The Heretic Anthem
Slipknot Lyrics

I'm a popstar threat and I'm not dead yet
I am a threat to the status quo and to the idea that all popstars need to die young.

Got a super dred bet with an angel drug head
I have made a deal with someone who is both a drug addict and an angel, someone who has high ideals even as they are pulled down by addiction.

Like a dead beat winner, I want to be a sinner
I feel like a failure, but I embrace that failure by wanting to be a sinner.

An idolized bang for the industry killer
I want to be both famous and destroy the industry that made me famous.

A hideous man that you don't understand
I am a complex and misunderstood person who is often judged for my appearance and actions.

Throw a suicide party and I'm guaranteed to fucking snap
I am close to breaking point and if pushed too far, could kill myself or others.

I'm supersonic, its pornoholic
I have hyperactive tendencies and I am addicted to porn.

Breakdowns, obscenities its all I want to be
All I want is to break down and be vulgar and obscene because it feels like that's what people expect of me.

If you're 555, then I'm 666 (Whats it like to be a heretic?)
I am different from the norm and embrace that difference, even relish in it.

Everybody's so infatuated
Everyone is obsessed with me.

Everybody's so completely sure of what we are
People think they know me and my band, but they don't really understand us.

Everybody defamates from miles away
People talk shit about us from a distance without really understanding who we are.

But face to face they haven't got a thing to say
When confronted and actually face to face with us, people have nothing to say.

I bleed for this and I bleed for you
I put everything into my music and into connecting with my fans.

Still you look at my face like I'm somebody new
Even though I put my heart and soul into my music, people treat me like a stranger or someone they don't fully understand.

Toy nobody wants anything I've got
I am an outsider, not accepted by the mainstream.

Which is fine because your made of Everything-I'm-not
I embrace my otherness and my difference from the mainstream.

Thirty seconds, sixteen, eight, four, lemme tell you why
I am trying to teach people something, and I will do so in a concise, powerful way.

I haven't the slightest, I'm teaching your brightest
I don't have all the answers, but I am educating those who do.

They're listening, clamoring
People are paying attention to what I am saying.

All the money in the world can't buy me
I cannot be bought or controlled, even by wealth and power.

Go ahead, lie to me
People often try to deceive me, but I see through their lies.

Tell me again how you're tortured
People often claim to be going through something difficult, but I am skeptical of their claims.

I want to know how you followed your orders so well
When people follow orders blindly, it disturbs and confuses me.

Your full of shit
I believe that many people lie about their experiences and their motives.

You had a dream, but this ain't it
Many people have a vision for their lives, but they are often derailed from that vision.