Five

Album: Burn My Eyes (1999)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Five" is a song about an incident when Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn was sexually abused at the age of 5. Flynn said that recording the song was difficult enough for him and he also said that he would never perform the song on stage.

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  • Mario Lewandowski from Switzerlandantime I hear this song, the moment the guitars and the whole instruments crush into your brain when he sings "thats why I feel it, I cant take it...", my tears are lose.
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