Spiders

Album: We Are Not Your Kind (2019)
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  • Well you can go it alone
    Or keep it in between
    The pages of the books you burn
    So no one gets to read
    The fingers pull your stitches tight
    But knowing someone's secret is not enough
    Everyone's a little bit a lot of the time

    The spiders come in side by side
    Two by two and night by night
    Who is food and who is thrown away?
    The spiders come in side by side
    Two by two and night by night
    Who is food and who is thrown away?

    When now is not the time
    Tomorrow disagrees
    But 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
    I've had enough, huh
    Everybody's limited to what's on their mind

    The spiders come in side by side
    Two by two and night by night
    Who is food and who is thrown away?
    The spiders come in side by side
    Two by two and night by night
    Who is food and who is thrown away?

    (Spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders)
    (Spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders)

    Make yourself a martyr's pet
    And watch them all escape (spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders)
    Make yourself at home instead (spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders)
    You'll lose your toxic waste (spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders)

    Go it alone
    Suffer for your feelings, I'm not enough (no, no, no)
    But everyone's a little bitter all of the time

    The spiders come in side by side
    Two by two and night by night
    Who is food and who is thrown away?
    The spiders come in side by side
    Two by two and night by night
    Who is food and who is thrown away?

    The spiders come in side by side
    Two by two and night by night
    Who is food and who is thrown away?
    The spiders come in side by side
    Two by two and night by night
    Who is food and who is thrown away? Writer/s: Alessandro Venturella, Corey Taylor, Craig Jones, Jay Weinberg, Jim Root, Mick Thomson, Shawn Crahan, Sid Wilson
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Addie from 11205Great song to listen to
  • Krol from TexasI think the song might be about archons....if you know what those are. In the 4th dimension, they sometimes look like spiders and they feed off of our addictions and some of the darker impulses. In fact, they encourage them..
    .well... cause that's how they eat. Especially, the lyric, "Who is food and who is thrown away." I immediately thought of archons. They are pretty much responsible for the sh-t show in the world right now...but their time is almostmoo up.
  • Jack from Bristol, UkThe song lyrics are commenting on self-doubt and judgement. People are only a small portion of their true selves, constantly eating away at their internal image like "Spiders" in order to create the version of themselves that they feel are most true to their being on the outside. This is a constant process that is difficult and requires a lot of uncomfortable self-reflection - one must resist the desire to overthink things in this state of mind lest they lose the parts of themselves that they truly wish to incorporate into their sense of self, at least for a while. I believe it has a very fundamental attachment to ones search for themselves and a belief that people are limited by their own internal struggles. The greatest battle in life is between the conscious and the unconscious self.
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