"Vermilion" was the fourth single from American metal band Slipknot's third album, Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses). When the band plays the song live, they switch from their ordinary masks to "death masks"; each an actual cast of each member's face. However, during the All Hope Is Gone tour, all members except Craig and Paul did not wear the death masks for the song. "Vermilion Pt. 2" is a continuation of the first part.



VERMILION Lyrics
by Slipknot

She seems dressed in all the rings of past fatalities
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
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 nervous, perverse
When I see her it's worse
But the stress is astounding
It's now or never she's coming home forever
She's the only one that makes me sad!

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

I won't let this build up inside of me (X4)


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 (X8)

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!

BACKGROUND
"That song was on a demo that Paul [Gray, bassist] and Joey [Jordison, drummer] put together. For some reason, as soon as I heard it, all I could see was the colour red. I love the idea of creating a world from the standpoint of a stalker. I was trying to recreate that dark urgency and desperate need. Anyone who's ever had that jealous rage knows what that feeling is." – Corey Taylor

"I wrote most of this, then Paul put the middle section together. When I write, I'm always thinking of [singer] Corey's place in the song. That chemistry between me, Paul and Corey has always been interesting." – Joey Jordison

Song Meaning

"The differences (between the two tracks) are subtle — 'Vermilion, Pt. 1' is about the enrapturing, the buildup, the anticipation and the neurosis," says Taylor. "'Part 2' is the aftermath, the pieces that have to be picked up later, and maybe the guilt of having lived through it." Both songs are said to be about lost or unrequited love from a possibly suicidal person's perspective.

Single by Slipknot
from the album Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
A-side "Vermilion"
B-side "Vermilion Pt. 2", "Scream"
Released October 16, 2004
Genre Alternative metal
Length 5:16 (album version)
Label Roadrunner
Length 5:17
Writers Paul Gray
Producers Rick Rubin


SOURCE
Vermilion (song) by Wikipedia (CC BY SA)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion_(song)






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