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"Confessions" is the sixth track on Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat..

Background

According to Anders, the band stopped playing this song after around their third show, making it one of Slipknot's least played songs.[1]

Song Meaning

"The song is a letter from a father to a son from whom he's been separated for about 17 years. It arrives about the time of the boy's first transformation."
—Anders Colsefni[2]

Lyrics

[Intro]
I know you don't want to see
I know you're not part of me
But you wonder just the same
So I'll let you in on this game

[Verse]
What's on the top is just the beginning
Of the protectorate that keeps Gaia spinning
It never ends, and with the gifts Luna sends to the apocalypse
On, we defend for the right to live in a perfect world
For our past mistakes, extinction we are hurled
Trying to make amends for the Impergium,
As Weaver and the Wyld and a bitch called the Wyrm

[Chorus]
You don't wanna know
All the power of the Wyld that runs through me
Yet the reason why is an answer that eludes me
You don't wanna see
Our viewpoint on what hominids are doing,
That black inside when frenzy is brewing
You don't wanna feel
The sorrow that my heart holds in knowing
Just where my hopes and dreams are going
I won't let you be
Caught up in a war that you are not part of
I sign this letter, "Your father, with love"

[Bridge]
I'm tryna set my mind free
I'm sorry you never knew me
My soul is in recession
Painful to make this confession!

[Chorus]
You don't wanna know
All of the power of the Wyld that runs through me
Yet the reason why is an answer that eludes me
You don't wanna see
Our viewpoint on what hominids are doing
That black inside when frenzy is brewing
You don't wanna feel
The sorrow that my heart holds in knowing
Just where my hopes and dreams are going
I won't let you be
Caught up in a war that you are not part of
I sign this letter, "Your father, with love"

[Outro]
Love!

Navigation

Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. ― October 31, 1996 • Pale One Records
Standard 1 Slipknot • 2 Gently • 3 Do Nothing/Bitchslap • 4 Only One • 5 Tattered & Torn • 6 Confessions • 7 Some Feel • 8 Killers Are Quiet • 9 Dogfish Rising
Cut Tracks Part of MeFurRites and RageVizqueenWave Like the Pope
Unreleased Songs
Pre–Roadrunner Some FeelFurTattered & TornPart of MeSlipknotGentlyDo Nothing/BitchslapOnly OneConfessionsKillers Are QuietDogfish RisingRites and RageVizqueenWave Like the PopeInterloperCarveMay 17WindowsSauceColeslawMe InsideNatureLust DiseaseProstheticsScissors
Post–Roadrunner Killing LeslieBe With YouLogged ThemHappy EndingWithout the GrayGenchemLong May You Die
Non–Songs The SeedThe Hundreds

References

  1. Bradley Hodges (October 11th, 2023). YouTube Anders Colsefni - Some Feel live Sydney 2023. YouTube. Retrieved October 14th, 2023.
  2. Song Meanings. MFKR1. Retrieved November 7th, 2021.
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