Skin Ticket

SKIN TICKET "In my opinion, the whole song is about Coreys life living in Iowa. Zero and zero nothing but zero means Iowa= the middle of nowhere. Running and running going on forever means there is nowhere to go, and he can't get out. When he says starving for zero, I think he means that he is STRIVING for nothing, and he wants something, and feeling, but there is nowhere to get it. When he says come see my cage built in my grain, I think he means the obvious... I am stuck here, and I have nowhere to go. But when he says come see my cage -built in migraine, I think he means See me, my cage, my creation. It makes him ache and hurt. He can't think. He has lost his mental picture of himself. This place he needs to escape. He needs life, and he needs to feel, but he can't. He can't see the world through his eyes, because he is stuck in his cage. His home. And when he says keeping myself alive through your EMPATHY, I think he means that WE are keeping him alive by our understanding of his lyrics, and his life and feelings. I think this song and all the others were meant to be figured out by us. He wants us to understand him. He needs someone to understand him, because no one ever did. He is counting on us. He needs us. If there are people out there that understand what he is trying to say, I believe he escaped his cage." -slipknot-metal.com

thats a pretty good analasys of it. but i think the 'zero and zero is nohting but zero' part he is trying to say that he's nothing, in the middle of nowhere, and this amounts to nothing. the 'Minus the inside and minus the circle / Inhabit the riddle and fill in the hovel' is the part wheres hes telling us to figure it out. this song really makes me feel really close to corey. when i first listen to it, i was super tired, and i fell asleep with the headphones on, still playing skin ticket. that was when i discovered that when i fall asleep listening to crazy songs like this, it does stuff to me. when i woke up, i was fine for a while, then i just had an emotional breakdown for no reason. i felt super despressed, like there was nothing left in my life, and i kept heard corey singing 'come see my cage- built in my grain' the whole ordeal really freaked me out. but when it was over, i loved SK even more cuz a band that can write a song that controls my emotions like that and make me feel the way skin ticket does, that is an incredibly talented band.

I'm pretty sure Corey's band number is 8 not 0. I think Sid Wilson is 0, but i could be wrong about that.

i believe this song comes down to the history of the real natural being, and looks and the though of the Fruid concept of the ego, super ego and the "id", which i get from the quotes correy uses, " Inhabit the riddle and fill in the hovel " which is a direct quote to idipus rex (i think thats the spelling) but if u know about it all take it into account.

Or it could just be about the way everyone in society strive to be something but in the end they die and turn to nothing so it all comes back to a cycle of nothing (zero). which makes a bit of sense when you look at the song "left Behind".

Purity, all over again...replace "my grain" with what it sounds like on the record (my GRAVE) and you'll know what i mean

Its a cry of humanity, for people of society who are pathetic, and corey recognises himself as one of these, the last 2 lines are so powerful, keeping myself alive through your empathy!

Its a cry of humanity, for people of society who are pathetic, and corey recognises himself as one of these, the last 2 lines are so powerful, keeping myself alive through your empathy!

I agree with the latter part of KILLogS bit about it being people in general trying to be something but in the end they die and become zero with nothing accomplished apart from a wasted life. The line: "Come see my cage - built in my grain" - (the turning point) He is inviting us to see what is trapping him - his cage - and adds that it is built in 'his' grain...grain maybe symbolising the small part - his life in relevance to the world. He is trying to show us how not to be zero. A ticket from him to a higher understanding. He sees himself as too far gone to be recovered. He’s sees himself as a martyr, suffering by living a condemned life, and eventually becoming zero, while teaching us what he has learned to try and show us what matters in life - and not to waste it.

The other rather enigmatic lines, I think mean something too: Minus the inside and minus the circle Inhabit the riddle and fill in the hovel This may mean that a circle is nothing without the inside, maybe being an analogy to society - the inside being us. Then goes on to say ‘ inhabit the riddle and fill in the hovel’ - since being able to inhabit the riddle is obviously abstract maybe he is using a type of alliteration to contrast the impossible nature to what he is trying to achieve - condemning us once again to zero. I mean maybe he is saying inhabit the hovel and fill in the riddle - hinting that the way to escape zero is to go back to primitive nature - be animals once again and then, maybe you’ll see what life is really about - being able to solve the riddle. This is escaping society - linked to the circle metaphor.

Then he talks about himself being a martyr again….a saint and says: "Keeping myself alive... through your EMPATHY" This could mean that we have to keep his spirit alive - not to forget him once he is dead - so his life wouldn’t have meant ‘zero’ - his life wasn’t to waste - because he has achieved something - helped his maggots in seeing straight.

I love this song. In fact I love all of Slipknot's freaky, scary songs like this one, Gently, Prosthetics and Tattered And Torn. The band members piss me off with their incessent ranting, 'I hate the world. The world hates me. The world is shit.' But I do like some of their songs especially this one, it gives me goosebumps! :cool:

MAGGOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!