Lyrics to
Slipknot!

This version of Slipknot! was released by Grateful Dead in 1975.

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Beautiful lie
You can pray
You can pay
Till you’re buried alive

Blackmailer blues
Everyone in the room
Owns a part of the noose
Slipknot gig
Slipknot gig
Slipknot gig

Did someone say
Help on the way
Well, I know
Yeah, I do
That there’s help on the way

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Slipknot!, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Grateful Dead. Some of the lyrics to Slipknot! have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Grateful Dead and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Slipknot! if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Slipknot!" means the words set to the music of Slipknot!, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Grateful Dead. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Slipknot! and the lyrics to Slipknot! are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Grateful Dead who came here looking just for the lyrics to Slipknot!, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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