1999Released
2:27

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Interesting facts and trivia about Wait and Bleed. By Songfacts®.

This is about a man who keeps having repetitive black and white dreams about laying in a bathtub full of his own blood with his wrists slit. One day he wakes up and sees that his dream has become a reality, but he doesn't want to believe it and he tries to fall back asleep again.

On the Digipack of their self-titled release, there is a remix of the song mixed by Terry Date. This is the version usually played by radio stations.

Slipknot drummer Chris Fehn (#3) told us about this track: "It was just a basic song. We didn't know it was going to be that popular. The funny thing is the record label, especially new guys at the record label, were coming around when we started getting big, and they're like, 'Oh, the next record you can write like three Wait And Bleeds.' And we're just like, You are an idiot. Therefore, we don't do that. But obviously the band, believe it or not, we have so much control over what we do that we don't write anything for money, we don't write anything for popularity, we have to like it first. And it's just a song that we liked, and it just so happened that it got on the radio and got the attention that we didn't expect." (Check out our interview with Chris Fehn.)

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Wait and Bleed.
GKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
93BPM

Album

The album Wait and Bleed is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Wait and Bleed.
Roadrunner Records
© 1999 The All Blacks B.V.
℗ 1999 The All Blacks B.V.

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