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Scissors by Slipknot

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Slipknot

Scissors

Release date: 1989

From Slipknot
Track 14
8:25
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'Scissors' runs nearly eight and a half minutes, a sprawling descent into dissociation and self-harm. Slipknot adopts a deranged perspective throughout, the narrator detached from his own body, unable to feel despite possessing nerves. The song moves between clinical imagery and emotional collapse, the title itself referencing the opening act of self-mutilation: "I play doctor for five minutes flat / Before I cut my heart open and let the air out." The track builds through repetition and accumulation. A hypnotic loop of "biding my time until the time is right" stretches across the middle section, voices layering and fragmenting around it. By the final third, the song splinters further, competing internal voices clawing at one another, the narrator caught between wanting connection and wanting oblivion. It is a song about numbness, about the impossibility of feeling anything at all, and about the terrible clarity that can arrive when that numbness finally breaks.

"Scissors" is a track by Slipknot, from the album Slipknot, released 1989. The track is 8:25 long. It's filed under Metal. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 9 articles about Slipknot.

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Lyrics

Scissors

I play doctor for five minutes flat
Before I cut my heart open and let the air out
Three bugs, a pound of dust, some wind spilled before me
In the strangest manner that had broke away my tear spout

As I lie there with my tongue spread wide open
A black widow had offered me a sweetheart tube
As I injected the candid heart that I selected
She said don't hesitate, just do what you have to do to me

It's hard to stay between the lines of skin
Just 'cause I have nerves don't mean that I can feel
I wasn't very much fun to be with anyway
Just let the blood run red 'cause I can't feel
It's hard to stay between the lines of skin
Just 'cause I have nerves don't mean that I can feel
I wasn't very much fun to be with anyway
Just let the blood run red 'cause I can't feel

Biding my time until the time is right
Biding my time until the time is right
Biding my time until the time is right
Biding my time, it's time
Biding my time until the time is right
Biding my time until the time is right
Biding my time until the time is right
Biding my time, it's time
Biding my time until the time is right
Biding my time until the time is right
Biding my time until the time is right
Biding my time, it's time
Biding my time until the time is right
Biding my time until the time is right
Biding my time until the time is right
Biding my time, it's time
Biding, biding, biding, biding
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

Someone in behind me
Someone inside me
Everyone against me
Everyone beside me
Clawing away the pieces
Scratching away the abscess
One more, two more
Everyone, once more
One more, two more
Everyone, once more
Inside the faces that I hide from you
I want to see you splayed before me
You are the only one
That I would rather see before me
You want it, you need it
You want it, you need it
You want it, you need it
You want it, you need it
Don't lie; I die, you lie; I lie, oh, why?
I don't want you to pay anyone when I die
I wanna die, I'd rather die, I wanna die
You purge, you burn, you purge
I don't need you anymore, I don't need you

It's time, it's time, it's time, it's time
It's time, it's time, it's time, it's time
It's time, it's time, it's time, it's time

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8:251989
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1989
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Release year
1989
  1. 1742617000027
    0:36
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    3:19
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    3:57
  4. 4Wait and Bleed
    2:28

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    Writer
    Corey Taylor, Craig Jones, Joey Jordison, Mick Thomson, Paul Gray, Shawn Crahan
    Lyricist
    Corey Taylor, Joey Jordison
    Producer
    Ross Robinson
    Drums
    Joey Jordison
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    Chris Fehn, Paul Gray, Shawn Crahan
    Bass Guitar
    Paul Gray
    Lead Guitar
    Mick Thomson
    Lead Vocals
    Corey Taylor
    Mastering Engineer
    Eddy Schreyer
    Mixing Engineer
    Chuck Johnson, Joey Jordison, Ross Robinson
    Percussion
    Chris Fehn, Shawn Crahan
    Rhythm Guitar
    Josh Brainard
    Sampling
    Craig Jones
    Turntables
    Sid Wilson
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