It’s
On!
Jonathan Davis:
"It's On is my shit peer pressure song. Me being so stressed out going out and
partying. Everybody's just going 'Come on dude, it's on.' That's partying, it's alcohol,
cocaine, women. All that wrapped into one. I wrote a song about it. And the chorus I
talked about Why am I really doing this? It's all my fault that I'm doing this because all
the alcohol, the booze an the chicks do is just make it worse. They just rearrange all the
problems in a different order that I can deal with at that moment."
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Freak
on a Leash
Jonathan Davis:
"One of the best titles I've heard ever for a song. That's my song against the
music industry. Like me feeling like I'm fuckin' a pimp, a prostitute. Like I'm paraded
around. I'm this freak paraded around but I got corporate America fuckin' making all the
money while it's taking a part of me. It's like they stole something from me, they stole
my innocence and I'm not calm anymore. I worry constantly."
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Got
the Life
Jonathan Davis:
"That's a song baggin' on myself. How everything's always handed to me.
How I look up to God and don't want this anymore. Like I want something more out of
life than all this. And I've got everything I really need but I sometimes don't
like. I don't know how to explain it. I have to let it sit through the songs
more to actually get into what I write. I truly know, really, the meanings of the
songs almost. That's what I'm getting out of it right now."
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Dead Bodies Everywhere
Jonathan Daisy:
"That was the song about my parents trying to keep me out of the music business.
My father was in it and he knew how it was and I totally understand now that I have
a son. I want Nathan to be a musician but I him don't want him to go through the
hell I went through. That's the same thing my Dad was doing. A lot of people
can relate to it, because it's like the Dad's wanting their sons to be football players
and their sons want to be doctors or something. That peer pressure its like trying
to make them something they're really not. And the Dead Bodies thing is like so I
did it and all I got out of it was dead bodies everywhere and got all traumatized.
Thanks a lot Dad, Mom."
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Children
of the KoRn
Jonathan Davis:
"That's the song that Ice Cube is on Cube came up with the title. I fed off
of what he wrote, he was talking about growing up and puberty. Dictating what he can
do, like how you gonna tell me how to live and who to fuck? And all this stuff. And I took that and in my stuff I was talking about being a kid always known as the fuckin' town faggot. It's funny how things change. That some of these people
picked on me and all of a sudden look who's laughing now. Also in another of the
verse I talked about all these parents fuckin hating me for what I do, saying I'm
corrupting their children, but in turn these parents need to step outside of themselves
and really listen to what I'm talking about. Then I think they can understand that
they were kids before. They're just really quick to judge me. All the Children
of The KoRn are all our KoRn fans. All those kids going through that sh*t and
feeling what I feel."
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B.B.K.
Jonathan Davis:
"Big black cock! That's what I call a jack and coke. Those little
glasses they serve in Europe and everything. That's what I named it, big black cock.
And that's another song about me dealing with the pressures of this album and how
I, you know, I'm trying to kill myself, but you know? Do I really want to kill
myself? Things I'm just questioning myself. Most of this is
self-structured."
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Pretty
Jonathan Davis:
"It's a story about this little girl that came into the coroner's office when I was
working there and she was fucked by her dad. She was an 11 month old little baby
girl. Her legs were broken back behind her and he just fucked her like a toy doll
and chucked her in the bathroom. It was the most heinous thing I've ever seen in my
life and I still have nightmares about it."
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All
in the Family
Jonathan Davis:
"Fred was there after KoRn TV and we said, 'Let's do a song together, Hey, man,
let's go back and forth and rip on each other like an old school battle.' I don't
know who's idea it was, I can't remember if it was mine or Fieldy's or Fred's but we came
up with the idea and we started writing and we worked on it together. I came up with
some bags on myself for Fred to say. It was all in good natured fun."
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Reclaim
My Place
Jonathan Davis:
This one is about the whole band and about all my life being called a homosexual.
And then I became this big rock star in a band and I'm still called a fag even by my own
band. So it's like I was fuckin' pissed off at them. It's like erase them all
because I'm gonna reclaim my place and say hey, they owe a lot to me for what I did, and I
owe a lot to them back. But, it still kinda sucks. I've never ever gotten away
from that fag fuckin' title. Just because I'm a sensitive kinda guy. Kinda
feminine it really sucks.
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Justin
Jonathan Davis:
"Justin, that was the kid dying terminally with intestinal cancer. His last
dying wish was to meet us and it really freaked me out. That threw a whole bunch of
new kind of pressures on my head. That's really intense. Someone's gonna die
and his last thing he wants to do is come hang out with us. So I truly just freaked
out. It's like why would you want to meet me? What makes me so special?
And in turn I talk about how I admire his strength and his life. I couldn't stare at
him because he was so content he was gonna die. No one could look him in the
eyes. And I totally admire his strength. I wish I had it."
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Seed
Jonathan Davis:
"Seed. That's all about the same thing again. I laying in bed in my hotel
room, thinking about do I really need all this stuff? All this pressure on me?
Because I'm a stressed out freak. It's about Nathan, it's about every time
that I look into his eyes, I see myself how I used to be, innocent and stress free.
I'm kind of jealous of it. It really sucks, I used to be that way. It's like I
have to work so hard at this thing in my life. I have to become a stressed out
freak. I put food on the table for my child. Every time I look in his eyes, I
just see myself staring right back at my ass laughing. I was like care free,
innocent as a child. It's really weird and I'm really jealous of it."
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Cameltosis
Jonathan Davis:
"That's a love song. It's about women in general, women who hurt me. It's Tre's lyrics. He's going on about chicks and my chorus is like I'm so scared to
love anyone and really let them in after I got hurt really really bad by a girl.
I've let Renee in a little bit, to be honest, but I'll never be that in love ever
again. That's what I'm saying, if you've loved twice, you're gonna get fucked,
'cause you usually do."
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My
Gift to You
Jonathan Davis:
"Renee always wanted me to write her a love song and that's why I called it My
Gift To You. It's my gift to her, you know how I get sick. I always had a
fantasy of fucking her and choking her to death. I fantasize about what it would
look like me in her body and watching me do it. So it's like a really sick fucked up
song. I did it totally like, I love her so much, I want to take her out of this
world. It's really strange. She used to leave notes on my pillow like 25 ways
she'd like to kill me. She's got this weird death fetish. We're kinda fuckin'
freaky. She got it. She's all 'Thank you that's kinda fucked up. I was
expecting a fuckin' I love you, baby kinda song.' I'm all, 'No, you know me.' I mean I
can't do that."