Surfacing

For other uses of "Surfacing", see Surfacing (disambiguation).

"Surfacing"

General Information

Artist

Slipknot

Release Date

June 29th, 1999 (album)
2000 (single)

Recorded

September 29th – November 11th, 1998

Genre

Nu Metal

Length

3:38

3:39 (rough mix)
3:45 (live; promo single)
3:46 (live; "Spit It Out" single)
4:11 (live; Welcome to Our Neighborhood)
5:10 (live; "Left Behind" single)

Mixer(s)

Joey Jordison, Ross Robinson, Chuck Johnson

Album(s)

Slipknot

Slipknot Chronology

← Previous	Next →
"Wait and Bleed"	"Spit It Out"

Promo Singles Chronology

← Previous	Next →
-	"Heretic Song"

Music Video

"Surfacing" is the fifth track on Slipknot, as well as the album's only promotional single.

Background

To be added

Track Listing

US Promo Single
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Surfacing" (Live)	3:57
2.	"Wait and Bleed" (Live)	2:45
Total length:		6:42

French Promo Single
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Surfacing" (Live)	3:45

Lyrics

[Intro]
Fuck you all!

[Verse 1]
Running out of ways to run
I can't see, I can't be
Over and over and under my skin
All this attention is doing me in

[Chorus]
Fuck it all, fuck this world!
Fuck everything that you stand for!
Don't belong, don't exist!
Don't give a shit, don't ever judge me!

[Verse 2]
Picking through the parts exposed
Taking shape, taking shag
Over and over and under my skin
All this momentum is doing me in

[Chorus]
Fuck it all, fuck this world!
Fuck everything that you stand for!
Don't belong, don't exist!
Don't give a shit, don't ever judge me!
And don't you fucking judge me!
Burn!

[Bridge]
You got all my love, living in your own hate
Dripping hole man, hard step, no fate
Show you nothing, but I ain't holding back
Every damn word I say is a sneak attack
When I get my hands on you
Ain't a fucking thing you can do
Get this 'cause you're never gonna get me
I am the very disease you pretend to be
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move

[Chorus]
Fuck it all, fuck this world!
Fuck everything that you stand for!
Don't belong, don't exist!
Don't give a shit, don't ever judge me!
Fuck it all, fuck this world!
Fuck everything that you stand for!
Don't belong, don't exist!
Don't give a shit, don't ever judge me!
Burn!

Trivia

"Surfacing" was once in consideration to be the second single from the album, but "Spit It Out" was chosen instead.
- The track later became the album's only promotional single.

External Links

Navigation

Slipknot ― June 29th, 1999 • Roadrunner Records
Standard	1 742617000027 • 2 (Sic) • 3 Eyeless • 4 Wait and Bleed • 5 Surfacing • 6 Spit It Out • 7 Tattered & Torn • 8 Frail Limb Nursery • 9 Purity • 10 Liberate • 11 Prosthetics • 12 No Life • 13 Diluted • 14 Only One • 15 Scissors • 16 Eeyore
Bonus	Me Inside • Get This • Snap • Interloper • Despise

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)