Corey Taylor Explains Snuff

Corey gives a thorough explanation of the meaning behind one of slipknot's most highly regarded songs at a Fan Q&A.
Followed by the song with lyric video played in it's entirety.
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[@huh5468]

one of the heaviest songs ive ever heard. it doesn’t have to be metal to be heavy.. it’s beautiful.

[@jeffreydoucetvienneau8671]

For a slower song it is the best slow song ever

[@rachelcastaneda1381]

Huh you said it succinctly

[@theconfusedsperm3772]

The lyrics spoken for itself and you're right,, its fuckin heavy.

[@24Wynn]

I agree!! The lyrics are deep.

[@longrangevoodoo4480]

It doesn't have to be heavy, to be metal. 🤘

[@bando3703]

This one means a lot to me, I just ended a relationship that kinda felt the same way how Corey explains it. We were not meant to be together but when we were it felt magical, we had to end it for various reasons. I’ll probably never see her again but I’ll always have a element of love for her. Bittersweet

[@koolaidman1024]

that's fucked dude but me too dude

[@bando3703]

@@koolaidman1024 bro it just hits different, hope you are healing though my bro

[@paisleeabston8005]

Yes after 17 years and twins me and my wife split up. I hear this and my chest starts hurting. I tell myself it was the best for both of us

[@monirodacosta6074]

In the same boat you will get through this and probably you have. More power to you \m/

[@rajarsheechakraborty1285]

Thanks for writing this, Corey. This is indeed one of the heaviest songs I ever heard. The line " It took the death of hope to let you go" always gives me chills.

[@kurogk4877]

I feel you there...

[@briangoff693]

I feel this song in my soul

[@24Wynn]

​@@briangoff693 Same with me. 😅

[@bojnebojnebojne]

The pen is truly mightier than the sword^^

[@radezki5237]

this is the reason why i have so much respect to corey because of this song

[@TheLaunchPadStudio]

A classic for sure

[@loulouladouceur3464]

It is to me the saddest song ever written... Just ripping your heart and stomping on it. . Like he say IT IS heavy and it is metal. That's what this music is about.. feelings ..deep hidden places inside us that can be free with the music. There's two version of how that song hits depending of the roles in this. To me it's everything I deserved and ever wished could have been said to me. It's a sorry letter that thanks to Corey I can hear from man as much as I want to suffer from it. . It's the respect, the humility and the sensibility that should have come with it. Corey is something else as I vocalist. It's the suffering. That what's makes him authentic. When you come from traumas at a young age you can spot those who's been in that road. Thanks to this man ♥️🖤

[@demonsabode6587]

Snuff, So long goodbye by 10 years, and without you by ashes remain are my favorite, they are all sad songs especially if you know the feeling

[@xgwinterzzchavez778]

i lost my buddy to an explosion in combat and he was one of my closest friends and his mother sent me this because she knew what I was going through with his loss and the loss of my fiancé now ex and everything hit super hard thank you slipknot

[@derekwilliams9272]

Cory, I’ve had my heart ripped out and I’ve lived every word of this song. Thanks man

[@derekpugs1052]

This hit hard man. I remember laying in bed after 1 bottle and half of Jack listening to pandora and this song came on. I was barely awake and my wife at the time was on her knees at the left side of my bedside. She was crying and praying for me holding my hand for me to stop drinking. Im gonna say that was probably the beginning of our falling marriage. We’re divorced now. She was my first and true love. Its been 5 years since our divorce and I still haven’t moved on. I hope this hell and pain ends soon so I can finally stop drinking. Im going through alcohol withdrawals at the moment as I write this and this pain hurts so much more. I never understood this song until now August 15, 2024. I can relate to this song and it makes my throat hurt so much. Thank you corey Im not alone. 😢

[@adamgouveia7590]

One of my favorite songs period, not just from Slipknot. It’s like he goes through the stages of grief throughout the song. Then by the end of the song he rips it apart. So heavy and emotional, this is why ppl love him. Everyone at one point or another can relate

[@bojnebojnebojne]

Sometimes we love so hard and intensely that it becomes destructive to us. The highs are so high they are not even on the scale, but the lows are so low it feels like falling into a black hole ad infinitum if any words could actually describe it. A connection and attraction so strong it's unsustainable.

[@glennblanchard4193]

Does she know? ......

[@rajarsheechakraborty1285]

She shouldn't.

[@karoonboomie2813]

God I hope so, she is one popular gal, for sure!!!! 🇺🇸🤘🏻🤘🏻☝🏻☝🏻🇺🇸

[@thejohnnyyumaexperience6212]

Man this song got me through alot of heartache but im still here thanks SLIPKNOT

[@braucsdaddy]

The last song people will hear when they put me in the fucking ground and personification of the human soul.

[@TheWorldListens]

❤️

[@bacondad6960]

I love this song. It hits you hard. This past Friday I filed for divorce after almost 25 years from someone I thought I would spend the rest of my life with. That evening my friends took me out for drinks and karaoke. I'm not a good singer but I enjoy it. I like to walk around singing and "work the crowd." I decided to sing this song, so I sat on my bar stool and let it go. I think it was the best song I have ever sung. It is helping with the closure and being able to move forward.

[@DeathsEmployer2004]

Hate how there's people that are still saying Snuff is a Stone Sour song. If 2 Slipknot members say it's a Slipknot song. Then it's a Slipknot song whether the band uses it or not.

[@andreaslandgren1472]

Great video.

[@TheLaunchPadStudio]

Thank you for watching!

[@caseybarnes2082]

i could list to corey talk all day... so well spoken

[@christimecarmona6810]

I always play this song! Slip and Stone Sour are so talented! Going through relationship breakups, divorce is all sad. Experiencing death to a loved one is the ultimate sadness, majority of us have experienced!

[@ohreally...]

When Slipknot sings this song, it's sad. When Corey Taylor sings it, it's universe destroying.

[@nordmann1375]

Thank you Corey. I just started experiencing the worst heartbreak i’ve ever felt. I’ve wanted her since we were still in school, even when she had a boyfriend and was unofficially engaged to him. I was dragged into hell and she dragged me out and gave me the experience of feeling true love for the first time in my life. Every girl i’ve been with or dated since I met her hasn’t lasted long because everytime i closed my eyes she was all i could see. I love u with all my heart B. I’m so sorry I fucked up. For everything its worth.

[@donaldfeatheroff301]

The angst of that loss continues and becomes a ghost haunting every deep need you wish you could feel again..ask me how I know… Against the odds I hope you break free and someone surprises you . and you feel new and alive again. You’ll have too..never mind. Sorry this song got me thinking and remembering

[@Brock_The_Great467]

This song drug me through the mud. I heard this after I got a divorce and I completely broke down. That break down is what I needed to help me move on. I appreciate this song so much.

[@karoonboomie2813]

I think most of us can relate to heartbreak at least once in our lifetime. One of the Best Rock songs ever! KEEP ROCKIN’ OUR WORLDS! 🇺🇸💋🤘🏻💪🏻☝🏻👊🏻🇺🇸

[@zacharyratley4676]

This song is my all time favorite song. Not just in Slipknot but in music as a whole. The song makes me feel something every time I hear it. That song can get me through so many hard time in my life. Thank you Corey for bringing this song to life

[@kylebartlett7417]

What I find so very often from those who really dont know most of Metal and the history of ballads are one with each other.Theres this misunderstanding that Metal is never about love,or feelings as such.Truth is its been since the very begining.Sanitarium,My Darkest Hour, The Ballad,Fade to Black on and on we go. We love and hurt as anyone does.We absolutley show it in ways not most recongnize.

[@sunroomz220]

Snuff is a great song

[@amsh1p]

"YOU never needed any help, you sold me out to save yourself." That line hit me so fucking hard and still does.

[@melissagallegos6492]

I lost my mom and nephew 6 and 8 years ago and this song reminds me and makes me feel like they're with me still

[@jackman_2123]

I've had a very bad heart break back in February and the song made me have the ability to move on

[@jasonjewell1667]

I never knew that. I thought It was just pushed from Paul from the go. Paul always reminds me of my best friend Sean and band mate. Coolest dude ever and ever so egoless. He passed in the same fashion. Damn I miss you every single day bro

[@jamiescarr5229]

I only wish U weren't myfriend.....so I could hurt U in the end......one of the heist songs of all-time thankyou slipknot.....

[@champagnesupernova777]

This song has gotten through me so much shit. I remember the first time I heard it I felt every single fucking lyric. Such a beautiful song and honestly there’s something so pure when an artist can create something poetic like that and connect with so many people

[@TheLaunchPadStudio]

That's the magic of music. It transcends one individual's experience and makes it something universal .

[@darrenpingüino]

For me the verse that hits the hardest is "if you still care dont ever let me know", I'm well over her but if i get a letter from her i know i will move everything in my power to be with her again, is so damn fucked, she broke up with me june 6th 2021, still have something i feel, Everything Ends describes it nicely with the way Corey's voice cracks when he says "everything reminds me of her, god i wish i didn't care anymore", if i could go back in time to 2017 when i met her i would slap myself in the face and let myself know it is not worth it

[@kevb8864]

Such a beautiful, visceral song. Feel it 100% because that one person I had, it doesnt matter how much i try to hate her for what she did.... i can't. I'm slowly learning to use the pain to fuel my self-improvement and self-worth

[@TheTripol]

Discovered the song after I had a very similar breakup... still haven't really gotten over it 2 years later. Love Slipknot thought

[@mdfreakinwaiz]

This song means everything to me now. Been a fan of this song ever since day one but for the last one year I can feel each fuckin words. It just makes me wanna die

[@froggie875]

I thought it was about a father that left him

[@DeathsEmployer2004]

He didn't know his dad until around Vol 3. So I can see why you'd get that.

[@blackmetal-dw3vv]

I can personally say that I really understand what he means because I have been thorough with something like that in my life

[@FancyxToast]

This song hits so hard right now with what I’m going through

[@iAmKoKash]

The song was literally about a Jimmy McGill and Kim Vexler relationship

[@Nine_Sunny]

Can someone explain me clip of song "Snuff"? He stalked his ex girlfriend after breakup, killed her and dress like her to be forever part of him? Obviously there are more layers/ meanings of the clip but whats the main one?

[@Harry-xs1dd]

Rip Paul

[@JorgenSjobom67]

There will never be anyone like Corey

[@lloydbradly]

Snuff is cool cause its got accuatic guitar in it and is kind of meaningful by the 👂

[@vyse1115]

knowing you're not supposed to be together but there is something that feels so good... sounds like every relationship i ever had

[@briandrake9467]

I force smiles, my face doesn't do it anymore...

[@wesker89]

Honestly this song is like a punch in the gut everytime it comes on

[@johnnygarza2803]

Bad ass song fans should understand it’s slipkont all the way. The tune is slipkkont !!

[@MetalMemes-1981]

Im in this same situation right now 😔

[@TheLaunchPadStudio]

we've all been there. And you can get past it too. It won't be easy, but you'll come out on the other side of it stronger.

[@MetalMemes-1981]

@@TheLaunchPadStudio thank you that means a lot to me i wish good upon you and your family and i will keep trying to get past this struggle

[@gmdragon117]

I love this track. Thanks Corey and thanks paul!

[@BryanRoethler]

I think it’s a duet

[@HighRISK666-1]

The best SLIPKNOT song.......I fully relate, thanks Corey for telling the world how I feel!!!!love it!!!🖤🤘💥☠️

[@jenniferking2486]

I know this video is old but I had to comment. If someone asked me "What's your all time favorite song"? I would picked this song. I first heard it in my college English class. We had to write a paper on it. What we believed the song was about. The paper I wrote compared to what I would write today , let me just say before I had never truly experienced a heart ache. The kind that steals your soul. This song helped me realize I had to let go. If I didn't I would never be able rise from those ashes like a phoenix, through the flame. II get to see them perform in July at Inkcarceration and I really hope to hear this song.

[@TheLaunchPadStudio]

I hope you get to hear it too, but it's a bit of a longshot. They dont perform it often. So if they do play it you should be extra excited !! Incarceration is a fantastic festival btw.

[@jesterr7133]

Damn. I wish my English teacher made me write a paper on Slipknot. lol

[@donaldfeatheroff301]

When someone experiences coming alive through another. And what follows ..you suddenly realize one day you could never be whole without them. You push the immediate panic and fear out of your mind.. because they will always be there right….in the next scene night after night futile desperate tears are the only comfort..reminding you that that Love is still alive..and deceived by your own hope tormented years pass slowly..ask me how I know. In a live version I heard Corey Taylor say it’s hard for him to get through that song in front of an audience….! I know I couldn’t do. At “I still press your letters to my lips” …Id lose it. Lol Thanks for your comments. They were really good.

[@tamimunsee8734]

It's a fine line between pleasure and pain....Love and hate....

[@Alicesux13]

This has cleaned and cleared my past souls mate that passed he chose the devil not or family and Satan took him from me…. 9/7/2023 20 years later I let go. Lost that hope to let go…

[@Ben-qm9zq]

Love love love this song...but, I was hoping for a more elaborate explanation of the lyrics from your point of view.

[@edmanr2010]

I can 150% relate to what he is saying it does feel like a large hole is in your life when your with someone you genuinely love decides to break it off and then it's gone. You really do everything you can to refocus your life but you can not forget the good things you had.

[@johnyoung8837]

This song got me through the darkest time of my life. I wanted to take myself out of this world. I listened to this song over and over and it somehow woke me up and I wanted to go on. Now, it still hits me hard but it's a reminder of how far I've come in 5 years.

[@GuardianDeathAngel]

I've been tuning into this song lately because of what I'm going through

[@heatherrichards9889]

First time I heard this song I bawled my eyes out crying I'm going through this right now in my life and I felt it in my heart so much I can't stop listening to it absolutely the best thing I have ever heard

[@CharlesChampagne-r3v]

It's been 6 years since my divorce and after I heard this it really touched my heart and I felt your pain! Awesome shit man

[@caseylightfoot467]

We have all had that relationship but the only song to explain 3verything

[@keelydallman7425]

This song got me through the biggest heartbreak I've ever felt. It took the death of hope to let you go.

[@NATEDAWGG79]

Its one of those songs that any one can relate to at some point in life. It is a timeless piece of art.

[@kyakinney6655]

This is the most validating ive ever felt. I felt the same way he has… i got it ripped away from me. It was beautiful, and now my heart is locked inside of him.

[@aaaflat]

it doesnt even sound like a stone sour song.

[@moisesvillasenor3302]

Hello There

[@jscott8271]

General kenobi

[@DanyoProductions]

A fellow Villasenor, what a pleasant surprise

[@danielsnartt4155]

I even understood this in year 7 in school when my first ever ‘crush’ just teased me because she was a popular pretty girl and I was a overweight fat kid. She and others of her popular friends set it up for a laugh but I generally thought she liked me. I bawled my eyes out to snuff.. silly looking back at it