Songfacts®:

• This darkly atmospheric funk-metal song is the most un-Slipknot track on We Are Not Your Kind. The fact that it is bereft of bottom-heavy guitars didn't bother axemen Jim Root and Mick Thomson as some might suspect. "It shows a little bit more of what this band is capable of, in the sense that we've always done moody songs, or heavy soundscapes," Root told Kerrang.
  
  He added that the track "Do Nothing/Bitchslap," from the band's 1996 demo Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat, is also close to being funk. "There's a fine line of this evolution - you don't want to lose sight of what you are," Root said, "but 'Spiders' shows that you don't always have to paint with the same color."
• Slipknot took a different approach to tracking this song in the studio. Having recorded the song's core, they continued to add elements to it while they completed the other tracks on the album. "We were looking for the moments to add to it," singer Corey Taylor explained to Loudwire: "It was almost like seasoning a stew. Too much and it doesn't work, just the right amount and its damn near perfect."
• The song's meaning is not totally clear, especially the spider metaphors in the chorus. The second verse seems to contain some personal reflection in which Taylor is urging himself to seize the moment.
  
  Your real world isn't ready to face the face behind the real me
  Time to think it over, I'm over trying to overthink
  
  The singer seems to be trying to convince himself to be less analytical and more proactive.
• The song is in a rare 7/4 tempo. Other famous uses of the 7/4 time signature in rock music include:
  
  The saxophone break in Pink Floyd's "Money".
  
  Soundgarden's "Spoonman. The grunge band frequently used odd time signatures in their songs.
  
  Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill. Mainly 7/4 tempo, the song settles into 4/4 only for the last two measures of each chorus.
  
  The intro to Radiohead's "2+2=5."