"Solway Firth" is the fourteenth and final track on the standard edition of We Are Not Your Kind, as well as the album's second single.
Background[]
- "I love this song, because it has all these different elements. It's got the ambient, airy guitars, and it's got moody drums, but it also has a thrash metal riff. I feel really lucky because I'm able to bring these other influences through that aren't really metal at all. It's important to me to write things that are obscure enough that you'd never heard anything like it before, but which have a familiarity to them. If I compose something, and then I hear people whistling it an hour later, that's a step in that direction."
- —Jim Root[1]
Song Meaning[]
The title refers to Solway Firth, a section of sea which forms part of the border between Scotland and England,[2] but may also be alluding to the "Solway Firth Spaceman" which is an image of a little girl and a "spaceman" standing in the background. The photographer swears that the spaceman wasn't there before, but according to UFO book author David Clarke in 2014, the "spaceman" is most likely Templeton's wife, Annie, who was present at the time and was seen on another photograph taken that day.[3]
Lyrics[]
[Intro]
Today, up on this hill, I'm counting all the killers
They sway as they swarm, a look of gluttons in their eyes
They mutter as the body loses warmth
They pick your bones like locks inside a tomb
And take great care to not take care of you
Here's an unexplainable one
Here's an unexplainable one
[Verse 1]
While I was learning to live, we all were living a lie
I guess you got what you wanted
So I will settle for a slaughterhouse soaked in blood and betrayal
It's always somebody else, somebody else was me
You want the real smile?
Or the one I used to practice not to feel like a failure?
[Chorus]
I don't need you to do it for me
I don't need you to understand
I don't need you to hide it from me
I just wanna feel like any other man
I won't show you the whole story
I won't show you the aftermath
I won't show you my allegory
Don't look away, here's an unexplainable one
[Post-Chorus]
Here's an unexplainable one
Here's an unexplainable one
[Verse 2]
I'm not ahead of my time, I just drew the first breath
If I'm alive tomorrow
I will alleviate the pressure by cutting you out of me
I found my bottom line dead on the front lines
I know I'll never go home
So set fire to your ships and past regrets and be free
[Chorus]
I don't need you to do it for me
I don't need you to understand
I don't need you to hide it from me
I just wanna feel like any other man
I won't show you my whole story
I won't show you the aftermath
I won't show you my allegory
Don't look away, here's an unexplainable one
[Post-Chorus]
What have you done?
What have you done?
Yeah
[Outro]
Oh, while I was learning to live, you taught me how to die
I guess I got what I wanted
Another needle in the back through purified scarification
It wasn't somebody else, you fucking did it to me
You want a real smile?
I haven't smiled in years
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| We Are Not Your Kind ― August 9th, 2019 • Roadrunner Records | |
|---|---|
| Standard | 1 Insert Coin • 2 Unsainted • 3 Birth of the Cruel • 4 Death Because of Death • 5 Nero Forte • 6 Critical Darling • 7 A Liar's Funeral • 8 Red Flag • 9 What's Next • 10 Spiders • 11 Orphan • 12 My Pain • 13 Not Long for This World • 14 Solway Firth |
| Japanese | 15 All Out Life |
| 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[]
- ↑ Carter, Emily (August 9th, 2021). Slipknot: Jim Root's track-by-track guide to We Are Not Your Kind. Kerrang. Retrieved December 27th, 2021.
- ↑ Rees, Adam (July 22nd, 2019). The first reaction to Slipknot's new single Solway Firth. Metal Hammer. Retrieved April 24th, 2022.
- ↑ Armstrong, Simon (May 23rd, 2014). The Mystery of the Solway Spaceman. BBC News. Retrieved April 24th, 2022.