Vermilion - Slipknot

Slipknot – Vermilion [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Title Vermilion
Artist Slipknot
Album Vol 3: (The Subliminal Verses) (2004) | Track 8
9.0: Live (2005) | Track 7
Genre Alternative Metal

She seems dressed in all the rings
Of past fatalities
So fragile yet so devious
She continues to see
Climatic hands that press
Her temples and my chest
Enter the night that she came home (Forever)

Oh (She’s the only one that makes me sad)

She is everything and more
The solemn hypnotic
My Dahlia bathed in possession
She is home to me
I get nervous, perverse
When I see her, it’s worse
But the stress is astounding
It’s now or never
She’s coming home (Forever)

Oh (She’s the only one who makes me sad)

Hard to say what caught my attention
Fixed and crazy
Aphid attraction
Carve my name in my face
To recognise
Such a pheromone cult
To terrorize
I won’t let this build up inside of me
I won’t let this build up inside of me
I won’t let this build up inside of me
I won’t let this build up inside of me

Yeah!

Oh, I’m a slave and
I am a master
No restraints and
Unchecked collectors
I exist through my need
To self-oblige
She is something in me
That I despise
I won’t let this build up inside of me
I won’t let this build up inside of me
I won’t let this build up inside of me
I won’t let this build up inside of me
I won’t let this build up inside of me
I won’t let this build up inside of me
I won’t let this build up inside of me
I won’t let this build up inside of me

She isn’t real!
I can’t make her real!

She isn’t real!
I can’t make her real!

(She isn’t real, I can’t make her real)
(She isn’t real, I can’t make her real)

“Vermilion” is a song by American metal band Slipknot. The song is released as the second single from their third album, Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses).

When the band plays the song live, they switch from their ordinary masks and wear their alternative “death masks”, which is an actual cast of each member’s face. However, during the All Hope Is Gone tour, most members, with the exception of bassist Paul Gray, Craig Jones, and Sid Wilson did not wear the death masks for the song.