Stay[sic]

  10. anonymous
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    Dec 28th 2006 !⃝

    Hey guys, take it easy on the guy who wrote that it's about a migraine.
    No interpretations are wrong.
    But I do HIGHLY doubt that's what they meant the song to be about.
    Leave the interpretations up to the listeners and fans.
    It's all how you chose to look at it.

  11. anonymous
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    Dec 14th 2006 !⃝

    Try not to take any lyrics too seriously. everyone has their own interpretation of each song depending on who they are.

  12. anonymous
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    Nov 8th 2006 !⃝

    I think it is about a person who is insane.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
  13. Disasterpiece
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    Oct 16th 2006 !⃝

    Its not about a migraine you idiot. How does that make any sense. Your a real idiot to think up something that supid.

  14. anonymous
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    Jul 28th 2006 !⃝

    Yeah duality is when you are thinking about what way to go,and then just going, like that guy said the cross roads, and stuff

  15. anonymous
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    Jul 23rd 2006 !⃝

    Duality is about how you push your fingers into your eyes when you have a headache or migrane. ( but its made of all teh things I have to take) refers to his medicine/pills.




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