Go for the jugular, cut the vein
And kiss it away Kiss it away, kiss it away
Everything that brings me pain

It's not as hard to bend in the end
So let's do it again, do it again, do it again
And this feels so new...
To be infecting you.

These four walls are blistering
I watch the paint peel
But I cannot wake from this dream
Cause this is not love
This is not clean
I'll keep digging down deeper in you
Until I find what makes you scream.

I get a little aroused as it dies:
That look in your eyes, look in your eyes, look in your eyes
As I begin to get under your skin

And now I know why I do
Take it out on you, take it out on you.
Cause you always take it on the chin
That's what you get for letting me in.

These four walls are blistering
I watch the paint peel
But I cannot wake from this dream
Cause this is not love
This is not clean
I'll keep digging down deeper in you
Until I find what makes you scream.


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  • +2
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    Frustration again. Either with Limp Bizkit or a girl. Being stuck in a box/situation/trap that's holding you back from what you want to do or what makes you happy.

    IamCamon April 30, 2009   Link
  • +1
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    what no comments? why is everyone so anal about this song? :) heh.

    kingh44on August 17, 2007   Link
  • +1
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    This song is a throwback to the Limp Bizkit sound... maybe that's why :)

    gothic_hobbiton November 08, 2007   Link
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    "omfgz sxe time":D

    4wallson December 25, 2007   Link
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    I don't really think this song is about vampires at all. xD It sounds a lot like something about sex, but it could also be about a very sadistic person... Or maybe a split personality, when it comes to the part where it says: "I cannot wake from this dream." Kinda says something about that.

    CyanideSoulon January 28, 2011   Link
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    Well.\nI think that this song is about a relationship with a narcissistic person:\n\n"Go for the jugular, cut the vein\nAnd kiss it away Kiss it away, kiss it away\nEverything that brings me pain".\nThis part is the beginning of said relationship; where the love-bombing begins and the narcissistic is a "victim" of his/her past relationships and is "asking" to the new victim to save him/her and making this person feel like the abuser needs her/his and that the abuser is a nice person under the wrong circumstances.\n\n"It\'s not as hard to bend in the end\nSo let\'s do it again, do it again, do it again\nAnd this feels so new...\nTo be infecting you".\nI think this is when the cycle of violence beings. \nThe abuser dooes it again and again: the lies, the manipulation, the alienation and eveytime it happens, the abuser feels that power of being abusive to the other person and for the abused person feel like a disease.\n\n"I get a little aroused as it dies:\nThat look in your eyes, look in your eyes, look in your eyes\nAs I begin to get under your skin".\nIt says very clearly: it makes de narcissistic feel good as the other person starts to feel helpless and hopeless.\n\n"And now I know why I do\nTake it out on you, take it out on you.\nCause you always take it on the chin\nThat\'s what you get for letting me in".\nThe abuser always makes the victim bad about everything. Like walking on eggshells all the time. And the victim is always feeling guilty about everything and things that she/his is the "bad person" in the realtionship.\n\n"These four walls are blistering\nI watch the paint peel\nBut I cannot wake from this dream\nCause this is not love\nThis is not clean\nI\'ll keep digging down deeper in you\nUntil I find what makes you scream"\nThe four walls refers to the household and/or the relationship itself: it gets old, decrepit, boring, but they cannot escape from the cycle of violence their trapped in.\nThey know their not going anywhere, that they don\'t love each other nor themselves but the abuser is gonna do it until he gets bored or more probably, the victim breaks.

    alex115411on November 30, 2021   Link
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    Is this about prison sex?

    cherrygurl4531on March 31, 2008   Link
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    Um well to me most of these songs seems to be about vampires for instance just look at the first line. Also where it talks about getting deeper into the skin (vampires bite people) and how his addiction to blood is not love( for vampires it is often referenced it is like taking drugs) so it is simply implying thats it not love although he loves the way it feels. Then the four walls part is when the vampire trys to start not drinking the blood and at the end he finally reverts back to it.

    darkessenceon October 03, 2008   Link
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    It sounds more like a one night stand to me.

    tool_92on November 02, 2009   Link

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