Gently (Iowa Version) Lyrics
A pleasure that will take my mind apart of the reality of my life..
My past life..
Life as I know it know!
to somewhere in the back of my mind.
It will remain there until I wish to retrieve it!
A break from the pressures of life
and everything that lay in the palm of life's hands
ohh, life's hands!
It's out of this world,
Too bad I must always leave it.
But that's life
Yes! (x3)

i personally like this version better, dunno why

probally cuz its corey singing and not anders. corey has a better voice.

this song was actually written by anders. it is about escaping to the "umbra" a special place when u remeber the past and everything is perfect

Gently, my mind escapes to a relaxing world of pleasure. ;)
I think this song was totally great. They were able to start off slow and relaxing and end up releasing anger and screaming, beautiful.

Masturbation? Interesting. I like this version better, although i also prefer Corey's voice over Anders. Great song. When Anders wrote it he wrote about an escape to the spirit world, or the Umbra. Although Corey could have a different meaning behind it, which is probably why he decided to remake it.

I love this song, I like how it starts so slow and the pace increases, but the sound is so dark... it's wicked!

It's pretty much certain at this point that Gently was originally written about a place in the role-playing game Werewolf: the Apocalypse, but what I really like about the song is how it's not so much about that specific place, but rather about the state of escape that a person can achieve...
It could be anything. Drugs... masturbation... the Umbra... or the role-playing game itself. But it's an escape from the shitty world we live in... which also ties into Iowa's (the entire album) theme of hating society and wanting to be separate from it.
What I find interesting is that while the lyrics are rather laid-back, the song actually gets louder, more intense, and more violent as it goes along. This leads me to believe that to Slipknot, the "world of pleasure" in the song has come to refer to playing their music, where they can ignore the rest of the world and just let it all go.

i think its basicly about anything that gets you're mind off all the crap thats going on in you're life... like my guitar... when im playing my guitar ... my mind is not thinking about my shitty marks in school .... then after im done playing im like "Oh Shit exams are coming!!!"

I agree, it is probably about anything that you love the most.

sorry i like this better than the mfkr one too