Scissors (song)
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| Slipknot | ||
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| Studio album by Slipknot | ||
| Released | June 29, 1999 | |
| Genre | Nu Metal, Alternative metal | |
| Length | 60:21 | |
| Label | Roadrunner Records | |
| Producer(s) | Ross Robinson | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Slipknot chronology | ||
| Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat (1997)</small> | Slipknot (1999)</small> | Iowa (2001)</small>
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Scissors is a 1999 song and is the fourteenth track of the band Slipknot's self-titled album. The song was re-recorded from a live song performed by the band on Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat. In the re-recorded version, Corey Taylor increasingly gets sick as the song progresses, and at the end of the track, he vomits. The same guitar riff is used in the song, and the same, almost exact sample mixing is used in the beginning of the song which is sandpaper rubbed against a table and a percussion strike.
The song covers Corey Taylor's addiction to heroin. There is a common theme of time being a problem, that he was aware of the fact that he would die very soon if he would not get any help. There are clocks ticking at the beginning, and near the end he screams lines such as 'no time'. He is dying, is aware of this and wants to get help before this happens. He gets help through a woman who is with him during this time in his life and eventually kicking the habit. Corey has come out and said that if it wasn't for this woman he would be dead today.
Drummer of the band Joey Jordison wrote the song along with many others.
