I am walking through your streets
I am looking in your windows
I am elemental now, you'll never even know I'm there
I am watching over you, I am living in the shadows
I am just a word to you, but I am very real and cold
Cold to all of this
Cold to how you feel
Cold to all your lucid reason

I AM EVERYTHING I AM ANYTHING I AM AUTOMATIC
I AM YESTERDAY I AM EVERYDAY I AM GONNA BE

I am all there is to know, I am all that you've forgotten
I am enigmatic now, you never even knew my name
I am dressed in tragedy, I am by design immortal
I am just the last one left, but I am always here and old
Old and very strong
Old as all you feel
Old as all the world around you

I AM EVERYTHING I AM ANYTHING I AM AUTOMATIC
I AM YESTERDAY I AM EVERYDAY I AM GONNA BE
REBORN

I am just a secret now, I am just a vague illusion
I'm a lie you tell yourself that you never truly did believe
I'm a whisper in the dark, I'm a victim and the killer
I am almost ready now, but you insist I don't exist
That I don't exist- that I don't exist, that I don't EXIST

I AM EVERYTHING I AM ANYTHING I AM AUTOMATIC
I AM YESTERDAY I AM EVERYDAY I AM GONNA BE
REBORN


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    I meant to post a video but it seems songmeanings doesn't like it... so heres a link youtube.com/watch

    SleepySamon May 07, 2006   Link
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    i agree with pakana sielu. reborn could be the aftermath of vermilion. as corey quoted, "vermilion is the anticipation and the build-up. pt.2 is the guilt of having lived through it" i guess you could say reborn is picking up the pieces of pt.2 and realizing that life goes on

    TAW_BobDoleon August 04, 2006   Link
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    As I see it, even thought it's taking the easy way out, Corey's talking about God. I don't know where Corey stands on contangibles, but as a non believer, this looks like a semi-sarcastic look at God.

    Lurxieon April 30, 2007   Link
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    I think his not refering God but his somehow using the idea of an entity as a metaphorical way of expresing something, but I have no idea about what in the hell is this

    NüManon September 16, 2007   Link
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    this song is about vampires.. how cant u see this? its pretty damn obvious.

    justphon March 12, 2011   Link
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    When i listen to this song i think its about God or Jesus, "im elemental, you'll never know im there" "i am watching over you..I am just a word to you" " cold to how you feel, cold to all your loose reason" I am everything i am anything, i mean come guys, it could mean alot of things, but i really wish corey would make an acct on here and really answer these questions for us...let us know if were really getting his meaning or if were just making the song interpret what we want it to mean.

    dvlsdaughter88on March 29, 2011   Link
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    Could be about Jesus... Could be about himself...

    "Old and very strong Old as all you feel Old as all the world around you" Could be very religious... Or it could be a metaphor of how touring has changed him into feeling older than he is... But it doesn't mean he's gonna retire. He's gonna keep rocking until he can't stop. No one really believed that he would make it in music. Now look at him. People tried to say "Nope. He doesn't exist at all. He's a black sheep..." and he's saying

    "I am just a secret now I am just a vague illusion I'm a lie you tell yourself that you never truly did believe I'm a whisper in the dark I'm a victim, and the killer I am almost ready now but you insist I don't exist"

    He had been secretly planning his... 'Musical Attack' so to say. They can say he doesn't exist all they want, but that won't stop him from screaming "MOTHERFUCKER" in everyone's face... I hope you get where I'm going. The song is very distracting.

    CrypticMessageson August 24, 2010   Link
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    If you guys havn't heard this song yet...

    SleepySamon May 07, 2006   Link
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    The title is the meaning of the song. I like it a lot.

    KoRn-Klownon May 27, 2006   Link
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    This song is just awesome. To me it represents the darker side that we have inside us and that we push down and try to forget. The song is sang by that character who says tha he will be REBORN

    SourChildon June 16, 2006   Link

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