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The Virus Of Life
Tuning: B Gb B E Ab Db (Drop B)
Verse:
Db--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Ab--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Gb--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B-111-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-333-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----------|
xxx x x x x x x x x x x x x x x xxx x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
Repeat this as many times needed.
Db--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Ab--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B-2-------------3b---2-------------3b---2-------------3b---2-------------3b-|
Gb2-1-0-5^--1-0-3b---2-1-0-3^--1-0-3b---2-1-0-----1-0-3b---2-1-0-----1-0-3b-|
B-2-1-0-----1-0-3b---2-1-0-----1-0-3b---2-1-0-5^--1-0-3b---2-1-0-3^--1-0-3b-|
x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
Chorus:
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Ab--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------7-6-5-------------------------------------------|
B-0-2-1-0-3-3-0-4-4-5-1-1-1-x-x-x-------------------------------------------|
Gb0-2-1-0-3-3-0-4-4-5-1-1-1-5-4-3-------------------------------------------|
B-0-2-1-0-3-3-0-4-4-5-1-1-1-------------------------------------------------|
During one of the verses there's that high pitch sound that i think sid plays but you
play it on the guitar like this. Constantly hit the string.
Db-11----------------12-----------------10-----------------------------------
Ab---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gb---------------------------------------------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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This is not the right number of times to hit the string.
^:Bend
-x-:Muted string
x:Palm muted string
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Ulti` Average |
#1 by Ulti` 89 at Jan 14, 1970 at 10:15 PM EST |
| Does anybody know what "amer-cult" is? The religious amish sect or something? | |
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mat Wanna Be |
#2 by mat bar at Jun 8, 1978 at 4:41 AM EST |
| good song | |
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robert Average |
#3 by robert liedberg at Feb 14, 1983 at 5:01 PM EST |
| You know what, if you have to album people and really get Slipknot, read the lyrics when you're really baked or something. The point of this will maybe come to you... oh, and just a hint, you can only find the subliminal message in the booklet, it's right at the end and isn't that hard to find. | |
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randy Professional |
#4 by randy taylor at Nov 2, 1986 at 2:43 AM EST |
| I just posted a funny version of liberate.look for it 2morrow | |
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Ahhma Average |
#5 by Ahhma Yomamma at Jun 20, 1989 at 12:28 AM EST |
| This song is abouta virus that makes man sick(like a "diluted" man or a guy from "Me inside"). The virus creeps and grows in our unconscious mind and attacks us when we do not expect it. This virus of life makes us desperate and crazy, so we want to die , we cry and have pain inside us. Not everybody is infected.They are lucky.But some people are infected and if the virus attacks they are sick of themselves and this world and sick of people around them (so people =shit) | |
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The MADMAN Average |
#6 by The MADMAN All the way at Mar 19, 1990 at 7:03 PM EST |
| The most important interpretation of this song is the meaning of the title. After a great deal of though I have come to the conclusion that the virus of life is a child being represented as little more than it's cellular form. The whole song is about a sexual experiences that he finds himself caught in out of control. The guitar further accents this in the lines starting from "it's almost time to play..." climaxing at "I want to burn your soul". This rythem employed emulates the sexual rythem that most people take through intercourse. Don't believe me? tap it on glass or on someone's thigh, and you'll see what I mean | |
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Robyn Average |
#7 by Robyn Paul at Aug 12, 1990 at 1:14 PM EST |
| The name of this album is subliminal verses. So it has to do with unconscious mind. Maybe there are more than one souls in one body(duality?) and one is me and the other is like virus. And i like this virus .Every time it appears i love it and i will let this virus take control over my thoughts and over my feelings . So this virus is like a woman as it makes me nervous and sometimes i want it to come home(to my conscious mind) and sometimes i get tired of this fucking virus that wants to kill me. Then i say to my virus: u cannot kill what u did not create.So i won't let this virus kill me and every time it appears i will push my fingers into my eyes until it goes away.Then i am a master. But some other day (when i am alone in my cave(u know, u know-"come see my cave,built in migrane")) it will beat me and i will be a slave. So i am a slave and i am a master.I am a slave and i am a master to my virus. [But maybe my meaning is wrong and sick (these are only some thoughts about this song and about this Slipknot album).So decide by yourself] [ i saw a nightmare - Corey singing with elton john and the backstreetboys their best love songs. For me Slipknot and Metal isn't all about love . Pop music is about love.So when i want to hear love songs (which are completely meaningless) i will listen to pop.I hope Slipknot will not be a pop-band, because i am a maggot . I know they will never be a pop-band] [sorry my bad english] | |
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Kornowski - Wanna Be |
#8 by Kornowski - Im не русский, Бог Черт возьми! at Feb 8, 1992 at 2:29 PM EST |
| it is like a tribute to the people that provokes in us a desire of insecurity, the people we hate more, the people that ask that die very soon | |
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michael Wanna Be |
#9 by michael Dittrich at Mar 12, 1993 at 11:13 AM EST |
| @^: Then it's not very subliminal... Yeah, I got the impression that this was political, too. I'm amazed, since even though I know Corey's views are left-leaning (from Stone Sour), Anders had this vendetta against liberals (see "Bitchslap/Do Nothing"). | |
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Kyle Rhythm Player |
#10 by Kyle Wait I Aint Telling You at Jun 22, 1995 at 7:01 PM EST |
| Plornt, wat is it with you fantizing about Corey being rapped? Do you like men? I think you may bat for the other team... | |
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metalis4ever Average |
#11 by metalis4ever at May 29, 2003 at 5:08 PM EST |
| no life, exactly what all you slipknot groupies/posers have... | |
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BeN-bEn Lead Player |
#12 by BeN-bEn Lesniewski at Sep 3, 2005 at 6:22 PM EST |
| i think that this song is more about a relationship in its entirety, meaning both the physical act of sex and it also incorporates the desire to have someone there for sanity's sake. most of the song is about the anticipation of sex but the feeling is only for self-pleasure and thus after the act is complete the other person will be destroyed, now to me the destruction is more a psychological destruction than physical because you can not physically "burn your soul." so i think that the reference is that after the act the one person will become like the "virus" mentally and so the virus of life continues to spread. | |
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Jon Badass |
#13 by Jon Coath at Oct 24, 2005 at 8:33 PM EST |
| Think of this song as if it is through the eyes of an emotion, like love. Love is the virus of life. It can see you but you can't see it. No matter what you say or do to escape it, it lives. Lover-Set my symptom free means that someone needs to be there to set the love into motion. Love is a bitch. | |
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John Lead Player |
#14 by John Fitch at Jun 27, 2006 at 11:59 PM EST |
| I think he's talking about the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land: "house arrest" -- the curfews; "suicide; the motherfucker's on self-destruct" -- the suicide bombings by angry Palestinians "hard life is hard as hell" ; "this is no kind of life" -- life under occupation 'Americult" -- the financial support the "free" world gives Israel, including its churches "Never had peace so I had to fight" self explanatory "the freedom is never in sight" -- Israel is described as a democracy despite its illegal occupation I dunno. At first I thought it was just a song where he was expressing anger over invalidation and bullying and a social atmosphere of disapproval, but then I started looking at specific lines... I have no idea how Slipknot feels about that conflict but that's what I thought. | |
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Zach Wanna Be |
#15 by Zach Honeycutt at Sep 14, 2006 at 6:13 PM EST |
| i dunno if this is right or not but this is what i think. Maybe he has a girlfriend who is cheating on him and he is constantly stocking her and preparing to kill her. I thought that after listening to the song while reading the lyrics. I agree with okysp's meaning too but i thought I'd share what I thought about it. | |
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Eric Average |
#16 by Eric Zinkhon at Sep 15, 2006 at 9:57 PM EST |
| this song is about this crazy dude stalking someone and and killing them and wearing there face as a mask...thus the slipknot masks Duh....ya idiots | |
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Zach Wanna Be |
#17 by Zach Honeycutt at Sep 18, 2006 at 12:01 PM EST |
| Art thou simple-minded beings mentally ill? 'tis clear as day that this song is of intercourse...sex. stupidity...ick | |
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Mat Average |
#18 by Mat Hancock at Dec 22, 2006 at 10:53 PM EST |
| HANDS DOWN the best on the self titled.....right next to eyeless........love it! | |
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paddy Average |
#19 by paddy coscoran at Jan 31, 2007 at 4:19 AM EST |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yeah ummm just because they don't political songs doesnt mean that this is one isnt about it I thought it was about murder at first i dont know why i just did cause yeah i never really thought about it and when i did i got the same results as SLCThunk so yeah | |
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Erik Lead Player |
#20 by Erik StJimmy at Feb 13, 2007 at 2:10 PM EST |
| to me this song is bout rape my gf started listening to it and reading the lyrics and started crying lets just say she relates to somethings in the song | |
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sephiroth Average |
#21 by sephiroth at Mar 14, 2007 at 6:00 AM EST |
| Of all the songs on this album that people claim is "a stalker's story through his eyes" (and they say that about practically every song on the album) this is the only one that really fits the description. | |
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brian Average |
#22 by brian haun at May 30, 2007 at 1:22 PM EST |
| The Virus of Life is about Love =oS Definitely. Love was seen as an illness in Elizabethan times, so there ya go. | |
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Drennan Professional Badass |
#23 by Drennan Bragg at Jul 25, 2007 at 7:18 AM EST |
| This is a song about something I like to refer to as "The Infection". The infection is mainstream, and it constantly infects people, turning them into narrowminded, bigoted morons. This song is about the process of infection. The song has a creepy first person view of the virus as it gets people and manipulates them. Awesome song, highly recommended. | |
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Maggotkill Average |
#24 by Maggotkill at Aug 5, 2007 at 8:48 PM EST |
| this song seems like Prosthetics on their other cd. creppy and mysterious. it kinda turns me on and i dont know why, its one of my favorite songs. i like the beat and everything. | |
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