Slipknot – My Plague

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I'm in conniptions for the final act you came here for
The one derivative you manage is the one I abhor
I need a minute to elaborate for everyone the
Everyday bullshit things that you have done

Your impossible ego fuck is like a
Megalomaniacal tab on my tongue
You fuckin' touch me I will rip you apart
I'll reach in and take a bite out of that
Shit you call a heart
Ya ya ya

I don't mind being ogled, ridiculed
Made to feel minuscule
If you consider the source, it's kinda pitiful
The only thing you really know about me is
That's all you'll ever know

I know why you plague me (yourself)
I know why you blame (yourself)

I'm turning it around like a knife in the shell
I want to understand why, but I'm hurting myself
I haven't seen a lotta reasons to stop it
I can't just drop it
I'm just a bastard, but at least I admit it
At least I admit it

I know why you plague me (yourself)
I know why you blame (yourself)

Kill you, fuck you, I will never be you
Kill you, fuck you, I will never be you
I can't fuckin' take it anymore
A snap of the synapse
And now it's fuckin' war
Kill you, fuck you, I will never be you

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Lyrics submitted by lemonie_fresh

Track duration: 03:41

"My Plague" as written by Craig Alan Jones, James Donald Root, Sidney George Wilson, Mickael Gordon Thomson, Michael Shawn Crahan, Corey Todd Taylor, Nathan Jonas Jordison, Paul Dedrick Gray, Christopher Michael Fehn

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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    General Comment:The only thing I know is what you have allowed me to know...which is pretty darn MUCH. I don't want another me; that would be boring. I like a challenge. We each have our warts. You see ones on you that nobody else sees.
    Flagged interpretationdechansonon June 30, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:love this song one of my faves from them cant wait for there new album to come out im sooooooooooo syked!!!
    Flag wonderwhatsnexton March 29, 2011   Link
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    Song Meaning:The song is about hypocrites. The quote "kill you, fuck you / I will never be you" is directed to followers - people who are not being themselves, and trying to fit in by acting like someone else. The quote “I know why you plague me” means that he knows why people are messing with him and he is sick of it and of all the posers in this world; people doing things for popularity and so on. The quote “I'll reach in and take a bite out of that shit you call a heart,” is just warning everyone not to push him any further or else he will snap and kill him. The quote “I know why you plague (yourself)” is informing the person that he knows why he is messing around with him, and that he has had enough and he cannot be pushed around any longer."
    Flag atsiongason October 19, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I'm pretty sure he's saying "Take a bite out of that BITCH you call a heart" not "take a bite out of that shit you call a heart". But maybe I'm not hearing it correctly?
    Flag Enheritanceon October 08, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Those who are judgemental and worry about EVERYTHING are the ones who need to fuck off. In this song"My Plague" or, "My Legacy" (depending on your perspective), Cory is saying exactly what a civilized 21st century person needs to admit to themselves. People need to feel emotion, and afterwards they need to analyze why they felt those emotions. Reading through this song is a great example.

    Consider the ones who redicule you, consider the source of their ridicule and you'll find out that these assholes are just insecure fucks who build up their ego by being shitheads.

    In the end, what people hate about other people is the same shit they hate about themselves. "I'm just a bastard, but at least I admit it
    At least I admit it!"

    So if you were honest to yourself in reading these lyrics, you'd realize that, if you are wise, you will come out on top. Afterall, what is love and hate without wisdom? Philosophy is everything.
    Flag icec0rpseon September 09, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Great song. Every Better live. Did anyone really figure out whats going on in it though?
    Flag PsycoSmartAlecon September 04, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:no its for the resident evil soundtrack....and the original too. look at it
    Flag Lucifer666on May 03, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:someone already did this song
    Flag Lucifer666on April 28, 2009   Link
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    Song Meaning:Quite deep text imo...

    This song really speaks to me, I'm really sick of the pathetic people siriously, being the "Derivative" and having a "0Shit that they call a heart". and they talk shit about me while;
    "The only thing you really know about me is...
    ...that's all you'll ever know"

    Kinda also want to quote from The Heretic Anthem for the quote above;
    "Everybody defamates from miles away
    But face to face, they haven't got a thing to say"

    So I'd say; Kill you - Fuck you - I WILL NEVER BE YOU@

    Flag Zuidon April 19, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:i agree with papa roacher if that douche above him thinks this isn't music, then rip your ears out of your head and burn them and then, bleed to death.
    Flag d00dmanbroon December 08, 2008   Link

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