Tattered And Torn

I made a lot of research and I think I find a little bit about this weird song... Shawn Crahan said "If you understand Tattered and Torn, then you understand the clown." Shawn was the creator of Tattered and Torn. So what I found about the Clown mask is that:

At 15 years old, Shawn was walking in a shopping center with his girl friend of this time that he was supposed to bring at the restaurant. They past in front of a prank shop where Shawn saw a clown mask that he liked. His girl friend remind it that they were there to go to a restaurant and not to buy a Stupid mask. They next week, the mask was in the room of Shawn but it’s only 10 years later that he put on the mask at a Slipknot repetition Just for fun like he said. For Shawn, his mask represents the happy way, the infantile vision of the character, but he also shows what really hide behind the mask... The classic mask past to the aggressive one with a nail in the head.

In my opinion, the song Tattered and torn is about is youth...Something bad that happen to him. The song is best understood as a song about a person hurting his or her self, and hiding from the things that make me hurt. So if we remember what he said: If you understand Tattered and Torn, then you understand the clown The clown is all about the memories that he have in his mind! The clown is Shawn’s story, his past life! But we can’t really know what happen to him...