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Word Up
It's a cover of Cameo's "Word Up," a
lighthearted catchy song that was one of the first popular rap hits, of his
"She's Strange" album.
Munky:
"It's just a fun, funky track, but it really broke down a lot of walls
between black and white music. But the main thing is it just shows that we
have fun. KoRn is not serious all day, every day.We really do have a lot of
fun, and that comes through on that song."
Jonathan Davis:
"We picked that song, we actually messed around with that years ago, and we
were doing some more covers for the greatest hits and stuff, and figuring
out what else we want to put on there, we decided to do something different
then, fun, not so serious most of the songs are really serious and dark,
lets do something that's upbeat and fun." "Wanted to use it
because it came out so good"
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Another Brick in
the Wall, Parts 1, 2, 3
This song is a cover of Pink Floyd's “Another Brick in the
Wall.” When performed live during the Projekt Revolution tour, Goodbye Cruel
World was also sung at the end (another Pink Floyd song also on the
1979 release The Wall, following the third part . The song itself goes along
with the movie, The Wall, detailing the life of a fictional rock star named
Pink Floyd. The first part is about a childhood flashback of his Father's
death in WWII. The second about school experience and rebellion against
education and the third about not giving into drugs. The Wall itself is a physiological barrier.) Munky said KoRn was worried about this redo,
as many covers are poor compared to the original, this it was recorded with
care. Uncharteristically, the guitar solo is complete, something usually not
done by KoRn (i.e. was not done in the cover of Metallica's One).
Munky:
“Since the original song has three parts, we took our time editing and
recording. We put the three parts together and the song is about eight
minutes. If the song didn’t fly, we wouldn’t have released it, (
laughs). We liked it enough to put on the album and hope we did Floyd
proud.”
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Y'All Want a Single
It's
a humorous, middle-finger salute to their record company, Sony, for asking
the band to "write a radio hit" for TALITM.
Munky:
"It's really funny when you think of it...asking a heavy band like KoRn to
write a 'radio single'. What were they thinking?!?" "
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Right Now
Jonathan Davis:
"That's a song about waking up and wanting to kill everybody."
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Did My Time
Coming soon.......
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Alone I Break
He gave everything he could, but has been drained of the will to
go on. Isn't he worth something? He is leaving, destroying all feelings of
hurting. Why is it that things fall on him, and he is there alone broken. I
get a sense of praying for a sort of death, "heart stops", appears fairly
death-like. There just might be something after, a heaven, instead of
just vast empty space.
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Here To Stay
Jonathan Davis:
"Here To Stay is basically about being fed up with people taking advantage
of you. I wrote it when being angry of basically being born a nice guy. Nice
people always get taking advantage off. And lashing out basically I'm tired
of this and I'm not going to let you do this to me, I'm here and I want to
be this way.
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Trash
Jonathan Davis:
"'Trash' is about how I threw my world and everything out. I threw
her away. I threw my old self away. It basically comes back down to
the sex thing. The battles I did on the road, this whole album is what
I went through because I was on the road and I went crazy."
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Somebody Someone
I need Somebody...Someone "Inside to help me out"
He needs Somebody Someone. Everyone wants someone to be there, especially in
times of sadness and despair.
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Make Me Bad
Jonathan Davis:
"'I need to feel the sickness in you' ... It's
spawned from fuckin', basically, from having sex. That's where that
line comes from, but it means a whole bunch of things to me. "Make
Me Bad" was about the battles I had being on the road, being
married and being with other women. I'm not married anymore...because of my lifestyle, and I just couldn't do that to my wife
anymore. So that ended. But does it make me bad that I have a dick
and I have fucken other feelings to be with other people? Why should
I be with just one? It seems like human beings are genetically
engineered to procreate. That's what we do, fuck everything, and
that's what our natural insides want to do. It is hard to find someone
like that. But she was a good woman and I didn't want to keep on... I
did the right thing, I was a man about it. It was better for me to tell
her and let her go on with her life and find someone who could help
her and be like that. So that song was spawned by that, does it make
me bad to want to be with other women? In a sense it was my only
drug, why... because I don't drink anymore, I cant drink. I've been
sober for a year. I don't have any other vices. So at least doing that
could be something."
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Falling Away From Me
Jonathan Davis:
"The song is about domestic abuse and that there ways to get help
whether it's telling someone or calling a help line, there are ways to
get out of those situations. No one has to be treated like that."
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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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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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Twist
Basically Gibberish, yet
some words can be made out.
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A.D.I.D.A.S.
Jonathan Davis:
"It stands for all day I dream about sex. It's about how much of a pervert
my ass is, and how I day-dream about what a stud I am. But when it comes down
to it, I'm a fucking pussy and I'm in there jacking off."
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Clown
Jonathan Davis:
"KoRn was playing a show in San Diego for a clothing card. This skinhead guy came up
and started flippin' me off. When we started, I bent down and the guy took a swing at me.
Our tour manager, Jeff, got into it and knocked the guy out. I wrote this song about him."
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'Scared to be honest with yourself/you're a cowardly man')
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Shoots and Ladders
Jonathan Davis:
"It was written because all these little kids sing these nursery rhymes and they
don't know what they originally meant. Everyone is so happy when singing but 'London
Bridge' is about the Black Plague. All of them have these evil stories behind them."
"The lyrics are all from nursery rhymes, and a lot of nursery rhymes go back to the
Middle Ages. They're actually pretty twisted if you know the stories behind them, like
about Black Death and stuff."
“to set the record straight, [the song] calls out nursery rhymes for
what they really are. I chose each rhyme for a different reason—‘Baa Baa
Black Sheep’ has racial overtones. ‘London Bridges’ talks of all the people
dying [from the Black Plague], as does ‘Ring Around the Rosies’. Then
there’s ‘Little Red Riding Hood’—one story tells of the wolf raping Red
Riding Hood and killing her. There is a lesson anyone for censorship should
realize. The fact is you are covered from the world and once you are born
into the world, your eyes are open and its all over."
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Blind
Blind was written in the early days, when Jonathan was still heavy into drugs. The song
was actually written with Sexart, Jonathan's first band. The lyrics do not really
mean anything, just inspired by a drug induced haze. (though some people try to put
meaning to it. It's open to personal interpretation for real meaning.)
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Freak on a Leash" Dante
Ross Remix (Bonus feat. Everlast & Carlos Santana)
A remix of Freak on a Leash.
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