This song's about when Jon got high all the time and couldn't find his way back to reality. "Dig throught the gray that clouds my mind", is talking about the smoke that was around him.
This is about a guy that they worked with for a T-shirt Store. He had something like a pierced tongue or a wart on his tongue and he was a dick to them.
"We were playing a show in San Diego and this skinhead guy came up and said, 'Fuck you! Go back to Bakersfield!' I didn't understand what he said, and I bent down and he tried to swing at me. Our road manager Jeff knocked his ass out. So that song is 'Clown'..." (Also...the guy that swung at him had a knife so Jon got scars on his back.)
Some guy trying to take a girl away from Jon and he was pissed off so he wrote this song.
"Everyone thinks I'm bashing gay people in this song, and I'm not. It's really about me going through high school being called 'pussy', 'queer', and all that stuff, about getting picked on by all these jocks." (The HIV tattoo is really a "fuck you" to all the people who made fun of him.)
"It was written because all these little kids sing these nursery rhymes and they don't know what they originally meant. Everyone is so happy when singing but 'London Bridge' is about the Black Plague. All of them have these evil stories behind them." "The lyrics are all from nursery rhymes, and a lot of nursery rhymes go back to the Middle Ages. They're actually pretty twisted if you know the stories behind them, like about Black Death and stuff."
"It's about a speed problem that I had. You know, you do a lot of speed and if you're a male your penis retracts severely." When he says: 'Please God let me sleep tonight.' it's because Jon had trouble sleeping since that's what it does to you. The guy in the beginning of the song is a friend of KoRn's, Caco. His real name is Michael and likes Taco Bell. He's a really nice guy and he has been friends with the band for years.
"People think Daddy was written because my dad fucked me up the ass, but that's not what the song's about. It wasn't about my dad or my mom. When I was a kid I was being abused by someone else and I went to my parents and told them about it. They thought I was lying and joking around, so they never did shit about it. They didn't belive it was happening to their son. I don't like to talk about that song, this is the most I've ever talked about it." (Jon's neighbor was the one who abused him.)
"Chi is about a lot of alcohol and drug abuse; people turn to that when they have problems so that they won't have to feel their pain." The song is actually named after Chi Cheng from the Deftones. Jon says, "We named it after him because he used to call it reggae, and he loves reggae music."
It's the sterotypical thing about your best friend meeting a chick, and then you're nothing."
"That's about being paranoid. Drug-induced paranoia."
"It's about a guy I knew in school who I thought was my friend, but who fucked me. He came into my life with nothing, hung out at my house, lived off me, and made me do shit I didn't really wanna do. I was into new romantic music and he was a mod, and he'd tell me if I didn't dress like a mod he wouldn't be my friend anymore. Whenever I had plans to go on a date with a chick he'd sabotage it, because he didn't have a date or nothing. He was a gutless fucking nothing. I haven't talked to him for years.".
Back in the day when I was a speed freak, um... even further back when I was a little kid watchin' Mr. Rogers, that shit was scary. He was a freaky old man... Land of Makebelieve and Mr. FuckinMcFeely and shit... made me sick. So back when I was doing speed, like for 5 or 6 days I'd be trippin out and my brain would start to get freaky and get schizophrenic and stuff, and I'd tape it and watch it everyday over and over... I don't know, I was sick in the head. As a kid he told me to be polite and all it did was get me picked on. I fucking hate that man. Thanks for making me polite and trusting everyone, and easy to take advantage of. So I spent 3 months on that one song, just tweakin' on it, and it was totally just my Mr. Rogers obsession, about how evil I thought he was. Pretty much drug induced."
"People think it's sexist but it isn't. It's more subconcious bitching at all the women who've been with me in my life. It's not about women in general, just those women who hurt me. Initially, we wrote it to send to American radio for a joke, because they always chop up all the other songs. So we were going to send a 'real' single seven days later."
This song's by Ice Cube from his album "Predator". It's sung by Chino from the Deftones.
"It stands for all day I dream about sex. It's about how much of a pervert my ass is, and how I daydream about what a stud I am. But when it comes down to it, I'm a fucking pussy and I'm in there jacking off."
"That was the last song I wrote, and I was so burned at writing out lyrics because everytime I write I get depressed because I start thinking about things, you know? So the whole song is about that. In the chorus it says, 'Before day, my sun will be dying'. It's because I put myself on the line all the time and for what? Because people aren't going to be listening to it anyway."
"It's about a relative I first met when I was 12. I fucking hate that bitch. She's the most evil, fucked up person I've met in my whole life. She hated my guts. She did everything she could to make my life hell. Like, when I was sick she'd feed me tea with Tabasco, which is really hot pepper oil. She'd make me drink it and say, 'You have to burn that cold out, boy'. Fucked up shit like that. So every night when I'd go to sleep, I'd dream of killing that bitch. In some sick way I had a sexual fantasy about her, and I don't know what that stems from or why, but I always dreamt about fucking her and killing her."
"It's On" is my shit peer pressure song. Me being so stressed out going out and partying. Everybody's just going 'Come on dude, it's on.' That's partying, it's alcohol, cocaine, women. All that wrapped into one. I wrote a song about it. And the chorus I talked about Why am I really doing this? It's all my fault that I'm doing this because all the alcohol, the booze and the chicks do is just make it worse. They just rearrange all the problems in a different order that I can't deal with at that moment."
Similar lyrically to No Place to Hide, about how Jon's friends treat him differently now. Jon says: " It's about me being paraded around in front of everybody, and also about my hatred of life."
"That's a song baggin' on myself. How everything's always handed to me. How I look up to God and don't want this anymore. Like I want something more out of life than all this. And I've got everything I really need but I sometimes don't like. I don't know how to explain it. I have to let it sit through the songs more to actually get into what I write. I truly know, really, the meanings of the songs almost. That's what I'm getting out of it right now."
"That was the song about my parents trying to keep me out of the music business. My father was in it and he knew how it was and I totally understand now that I have a son. I want Nathan to be a musician but I don't want him to go through the hell I went through. That's the same thing my Dad was doing. A lot of people can relate to it, because it's like the Dad's wanting their songs to be football players and their sons want to be doctors or something. That peer pressure its like trying to make them something they're really not. And the Dead Bodies thing is like so I did it and all I got out of it was dead bodies everywhere and got all traumatized. Thanks a lot Dad, Mom."
Collaboration with Ice Cube. Jon says this about 'Children of the KoRn': "People are gonna fucking shit themselves when they hear this. It's just so bad-ass. It is about how parents hate me for doing what I do. It's saying 'Chill out and let me do my shit!' It's like old school hip-hop with breakbeats and '80s new wave guitars. A whole big clusterfuck, with all these things going on. But we're not duelling at each other, like I do with Fred Durst on 'All In The Family' - I do a verse, then Ice Cube does one. There's no real chorus. It's weird!"
"It's a story about this little girl that came into the coroner's office when I was working there and she was fucked by her dad. She was an 11 month old little baby girl. Her legs were broken back behind her and he just fucked her like a toy doll and chucked her in the bathroom. It was the most heinous thing I've ever seen in my life and I still have nightmares about it."
"That was really fun to do. Me and Fred were just roasting each other saying the shit we always wanted to say."
This one is about the whole band and about all my life being called a homosexual. And then I became this big rock star in a band and I'm still called a fag even by my own band. So it's like I was fuckin' pissed off at them. It's like erase them all because I'm gonna reclaim my place and say hey, they owe a lot to me for what I did, and I owe a lot to them back. But, it still kinda sucks. I've never ever gotten away from that fag fuckin' title. Just because I'm a sensitive kinda guy. Kinda feminine it really sucks."
It was the first song written for the album. The song is about a 16 year old boy with colon cancer, and his dream was to meet KoRn. It came true with the Make A Wish Foundation. "It was like... would your last wish be to meet us? We're just a band. I know we have impact on people's lives, but that was just so heavy to me. So we wrote a song about it. We call him in the hospital. He's always so drugged up, and he goes, 'Oh my god!! You Guys are callin me!' It's really cool, but... it's really heavy.
"Seed. That's all about the same thing again. I, laying in bed in my hotel room, thinking about do I really need all this stuff? All this pressure on me? Because I'm a stressed out freak. It's about Nathan, it's about every time that I look into his eyes, I see myself how I used to be, innocent and stress free. I'm kind of jealous of it. It really sucks, I used to be that way. It's like I have to work so hard at this thing in my life. I have to become a stressed out freak. I put food on the table for my child. Every time I look in his eyes, I just see myself staring right back at my ass laughing. I was like care free, innocent as a child. It's really weird and I'm really jealous of it."
"That's a love song. It's about women in general, women who hurt me. It's Tre's lyrics. He's going on about chicks and my chorus is like I'm so scared to love anyone and really let them in after I got hurt really really bad by a girl. I've let Renee in a little bit, to be honest, but I'll never be that in love ever again. That's what I'm saying, if you've loved twice, you're gonna get fucked, 'cause you usually do."
"It is a love song. Its about my fantasy of Fuck my chick and killing her. Me and her used to do this thing where she'd leave a note on my pillow -10 ways she'd like to kill me. It's like some sicko fetish. I don't know, we're weird or whatever. But she was always bitching "Why don't you write me a love song?" I'm like "Ok here i wanna fuck you and kill you."
A cover of a Cheech and Chong song with Cheech Marin making a special appearance.
