"Despise" is the fifth and final track on 1998 Demo and the nineteenth track on both the original digipak and the US reissue digipak, as well as the seventeenth track on the international reissue digipak and the twenty-fifth and final track on the 10th anniversary editions of Slipknot.
Background
The track was later reworked into "Purity".
Lyrics
[Intro]
Despise!
[Verse 1]
Maze, psychopathic daze, I create this waste
Back away from tangents, on the verge of drastic ways
Can't escape this place, I deny my face
Sweat gets in my eyes, I shout at all I despise
[Chorus]
(Ooh)
Hands on my face overbearing I can't get out
(Ooh)
Hands on my face overbearing I can't get out
[Verse 2]
Lost, run at my own cost, hearing laughter, scoffed
Searching from the rush, detached from such and such
Bleak, standing on my feet, listening, incomplete
I am not a dog, but I'm the one you dog
[Chorus]
(Ooh)
Hands on my face overbearing I can't get out
(Ooh)
Hands on my face overbearing I can't get out
[Bridge]
Never - ever - surrender - I won't allow it
Never - ever - surrender - I won't allow it
Never - ever - surrender - I won't allow it
Never - ever - surrender - despise
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
Despise, despise!
Despise, despise!
[Verse 3]
Cut me - show me - enter - I am willing and able and never any danger to myself
Knowledge in my pain, knowledge in my pain
Or was my tolerance a phase?
Empathy, out of my way
I can't die
I can't die
I can't die
I can't die
[Bridge]
Never - ever - surrender - I won't allow it
Never - ever - surrender - I won't allow it
Never - ever - surrender - I won't allow it
Never - ever - surrender - despise
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
My state of mind gets so one-sided
Despise, despise!
Despise, despise!
External Links
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| 1998 Demo ― Independent | |
|---|---|
| Standard | 1 Spit It Out • 2 Wait and Bleed • 3 Snap • 4 Interloper • 5 Despise |
| Slipknot ― June 29th, 1999 • Roadrunner Records | |
|---|---|
| Standard | 1 742617000027 • 2 (Sic) • 3 Eyeless • 4 Wait and Bleed • 5 Surfacing • 6 Spit It Out • 7 Tattered & Torn • 8 Frail Limb Nursery • 9 Purity • 10 Liberate • 11 Prosthetics • 12 No Life • 13 Diluted • 14 Only One • 15 Scissors • 16 Eeyore |
| Bonus | Me Inside • Get This • Snap • Interloper • Despise |