Follow the Leader Meanings
IT'S ON
"It's On" is my shit peer pressure song. Me being so stressed out going out
and partying. Everybody's just going 'Come on dude, it's on.' That's
partying, it's alcohol, cocaine, women. All that wrapped into one. I wrote a
song about it. And the chorus I talked about Why am I really doing this?
It's all my fault that I'm doing this because all the alcohol, the booze an
the chicks do is just make it worse. They just rearrange all the problems in
a different order that I can deal with at that moment.
FREAK ON A LEASH.
One of the best titles I've heard ever for a song.
That's my song against the music industry. Like me feeling like I'm fuckin' a
pimp, a prostitute. Like I'm paraded around. I'm this freak paraded around
but I got corporate America fuckin' making all the money while it's taking a
part of me. It's like they stole something from me, they stole my innocence
and I'm not calm anymore. I worry constantly.
GOT THE LIFE
That's a song baggin' on myself. How everything's always handed to me. How I
look up to God and don't want this anymore. Like I want something more out of
life than all this. And I've got everything I really need but I sometimes
don't like. I don't know how to explain it. I have to let it sit through the
songs more to actually get into what I write. I truly know, really, the
meanings of the songs almost. That's what I'm getting out of it right now.
B.B.K.
Big black cock! That's what I call a jack and coke. Those little glasses
they serve in Europe and everything. That's what I named it, big black cock.
And that's another song about me dealing with the pressures of this album and
how I, you know, I'm trying to kill myself, but you know? Do I really want to
kill myself? Things I'm just questioning myself. Most of this is self-
structured.
CHILDREN OF THE KORN
Cube came up with the title. I fed off of what he wrote, he was talking about
growing up and puberty. Dictating what he can do, like how you gonna tell me
how to live and who to fuck? And all this stuff. And I took that and in my
stuff I was talking about being a kid always known as the fuckin' town faggot.
It's funny how things change. That some of these people picked on me and all
of a sudden look who's laughing now. Also in another of the verse I talked
about all these parents fuckin hating me for what I do, saying I'm corrupting
their children, but in turn these parents need to step outside of themselves
and really listen to what I'm talking about. Then I think they can understand
that they were kids before. They're just really quick to judge me. All the
Children of The Korn are all our Korn fans. All those kids going through that
shit and feeling what I feel.
JUSTIN
Justin, that was the kid dying terminally with intestinal cancer. His last
dying wish was to meet us and it really freaked me out. That threw a whole
bunch of new kind of pressures on my head. That's really intense. Someone's
gonna die and his last thing he wants to do is come hang out with us. So I
truly just freaked out. It's like why would you want to meet me? What makes
me so special? And in turn I talk about how I admire his strength and his
life. I couldn't stare at him because he was so content he was gonna die. No
one could look him in the eyes. And I totally admire his strength. I wish I
had it.
PRETTY
It's a story about this little girl that came into the coroner's office when I
was working there and she was fucked by her dad. She was an 11 month old
little baby girl. Her legs were broken back behind her and he just fucked her
like a toy doll and chucked her in the bathroom. It was the most heinous
thing I've ever seen in my life and I still have nightmares about it.
ALL IN THE FAMILY
Fred was there after Korn TV and we said, 'Let's do a song together, Hey,
man, let's go back and forth and rip on each other like an old school battle.'
I don't know who's idea it was, I can't remember if it was mine or Fieldy's or
Fred's but we came up with the idea and we started writing and we worked on it
together. I came up with some bags on myself for Fred to say. It was all in
good natured fun.
SEED
Seed. That's all about the same thing again. I, laying in bed in my hotel
room, thinking about do I really need all this stuff? All this pressure on
me? Because I'm a stressed out freak. It's about Nathan, it's about every
time that I look into his eyes, I see myself how I used to be, innocent and
stress free. I'm kind of jealous of it. It really sucks, I used to be that
way. It's like I have to work so hard at this thing in my life. I have to
become a stressed out freak. I put food on the table for my child. Every
time I look in his eyes, I just see myself staring right back at my ass
laughing. I was like care free, innocent as a child. It's really weird and
I'm really jealous of it.
RECLAIM MY PLACE
This one is about the whole band and about all my life being called a
homosexual. And then I became this big rock star in a band and I'm still
called a fag even by my own band. So it's like I was fuckin' pissed off at
them. It's like erase them all because I'm gonna reclaim my place and say
hey, they owe a lot to me for what I did, and I owe a lot to them back. But,
it still kinda sucks. I've never ever gotten away from that fag fuckin'
title. Just because I'm a sensitive kinda guy. Kinda feminine it really
sucks.
CAMELTOSIS
That's a love song. It's about women in general, women who hurt me. It's
Tre's lyrics. He's going on about chicks and my chorus is like I'm so scared
to love anyone and really let them in after I got hurt really really bad by a
girl. I've let Renee in a little bit, to be honest, but I'll never be that in
love ever again. That's what I'm saying, if you've loved twice, you're gonna
get fucked, 'cause you usually do.
DEAD BODIES EVERYWHERE
That was the song about my parents trying to keep me out of the music
business. My father was in it and he knew how it was and I totally understand
now that I have a son. I want Nathan to be a musician but I him don't want
him to go through the hell I went through. That's the same thing my Dad was
doing. A lot of people can relate to it, because it's like the Dad's wanting
their songs to be football players and their sons want to be doctors or
something. That peer pressure its like trying to make them something they're
really not. And the Dead Bodies thing is like so I did it and all I got out
of it was dead bodies everywhere and got all traumatized. Thanks a lot Dad,
Mom.
MY GIFT TO YOU
Renee always wanted me to write her a love song and that's why I called it My
Gift To You. It's my gift to her, you know how I get sick. I always had a
fantasy of fucking her and choking her to death. I fantasize about what it
would look like me in her body and watching me do it. So it's like a really
sick fucked up song. I did it totally like, I love her so much, I want to
take her out of this world. It's really strange. She used to leave notes on
my pillow like 25 ways she'd like to kill me. She's got this weird death
fetish. We're kinda fuckin' freaky. She got it. She's all 'Thank you that's
kinda fucked up. I was expecting a fuckin' I love you, baby kinda song.' I'm
all, 'No, you know me.' I mean I can't do that.
