"Snuff" is the eleventh track on All Hope Is Gone, as well as the album's fifth and final single.
Background
- "This is the slow one. It's another personal one. Again, not naming names, it's about someone who helped me through a lot and I thought she felt the same way that I did and then she really let me down. At the same time, it was good that she did, because it was that final push to me figuring out myself. The lyrics are pretty self-explanatory."
- —Corey Taylor[1]
Song Meaning
This song is about how the protagonist's soul is too dark to let love in, telling somebody to get away from them. It's dark and brooding, representing the pits of depression or at least the bottom of the cycle in a manic-depressive.
Track Listing
| Promo Single | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Snuff" (Radio Edit) | 4:12 |
| 2. | "Snuff" (Album Version) | 4:36 |
| Total length: | 8:48 | |
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus 1]
So if you love me, let me go
And run away before I know
My heart is just too dark to care
I can't destroy what isn't there
Deliver me into my fate
If I'm alone I cannot hate
I don't deserve to have you
Ooh my smile was taken long ago
If I can change I hope I never know
[Verse 2]
I still press your letters to my lips
And cherish them in parts of me that savor every kiss
I couldn't face a life without your light (Without your light)
But all of that was ripped apart when you refused to fight
[Chorus 2]
So save your breath, I will not hear
I think I made it very clear
You couldn't hate enough to love
Is that supposed to be enough?
I only wish you weren't my friend
Then I could hurt you in the end
I never claimed to be a saint
Ooh my own was banished long ago
It took the death of hope to let you go
[Chorus 3]
So break yourself against my stones
And spit your pity in my soul
You never needed any help
You sold me out to save yourself
And I won't listen to your shame
You ran away, you're all the same
Angels lie to keep control
Ooh my love was punished long ago
If you still care, don't ever let me know
If you still care, don't ever let me know
Trivia
- This song has been performed live by Corey Taylor as a solo musician several times.
- The track is the best selling song by Slipknot on iTunes.
External Links
To be added
Release History
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Edition | Label(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Hope Is Gone ― August 20th, 2008 • Roadrunner Records | |
|---|---|
| Standard | 1 .Execute. • 2 Gematria (The Killing Name) • 3 Sulfur • 4 Psychosocial • 5 Dead Memories • 6 Vendetta • 7 Butcher's Hook • 8 Gehenna • 9 This Cold Black • 10 Wherein Lies Continue • 11 Snuff • 12 All Hope Is Gone |
| Special | 13 Child of Burning Time • 14 Vermilion Pt. 2 (Bloodstone Mix) • 15 'Til We Die |
| Singles | |
|---|---|
| Spit It Out • Wait and Bleed • Left Behind • My Plague • Duality • Vermilion • Before I Forget • The Nameless • All Hope Is Gone • Psychosocial • Dead Memories • Sulfur • Snuff • The Negative One • The Devil In I • Custer • Killpop • Goodbye • All Out Life • Unsainted • Solway Firth • Birth of the Cruel • Nero Forte • The Chapeltown Rag • The Dying Song (Time to Sing) • Yen • Bone Church | |
| Promotional Singles | |
| Surfacing • Heretic Song • Pulse of the Maggots • Vermilion Pt. 2 • The Blister Exists • XIX • Sarcastrophe • AOV • Killpop • Skeptic | |
| Live Singles | |
| The Nameless (9.0: Live) • Surfacing (Day of the Gusano) • Before I Forget (Day of the Gusano) • Psychosocial (Day of the Gusano) | |
References
- ↑ (July 19th, 2008). Kerrang!. Retrieved March 31st, 2022.