Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
HIV!
Here I am different in this normal world
Why did you tease me?
Made me feel upset
Fucking stereotypes feeding their heads
I am ugly. Please, just go away...
(HIV!)
I can see inside you fine
This blessing in disguise
(HIV!)
Why do you treat me this way?
Made the hate stay...
I sound like I can never seem to escape
All the laughing, all the pain
If you were me, what would you do?
Nothing, probably. You'd just throw me away
I can see inside you fine
(HIV!)
This blessing in disguise
Why do you treat me this way?
(HIV!)
Made the hate stay...
FAGET! (3x)
Here I am different in this normal world
Why did you tease me?
Made me feel upset
Fucking stereotypes feeding their heads
I am ugly. Please, just go away!
(HIV!)
I can see inside you fine
This blessing in disguise
Why do you treat me this way?
(HIV!)
Made the hate stay...
FAGET!
(Pussy...)
I'm just a pretty boy, whatever you call it
You wouldn't know a real man if you saw it
It keeps going on day after day, son
"You faget! , Get off we don't want none"
I'm sick and tired of people treating me this way everyday
Who gives a fuck right now
I got something to say
To all the people that think I'm strange
I should be out of here locked up in a CAGE
You don't know what the hell is up now anyway
You got this pretty-boy feeling like I'm enslaved
To a world that never appreciated shit
YOU CAN SUCK MY DICK AND FUCKING LIKE IT!!
He had my gun but he had to find the money any say
He had my gun but he had to find the money anyway
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't wanna say
He had my gun but he had to find the money anyway
He had my gun but he had to find the money any say
He had my gun but he had to find the money going away
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't wanna say
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't anyway
I'm just a pretty boy, I'm not supposed to fuck a girl
I'm just a pretty boy, living in this fucked up world (Repeat verse)
All my life, who am I?! (11x)
All my life!
I'm just a faget! (Faget!) (3x)
I'm a faget (Faget!)
I'm not a faget! (Or am I?/Faget!) (3x)
You mother fucking queers!
Here I am different in this normal world
Why did you tease me?
Made me feel upset
Fucking stereotypes feeding their heads
I am ugly. Please, just go away...
(HIV!)
I can see inside you fine
This blessing in disguise
(HIV!)
Why do you treat me this way?
Made the hate stay...
I sound like I can never seem to escape
All the laughing, all the pain
If you were me, what would you do?
Nothing, probably. You'd just throw me away
I can see inside you fine
(HIV!)
This blessing in disguise
Why do you treat me this way?
(HIV!)
Made the hate stay...
FAGET! (3x)
Here I am different in this normal world
Why did you tease me?
Made me feel upset
Fucking stereotypes feeding their heads
I am ugly. Please, just go away!
(HIV!)
I can see inside you fine
This blessing in disguise
Why do you treat me this way?
(HIV!)
Made the hate stay...
FAGET!
(Pussy...)
I'm just a pretty boy, whatever you call it
You wouldn't know a real man if you saw it
It keeps going on day after day, son
"You faget! , Get off we don't want none"
I'm sick and tired of people treating me this way everyday
Who gives a fuck right now
I got something to say
To all the people that think I'm strange
I should be out of here locked up in a CAGE
You don't know what the hell is up now anyway
You got this pretty-boy feeling like I'm enslaved
To a world that never appreciated shit
YOU CAN SUCK MY DICK AND FUCKING LIKE IT!!
He had my gun but he had to find the money any say
He had my gun but he had to find the money anyway
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't wanna say
He had my gun but he had to find the money anyway
He had my gun but he had to find the money any say
He had my gun but he had to find the money going away
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't wanna say
He had my gun but he had to find the money don't anyway
I'm just a pretty boy, I'm not supposed to fuck a girl
I'm just a pretty boy, living in this fucked up world (Repeat verse)
All my life, who am I?! (11x)
All my life!
I'm just a faget! (Faget!) (3x)
I'm a faget (Faget!)
I'm not a faget! (Or am I?/Faget!) (3x)
You mother fucking queers!
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For me, this song is one that represents social exile. I have been rejected for my interests, music and points of view. This song is basically a similiar sort of thing... "Here I am defriended in this normal world Why did you tease me? Made me feel absurd Walking stereotypes feeding their heads I am ugly. Please just go away" Those are the words that have me...thank you KoRn for giving me a release...
You're absolutely right, but I always thought it was "Why did you tease me? Made me feel upset".
@korner50 Well..I wouldn't say a release, it's more like my own thoughts.
Faget is a song about how Jon Davis was a social outcast while he was in highschool. Everyone treated him differently and put him down because of the way he dressed, the music he listened to, and because he didn't want to be what other people wanted him to be (among other things).
This could also apply to the song Clown...
i always thought this song was korns best work, imo the best song off the self-titled album. can relate with the social aspect of it, and i love the part where Jon yells "YOU CAN SUCK MY DICK AND FUCKING LIKE IT!" always makes me feel a little better about my own social situation =D
"Mainly because he wore a kilt because he's irish" The Irish don't wear kilts. Kilts are Scottish
The Irish have kilts, too.
it's all about jon davis and him being teasted throughout his life because he was different and all through high school he was called a faget cuz he was different from everyone else...great song, probably the best one by KoRn
If you seriously think this song is about the band calling Jon gay, you must have an extra chromosome.
Fuck radio...and fuck MTV...thats the only way shit gets overplayed. Unless your cd player is stuck on repeat
"sUiCiDeiSpAiNLeSs" kilts are scottish, not irish.
hey ilikefood, I have different opinions than you on what's good music, and I really don't have any problem with that. You might not like bands who get out their lifelong agressions through their music, but I do. but that's not something I'd hold against anyone. But it's the last thing you said that gets me. "if he's so hurt (as expressed in all his lyrics) he would just fucking kill himself already and stop trying to sell his "depression"???" Not all people who a bullied and depressed commit sucied. Infact, people are depressed rarely commit suicide. The people that cut themselves and then show off the cuts like trophies arn't really suicidal, they just want to be the center of attension.
Anyway, to me this song is about how JD was made fun of in high school because he dressed differently and listened to diffrent music. And he was made fun of because he dared to be diffrent.
He says "HIV!" also, it's not "money" but "body".