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• Josh from Champaign, Il"It" is the same thing as "That" in I Would Do Anything for Love by Meatloaf.
• Didacticinclinations from East Palestine, OhAll seeing eye, him singing with one eye visible in shadows, this is an allusion to the eye of Horus. Lighting represents Satan as in "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven." In the Nazi SS logos this was the double lightning bolt with it's other meaning.
  
  "IT" is unspeakable because normal people would never accept IT. What is it? Magic, tragic, loss, win? For the people consuming the adrenochrome from the bleeding kid it's a win and feels magic. For the kid it's tragic and a loss, obviously.
  
  You want it all but you can't have it? The composer doesn't want to share IT. MGMT sang and made a video about IT. "Kids." About scaring children. "Control yourself, take only what you need from it."
  
  The best disguise for evil is to make it so egregious that normal people think it's impossible
• Lady from Somewherei think this song might be about "it"
• Luna Loud from Royal Woods, MichiganThis song is...well, EPIC! Ha! I'm pretty sure I believe Mike when he says it's about spankin' his monkey, he totally seems like the kind of dude who WOULD do that a lot! (No offense to him, he's awesome). And I'm 99% sure it's not about any kind of drug, Patton never did drugs, well he's addicted to caffeine which is technically a drug but you can't really trip on that stuff otherwise I'm a junkie as well.
  
  Well, that's all I got to say, PEACE OUT!
• Dan Gillespy. from Courtenay Bc.A perfect timeless far out rap metal classic that happens to be so priceless.
• Luke from Manchester, UkThe song doesn't have an object in mind, "it's IT - what is IT?"
• Jessier from Heavens Gate I think it is about faith. Your faith in anything.. religion to the stock market. What is your faith? Almost asking.. your faith.. what is it? What is it to you? Having faith in something is universally what makes humans different from other animals. It can be good or bad.. it could be something someone does in blind faith for a person or religion.
• Heather from 34695I love how everyone's debating it even though the actual artist has said its about sex, or the lack of it. Its certainly not about the death of christianity. Nobody misses that.
  
  But I'll accept the ice cream sandwich premise without question as well.
• Tiffany from DenverMasturbation . That is what it is about.
• Stela Maplrs from TxThis song is about rape. Date rate. Or insestuious rape. It is sick while the song is great. It grabs you. It keeps you and you love it. And you hate it. It's. It.
• Alexander James from Long Island Ny E P I C... Eating P--sy Is Cool
• Keeper Of Knowledge from Santa Cruz Ever heard the phrase “Where’s IT all at?”...welp that is what this song is actually about. It’s a song about someone who has been cut off or for some reason is unable to obtain their DOC even though it’s all around and it’s still not able to be procured by the one who asked the location of “IT”.
• D Yellowmadness from Moved Away After The 4th Grade"It's alive, afraid, bleeding on the floor so you lie down on it & do it some more."- A song that isn't about rape
• Chris from SomewhereAre you kidding, it's all about IT! Nothing more, just IT!
• Grant from Beatrice, NeI am all but certain that it's about an ice cream sandwich.
  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/its-it-ice-cream-sandwiches_n_3461478.html
• Zero from Nowhere, NjBy the way, does anyone know where I could find "We Care A Lot" album for a reasonable price? I have all FNM albums except for that one and it's really hard to come across, does anybody know where could get it for under $40? (I'll probably have to get the cassete or vinyl, or maybe download it.)
• Zero from Nowhere, NjGuitarist "Big Jim" Martin is wearing a Cliff Burton (Metallica Bassist) R.I.P. Tribute shirt in the video. For those that don't know Burton was killed in a tour bus accident in 1986 while Metallica was touring Sweden. Metallica frontman James Hetfield I think was in a band with Martin before Metallica was formed.
• Michael from Maryville, TnThis goes way over peoples head, kids think it's just sex and sex... The rain, the all seeing eye in the hand throwing out blood, the fish that stands for christianity; it is dying. The electricity which stands for power which is throughout the whole video. It all means something it's not just thrown in the video for no reason. It is Power
• Dan from Melbourne, AustraliaIts about b--wjobs. "Its in your face but you cant grab it." Cmon, so obv.
• Harbinger from Ny, NyT T, From Texas. I offer the question he asks you the listener - this song is epic."Can you feel it ,see it, hear it today? and now I give you his answer. Its a rhetorical question. He doesn't care about what you think, He knows (something) and he's trying to tell you the best he can. "IT's It." IT is what it is.
  
  His answer: "If you can't, then it doesn't matter anyway."
  You will never understand it 'cause it happens too fast"
• Harbinger from Ny, NyOh, for further 'Proof'. I offer the phrase:
  
  'Ahyeh-asher-ahyeh'
• Harbinger from Ny, NyThe blood gushing forth from the hand, that thing we cannot grasp that thing we cannot name.
  
  And in ignorance, with our own hand, in our names do we shed blood.
• Harbinger from Ny, Ny... In Our Image are We Made by Him.
  
  In our Face, lies Him.
  
  Everywhere you look, there IT is.
  You will never grasp it.
  Some may never understand, they dont' want to.
  
  As the song says.
• Harbinger from Ny, NyI percieve as Chris in regards to life, and extend it a bit further into the 'metaphysical' realms. Take for example the depiction of the hand, with the eye in the center.
  
  The "lightning" touching everything they're doing, yes one could conjecture "conducting electricity", Drum heads aren't conductors.
  
  It's that "Thing", that "It" that encompasses everything in Life, the Lawbringer, He who brought forth Life, from Chaos.
  
  God, in our Image are we made. In Our face, we see God, it is out image we elevate. In our own eyes we reign superior. We can't help it, and becaue of our nature we inflict these wounds.
  
  These wounds that do not heal, they bleed eternal, and there you lie on the floor.
  
  Weeping like a child.
  
  IT, Is God.
• T T from Houston, Txthe song is about pu$$y plain and simple since when has masturbation been "moist" or "bled" ? ( if so somethings wrong go to the doctor a.s.a.p.)thick about it " you want it all bu you can have it, it's in your face but you cant grab it" if you were to go to a strip club what part of the woman would be in your face if you were sitting by the stage? A stripper was dancing to the song one night and that's when it hit me and my cousin what "it" was in the song lol
  and the fish flopping around on the floor at the end of the video that jux seals the deal for me lol
• Dane from Lima,ohio, FlThis song was way ahead of its time.Now every other group sounds like this.But wat back in '89,nobody sounded like this.I never understood what it means.I sang the heck outta this song on Rock Band a while back.
• Pedro from Rio De Janeiro, BrazilI think the song is about a couple "having fun" in a situation where they could not have sex, like a guy and some very religious girl who does not want to lose her virginity ("You want it all but you can't have it") and after all she regrets of doing that ("It's sad it happened and it's a shame"). I may be tripping, but for sure the song has something to do with masturbation or sex.
  
• Cage Mckinsey from Sammamish, WaThis song is about masturbation. If you listen closly to the song, at about the 4 minute 20 second mark, you will hear the sound of pants being zipped up. During the solo, Patton performes ambient moans. All of this he brought to Faith No More from his prior band Mr Bungle. If you know anything about Patton you will know that this song is about masturbation...its fairly obvious.
• James from Morton, IlDave was right. Chronic masturbator (self-professed) Mike Patton has written countless songs about chronic masturbation. In 1990, he gave an interview in Spin magazine that was practically one long spiel about masturbation.
  
  And Shawn, if "none of FNM's lyrics ever dealt with masturbation," please explain "Jizzlobber" to me. haha
• Hunter from South West, MiDave is partially right i believe there is much symbolism in the fish and the exploding piano at the end. That might refer to sex, masturbation, or AID
• Rahul from Chennai, Indiaexactly...i go with matt...... this song is a bloody riddle and the answer is nothing....simple...lol..... they've jus named it 'epic' to mislead us...anyway gr8 song... love it...
• Ricardo from San Luís Potosí, MexicoI, personally, go for IT meant as success. Something fixed as a goal-to the point of obssesion-without any further consideration or sense of reality.
  When we were young, we took many chances foolhardy because we could do it, regardless of consequences or processes. The song represents that kind of situation.
• Greg from Napa, CaI think it's the epic story of a young couple having sex for the first time; the girl losing her virginity. Different verses are given from the male and female point of view.
• Cr4sh0verr1deh4xx0rz from New York, NyI have heard it stands for
  Eating
  P***y
  is
  cool
• Carl from Stratford, United KingdomOn 4th July 1989, I asked Mike what this song was about. He replied "It's all about a c--t"
• Matt from Wichita, KsMaybe the "it" is the meaning of the song. Think about it... "You want it all but you can't have it": You want to know what the song means but "we" won't tell you. "What is it? It's it": What does the song mean? It means what it means (again, "we won't tell you"). The first two lines: Can you figure out the song? If you can't, maybe it's meaningless. Very meta-lyrical.
• Ricardo from Porto, PortugalThey said that's not Bjork's fish... They found it at a bowlfish and put it into the video...
  After the shooting they bring it to water...
• Brian from Philly, Payes everyone dave had it correct. ding ding ding, chronic masterbation is our winner.
• Matt from Latham, NyIdiots. You're all idiots. The entire song is a riddle. The answer is nothing in a literal sense. Read the lyrics and after each line, thing that the answer is nothing. "You want it all but you cant have it, its in your face but you cant grab it" Nothing.
• Vicky from Melbourne, AustraliaThe Real Thing is my favourite album ever released. Mike Patton was the first poster on my wall, I love his voice.
  And where is The Perfect Crime on this website? It's the coolest Faith No More song.....
• Hailie from Sydney, AustraliaI love this song!!! Mike Patton is gorgeous n his voice is so right for FNM!!!! There d bomb!
• Max from Laconia, NhThe drummer is one of the few white guys who has dreads. That is so uber cool!
• Wade from Sydney, AustraliaClasssic song!!! Hot Band... What more can i say?
• Vincient Black from Eureka, CaBoth times I've seen FnoM Live, Patton sings the words "so you can f**k it some more" in addition to the usual lyrics. Take that for what you will. Just putting "it" out there, y'know?
• Pete from Detroit, Mii think it could be drugs "You Want It All But you Can't have it" saying it is illegal and you want drugs. "You can touch it, smell it, taste it so sweet But it makes no difference cause it knocks you off your feet" referance to overdose. There are other referances to drugs. But it could just be surreal and have no meaning such as the video it is just random.
  
• Tom from Anglesey, Uk, WalesIt's not a goldfish, why would Bjork want a normal fish?
• Luke from Manchester, EnglandThis song is about the very thing you are not looking for, it's not about rape, about drugs about your stupid pathetic little pedantic lives... This song is about...
  
  
  
  ...Absolutely nothing It is a song... With 4 letters in the title, and it starts... With an 'E' - not the drug
• Renee from South Lyon, Miyes i certainly agree with the idea that this song represetns the struggle to be epic or find something "epic" or extravagant in one's life, but that it is worth the struggle. About the uncertainty of life, Like what Chris in KY said. I believe it can be directly related to the groups name, "faith no more", as they struggled through ideas and them becoming no so ideal. and the whole rape masturbation thing is totally absurb, you kids sound like blubbering idiots.
• Jeff from La Pine, Ori dont know all of the lyrics i just heard it on the radio once and thought it sounded cool i give faith no more props for putting that many styles of music in one song and pulling it off
• J from Nyc, NyAlthough, I think I remember a song on this album that is about rape and the victim enjoys the experience, or becomes infatiauted with the victimizer, "Morning After", maybe.
• J from Nyc, NyI remember when this song first came out, I loved it then, I still love it. I'm a huge FNM & Bungle fan and I'll admit, I never knew what this song was about; however, actually reading the lyrics closely and looking at all your comments, I disagree with the masturbation and rape theories and think Lime from Austraila hit it right on the head. It's no secret that pornography is littered through Patton's work, esepcially his earlier stuff, FNM, Bungle, etc., but not this time. "It" is anything, whatever is "epic" to you. So, you people all reading into masturbation, rape, sex, etc., that says more about you than it does about Patton or this song.
• Valerie from Brooklyn , Nypatton once said that these lyrics were about masturbation...but it sounds more like rape
• Mike from Chicago, IlSomeone told me while they heard me listing to FNM in Afghanistan that he heard that the song was about trying to suck yourself off. It made sense when you think about the lyric "It's in your face but you can't grab it."
• Jason from Daphne, AlI was once told that Epic was an anagram for "Eating P**sy Is Cool." And if you listen to it, it kind of makes sense, most notably "You want it all, but you can't have it/It's in your face, but you can't grab it." So that's what I've always believed.
• Marlow from Perth, Australiafirst hit for FTN in australia
• Artty from Melbourne, AustraliaI was told many years ago, I think it was in '92 that the song was about rape. I was shocked and felt weird about singing it and didn't want to believe what I'd been told, but it does seem to be about such a crime. The lyrics certainly appear too mean this.
• Lyzette from Moorpark, CaFaith No More wrote this song so it could apply to anyone. "It" could be anything that would apply to the lyrics.
• Todd from San Antonio, TxEpic is an allusion to sex. sex is something in which no one can ever actually "own" and comes alongside many, many variables. it can make you feel good or like complete hell depending upon the circumstances. this is why the song explores the wretch and the wonder of sex by the means of using descriptive words in which jump from one extreme to another.
  "it's magic"
  "it's tragic"
  "it's a loss"
  "it's a win"
  doubt me? this song has been in my collection as well as my head since 89'. it's application to sex makes absolute sense. think about it.
• Jake from Sydney, Australiai don't think this track is about masterbation, but another faith no more track does refer to masterbation, "be aggressive". top stuff FNM are.
• Lime from Perth, AustraliaYou people have no idea. Epic is about the state of being 'epic' its so simple. 'it' it IT(epic)! something being so out of this world that it gives you the shivers, i.e a song! The song is explaining the consept of something being epic.
• Martyn Cohen Burns from Banbridge, IrelandFNM's lyrics are quite abstract and tosay their lyrics never delt with masturbation is untrue.....its what "jizzlober" is all about!
• Nickc from Ft. Wayne, InI love this song lyrically! Not to oversimplify, but "it" = "it," i.e. the latest and coolest thing, whatever it is. The answer to your question, whatever you may be asking. The song addresses the philosophical side of materialism and the drive for always getting the next best. It could be mastubration, drugs, a new car, new clothes, a catchy slang phrase . . .
  
  What is it? It's it.
• Eoon from Brisbane, AustraliaI always say it is about the other side - you know, the diminsion you're in when tripping. When there's that moment of complete oneness with everything but then it goes on to elude you. And of course 'it feels so good it's like walking the glass'... come on man - that's doing charlie for sure!
• Chris from Monticello, KyPersonally, I always thought the song was about life in general. "It's It!" referring to life is it. And the response "What is it?" referring to what is life. The line "in your face but you can;t grasp it". Also makes me think this song is about life. Control of your life is right in front of you, but you cannot grasp it. I am probably wrong but that is how I understood it.
• Shawn from Detroit, MiMasturbation? What? Alude? More like dillusional.None of FNM's lyrics ever delt with masturbation.
• Dave from Wellington, New ZealandThe song, as un-interesting as it may sound, is about chronic masturbation, as the video and lyrics alude to but never say.

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