New Abortion

For other uses of "New Abortion", see New Abortion (disambiguation).

"New Abortion"
General Information
Artist	Slipknot
Release Date	August 28th, 2001
Recorded	January 17th – Mid 2001
Genre	Nu Metal
Length	3:36 4:01 (live; Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) bonus track)
Audio	Official Audio
Label	Roadrunner Records
Writer(s)	Corey Taylor
Producer(s)	Slipknot, Ross Robinson
Mixer(s)	Andy Wallace
Album(s)	Iowa
Iowa Chronology
← Previous	"Skin Ticket"
Next →	"Metabolic"

"New Abortion" is the twelve track on Iowa.

Background

The track takes riffs from the Crowz era song "May 17".

Song Meaning

"That is for every fan we have who feels disoriented, especially kids who come from towns like we did. It's basically a new definition of abortion for the fact that these kids are born with life, but that is basically all they have. They have no chance for a future and have no chance of finding themselves. They have no inside influence that is going to push them in the right direction. They fit, and they stagnate, which when I think about it, real abortion is better than that fucking bullshit. These people are born with life, but they still have to endure it. These are the kids you see shooting up schools, losing their minds over sitting in their rooms and not having anywhere to go, so that is my testimony to these kids - that I know where they are coming from."

—Corey Taylor^{[citation needed]}

Lyrics

[Intro]
Yeah

[Verse 1]
I'm ethereal
My children are legion, serial
They stick to my skin like beloved cysts
I tear away with my nails and teeth and fists
Touch the hands of inverted saints
Follow my heart through the threaded pain
Callow man is a sentinel screaming
I see the future, the future is bleeding

[Verse 2]
Sores
Every goddamn minute I can feel 'em now
Like a virus, you will never kill me now
Going underground, coming on like hepatitis
We're out, and you can't reshape us
Another bug in the construct
Tearing up the main bus B
Zeros and ones are everything, execute me

[Chorus]
Everywhere you look, it's like they know
Their fingerprints are hidden by control
This is where the line is drawn, see
You can't take my soul away from me

[Verse 3]
What do you need to see? You feel the impact?
Gotta retract; everybody, get back
What is this? It's like a big conspiracy
Fields of dejected morbid progeny
They always say that it's always our fault
But everything we say is taken with a grain of salt
Man, it's always the same if we talk or complain
We only wanna upset the balance
How's it feel to be the new abortion?
The only generation to suffer extortion

[Chorus]
Everywhere you look, it's like they know
Their fingerprints are hidden by control
This is where the line is drawn, see

[Bridge]
You can't take my soul away from me
You can't take my soul away from me
You can't take my soul away from me
You can't take my soul away from me
You can't take my soul away from me
You can't take my soul away from me

[Chorus]
Everywhere you look, it's like they know
Their fingerprints are hidden by control
This is where the line is drawn, see
You can't take my soul away from me
Everywhere you look, it's like they know
Their fingerprints are hidden by control
This is where the line is drawn, see
You can't take my soul away from me

[Outro]
You can't take my soul away from me
Fuck you

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