KoRn Lyric Meanings - KoRn

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. 

Balltongue 
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. 

Clown 
"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 
"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 
"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 
"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 
"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.) 

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Copyright by Jonathan Davis