This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
The bloody angle, the symmetry
Your cheap adhesive isn't holding me
My mouth is a gun I can shoot, I can show you the truth
And I don't need a reason to lie to you
No pun intended, no punishment
If I offended you, you needed it
Ideas are the bombs in your mind, a fissure in time
If you don't have a weapon you can't have mine
I can bleed if I want to bleed
I can fail if I feel the need
This face is my last confession
This life, it feels like a prison
Oh, I'm not afraid
I'm giving into grievances again
You're looking at an absolute zero
I'm not the devil but I won't be your hero
The catatonic, the sacrilege
Your primadonnas are a privilege
My god has a need to react, it's as simple as that
It's better just to settle than face the facts
I can bleed if I want to bleed
I can fail if I feel the need
This face is my last confession
This life, it feels like a prison
Oh, I'm not afraid
I'm giving into grievances again
You're looking at an absolute zero
I'm not the devil but I won't be your hero
One thing that I can't stand
Is when the minutes fight the second hand
I'll waste a lifetime's worth
Just to cling to one more day
No fucking quarter, no premiums
The world is stuck in delirium
Man is a four-letter word, it's really absurd
The hate isn't fake, it's just inferred
Oh, I'm not afraid
I'm giving into grievances again
I'm down to absolute zero
Another zealot with the weight of the fucking world
Oh, I'm not afraid
And I will let you down as I hold you in
You're looking at an absolute zero
I'm not the devil but I won't be your hero
Your cheap adhesive isn't holding me
My mouth is a gun I can shoot, I can show you the truth
And I don't need a reason to lie to you
No pun intended, no punishment
If I offended you, you needed it
Ideas are the bombs in your mind, a fissure in time
If you don't have a weapon you can't have mine
I can bleed if I want to bleed
I can fail if I feel the need
This face is my last confession
This life, it feels like a prison
Oh, I'm not afraid
I'm giving into grievances again
You're looking at an absolute zero
I'm not the devil but I won't be your hero
The catatonic, the sacrilege
Your primadonnas are a privilege
My god has a need to react, it's as simple as that
It's better just to settle than face the facts
I can bleed if I want to bleed
I can fail if I feel the need
This face is my last confession
This life, it feels like a prison
Oh, I'm not afraid
I'm giving into grievances again
You're looking at an absolute zero
I'm not the devil but I won't be your hero
One thing that I can't stand
Is when the minutes fight the second hand
I'll waste a lifetime's worth
Just to cling to one more day
No fucking quarter, no premiums
The world is stuck in delirium
Man is a four-letter word, it's really absurd
The hate isn't fake, it's just inferred
Oh, I'm not afraid
I'm giving into grievances again
I'm down to absolute zero
Another zealot with the weight of the fucking world
Oh, I'm not afraid
And I will let you down as I hold you in
You're looking at an absolute zero
I'm not the devil but I won't be your hero
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Absolute Zero Lyrics as written by James Root Corey Taylor
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I have to say that I was fully expecting this album to be a huge, steaming pile of dog shit, but I am very surprised that it's actually good. Corey actually wrote some lyrics that weren't full of cheese and sap. Which has been the case in my opinion, since the stone sour self titled album. Now that I think about it, it's amazing that I even listen to stone sour and slipknot anymore. I guess that's just the amazingness that is Corey Taylor. He can make complete shit and I'll still buy it and listen to it. As far as the meaning goes, I really don't give a shit.
well a big part of who wrote the lyrics to Slipknot died, Paul Gray........Corey Taylor is a badass musician give em that, too many girl issues with him........Love Slipknot every album is fucking amazing, Stone Sour on the other hand fucking blows because Paul Gray of Slipknot had much better lyrics
I don't think it really has anything to do with Paul at all. Vol. 3 and All Hope Is Gone had their fair share of cheesiness. Also, Corey has been the main lyric writer, Paul and Joey were the main instrumental writers.