She seems dressed in all the rings
Of past fatalaties
So fragile yet so devious
She continues to see it
Climatic hands that press
Her temples and my chest
Enter the night that she came home
Forever

Oh (she's the only one that makes me sad)

She is everything and more
The solemn hypnotic
My dahlia, bathed in possession
She is home to me

I get neverous, perversed when I see her it's worse
But the stress is astounding
It's now or never she's coming home
Forever

Oh (she's the only one that makes me sad)

Hard to say what caught my attention
Vixen crazy, aphid attraction
Carve my name in my face, to recognize
Such a pheromone cult to terrorize

I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me

(yeah!)

I'm a slave, and I am a master
No restraints and, unchecked collectors
I exist through my need, to self-oblige
She is something in me, that I despise

I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me

I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me

She isn't real!
I can't make her real!
She isn't real!
I can't make her real!

(she isn't real, I can't make her real)
(she isn't real, I can't make her real)



Lyrics submitted by NeutralPunkGuy

Track duration: 03:44

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

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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    General Comment:I think one of them suffers from sever narcissism.. the woman I think, and the man is the co-dependent victim.
    Flag universeizmineon February 13, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Well this song certainly has many meanings to us but only one to the one who wrote it... Honestly I dunno, but to me it has a psychopath kind of meaning... I don't mean the word as in a bad ay, I study the human psychology and byt these words I mean that he has some serious case of violent obssesion. He would never truly hurt the woman he loves yet his love is like a fire... Consuming and painful... There is someone who posted something quite right...

    "She seemed dressed in all the rings of past fatalities, so fragile yet so devious... She continues to see it"
    In this line for example, she knows what she is to him... She knows and she uses that power...

    "Climatic hands that press her temples and my chest, enter the night that she came home... Forever"
    She's his, because he's making her be his, making her stay by his side, and even when she knows she's powerful to him, she continues to reject him... Her hands on her head for pain, her hands in his chest indicating sexual actions or closeness to her... She is his and there is nothing more either of them can do, because he is very likely to be addicted to her and she can't escape him....

    "Hard to say what caught my attention, fixed and crazy aphid attraction, carve my name in my face to recognize... Such a pheromone cult to terrorize..."

    Well, the carve my name in my face to recognize apparently means that he's losong sight of what he is, and what better way to know who you are (unnless you're Dracula) than carving your own name in your forehead... Face...
    That's all for now
    Flag yen999on April 08, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I love this song. It's my favorite by Slipknot. To me it sounds like obsession over a girl he loves from a distance. Just like everybody else says, i guess. But I thought i would say how much i liked the song.
    Flag ColumbineKidon February 18, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Here Are my thoughts of this song after being a slipknot fan after years and listening to this song for years: so here is some history on myself recently. My girlfriend of 7 months that I loved with everything broke up with me and I just want to die... Tell me to go kill myself, Idc... I get hate all the time. But here are what the lyrics mean to me: I think when he says she isn't real, it means the girl was never real with him, lied and broke their trust. And when he says "she's a myth that I have to believe in, all I need to make her real, is one more reason" well to me it means the girl isn't really who he pretends she is. He believes that she is someone else and that she is perfect, while she really isn't. He says " I don't know what to do, when she makes me sad" in reality the girl makes him sad and he just pretends she doesn't because he loves her and is in denial of her real self. That is just my oppinion and it may not be even close to the real meaning, but that's what it means to me.
    Flag XxjulienmxXon February 13, 2011   Link
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    My Interpretation:you guys need to stop thinking with your dicks lol.
    if you watch the film clip and really listen you will see she has her own personal world, her own reality.
    the song is clearly from the males point of view, his love for her "My Dahlia, you're bathed in posession
    She is home to me", even though she has schizophrenia. and he has to watch her slowly slip away and withdraw into her own little reality. but he thinks he can save her "I get neverous, perverse when I see her its worse. But the stress is astounding. It's now or never she's coming home. Forever."
    but at the same time his trying not to let it get to him and affect him. "I won't let this build up inside of me". and finally he realises he cant do anything, he doesnt want to give up but no matter how hard he tries he cant bring her back, he just has to sit and watch as she becomes (for lack of a better word) insane. i also believe this is probably an experience a member of the band has had to go through, to love this woman who no longer knows you even exist...
    "SHE ISN'T REAL!
    I CAN'T MAKE HER REAL!
    SHE ISN'T REAL!
    I CAN'T MAKE HER REAL!

    (She isn't real, I can't make her real)
    (She isn't real, I can't make her real) "
    Flag IceProdigyon January 23, 2011   Link
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    Song Meaning:bayer_head nailed it with that meaning.

    The first time I listened to vermilion 1 and 2 I thought only 2 things would make sense: either it's his imaginary perfect soulmate or someone he loved very much and lost(died).

    I didn't fully understand until I saw the videos where, in the first, she is a ghost wandering the city and in the second she is a corpse rising up in the air and coming back down.
    This pretty much makes it clear on what this song is about: his dead soulmate.

    Now as to what each verse means, I'll leave that to someone with more literary talent.
    Flag Kesarionon December 18, 2010   Link
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    Song Meaning:bayer_head nailed it with that meaning.

    The first time I listened to vermilion 1 and 2 I thought only 2 things would make sense: either it's his imaginary perfect soulmate or someone he loved very much and lost(died).

    I didn't fully understand until I saw the videos where, in the first, she is a ghost wandering the city and in the second she is a corpse rising up in the air and coming back down.
    This pretty much makes it clear on what this song is about: his dead soulmate.

    Now as to what each verse means, I'll leave that to someone with more literary talent.
    Flag Kesarionon December 18, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:dude it's about a rape victem... this is common knowledge.
    Flag ScreamingMaggoton November 13, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I really don't like the music but I love the lyrics. I do like Snuff though. After reading the lyrics for this one it's obvious to me it's a bad boy's pity party song. It's his own damn fault he is the way he is...he doesn't want to change and he wants her forever at the same time he doesn't feel worthy and is scared of forever. She is dressed in all the rings of past fatalaties...poor little bad boy baby was hurt over and over again..Now that he has his dream he doesn't know what to do with it. He doesn't know how to show her love...he won't let love build up inside of him and really feel what it is he feels. So he convinces himself she isn't real and that she doesn't care. He paints her in this light to dehumanize her so that he can treat her like shit and not feel bad about it. She is something in him he despises...he despises good he doesn't know what it's like to be good cause it's buried under his self loathing and pity about the past. I'm a slave and a master....he is a slave to her on the inside but doesn't admit it basically being a man who can't show how he feels and has to be incontrol of her and himself.
    Flag kbranton October 21, 2010   Link
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    Song Meaning:to me this song is about how he loved someone and they left now he relizes they were perfect for him and all he has left is her memory and its driveing insain
    Flag scarletletterman92on October 05, 2010   Link

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