The Negative One - Slipknot

Fire and caffeine, a lot of nicotine

Im going to burn, so I better tell you everything

The competition, the superstition

Nevermind cause youre never gonna give in

It’s a crisis just how you like it

The same drama in a different disguise

I’m bound to walk with a target on my back

At least Im ready for another attack

The Lord of lies

The morning star

You had to be set free

Opposing sides

Your choices are

The negative one and me

Svengali, why are we the enemies?

I never follow and I never make apologies

Your dementias, are gonna get ya

Because your walls can’t support each other

Settle for the cynical, you’re so political

Youre getting ready cause the first move is critical

Reciprocity, somebody’s listening

What did we learn from our time in captivity?

The Lord of lies

The morning star

You had to be set free

Opposing sides

Your choices are

The negative one and me

The negative one and me

I hope you live

To see the day

When your world comes up in flames

And as you die

You see my face

You’re the only one to blame

The Prescient, the Nascent

The quotient (They all will fall)

The Cystic, symbolic, condition (Systemic)

Egregious, replete with

These lesions (Contaminate)

Succumb to the selfish

Creation (Your failure)

No accountability, divisibility

I point a finger but its always looking back at me

The centipede’s pulling on the mechanism

Unearthing scars of the cataclysm

When the innocent begin to circumvent

The color fades, but the picture is vibrant

What do you believe?

Does it matter now?

Turn away, the killer is disavowed

The Lord of lies

The morning star

You had to be set free

Opposing sides

Your choices are

The negative one and me

The negative one and me

I hope you live

To see the day

When your world comes up in flames

The Lord of lies

The morning star

You had to be set free

Opposing sides

Your choices are

The negative one and me

The negative one and me

The negative one

The negative one

The negative one

The negative one and me

The negative one and me

The negative one and me

And me