I used to be a rock junkie. My playlist 4 to five years ago were dominated by primarily rock songs from various popular and some smaller rock bands all the manner from Shinedown to one of all time favorites Avenged Sevenfold. I take always had a very various palate for unlike types of music even within on genre such as rock. However, equally much music every bit I have listened to in my lifetime and fifty-fifty though I used to be such a rock addict I had never really heard a whole lot of Slipknot.For those Slipknot fans out there, I repent now for my ignorance and inaccuracy with their music because I am still rather new to their music. Once more the wonderful globe of YouTube recommend one of their songs to me. You guessed it: It was 'Snuff'. Immediately after listening to it I savage in dearest with the sorrow saturated lyrics and the pain infused vocals. Part of the reason I loved the song was how raw the words were. Nothing feels carbohydrate coated almost this song. information technology is pure emotion and honesty poured into music. When listening to this song one is not only reminded of their own relationships but also tin physically feel the centre break of the vocaliser. Even the instrumental elements of this song bring tears to my eyes. After listening to this song I have gone on the mind to more Slipknot and fallen in dear with more of their music and intense lyrics. All the same, today I want to concentrate on this song and then let us take a look at the lyrics.

The song is from their  2009 anthology 'All promise is gone'.

"Snuff"   ( From A to Z lyrics Click here to access their page)

Bury all your secrets in my skin
Come away with innocence, and leave me with my sins
The air around me still feels like a cage
And love is just a camouflage for what resembles rage again…

I am probably manner off with how I translate this first stanza only hither it goes…

I remember nosotros all just want to love and be loved and as cliche equally this may sound I call back nosotros all want to be needed in ane manner or another.As much equally an introvert like me makes it seem similar nosotros are meant to live isolated and alone, humans are still naturally social beings who seek companionship. The first lyrics of this song seem to be pulling on this thought of wanting to exist needed, of opening oneself up and request that somebody bury their secrets within u.s..  Yet this is non as easy as allowing somebody to dump their deepest fears and secrets on usa and remember that it is easy. It takes vulnerability, honesty, loyalty and delivery for both the confessor and the awaiting ear. Telling somebody your darkest secrets is non piece of cake only carrying the weight of somebody's around is no picnic as well. We thirst to know those nosotros love, to be their for them only then nosotros are left with their secrets and the weight of our ain likewise. They may walk abroad feeling lighter and sometimes we walk away feeling similar we have fallen into a murky pit and it can brainstorm to experience stifling. We may even grow to hate or feel rage towards the person who revealed themselves to us. Maybe resentment or anger because they were honest with us and nosotros can't be honest with them. Maybe rage because they were honest with united states of america and we can't practise annihilation to make information technology amend or we thought nosotros were helping them and that them sharing their hearts with us meant something but then they disappear and we are left with merely echoes of that person, the ghosts of their secrets haunting u.s. with our failure to ease their pain. We all want to love and be loved and to be in that location for those that we dearest but are left burdened and haunted by the shadows of their secrets. We are left with their words crawling beneath  our skin yet somehow despite all the resentment we may still love them however.

So if you dear me, let me become.
And run away earlier I know.
My middle is only too dark to intendance.
I can't destroy what isn't at that place.
Evangelize me into my fate –
If I'm alone I cannot hate
I don't deserve to have you lot…

My smile was taken long ago
If I can alter I hope I never know

This resentment that I mentioned in my previous paragraph can lead to wanting that person that y'all loved to but disappear. If that person actually loved yous they would simply let you go. Shrouded in darkness 1's heart tin can brainstorm to decay and turn into dust.  He is afraid he will destroy the person that they song is about. Just permit me go the artists is pleading. Allow me become and leave me to my fate which is a reflection of the first poesy where he asks her to leave him with his sins. Exit me alone. When you are not here it is hard for me to hate yous considering it is easier to focus on the good times and I do not deserve you anyhow ( angel versus sinner.) The vocalist does not feel worthy or take a very loftier self worth of himself in comparison to this person who gave there all but nevertheless faded away. Is information technology to late for modify? He does not know and is on the verge of non caring anymore. Nigh chilled to the bone by the weight of everything at this point.

I even so press your letters to my lips
And cherish them in parts of me that savor every osculation
I couldn't face up a life without your lights
But all of that was ripped autonomously when you refused to fight

I am not sure what to make of this verse all together. He clearly cherishes her words and the memories in his heart, a special safety haven for what once was. He loved her securely and she was like a guiding light to him. With her gone he can't alive the same ( shrouded in darkness/ the murk of his own soul and depravity.) Notwithstanding the last line throws me off. I can't decide what I make of her refusal to fight. Fight for what? Him? Their relationship? Life? What needed to be fought for?

So save your breath, I will non hear.
I think I made it very clear.
You couldn't hate enough to love.
Is that supposed to be enough?
I but wish you weren't my friend.
Then I could hurt you in the stop.
I never claimed to exist a saint…

Ooh, my own was banished long agone
Information technology took the death of hope to let you go

 This adjacent grouping of lyrics has on my favorite lines from a song ever. " Yous could not hate enough to love." While I wish I could put into words why this makes perfect sense to me and how I translate them I simply can not. I hope that you can detect your own meaning in those words and feel the weight of them. I am mesmerized by how accurate they are for me in my own life. The next lyrics, however, are just every bit relate-able and easier for me to talk about. ' I wish you were non my friend, then I could hurt you in the end, I never claimed to be a saint…'  I tin't tell y'all how bad I am sometimes at even being mad at my friends when they have upset me. I want to testify them how furious I am and stay mad at them to sate some feeling within myself just I struggle to stay mad at them and express it because we are so close. Sometimes information technology would be easier to hurt somebody ( feelings or otherwise) if you were not close to them. I think a lyrics like that showcases the rawness and honest of this song that I mentioned in my introduction. It takes a certain vulnerability and boldness to say something like that upfront in a song though I feel we tin can all chronicle to it. Lastly from this department is some other one of my favorite lyrics, "It took the death of hope to let yous go." Sometimes we take to admit, dismal though it may be, that there is no hope and then and merely then can we truly permit go.

And so pause yourself against my stones
And spit your compassion in my soul
You never needed whatever aid
Y'all sold me out to save yourself
And I won't listen to your shame
Yous ran away – you're all the same
Angels lie to go along control…

Ooh, my dearest was punished long agone
If y'all withal care, don't ever permit me know
If you nevertheless intendance, don't always let me know…

' Break yourself against my stones', are hauntingly cute lyrics as well. Sometimes nosotros are at that place for somebody but it feels similar they are just tearing u apart not matter what they practise or don't do. Y'all are an angel, he acknowledges that he was never a saint, but you lied to keep control. Y'all used me. Yous used me to bury your secrets and now they are like gangrene eating abroad at me and you left me yo save yourself and at present I am left with my sins and this burden and my light has been snuffed out and I am finally letting go of promise… of everything. For loving yous I was punished long ago. If you auto don't waltz back in and pretend like you care or cared all alone and were there for me. But become away and don't ever let me know because that might strip me bare of whatever remnant of me that is even so left. I remember that is the gist of those last lyrics and a good wrap up of this intense song.

– Eva M.M

Thank you for stopping by and reading my thoughts on this band, their music and this song. Note I practice not own whatever of the rights to these lyrics or this song. I have linked you lot to the A to Z lyrics page where I got the lyrics from and a link to a YouTube lyrics video as well then you can have the audio to mind to equally well as you read this page. I would love to hear your ain take on these lyrics or experience with the song in the comments by. Also permit me know if at that place are whatsoever songs or music you would recommend for me to heed to or just want my input on.

Eva Monhaut is a sophomore at IUSB, majoring in English, and double minoring in French and Sustainability Studies with a concentration in Creative Writing. She is a member of the French and Sustainability Clubs as well every bit the IUSB Laurels's Program. She is likewise President of the English Club. She is an avid reader who also enjoys writing poetry, curt stories, and experimenting with different forms of art. She loves cats, java, and sparkling water. In her time at IUSB, she hopes to share with others the joys of reading and writing, every bit well as continue to work on her ain writing. After she graduates, she hopes to spend a few years abroad in France and so settle down in her tiny firm. She has worked with the Pub Hub since its infancy in January of 2018. View All Posts