Solway Firth

The closing track of We Are Not Your Kind, "Solway Firth" finds Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor being ostracized. He feels he has been misunderstood and has become a scapegoat. Today, up on this hill, I'm counting all the killers They sway as they swarm, a look of gluttons in their eyes They mutter as the body loses warmth They pick your bones like locks inside a tomb The sole lyric on We Are Not Your Kind's opening track, "Insert Coin," is also "counting all the killers."

The Solway Firth is a coastal water that forms part of the border between England and Scotland. The name does not appear in the song's lyrics but may be a reference to the "Solway Firth Spaceman," a 1964 photo of a little girl taken near the Solway Firth that shows a background figure wearing what appears to be a space suit. The photographer insisted the spaceman wasn't there when he took the picture. The mysterious spacemen who shouldn't be there links in with the song's subject matter of a false portrayal.

The song ends with the lines: I guess I got what I wanted Another needle in the back through purified scarification It wasn't somebody else, you… did it to me You want a real smile? I haven't smiled in years Taylor told Loudwire the song's last line is the most revealing: "That's the one that is probably the most real thing I've ever written. And that in itself is the story of a man who has had to walk a line and put on that face even in the light or shadow of dealing with not only outside issues, but inside issues." Taylor went on to explain that the line addresses the physical and clinical depression that he's battled all his life. "You're made to feel like it's not true and that you have to deny it because they don't want to admit there's an issue," he said. "That's even worse." "Now you find yourself in this spiral in which you can't even say that you're hurting because no one's listening," Taylor added. "When everything that happens is made to feel like it's your fault then what do you get right? So that last line is the album closer for a reason."