KoRn Song Meanings

Blind:

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.
 

Ball Tongue:

This is about a guy that they worked with for a T-shirt. He had something like a pierced tongue or a wart on his tongue and he was a dick to them.
 

Clown:

Jon says, "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 that 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.)
 

Divine:

Some guy trying to take a girl away from Jon and he was pissed off so he wrote this song.
 

Faget:

Jon says, "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.)
 

Shoots and Ladders:

Jon says, "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."
 

Helmet In The Bush:

Jon says, "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.
 

Daddy:

Jon says, "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.)
 
 
 

Life is Peachy

 

 

Chi:

Jon says, "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."
 

Swallow:

Jon says, "That's about being paranoid. Drug-induced paranoia."
 

Lost:

Jon says, "It's the sterotypical thing about your best friend meeting a chick, and then you're nothing."
 

Good God:

Jon says, "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."
 

Mr. Rogers:

Jon says, "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."
 

K@#0%!:

Jon says, "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."
 

Wicked:

This song's by Ice Cube from his album "Predator". It's sung by Chino from the Deftones.
 

A.D.I.D.A.S.:

Jon says, "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."
 

Ass Itch:

Jon says, "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."
 

Kill You:

Jon says, "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."