Dead
Jonathan Davis:
" 'All I want in life is to be happy', it's that simple. People say that
it's become their own anthem. It's like whenever I start to feel good,
something comes and takes it away and I feel like I'm nothing again,
like I'm dead."
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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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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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4 u
"Am I still damned to a life, of misery and hate?" "You will
never
know, What I've done for you"
Davis is questioning his fate, and if his accomplishments will amount
to anything/be appreciated. (my interpretation.)
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Beg
for Me
Jonathan Davis:
"'Beg For Me' is more of an angry thing because the whole thing for
"Beg For Me" is the crowd. The only time I was good on tour was
when I walked up onstage and that's what the song is about. Feeling
wanted is something one thing I've always needed. I was shuffled
around so much when I was a kid...Being up onstage was the only
point was the only time when my anxiety would go away for an
hour."
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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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It's
Gonna Go Away
It's Gonna Go Away.
The Pressure of life is going to go away......(via death?)
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Wake
Up!
Jonathan may be talking about the feuds the happen between
different artists (especially since it was written during times of band
feud, family values area). "I'm not happy
I wish they just...Wake the fuck up!"
They need to realize that
rivalries are stupid and "Wake Up" to common
sense. "What are we fighting for? You are my brothers.....Please just let
it go....Let's just
take the stage....And remember why we play for."
(play music for the
right reason, not to fight among themselves.) KoRn was also at a point where
they themselves almost broke up, so it could reference themselves as well.
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Am
I Going Crazy?
Am I Going Crazy?.....
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Hey
Daddy
Jonathan Davis:
"'Hey Daddy' where I was schizophrenic and there were these voices
telling me to do shit... To kill myself, basically. Daddy is one of my
nicknames, so its like I'm talking to myself the whole time. It's hard
to explain."
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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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No
Way
"So I came too far...To end up this way...Feeling like I'm
God...Feeling is no way...To live this way." There is no way he can
live with people "Picking at me...Ripping at me." Life is hard to
deal with, and there isn't any solace in his current existence.
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Lets Get This Party Started
"I want to be the one...To make myself sign"
The time is not right, nothing is right. It's time to start something new,
and break free from the old dissatisfaction.
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I
Wish You Could Be Me
John wishes someone else could be him to see how he is ripped and
sold. "At least you could look at me
While you are ripping me...You are taking my life and selling it." How
with fame, his emotion and everything is being snatched away. The worst
part, not know just who and how many are taking, yet it is still felt.
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Counting
He is counting the days that his feelings will no longer be taken
advantage off. That time when "One day you'll beg for me."
The day when things will turn around.
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Dirty
Jonathan Davis:
"I feel like a fucking whore to record companies." "You know how it
is...the way we are used and marketed." "How they make all the
money off us and we don't make shit!" "The only way we make
money is to go out on tour and sell merchandise" "Basically we write
all the music and turn in and they make all the money." "So I feel like
that and also I feel like a slut cuz I'd go out at night and fucking girls
and so I said fuck it, I'm going to do it. The only way to escape is to
have sex." "Its all kind of different issues."
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