People
Slipknot Lyrics

Here we go again, motherfucker
Starting another cycle of waste, frustration and anger

Come on down, and see the idiot right here
Inviting others to insult the singer or share the same feelings of failure

Too fucked to beg and not afraid to care
Being desperate but unable to ask for help, and still showing compassion despite being mistreated

What's the matter with calamity anyway?
Questioning the reasons behind personal misfortunes and global problems

Right? Get the fuck outta my face
Dismissing any attempt to empathize or criticize, while feeling isolated and overwhelmed

Understand that I can't feel anything
Admitting emotional numbness and exhaustion, possibly due to past abuse or trauma

It isn't like I want to sift through the decay
Refusing to dwell on negativity, decay and violence, but still being surrounded by it

I feel like a wound, like I got a fuckin'
Feeling hurt, exposed and vulnerable, as if being constantly attacked or betrayed

Gun against my head, you live when I'm dead
Feeling powerless and suicidal, while blaming others for one's misery and hoping for revenge

One more time, motherfucker
Challenging one's enemies or oneself to repeat the same mistakes or suffer the consequences

Everybody hates me now, so fuck it
Concluding that everyone else is against one's interests, self-expression or survival, and giving up on trying to please them

Blood's on my face and my hands, and I
Using violence or self-harm as a way to cope with pain, anger or addiction

Don't know why, I'm not afraid to cry
Admitting vulnerability and sorrow, although it may not solve any real problems or make one feel better

But that's none of your business
Rejecting any attempt to interfere, exploit or judge one's privacy, emotions or motives

Whose life is it?
Questioning the existential ownership, purpose and meaning of one's life, and challenging others to answer

Get it? See it?
Inviting others to perceive the same nihilistic, destructive and hopeless reality as the artist

Feel it? Eat it?
Suggesting that there is no escape or alternative to the cycle of pain, suffering and exploitation, and that one must accept it or consume it

Spin it around so I can spit in its face
Turning the world and its values upside down, and rejecting them with contempt and disgust

I want to leave without a trace
Wishing to disappear, escape or die without leaving any legacy, footprint or memory

'Cause I don't want to die in this place
Fearing to die alone, forgotten or unfulfilled in a hostile or meaningless environment

It never stops, you can't be everything to everyone
Realizing that one cannot please everyone and that there will always be more demands, problems and conflicts

Contagion, I'm sittin' at the side of satan
Becoming contaminated, absorbed or corrupted by the same evil, selfish and ruthless forces that one despises or fears

What do you want from me?
Asking one's enemies, friends or oneself for a clear purpose, motivation or solution to one's problems

They never told me the failure I was meant to be
Feeling deceived, misled or abandoned by the society, the culture, the family or the self, and realizing that one's destiny is already sealed

Overdo it, don't tell me you blew it
Pushing oneself to extremes, addiction or obsession, and refusing to acknowledge any mistake or fault

Stop your bitchin' and fight your way through it
Telling oneself or others to stop complaining, whining or resisting, and start taking action, however futile, brutal or hopeless it may seem

I'm, not, like, you, i, just, fuck, up
Differentiating oneself from others, and admitting that one is imperfect, flawed or crazy, but still feeling superior or empowered in some ways

C'mon motherfucker, everybody has to die
Acknowledging the ultimate and inevitable fate of all living beings, and using death as a way to justify one's actions, beliefs or feelings

People equal shit
Reducing human beings to objects, obstacles or nuisances, and expressing the artist's misanthropy, nihilism or anger