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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Ball Tongue
Jonathan Davis:
"The meaning of ball tongue is simple. Some thought it had to do with oral sex,
but in fact its about a guy we had to work with on a t-shirt (Jeff Creath). He either had
a pierced tongue or a wart or something on his tongue and he was a dick to us."
* In the live version Jonathan goes into a Rap (by Coolio) Called "Lodi Dodi"
in the middle of the song.
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Need To
Jon is talking loving a significant other love so much, that your are afraid to get close
to them because you don't want to cause them to stop loving you.
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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."
(
'Scared to be honest with yourself/you're a cowardly man')
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Divine
Divine is about Jonathan wanting someone who didn't want him. Then the person took an
about face and wanted him.
"You're suffering 'cause of me, it's divine" ,"Did
you really think you'd beat me at my own game"
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Faget
Jonathan Davis:
"Everyone thinks I'm bashing gay people in this song, and I'm not. It's really
about me going through high school being called 'pussy,' 'queer' and all that stuff, about
getting picked on by all these jocks."
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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."
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Predictable
Jonathan finds a failed
relationship predictable. He basically is asking, is every relationship going to end in
pain? Love is a hurtful cycle.
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Fake
Jonathan is ostracized for NOT hiding under an
image of what society wants them to be. "You try so hard to be wanted. False
emotions tells you fronted. I think being a person relies on one thing. Be yourself, let
you come through."
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Lies
Basically the same meaning as Fake, it insults conformists.
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Helmet in the Bush
Jonathan Davis:
"It's about a speed problem that I had. You know, you do a lot of speed and -- if you're a
male -- your penis retracts severely. The guy heard at the beginning of the song is
La Caco, a friend of the band. His real name is Michael and likes taco bell. He's a really
Nice Guy and he has been friends with the band for years."
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Daddy
Jonathan Davis:
"People think daddy' was written because my dad fucked me up the ass, thats not what the
song's about. It wasn't about my dad or my mum. When I was a kid I was being abused by
someone else and I went to my parents and told them about it. and they thought I was lying
and joking around, they never did shit about it. They didn't believe it was happening to
their son. I don't like to talk about that song, this is the most I've ever talked
about it..."
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