Stone Sour was actually Corey Taylor's band before he joined Slipknot. They played from 1992-1997. Went on hiatus. Came back in 2000. They have been taking a break on/off while Corey and Jim Root toured with Slipknot. Root left in 2014. Stone Sour went on indefinite hiatus in 2020. Slipknot was formed in 1995 Check out Gone Sovereign/Absolute Zero with Jim Root. Must be played back to back like on the album. Corey sings on Absolute Zero: If I offended you, you needed it. Great lyrics
Great shout mate, that whole album is wicked good.great viedos too.. and maybe even better video for this song... Inhale and get inside are absolute bangers too...
Through the glass ( of the t.v. ) at the stars ( movie stars and celebrities ) that lie to you ( partially acting or greed or envy ) he was speaking from his experience on becoming famous and the only thing he could really believe or trust was in his own head.... Because of so many others motives of other people
I always thought he meant through the glass as like glassy eyed cuz his problems with alcohol...remember what you're looking at is me: remember it's still him underneath just feels more like a product than a person because of all the (mannequin/ plastic) stars ...it's all a lie ...ppl thought his life was amazing and envied him and he was miserable.....just how I always took the song
In the music video, right when he says "an epidemic of the mannequins, contaminanting everything" he shows the Hollywood sign. This song hits so different after the awakening I had last year. And looking at you through the glass (the tv screen) that we are all lost in, and the "stars that lie to you" are all the Hollywood celebrities that we idolize and worship, and they are some of the most evil and deceptive people.
Corey Taylor said in an interview when asked about this song: " It's me basically calling 'bulls--t' on pretty much everyone involved with the 'American Idol'-type shows. It has its place, but when you're basically cornering the market and making it very hard for anyone who actually writes their own music to get ahead, then it's wrong and that's really why I wrote this song."
I took him "looking at you through the glass" is he is watching himself trapped in his own head watching everything happen around him and he's basically on autopilot.
The very first time I heard Stone Sour it was the song "Bother" and I ran right to the record store and bought their 1st CD. Other great songs are Say You'll Haunt Me, 30/30/150, Tired, Absolute Zero, Zzyxx Road, Hesitate, or The Travelers Part 1 (&2). I can listen to most of their albums without skipping a single track.
You are 1000% right, and in the music video when he says "the epidemic of the mannequins, contaminating everything" they show the Hollywood sign. It's sad how many people are sleeping and don't understand the meaning.
One of my best friends introduced me to this song when we were drinking. We almost got evicted from singing this louder than the stereo. Good times and I miss him ❤ ✌❤🇨🇦
Brad&Lex: stone sour = "lyrical genius" Me: Lex is a genius at breaking down lyrics Brad: stars are a lie Me: everyone's a freaking genius this morning 🧐🔥🔥🔥
This song reminds Me of My days stuck in a Meth daze ; staring at the strange shadows and demonic lights crawling and throbbing on the wall … feeling so far away and separated from real life … thank God I kicked the habit . Clean three years now .
5:33 It's funny you mention Corey Taylor's lyricism. When I first heard Slipknot in 2000, I didn't hate it, but I wasn't exactly impressed either. Until I opened up the lyric book to the CD. Then my mind was blown. It was his lyrics that made me a decades long fan as the band did nothing but get better over the years.
I seen them perform this at the old starwood ampitheatre (which is an outside venue) that is no longer open in LaVergne, TN when I was 16. This song and "Bother" are forever engraved in my brain.... It was my first time ever being at a concert period and it was a all day festival with Korn being the headliner ..... One of my favorite music related memories
Another interpretation, his the glass question is actually your television or computer screen. And the stars that you see through that screen they Shine for you, but they also lied to you all the time.
YES, it's great that you're paying attention to lyrics again (as well as the music and vibe, of course). Sometimes lyrics are vague and unimportant, but sometimes they're an essential part of the song!
I obviously love this song. Thanks for checking it out. Corey wrote this song, while lying in a hotel bed somewhere in Europe, with food poisoning, so weak he couldn't even get up to the bathroom (I won't go into details here) and watching some celebrity show on TV. No fun way to get inspired. Greetings from Germany
I remember around 2002, Corey announced that he was reuniting his band Stone Sour, which was before Slipknot... Slipknot was taking a break, so he got Slipknot guitarist Jim Root w/ Josh Rand (guitar), Shawn Economaki (bass) and Joel Elkman (drums)... and did the first Stone Sour album in 2002... Elkman was replaced in 2006 by Roy Mayorga (drums) for this 2nd album 'Come What (ever) May'... Shawn Economaki quit in 2011 after the next album 'Audio secrecy'... Jim Root left in 2013 (?) and was replaced by Christian Martucci (guitar), and Johnny Chow (bass) had joined. Stone Sour went on hiatus in recent years.
This song gives me full body goosebumps especially right now. Look into the time he had when he wrote this song. He had food poisoning S#!Ting his brains out and created a masterpiece.
this man has my utmost respect any which way you want to look at it. Zzyxx Road my Stone Sour is the song i want played at my celebration of life one day. it says everything i would want to. Much Love for checking out THE man :)
Ok B & L…now you’ve hit one of my soft spots. You gotta do this rabbit hole more pleeeeeze…Stone Sour is the bomb. Please do “ Gone Sovereign/Absolute Zero” two back to back songs on the album but I think there’s a video that does both together..then “ Pieces”, “A Rumor of Skin”, “ Tired”, “Idle Hands”, deep cut “Road Hogs”…. There are sooo many 🤘🤘🔥🔥
More stone sour is needed 30/30-150, do me a favor, say you’ll haunt me, song #3, fabuless, tired, digital (did you tell), gone sovereign/absolute zero. Also cmft from Corey’s solo album
I would recommend either Zzyzx Rd of Idle Hands. Amazing songs. Corey's voice is by far one of the best voices in metal. The range he has is amazing! When you said an acoustic version of a Slipknot song I thought you meant Vermillion.
Always thought it was about him looking at a girl across the room through a drink glass, like at a bar or something. Like sneaking a look as to not be seen by doing it while he's taking a sip and he feels like his heart/time stopped as he's seeing her, like there's a spark and his heart slipped a beat. But I also think it means what you guys are saying as well, like there's something amazing about that girl but he also knows that there's probably a lie there too.
This man can do everything and is so infectious. Bother is another great one by them but they have a long list of heavy bangers for you to discover. Enjoy the journey. The stars can also be the movie stars lying to you through the media, the television, the looking glass. I also like your interpretation too. It's deep 👏👏👏👏
When you look into glass you see your own reflection but you can also look through your reflection. So he looking out a window but also looking at himself and thinking he has lost track of time deep in thought Your mind has infinity thoughts like the universe is infinite and goes on forever like your thoughts can sometimes your ideas and thoughts are brilliant and you get excited and that is the star that shines for you but then our own doubts sabotage us and lie to us. He is pondering something that he feels is going to effect his eternity The song starts he is asking himself how he feels about his choice and his soul and is loosing hope, sounds like in humanity as he describes people as mannequins which are shells thoughtless empty soulless people ruining everything because of greed perhaps Maybe he realizes you can move and meet different people but it’s no different it’s still the same just a different scene although he was hoping for a happier reality. It is a deeper song than I realized since it is a bit repetitive but the beginning lyrics are full of depth
Corey Taylor wrote this after being in Amsterdam (I think) watching MTV Europe while he had a terrible bout with food poisoning. I'm not 100% about Amsterdam, but it was definitely a country in that vicinity.
@@chestrockwell8328 yeah. It's not a secret. Corey has talked about the meaning of this song. The video goes along with it perfectly. But I still love that it can easily mean different things for so many people.
Hes looking at himself in a mirror. "Remember what you're looking at is me". And I think the stars are a reference to celebrities. Celebrities are also called stars
This song always gave me the impression of someone being committed to an asylum, or maybe being checked into rehab. I felt like the imagery was describing this guy sitting alone, struck in his head with nothing but his own thoughts for company, knowing on the other side of that one-way window somebody was watching him, taking notes, filling out paperwork; the line "When something like a soul becomes initialized and folded up like paper dolls and little notes" in particular gave me the impression of someone "close" to him - a partner or family member - putting their initials on the paperwork that pawns him off onto the doctors like he's not even a real person, just some malfunctioning trinket they don't want to deal with any more. And there's also this theme of cynicism to me. "How do you feel? That is the question. But I forget you don't expect an easy answer." To me it has this kinda sarcastic, world-weary feel to it, like the doctor is doing their usual psych-eval interview, asking him how he feels, and he wants to just brush it off with "fine, how are you" or something, but he's looking at this doctor and thinking in the back of his mind "you're not actually interested in how I'm feeling, you're just baiting me hoping for something you can analyze so you can make a study out of my life." It's all a mix of sorrow, anger, and just being "done" with everything. Like "you don't even see me as a human being anymore. I'm just something for you to poke at and study. You don't care about me." I've looked it up, and as with many songs there doesn't seem to be a reliable source on the meaning behind it. Some suggest it's about addiction, some suggest it's a about a relationship, someone claimed Taylor had said it was a call-out song aimed at the music industry, how fake it all was, and expressing frustration that the "singer-songwriter revolution" had failed or perhaps never even took place. Which does fit well with I believe it was the second verse, "how much is real? So much to question. An epidemic of the mannequins contaminating everything we thought came from the heart but never did, right from the start. Just listen too the noises, null n' void instead of voices." It's like he's looking around at other "artists" and thinking "you're all so completely and utterly fake. Not a single one of you wrote your own songs, there's no real emotion behind any of this, it's all just counterfeit and carbon copies." And there's a lot of truth in that. There are tons of "hit songs" we associate with specific artists yet not only did they NOT write the song, many times the song was written for another artist who turned it down or the label decided they wanted someone else to do it instead. And that artist just sorta shoe-horns themselves into the headspace of the song and tries to pass it off as something they're really feeling. It's why there are so many songs out there that really don't have any "zing" to them, and others that hit so much harder because it's REAL. Like NF's "How Could You Leave Us." That song cuts you right to the core. I can't listen to it without tearing up no matter how many times I've heard it and even though I've never been in that situation or anywhere close to it, I feel it every time. And then I'll hear a song performed by some other artist and it's just so hollow because they're just reading the words with no emotional investment.
STONE SOUR!! Finally! Going down another rabbit hole. You will not be disappointed. You may want to check out their Straight Outta Burbank album on which they pay hommage to the bands that influenced them.
I think there could be a few interpretations. Looking through the glass could be just a metaphor for observing someone through a barrier or how when you look through certain glass the image is distorted or warped
I always thought of looking through the glass of a drink. Being drunk, time can pass infinitely different and it feels like being alone in your head. That said it could also be a metaphor for an hourglass. The beverage dwindling down like the sand and filling it back up is like flipping over the hourglass.
The music video makes the explanation very simple. He's talking about Hollywood stars. Though I love your interpretation as well. The music video is definately worth checking out though.
My interpretation of this,is through glass is looking at photos of someone who's passed,& the feels like forever is how he spends so long doing it he loses track of time.The sitting all alone inside your head is all the memories of that person.Might sound odd,but that's how I've always interpreted it.Awesome song,I'm sure it's Corey Taylor??? does an awesome cover of wicked game.Love you guys 💖🤘💖🤘
In the video he's singing in front of what you think is the Hollywood sign but if you look closely it says Hollowood. The stars that lie to you are celebrities!
Funny Stone Sour Story for you all. When my son was young my wife asked that I don't play songs with bad language on the car stereo. One time I was listening to 'Dying' by Stone Sour and my Son said 'I'm telling mommy that you are playing songs with swearing'. I couldn't hear the bad language so had to bribe him to tell me where it was. The lyrics for the offending part are 'If I can't live without you but I can't breathe when I'm with you' - but my son hears 'I f*****g live without but I can't breathe when I'm with you!' - Now, even all these years later, all I can hear is my sons version of the lyrics everytime I hear the song!
He's singing about Hollywood and the lies and falseness of celebrities (stars) also speaking of TV interviews that "DON'T EXPECT AN EASY ANSWER" for ratings. Love this song. Watch the video, it shows the cliches, fakes and tropes of Hollywood celebrity!
Corey Taylor will forever be one of the greatest ever. Between Stone Sour and Slipknot, the man made history and spoke to a bunch of kids when no one listened.
I SO ENJOY HER LEX-PLANATIONS!!!! She has such positive energy sprinkled with a little nievite, there is true wisdom behind her creative analogies connecting feelings to experiences. I can't help but lean in a little closer, and marvel at what she comes up with when she starts LEX-PLAINING, reminds me of catching fireflys as a child, watching them light up, and being filled with wonderment of how they do that?
I'VE HEARD COREY TAYLOR SING 3 DIFFERENT TYPES MUSIC!!! I COULD LISTEN TO COREY TAYLOR SING ANYTHING!!!!!! GOT TO LISTEN TO THE SONG "BOTHER "!!!!!🤘🔥🔥🤘
I think it's about him looking at a picture of someone he has been away from for a long time on the road. The first stars are literall and shine for us all, the second stars are famous people who lie and are fake. I'd imagine this song really resonates with people who have been to prison or jail, having to see family through glass but I think he is talkiing about the glass over a picture.
I always thought the star line was a double entendre. On one hand he could be talking about hollywood stars as others have said. On the other hand "the stars lie to you" could be talking about horroscopes and people who believe in them.
Stone Sour was actually Corey Taylor's band before he joined Slipknot. They played from 1992-1997. Went on hiatus. Came back in 2000. They have been taking a break on/off while Corey and Jim Root toured with Slipknot. Root left in 2014. Stone Sour went on indefinite hiatus in 2020. Slipknot was formed in 1995
Check out Gone Sovereign/Absolute Zero with Jim Root. Must be played back to back like on the album. Corey sings on Absolute Zero: If I offended you, you needed it. Great lyrics
Yes yes & YES !…..about GS/AZ
Great shout mate, that whole album is wicked good.great viedos too.. and maybe even better video for this song...
Inhale and get inside are absolute bangers too...
I didn't know Stone Sour was formed before Slipknot. I was under the impression Corey formed the band when he was on hiatus with Slipknot
Through the glass ( of the t.v. ) at the stars ( movie stars and celebrities ) that lie to you ( partially acting or greed or envy ) he was speaking from his experience on becoming famous and the only thing he could really believe or trust was in his own head.... Because of so many others motives of other people
The video he is in jail. Looking at you through the glass is the conjugal visit
@@Michael-mv3kc what? He's not in jail in the video. He's in Hollywood surrounded by fake people
This right here
@@Michael-mv3kc um, no it isn't. Have you actually seen the video?
I always thought he meant through the glass as like glassy eyed cuz his problems with alcohol...remember what you're looking at is me: remember it's still him underneath just feels more like a product than a person because of all the (mannequin/ plastic) stars ...it's all a lie ...ppl thought his life was amazing and envied him and he was miserable.....just how I always took the song
How deep most rock songs are goes so unnoticed. The genre itself usually doesn't get the respect it deserves
In the music video, right when he says "an epidemic of the mannequins, contaminanting everything" he shows the Hollywood sign. This song hits so different after the awakening I had last year. And looking at you through the glass (the tv screen) that we are all lost in, and the "stars that lie to you" are all the Hollywood celebrities that we idolize and worship, and they are some of the most evil and deceptive people.
Corey Taylor said in an interview when asked about this song: " It's me basically calling 'bulls--t' on pretty much everyone involved with the 'American Idol'-type shows. It has its place, but when you're basically cornering the market and making it very hard for anyone who actually writes their own music to get ahead, then it's wrong and that's really why I wrote this song."
I took him "looking at you through the glass" is he is watching himself trapped in his own head watching everything happen around him and he's basically on autopilot.
I love this Corey Taylor project. The Stone Sour sound is fabulous!
I really love this side of Corey
He actually has such an amazing voice and his lyrics are full of emotion
The very first time I heard Stone Sour it was the song "Bother" and I ran right to the record store and bought their 1st CD. Other great songs are Say You'll Haunt Me, 30/30/150, Tired, Absolute Zero, Zzyxx Road, Hesitate, or The Travelers Part 1 (&2). I can listen to most of their albums without skipping a single track.
Same here miracles, the conflagration, socio, house of gold and bones, do me a favour the list just goes on and on haha
Taciturn
I love how Lex broke that down. Def feel you on how the significance of lyrics overpower the music. 💯
My headphones dont go high enough for this masterpiece...❤
The actual video for this tune is one of my favorites of all time. The message of the song becomes quite clear, and it's done extremely well.
Cory is so different with Stone Sour than SlipKnot, great music
True but he had a few that could cross over. Snuff could have passed at a stonesour song. Vernillion 2 could have also
Yes, kinda like Maynard with Tool and A Perfect Circle.
Slipknot is great music.
My interpretation would be movie "stars" lie to you through tv "the glass" screen.
They missed that completely
You are 1000% right, and in the music video when he says "the epidemic of the mannequins, contaminating everything" they show the Hollywood sign. It's sad how many people are sleeping and don't understand the meaning.
One of my best friends introduced me to this song when we were drinking. We almost got evicted from singing this louder than the stereo. Good times and I miss him ❤
✌❤🇨🇦
Brad&Lex: stone sour = "lyrical genius"
Me: Lex is a genius at breaking down lyrics
Brad: stars are a lie
Me: everyone's a freaking genius this morning 🧐🔥🔥🔥
I like the buildup of instruments through the beginning of the song and then it just, boom! hits you
This song reminds Me of My days stuck in a Meth daze ; staring at the strange shadows and demonic lights crawling and throbbing on the wall … feeling so far away and separated from real life … thank God I kicked the habit . Clean three years now .
Such a piece of pure art. Corey is so talented 🖤
Dave Grohl had Cory Taylor sing "From can to can't" on the Sound City album. Well worth watching/listening to
Saw these guys with disturbed, flyleaf and nonpoint back in 06 in Detroit! Great show by all bands!
5:33 It's funny you mention Corey Taylor's lyricism. When I first heard Slipknot in 2000, I didn't hate it, but I wasn't exactly impressed either. Until I opened up the lyric book to the CD. Then my mind was blown. It was his lyrics that made me a decades long fan as the band did nothing but get better over the years.
You should have done the official video for this. It helps with he song meaning and it's an awesome video
Omg, so glad you got to Stone Sour! Hesitate is a great song from them!
Definitely check out “Bother”…Corey has such a good singing voice.
I seen them perform this at the old starwood ampitheatre (which is an outside venue) that is no longer open in LaVergne, TN when I was 16. This song and "Bother" are forever engraved in my brain.... It was my first time ever being at a concert period and it was a all day festival with Korn being the headliner ..... One of my favorite music related memories
♥️♥️♥️ Stone Sour !!! I found them YEARS before I found Slipknot, and watching Corey Taylor be Bad Ass in both bands still is SOO AWESOME !!
It's the quavering vocals and self harmonizing for me. Love this song
Another interpretation, his the glass question is actually your television or computer screen. And the stars that you see through that screen they Shine for you, but they also lied to you all the time.
The actual video is awesome and it gives a little more context to the lyrics... ❤️
YES, it's great that you're paying attention to lyrics again (as well as the music and vibe, of course). Sometimes lyrics are vague and unimportant, but sometimes they're an essential part of the song!
Love this song, I like a live version that they are playing at an outdoor festival!
I forgot how much I love this song. Thanks for the reminder and reaction. I love lex's vibe on this song. I get it 🤣
I absolutely love your interpretation Lex ❤️
I obviously love this song. Thanks for checking it out.
Corey wrote this song, while lying in a hotel bed somewhere in Europe, with food poisoning, so weak he couldn't even get up to the bathroom (I won't go into details here) and watching some celebrity show on TV. No fun way to get inspired.
Greetings from Germany
I remember around 2002, Corey announced that he was reuniting his band Stone Sour, which was before Slipknot... Slipknot was taking a break, so he got Slipknot guitarist Jim Root w/ Josh Rand (guitar), Shawn Economaki (bass) and Joel Elkman (drums)... and did the first Stone Sour album in 2002... Elkman was replaced in 2006 by Roy Mayorga (drums) for this 2nd album 'Come What (ever) May'... Shawn Economaki quit in 2011 after the next album 'Audio secrecy'... Jim Root left in 2013 (?) and was replaced by Christian Martucci (guitar), and Johnny Chow (bass) had joined. Stone Sour went on hiatus in recent years.
This song gives me full body goosebumps especially right now. Look into the time he had when he wrote this song. He had food poisoning S#!Ting his brains out and created a masterpiece.
Lex be like, “shut up about the sun. SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN”
Should watch the actual video, I watched it tripping once and it was awesome.
this man has my utmost respect any which way you want to look at it. Zzyxx Road my Stone Sour is the song i want played at my celebration of life one day. it says everything i would want to. Much Love for checking out THE man :)
Looking at a person through the glass,
The stars shine for you but also lie to you - Hollywood?
I wish Lex and I went to school together, I know we'd have been good friends. Her takes are always on point!
Lex you are so good how you analyse, love you both. great reaction
love your reaction videos guys. lex youre amazing.
This song is about Hollywood stars.. About their fake
Ok B & L…now you’ve hit one of my soft spots. You gotta do this rabbit hole more pleeeeeze…Stone Sour is the bomb. Please do “ Gone Sovereign/Absolute Zero” two back to back songs on the album but I think there’s a video that does both together..then “ Pieces”, “A Rumor of Skin”, “ Tired”, “Idle Hands”, deep cut “Road Hogs”…. There are sooo many 🤘🤘🔥🔥
More stone sour is needed 30/30-150, do me a favor, say you’ll haunt me, song #3, fabuless, tired, digital (did you tell), gone sovereign/absolute zero. Also cmft from Corey’s solo album
More Stone Sour please. 30-30/150 and Scars!!!
The video is also Great, it goes with the song so well
This universe is a illusion. A movie. Then it all makes sense.
One of my favorite songs, great tune
Corey Taylor has a great voice. Fun fact: my son's old band actually opened up for Stone Sour along with Shadows Fall and Laconia Coil
That's awesome! I bet that was a very proud mom moment for you!
I would recommend either Zzyzx Rd of Idle Hands. Amazing songs. Corey's voice is by far one of the best voices in metal. The range he has is amazing! When you said an acoustic version of a Slipknot song I thought you meant Vermillion.
Always thought it was about him looking at a girl across the room through a drink glass, like at a bar or something. Like sneaking a look as to not be seen by doing it while he's taking a sip and he feels like his heart/time stopped as he's seeing her, like there's a spark and his heart slipped a beat. But I also think it means what you guys are saying as well, like there's something amazing about that girl but he also knows that there's probably a lie there too.
This man can do everything and is so infectious. Bother is another great one by them but they have a long list of heavy bangers for you to discover. Enjoy the journey. The stars can also be the movie stars lying to you through the media, the television, the looking glass. I also like your interpretation too. It's deep 👏👏👏👏
When you look into glass you see your own reflection but you can also look through your reflection. So he looking out a window but also looking at himself and thinking he has lost track of time deep in thought Your mind has infinity thoughts like the universe is infinite and goes on forever like your thoughts can sometimes your ideas and thoughts are brilliant and you get excited and that is the star that shines for you but then our own doubts sabotage us and lie to us. He is pondering something that he feels is going to effect his eternity The song starts he is asking himself how he feels about his choice and his soul and is loosing hope, sounds like in humanity as he describes people as mannequins which are shells thoughtless empty soulless people ruining everything because of greed perhaps Maybe he realizes you can move and meet different people but it’s no different it’s still the same just a different scene although he was hoping for a happier reality. It is a deeper song than I realized since it is a bit repetitive but the beginning lyrics are full of depth
Inhale is another great track from Stone sour
Another favorite from Stone Sour ❤️❤️
Tim Minchen - PREJUDICE
Best solo piano live song EVER!
*Stone Sour - "Song #3" and "Hesitate"*
They have one called "Made of Scars" that rocks
Corey Taylor wrote this after being in Amsterdam (I think) watching MTV Europe while he had a terrible bout with food poisoning. I'm not 100% about Amsterdam, but it was definitely a country in that vicinity.
If that's true, then my guess to the meaning of some of the lyrics could be true...stars as in entertainment industry, liars.
@@chestrockwell8328 yeah. It's not a secret. Corey has talked about the meaning of this song. The video goes along with it perfectly. But I still love that it can easily mean different things for so many people.
It makes a lot sense that it reminds you of Slipknot, as Corey Taylor is the lead vocalist and lyricist for both bands.
Hes looking at himself in a mirror. "Remember what you're looking at is me". And I think the stars are a reference to celebrities. Celebrities are also called stars
Corey Taylor Singer from Slipknot and Stone Sour, such a humble guy
Jeff Healey “See the Light.” Trust me. Blind guitar player and lead singer.
This song always gave me the impression of someone being committed to an asylum, or maybe being checked into rehab. I felt like the imagery was describing this guy sitting alone, struck in his head with nothing but his own thoughts for company, knowing on the other side of that one-way window somebody was watching him, taking notes, filling out paperwork; the line "When something like a soul becomes initialized and folded up like paper dolls and little notes" in particular gave me the impression of someone "close" to him - a partner or family member - putting their initials on the paperwork that pawns him off onto the doctors like he's not even a real person, just some malfunctioning trinket they don't want to deal with any more. And there's also this theme of cynicism to me. "How do you feel? That is the question. But I forget you don't expect an easy answer." To me it has this kinda sarcastic, world-weary feel to it, like the doctor is doing their usual psych-eval interview, asking him how he feels, and he wants to just brush it off with "fine, how are you" or something, but he's looking at this doctor and thinking in the back of his mind "you're not actually interested in how I'm feeling, you're just baiting me hoping for something you can analyze so you can make a study out of my life." It's all a mix of sorrow, anger, and just being "done" with everything. Like "you don't even see me as a human being anymore. I'm just something for you to poke at and study. You don't care about me."
I've looked it up, and as with many songs there doesn't seem to be a reliable source on the meaning behind it. Some suggest it's about addiction, some suggest it's a about a relationship, someone claimed Taylor had said it was a call-out song aimed at the music industry, how fake it all was, and expressing frustration that the "singer-songwriter revolution" had failed or perhaps never even took place. Which does fit well with I believe it was the second verse, "how much is real? So much to question. An epidemic of the mannequins contaminating everything we thought came from the heart but never did, right from the start. Just listen too the noises, null n' void instead of voices." It's like he's looking around at other "artists" and thinking "you're all so completely and utterly fake. Not a single one of you wrote your own songs, there's no real emotion behind any of this, it's all just counterfeit and carbon copies." And there's a lot of truth in that. There are tons of "hit songs" we associate with specific artists yet not only did they NOT write the song, many times the song was written for another artist who turned it down or the label decided they wanted someone else to do it instead. And that artist just sorta shoe-horns themselves into the headspace of the song and tries to pass it off as something they're really feeling. It's why there are so many songs out there that really don't have any "zing" to them, and others that hit so much harder because it's REAL. Like NF's "How Could You Leave Us." That song cuts you right to the core. I can't listen to it without tearing up no matter how many times I've heard it and even though I've never been in that situation or anywhere close to it, I feel it every time. And then I'll hear a song performed by some other artist and it's just so hollow because they're just reading the words with no emotional investment.
I’m looking at you guys through the glass right now watching you listen to though the glass😏
STONE SOUR!! Finally! Going down another rabbit hole. You will not be disappointed. You may want to check out their Straight Outta Burbank album on which they pay hommage to the bands that influenced them.
Wow, I like this. Thanks for the suggestion, whoever you are ❤️❤️
Deep deep guys, y’all got it as far as I know 👍
I think there could be a few interpretations. Looking through the glass could be just a metaphor for observing someone through a barrier or how when you look through certain glass the image is distorted or warped
Corey Taylor shows so much range from what we’re used to with Slipknot. I knew Stone Sour long before I knew he was the frontman of Slipknot.
I always thought of looking through the glass of a drink. Being drunk, time can pass infinitely different and it feels like being alone in your head. That said it could also be a metaphor for an hourglass. The beverage dwindling down like the sand and filling it back up is like flipping over the hourglass.
This song will get stuck in your head
The music video makes the explanation very simple. He's talking about Hollywood stars. Though I love your interpretation as well. The music video is definately worth checking out though.
My interpretation of this,is through glass is looking at photos of someone who's passed,& the feels like forever is how he spends so long doing it he loses track of time.The sitting all alone inside your head is all the memories of that person.Might sound odd,but that's how I've always interpreted it.Awesome song,I'm sure it's Corey Taylor??? does an awesome cover of wicked game.Love you guys 💖🤘💖🤘
He is in jail
@@Michael-mv3kc No hes not, it's about fake hollywood
@@Michael-mv3kc no he isn't
"Song #3" by Stone Sour is my absolute favorite, it's of their most recent album Hydrograd
For something very different by them, try "RU486" 😅
In the video he's singing in front of what you think is the Hollywood sign but if you look closely it says Hollowood. The stars that lie to you are celebrities!
It was a reflection of the time he spent in LA hope that gives so context
Funny Stone Sour Story for you all. When my son was young my wife asked that I don't play songs with bad language on the car stereo. One time I was listening to 'Dying' by Stone Sour and my Son said 'I'm telling mommy that you are playing songs with swearing'. I couldn't hear the bad language so had to bribe him to tell me where it was. The lyrics for the offending part are 'If I can't live without you but I can't breathe when I'm with you' - but my son hears 'I f*****g live without but I can't breathe when I'm with you!' - Now, even all these years later, all I can hear is my sons version of the lyrics everytime I hear the song!
the official video really helps understand
I love this song. Corey Taylor is one of my most favorite singers and songwriters ever!
One hit wonders are also cool to do! Like Tiffany- I think we’re alone now (original from tommy James and co)
The best Stone Sour song is whatever one you play next.
He's singing about Hollywood and the lies and falseness of celebrities (stars) also speaking of TV interviews that "DON'T EXPECT AN EASY ANSWER" for ratings. Love this song. Watch the video, it shows the cliches, fakes and tropes of Hollywood celebrity!
Corey Taylor will forever be one of the greatest ever. Between Stone Sour and Slipknot, the man made history and spoke to a bunch of kids when no one listened.
I SO ENJOY HER LEX-PLANATIONS!!!! She has such positive energy sprinkled with a little nievite, there is true wisdom behind her creative analogies connecting feelings to experiences. I can't help but lean in a little closer, and marvel at what she comes up with when she starts LEX-PLAINING, reminds me of catching fireflys as a child, watching them light up, and being filled with wonderment of how they do that?
6 days late and a dollar short, but give Stone Sour’s cover of “Creeping Death” a listen it’s a very pleasing tribute to the legends.
This was a hit commercially, but my fav from them is "30/30-150"
Love this song!
When he's saying "Looking at you through th glass", he's talking about being in prison, and wishing his loved ones well.
check out their song Absolute Zero. My favorite Stone Sour song
I'VE HEARD COREY TAYLOR SING 3 DIFFERENT TYPES MUSIC!!! I COULD LISTEN TO COREY TAYLOR SING ANYTHING!!!!!! GOT TO LISTEN TO THE SONG "BOTHER "!!!!!🤘🔥🔥🤘
Strange how you listen to some bands and you want more, more, more… other times, you hear something and it’s good and it’s just right… no more needed.
I think it's about him looking at a picture of someone he has been away from for a long time on the road. The first stars are literall and shine for us all, the second stars are famous people who lie and are fake. I'd imagine this song really resonates with people who have been to prison or jail, having to see family through glass but I think he is talkiing about the glass over a picture.
The video for this song is really cool.
I always thought the star line was a double entendre. On one hand he could be talking about hollywood stars as others have said. On the other hand "the stars lie to you" could be talking about horroscopes and people who believe in them.
I'm in love with Corey Taylor's voice.
stone sour kicks ass. definitely recommend their heavier stuff. i wont name specifics, count me as a vote for anything thats suggested from them.