This video is from six years ago(2017). The link below is the one y’all are talking about. The link below is from 12 years ago. Shortly after Paul Gray died. m.ua-cam.com/video/r6VftcpePOg/v-deo.html&pp=ygUKU251ZmYgbGl2ZQ%3D%3D
I saw Corey do an acoustic evening at Wasted Space at the Vegas Hard Rock in summer 2010, almost immediately after Paul died, it wasn't recorded but it should've been. Corey got thru the song but had to compose himself for several moments afterwards.
I take that line as a mental vaccine. A reminder of what happened to me before, so I don't make that mistake ever again. Because I know I'm stupid enough to do it again if I don't have that reminder.
When my marriage was ending and I listened to this song I heard that line and it hit hard. That's the position I was in. All the fights we had worked through and all the pain I had rationalized as worth pushing through. Until then. I was done because I knew there was no hope of this being a good and healthy relationship. That's when I knew it was time to end it.
Saw Corey in Sydney Nov last year. 1300 people singing this in unison will always send shivers down my spine. And the fact I have it on video just makes it even better.
"If you still care don't ever let me know." I am trying to get over the damage, but if you tell me you still care I will hop right back in to what brought me this much pain.
My line is I only wish you weren't my friend then I could hurt you in the end. God I still love him even tho I hate him and I can't hurt him or be horrible because of that. (15 year relationship)
Originally the song was about an unrequited love, the thought that he pushed her away by revealing his feelings, and at the time of this performance it was also done in memory of the loss of his best friend to a drug overdose. Now eight months after the breakup of my 23 year relationship... I still bawl my eyes out as soon as the guitar starts but it's okay. I think I needed to cry today. It's been a while and I find it cathartic. The lyrics I identify the most with is "I couldn't face a life without your light, but all of that was ripped apart when you refused to fight".
Dude don't be ashamed because you cried I'm a thrash metal genera metal head and this song cut into me like no other ever and for someone who hadn't cried maybe a handful of times in a ten year period was brought to tears alone In my bedroom by myself and I try and think about myself as being harder than $5 worth of jawbreaker but this song had that effect on me like none before or after it's like a knife twisting while inside of you while cutting deep into your core!
After a 22-year relationship (20 years married) and having my heart ripped from my chest anytime this song is played, I totally break down inside. "So save your breath I will not care, I think I made it very clear, you couldn't hate enough to love is that supposed to be enough? I only wish you weren't my friend, that I could hurt you in the end, I never claimed to be a saint .......😪😪😪😪 " I feel the same I felt that first day after the 22nd year when I hear this song. The pain won't ebb.
Honestly. These guys (slipknot) kept me sane for like 20 years. I think it's amazing what your doing, breaking down the songs to show the true depth of them ❤👍🏻🎉
I feel you brother! Being it divorce of my Parents as a child, bad breakups or a breakup I couldnt get over when I was a young adult Corey and Slipknot was always the thing that kept my mind from breaking. Coreys ability to feel and express pain, anger hope etc in his vocals and music is such a powerful ability but also Deamon he battles for himself. I hope he feels how much this is meaning for so many people he helped to put in words in sounds what we feel but mostly us men cannot or dont feel are allowed to express.
Paul played a big part in the writing of Snuff with Corey. The song was already personal to Corey but after the death of Paul it is even more important to Corey. RIP Paul ❤
Yeah, I was really excited when Taylor was going to do with Jake. Its an important song in the Slipknot community and I want us to respect that. Always here for the care of others. -The Video Editor
@@HeartSupport You all on the team are so amazing. Getting Jake in on this is incredible as well. Would love to see you guys reach out to Corey himself as he released a video a week or so ago admitting he is struggling with his mental health. Slipknot and Stone Sour have been with me through the hardest points in my life. Thank you for everything you are doing.
This song is slowly being inked into my skin in different lines and accompanying pictures. For me, it's a story of friends buried, love lost, a relationship I never had with a father that was there but never present. Snuff is by far maybe not my all time favorite song, but the most significant song I've ever related to my life. Every time I hear it, I can close my eyes and take a trip through everything I've ever been through
This is Mt absolute favorite song. It has been my therapist, my best friend and my savior. It's so powerful for me. I listen to it almost everyday. I had never seen it performed live after seeing Slipknot 8 times. I took my 15 year old daughter to her first concert in Colorado Springs Co to see Slipknot. They played this song. It was one of the most profound moments of my life having her there with me. She knows my pains. We shed some tears, as did countless others. Clearly Corey and Paul wrote one of the most powerfully painful but relatable songs of all time.
I don't believe how much I cried with this. I have always loved this song but in this moment it hits really bad, it's so relatable and it feels painful.
This is the greatest love song ever written. Love doesn't always end in happily ever after, rarely does actually. " If you still care don't ever let me know..."
First let me say that snuff is my favorite song. It has brought me through my darkest times, and the lyric that saved me was "it took the death of hope to let you go" that line is so real for me and Corey Taylor has said many times at his shows that his fans have saved him, but his lyrics have saved me and continue to bring me comfort and hope when nothing else seems to really make me feel better.
THIS song man!! Made me stop what I was about to do. I had the laptop playing in the background and this song comes on. I was going thru a very dark time in my life and I was so over everything. . . DV to name 1 thing. I am happy this song was written and came on that day.
This performance is so honest and raw, you can tell on his voice that this is extremely personal for him. I'm amazed that he managed to keep it together as well as he did, because it is Not easy to sing properly when the emotions get the best of you.
I feel every word of this song. I cant love anymore because of all the pain associated with love. CMFT always writes songs about his life and what he's been through in life and love. One of my favorites for sure.
That's me. I decided to give myself to my loneliness and it's ok. I've made my peace with it. To many times tried to avoid it but, to many times I got hurt. Simply nothing left to give and honestly, I want nothing in return...
Always shed a tear watching this performance. The lyrics are so powerfull in this song. I had the privilege to see corey perform it live last year during a slipknot concert in the ziggo dome.
The sharing is true story telling when you reach in that abyss of emotion is being transparent, and that's why it's so relatable, pain dmakes you grow and learn but it doesn't mean you're friends.
If you watch the "Making of snuff" video it talks about the struggles corey was going through when they were making the music video for this. Fun fact there is a part in the music video when corey crushes a wine glass in his hands and cuts himself. That part was 100% real and not planned. He let his emotions take over and thats whats happened. They left the camera rolling until he was ready for them to stop. This will always be my favorite song and the one that hits home for me the most.
I think the original meaning of the song was the divorce that he was going through at the time. Then Paul died out of nowhere and the song took on a new meaning for Corey. This performance was in memory of Paul, which is why he got so emotional.
Originally, the song was about an unrequited love. He was going through a really ugly divorce and one of his closest friends was there to help him through it. At one point he thought she had feelings for him but when he confessed his love to her she not only rejected him but she completely abandoned the friendship too. Several months later one of his best friends and the bassist for Slipknot; Paul Gray, died of an overdose. So this means alot to him and all of the band
this song is about loving someone and they cant love him back and left. the hate is because they left when they found out about his feelings, but the love for them is from the time together
I felt every lyric in this song but never could quite put an explanation to it until this analysis. This just hit me like a ton of bricks. I can now verbally express what I felt. Thank you for that.
Music is a true outlet it's a matter of perspective, you can sing or listen to songs deep and dark deemed depressing it's more embracing the experience and being grateful that you've made it out of those Traumatic places life can deal us an unfair hand but throw them away..get your own cards and make your own fate and then you celebrate those moments because it's more about celebration.
Corey Taylor is in my top list of vocalists and lyricists. These words and performance of the words are captivating and it doesnt matter if its live or an in-studio recording. Everything he he said can be felt and its a mark of a true artist. I get the same thing from Aaron Lewis of Staind. Some people just have it.
This song helped me after my divorce. I was in a very dark place and this song totally resonated with everything i was going through. Im not 100 percent but im almost there. never discount the power of music!!!!
i was waiting for this one, almost every time i listen to this song it brings me back to how i felt with my own experiences with break ups or family members, even just friendships. apart of me misses them, i think of them less often but here and there, something reminds me of them and it feels as if I'm suddenly back to when i last tried processing those experiences. i love how everyone respects Corey's performance and sings along with him even covering vocals he can't get out from the pain behind the lyrics.
I absolutely love that you’re taking the time and will try and know the superb way that Corey Taylor uses to be able to say their songs so they are used as intellectually used , even if you don’t know the meaning of a word he’s used it’s something you for sure will search of the meaning. Although I’m an educated person I still have to read up that’s way when I go back and listen to the song again it just makes a lot more sense for me.
The song is about Corey's relationship with a woman who helped him through his addiction but left after he told her his feelings for him Paul pushed him to put the song out then short time later Paul passed
I always love this video because i always felt like when corey is clearly having a hard time the fans make noise and support him and i invision it as if they helping hold him up while he plays with such sorrow and emotion. This is why i love metal music.
I’ve seen Slipknot and Stone Sour multiple times and Corey Taylor is a master at connecting with the audience. He makes it so personal and he really makes you feel his appreciation for you being there. I love seeing him live. He’s one of the GOATs in my opinion.
"Angel's lie to keep control", this one always hurts so much, finding out how many things are said behind my back, the guilt trips, the conditioned isolation to keep providing the life someone else wanted. Over 12 years of marriage of always feeling worried I'm doing something wrong, some flaw or crack that will cause me to say one wrong word and they will take my family from me. It took a long time to even talk about any of this and how much of all these years, its such a mix of anger, fear, anxiety, relief, and finally feeling that there can be some hope in finding a new way in life. I was never perfect, feeling at times I didn't deserve happiness because I made mistakes in trying to find people that didnt want to change who I am. Talking to friends and less and less over years as I felt I lost more and more agency over every part of my life as everything needed a good enough reason. Sorry this is sort of just a splatter of emotion without much structure to it. This song as hit me differently nearly every year I've listened to it, hating my life at times, feeling trapped, just going through the motions of life, resentment, suppressed pain, blaming myself for letting it get to this point, etc, this song hits it all. Another pair of songs that just kills me as a father is "The Whaler" by Thrice, and "Against the Tide" by Celldweller, both are amazing songs.
This song is about a girl that helped him thru a dark time in his life and didn't feel the same way about him that he did her Also yes he has since dedicated this song to paul gray his best friend after his passing If you want a tear jerker check out the video of him getting pauls tattoo
I’ve been going to see Slipknot repeatedly since 1999, up until last year(almost every year). The crowd is always incredibly charged emotionally, but the first time he performed “Snuff” was a whole new wave of emotion. It was phenomenal.
"The air around me still feels like a cage" such a heavy line, going around just living and feeling like your eternally trapped is a terrifying feeling
Dude. That whole live in London set is incredible. During the song "bother" the entire auditorium starts screaming the lyrics so loud he has to stop and applaud them. One of the most beautiful moments ive ever seen during a set.
Corey gets a lot of grief from some Slipknot fans (and haters) but love or loath him, this is a beautiful albeit sad song. I only heard this version relatively recently and it’s one of my favourite songs ever. Feels weird to say favourite but I can’t think of another word to describe it.
I always felt like this was done as the perspective of the friend who took their life. Like, Corey watched his friend that fell into this hell, and it hits so many lows in a self destructive mentality.
Another video from the same show is his song from his other band, Stoned Sour, called “Bother”. I hope everyone watches it, but it very rarely gets reacted to. Anyways, it’s worth a watch even if it’s just a private watch.
I can relate to two sets of lyrics in this song. The feeling of not deserving someone, and my heart being too dark to care. I've hurt people and I've been hurt by people. I fought a disease and I'm losing the battle, so I tend to push people away, tell them they deserve better, and even make them think my heart is just too cold to care or keep fighting anymore. In the end, this illness will win. It doesn't matter how hard i fight, i cannot beat it, and I'm tired in every way a person can possibly be. I feel like the people I love are watching the vibrant warrior, loving wife, doting mom, and helpful daughter that they knew so well, turn slowly into a person they don't recognize. I am just a shell of the person I once was. I'm in severe chronic pain, my body doesn't function like I want it to, my quality of life is almost nonexistent. My illness is aggressive and only has 1 way out. I'm simply a useless, sad little sack of a human, as well as a burden on everyone around me. The physical and emotional pain and battles that go on in my brain are becoming unbearable. It's definitely a shitty situation. There are no winners. Only death, grief, anger, and sadness will be left in its wake. And it's perfectly fine for anyone reading this to feel sad. But please don't express any pity. That isn't at all the reason I decided to do a little "Journaling" here. I hope everyone is doing well and living their best lives. Thank you for taking the time to read this. 💓
From PenArt: @THEgothicqueen1882 My dear friend, I am so glad you wrote this, thank you for writing. I hope you don’t read any of this as pity, only praise and encouragement. First off, I want to thank you for being so strong. Clearly you love the people around you and you have such a strong heart. Unfortunately, when we love others more than ourselves, it's so easy for our mind to tell us how bad we are for those we love. It can be uncomfortable and even scary to accept help and rely on others to take care of us, especially when we’ve taken care of them in the past, or know how they look up to us. Being ’the strong one’, ’the bright one’, or even just ’mom’... that’s the best title of all. But it’s so hard when the meaning or expectations of us change, and then we ourselves feel changed, as if these titles define us. But they don’t! Your thoughts, feelings, words and actions define who you are! Even the fact that you’ve made it through this far is testament enough as to how strong you are! You are a fighter and a survivor! That sounds like a warrior in my book. Even through the pain your body is dealing with, you have a mind and soul inside of you full of life! I’m so glad you wrote this and said something, not everybody would. Some people keep it to themselves and shove it inside, keeping themselves locked away and closing every door and window of opportunity. But you know how to use your voice! Your mind is your most powerful ally, but can also be your worst enemy. You can befriend it, or you can let it win… that’s when pain and grief are the true winners. But you can change the outcome! You can choose to leave joy, kindness and truth behind, and the ones that love you will always remember the best of you. You are strong, my friend, and I want you to know that you are worth fighting for. You are a hero. You are loved. ~ Pen
From PenArt: @THEgothicqueen1882 My dear friend, I am so glad you wrote this, thank you for writing. I hope you don’t read any of this as pity, only praise and encouragement. First off, I want to thank you for being so strong. Clearly you love the people around you and you have such a strong heart. Unfortunately, when we love others more than ourselves, it's so easy for our mind to tell us how bad we are for those we love. It can be uncomfortable and even scary to accept help and rely on others to take care of us, especially when we’ve taken care of them in the past, or know how they look up to us. Being ’the strong one’, ’the bright one’, or even just ’mom’... that’s the best title of all. But it’s so hard when the meaning or expectations of us change, and then we ourselves feel changed, as if these titles define us. But they don’t! Your thoughts, feelings, words and actions define who you are! Even the fact that you’ve made it through this far is testament enough as to how strong you are! You are a fighter and a survivor! That sounds like a warrior in my book. Even through the pain your body is dealing with, you have a mind and soul inside of you full of life! I’m so glad you wrote this and said something, not everybody would. Some people keep it to themselves and shove it inside, keeping themselves locked away and closing every door and window of opportunity. But you know how to use your voice! Your mind is your most powerful ally, but can also be your worst enemy. You can befriend it, or you can let it win… that’s when pain and grief are the true winners. But you can change the outcome! You can choose to leave joy, kindness and truth behind, and the ones that love you will always remember the best of you. You are strong, my friend, and I want you to know that you are worth fighting for. You are a hero. You are loved. ~ Pen
I'm going through some tough times with my girlfriend right now. It's like I'm at my breaking point but it's so damn hard because we've been together over 5 years now. I've loved this song for a long time but right now in this moment this song speaks to me in ways it never has. Thank you for doing these videos
From ThriceTheThird: @jeremylong7533 Thank you for sharing with us what you are going through. I'm sorry that your relationship seems to be under a lot of stress right now. If you ever want to share more with us. Feel free to let it out. <3
I survived leaving a 25 year relationship best thing I did was walk away. I'm so much happier in my life without that relationship but I definitely get the wanting to stay it's just not worth it in the long term
From Micro: @jeremylong7533 It's impressive how songs can resonate with our heart differently depending on what we are going through, or what our life looks like at a given time. With what you describe regarding your relationship with your girlfriend, I imagine this music in particular must echo deeply some of the ways you've been feeling. The sensation of distance being created, the grief that piles up, the raw honesty filled up with both sadness and anger at the same time. It's a brutal, honest message about one's heart, and even though there is something of a relief to have those emotions put into music, it releases a lot of the pain too at the same time. I'm sorry you've been feeling similar things, friend, and that your relationship with your girlfriend has been difficult lately. It is so hard when the connection you have with very person you love seems to be impacted by pain and frustration. It's like something that is supposed to elevate you and make you feel safe becomes a place of hurt and burdens to carry with you. Five years of life spent together is a very significant amount of time, and I would imagine that the perspective of seeing what you've built together breaking down must be awfully painful. It's the kind of situation that can easily bring its share of helplessness to your heart, and it's certainly difficult to not surrender to it. I am personally in a relationship of 13 years now with my partner, and over the years there's surely been a couple of times when we've felt enstranged from each other, and like we would be touching some issues that felt unsolvable at the time. The stress and heartache it created in me wasan awfulexperience. I had this voice in the back of my mind that would keep making me thinkthat the worst could happen - a separation -, which I would have definitely not been prepared for. My heart goes out to you as you navigate this rollercoaster of emotions somehow. I don't know your context of course, but the weight of this situation is felt through your words here. Of course challenges and more tumultuous times are part of any relationship, but it hits differently when it's about *your* relationship directly. I don't know the specifics of what you are going through, but I do hope that you'll have both the possibility to discuss openly and respectfully, in a way that will allow you to heal and progress together. Sometimes, romantic relationships get stronger by walking through the fire together. In any case, you absolutely deserve some relief, some positive change, some healing, and not to feel like being stuck in some kind of rut. I wish you all the best moving forward and hope for you to find peace and healing from this. You matter, friend.
People always react to the later sentence "it took the death of hope to let you go" and I get it, if they are thinking about someone they lost. For me the earlier one "My smile was taken long ago, if I can change I hope I never know" hits way deeper, because it's an endless internal pain.
I've commented about this on orher reactions to this, this song literally saved my life. It released a couple days after my ex-fiancee and girlfriend of 7 years left me. I was absolutely done with everything. I heard this song then the story behind it and I didn't feel like I was alone and just a singular useless piece of garbage human. Knowing I wasn't alone made me think about everything more and more. I really thought about my parents a lot. I had my dog who'd been through a lot with me who'd just lay with me and I needed to show him tge same love, feed him, play with him. It all kept me going. It's been 7 years now and I'm still not fully better, still have dreams about her and my old life but I am better. I've quit drinking, I'm going to the gym again, just making other people smile and laugh makes me happy so I try to do that everyday. The empty house still stings a lot though. That last line in the song "if you still care dont ever let me know" is so true for me. She tried coming back after everything and I could see she hadn't changed at all and it was just going to happen again and again so that's basically what I told her. I didn't wanna hear it anymore because it would draw me back in and I'd just relive the pain over and over. This song saved at least one life.
From DyllonKG: @fgialcgorge7392 Hey there friend. Thank you SO so much for posting. I want to say that I'm glad you're here. And that I'm glad that music saved you. And I'm glad you shared your story. In a strange way, you sharing your story may give someone courage the way that the song did - someone else may see this and think "someone else made it through this. Maybe I can too." You mentioned feeling completely at the brink after your ex left you. I get the feeling that things were rocky for a minute given how you said "she hadn't changed" when she tried to come back. And that for a while you felt empty or alone, that you didn't have much besides your dog. But your dog kept you in it. Kept you going. Im sorry you had to go through that hurt. I'm sorry that you were ever in that position. I could see feeling discarded. Wounded. Being alone and unsure what the next steps are, now that the road forward you once saw was wiped away. I've been in that spot at least once. I had someone that I thought was my world and my everything. I know that isn't the case anymore - I personally had some attachment issues that I needed to get through. But when they walked away, it hurt so bad. I felt like I was worthless. Like I was trash to them. Now, Im married, beyond happy. Im still healing a lot of my personal stuff but each day Im glad to be able to do that. It's a blessing just to have a chance to do it. And it sounds like you're getting there two. Our stories aren't the same - but we both fought like hell to find ourselves. You kicked drinking and that's incredible. You're working out. You're investing in others. You sound like such an incredible soul and Im glad to have replied to you here. Don't stop, ok? You keep going. We're all proud of you. Hold fast.
I’m pretty sure that whole concert is on UA-cam. You could watch the whole thing and cut it up. He plays a bunch of great songs and a couple cover songs
Another song part of this concert is Bother, by Stone Sour, coreys other band. Very intimate also with the crowd singing along, would be awesome to see a reaction to that!!
"Angels lie to keep control." That is my highlight line here, and it has many reasons. I will abstain from writing here due to length, sob story, lack of want to give her the satisfaction.
Please Dive into Stone Sour! The first song I would recommend is "Taciturn". Another song that would be awesome to hear you react to from Atone Sour is "Zzyzx Rd."
@holycegaming4367 I try to sway away from the songs that are most commonly played on the radio. Can't get a pure reaction from music that is popular and played on every Rock station in America. I know most people don't listen to the radio which I find sad. I wanted to be a radio DJ, but as I came to the age where that was a feasible career it became a career on the verge of being extinct due to digital music downloads and streaming music services like Spotify.
Another master piece is Gordon Lightfoot and his son If You Could Read My Mind. Gordon was a amazing songwriter from Canada and he is Bob Dylan favorite songwriter.
@heartsupport whenever you ask anyone to explain me they say just listen to snuff and you'll understand him. Thank you for this breakdown it helped me a lot to look further into myself. Maybe you can do a breakdown on the band Highly Suspect song serotonin.
He just recently started to sing this song live at his concerts with Slipknot starting on his tour last year because of how personal this song is to him. Before he would start crying mid song.
Acoustic corey taylor will rock your socks off. You should check out some of his others that he does for his other band Stone Sour. Some of my favorite songs of theirs sound so much better when you get more of his voice with the lyrics that sometimes get hidden in the chaos of the instrumentals.
Corey has said in interviews that this song probably wouldn't have made it on the record without Paul Gray pushing him to see the song through to completion. Paul knew how powerful a song it would be and how important it was for Corey to process how he felt and let it out. It was kind of a watershed moment for Corey growing to be more comfortable with expressing through a much more vulnerable lens. The song now means that much more to Corey after Paul's death because it was a great example of the very close friendship they had. These days it hard for him to perform that song because it makes him think of Paul much more than the ex he wrote it about.
I believe this is the time Corey performed Snuff in memory of Paul after he passed suddenly. Which I think adds to the genuineness to the performance
You are correct
This video is from six years ago(2017). The link below is the one y’all are talking about. The link below is from 12 years ago. Shortly after Paul Gray died.
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I saw Corey do an acoustic evening at Wasted Space at the Vegas Hard Rock in summer 2010, almost immediately after Paul died, it wasn't recorded but it should've been. Corey got thru the song but had to compose himself for several moments afterwards.
“My love was punished long ago, it took the death of hope to let you go”. You cannot get better than that
“It took the death of hope to let you go…” those words are a place I will never forget…
I take that line as a mental vaccine. A reminder of what happened to me before, so I don't make that mistake ever again. Because I know I'm stupid enough to do it again if I don't have that reminder.
When my marriage was ending and I listened to this song I heard that line and it hit hard. That's the position I was in. All the fights we had worked through and all the pain I had rationalized as worth pushing through. Until then. I was done because I knew there was no hope of this being a good and healthy relationship. That's when I knew it was time to end it.
Saw Corey in Sydney Nov last year.
1300 people singing this in unison will always send shivers down my spine. And the fact I have it on video just makes it even better.
Was so hauntingly beautiful hearing everyone singing it ... kinda sad too that we all felt it on some level.
"If you still care don't ever let me know." I am trying to get over the damage, but if you tell me you still care I will hop right back in to what brought me this much pain.
My line is I only wish you weren't my friend then I could hurt you in the end. God I still love him even tho I hate him and I can't hurt him or be horrible because of that. (15 year relationship)
Originally the song was about an unrequited love, the thought that he pushed her away by revealing his feelings, and at the time of this performance it was also done in memory of the loss of his best friend to a drug overdose. Now eight months after the breakup of my 23 year relationship... I still bawl my eyes out as soon as the guitar starts but it's okay. I think I needed to cry today. It's been a while and I find it cathartic. The lyrics I identify the most with is "I couldn't face a life without your light, but all of that was ripped apart when you refused to fight".
Dude don't be ashamed because you cried I'm a thrash metal genera metal head and this song cut into me like no other ever and for someone who hadn't cried maybe a handful of times in a ten year period was brought to tears alone In my bedroom by myself and I try and think about myself as being harder than $5 worth of jawbreaker but this song had that effect on me like none before or after it's like a knife twisting while inside of you while cutting deep into your core!
@@RonaldAdkins-t8fNo worries, I never said I was ashamed to cry.
Crying is good. Never be ashamed of that. And also you are not alone 🫂
After a 22-year relationship (20 years married) and having my heart ripped from my chest anytime this song is played, I totally break down inside.
"So save your breath I will not care, I think I made it very clear, you couldn't hate enough to love is that supposed to be enough? I only wish you weren't my friend, that I could hurt you in the end, I never claimed to be a saint .......😪😪😪😪 "
I feel the same I felt that first day after the 22nd year when I hear this song. The pain won't ebb.
@@SherbearCummings well, just know you are not alone. 🫂
You should react to Corey Taylor performing "Bother" (also from the same show), the crowd singing with him is amazing in that one
I would also recommend reacting to the original "Bother" video, by Corey's other band, Stone Sour.
Honestly. These guys (slipknot) kept me sane for like 20 years. I think it's amazing what your doing, breaking down the songs to show the true depth of them ❤👍🏻🎉
I feel you brother! Being it divorce of my Parents as a child, bad breakups or a breakup I couldnt get over when I was a young adult Corey and Slipknot was always the thing that kept my mind from breaking. Coreys ability to feel and express pain, anger hope etc in his vocals and music is such a powerful ability but also Deamon he battles for himself. I hope he feels how much this is meaning for so many people he helped to put in words in sounds what we feel but mostly us men cannot or dont feel are allowed to express.
Yes! My son learned to play my fave Slipknot songs to cheer me up. 🤘
Paul played a big part in the writing of Snuff with Corey. The song was already personal to Corey but after the death of Paul it is even more important to Corey. RIP Paul ❤
Yeah, I was really excited when Taylor was going to do with Jake. Its an important song in the Slipknot community and I want us to respect that.
Always here for the care of others.
-The Video Editor
@@HeartSupport You all on the team are so amazing. Getting Jake in on this is incredible as well. Would love to see you guys reach out to Corey himself as he released a video a week or so ago admitting he is struggling with his mental health. Slipknot and Stone Sour have been with me through the hardest points in my life. Thank you for everything you are doing.
@@HeartSupport keep up with the fantastic work that you're doing. Its very much appreciated folks .Cheers 👏
@@eyespyyourspy1328You are 100% spot on with this. It would be amazing to see him involved in a video.
This song is slowly being inked into my skin in different lines and accompanying pictures. For me, it's a story of friends buried, love lost, a relationship I never had with a father that was there but never present. Snuff is by far maybe not my all time favorite song, but the most significant song I've ever related to my life. Every time I hear it, I can close my eyes and take a trip through everything I've ever been through
Rest in Peace Paul Grey and Joey Jordison we maggots still mourn your passing 🤘💔😭
Friend ship is more important then money memories is all we got to take in the grave 🪱🐺🦇🕸️🕷️
is it just me who thinks that the verse "angels lie to keep control" is SO deep and meaningful? Great video. thank you!
I always watch to see if the reactors comment or talk about this, but rarely they do. Great line. You're not the only one. Haha
This is Mt absolute favorite song. It has been my therapist, my best friend and my savior. It's so powerful for me. I listen to it almost everyday. I had never seen it performed live after seeing Slipknot 8 times. I took my 15 year old daughter to her first concert in Colorado Springs Co to see Slipknot. They played this song. It was one of the most profound moments of my life having her there with me. She knows my pains. We shed some tears, as did countless others. Clearly Corey and Paul wrote one of the most powerfully painful but relatable songs of all time.
I don't believe how much I cried with this. I have always loved this song but in this moment it hits really bad, it's so relatable and it feels painful.
"If I can change I hope I never know" is one of the most despondent lines I've ever heard. That hits hard.
For me its "It took the death of hope to let you go."
It does hit hard
This is the greatest love song ever written. Love doesn't always end in happily ever after, rarely does actually. " If you still care don't ever let me know..."
My favorite Slipknot song. This song helped me heal from a toxic and abusive relationship. It's beautiful and angry at the same time. ❤
First let me say that snuff is my favorite song. It has brought me through my darkest times, and the lyric that saved me was "it took the death of hope to let you go" that line is so real for me and Corey Taylor has said many times at his shows that his fans have saved him, but his lyrics have saved me and continue to bring me comfort and hope when nothing else seems to really make me feel better.
THIS song man!! Made me stop what I was about to do. I had the laptop playing in the background and this song comes on. I was going thru a very dark time in my life and I was so over everything. . . DV to name 1 thing. I am happy this song was written and came on that day.
There are songs, and then there are songs about emotions. And here is a song about a real emotion.
This performance is so honest and raw, you can tell on his voice that this is extremely personal for him.
I'm amazed that he managed to keep it together as well as he did, because it is Not easy to sing properly when the emotions get the best of you.
I feel every word of this song. I cant love anymore because of all the pain associated with love. CMFT always writes songs about his life and what he's been through in life and love. One of my favorites for sure.
“You ran away your all the same” ❤️🩹 that lyric hit home
You two are too young to be this wise - all power too you both - keep providing hope - you both have hearts of gold - thank you!
That's me. I decided to give myself to my loneliness and it's ok. I've made my peace with it. To many times tried to avoid it but, to many times I got hurt. Simply nothing left to give and honestly, I want nothing in return...
Never give up! We all deserve to be happy!
@@paulthirdeye2329 You can be alone AND happy..... just sain'
why anyone should get hurt over and over again voluntarily....
I always come back to this. Best live experience ever
Ah man ,this song , right in the feels 💔, hits so close to home
Always shed a tear watching this performance. The lyrics are so powerfull in this song. I had the privilege to see corey perform it live last year during a slipknot concert in the ziggo dome.
This was not long after Paul passed away. This brings tears everytime i see it
Blue October is another group you should share with you and your fans
The sharing is true story telling when you reach in that abyss of emotion is being transparent, and that's why it's so relatable, pain dmakes you grow and learn but it doesn't mean you're friends.
Thank you for hearing us about this song. This version and the story with all of it❤️🙏🫡
If you watch the "Making of snuff" video it talks about the struggles corey was going through when they were making the music video for this.
Fun fact there is a part in the music video when corey crushes a wine glass in his hands and cuts himself. That part was 100% real and not planned. He let his emotions take over and thats whats happened. They left the camera rolling until he was ready for them to stop.
This will always be my favorite song and the one that hits home for me the most.
It helps us to be better human beings, we gain empathy, understanding, how to be humble honest and kind.
I think the original meaning of the song was the divorce that he was going through at the time. Then Paul died out of nowhere and the song took on a new meaning for Corey. This performance was in memory of Paul, which is why he got so emotional.
Originally, the song was about an unrequited love. He was going through a really ugly divorce and one of his closest friends was there to help him through it. At one point he thought she had feelings for him but when he confessed his love to her she not only rejected him but she completely abandoned the friendship too. Several months later one of his best friends and the bassist for Slipknot; Paul Gray, died of an overdose. So this means alot to him and all of the band
Love this song, especialy this live version and like yours reaction
this song is about loving someone and they cant love him back and left. the hate is because they left when they found out about his feelings, but the love for them is from the time together
Another one of my favorite people, that tell their story in song. Definitely relate to this song
In my opinion...this is one of the best written songs. I love every lyric.
I felt every lyric in this song but never could quite put an explanation to it until this analysis. This just hit me like a ton of bricks. I can now verbally express what I felt. Thank you for that.
Music is a true outlet it's a matter of perspective, you can sing or listen to songs deep and dark deemed depressing it's more embracing the experience and being grateful that you've made it out of those Traumatic places life can deal us an unfair hand but throw them away..get your own cards and make your own fate and then you celebrate those moments because it's more about celebration.
Corey Taylor is in my top list of vocalists and lyricists. These words and performance of the words are captivating and it doesnt matter if its live or an in-studio recording. Everything he he said can be felt and its a mark of a true artist. I get the same thing from Aaron Lewis of Staind. Some people just have it.
This song Especially saved my life I can totally really.
I think what you all do on this page is fantastic and you are very appreciated for what you do. Thank you
This song helped me after my divorce. I was in a very dark place and this song totally resonated with everything i was going through. Im not 100 percent but im almost there. never discount the power of music!!!!
i was waiting for this one, almost every time i listen to this song it brings me back to how i felt with my own experiences with break ups or family members, even just friendships. apart of me misses them, i think of them less often but here and there, something reminds me of them and it feels as if I'm suddenly back to when i last tried processing those experiences. i love how everyone respects Corey's performance and sings along with him even covering vocals he can't get out from the pain behind the lyrics.
I absolutely love that you’re taking the time and will try and know the superb way that Corey Taylor uses to be able to say their songs so they are used as intellectually used , even if you don’t know the meaning of a word he’s used it’s something you for sure will search of the meaning. Although I’m an educated person I still have to read up that’s way when I go back and listen to the song again it just makes a lot more sense for me.
I enjoyed your Interpretation of this song, This was a very great reaction video. Thank you
This is one of the best breakup songs ever. So in depth and emotion.
Been listening to this song of theirs on repeat and it perfectly describes what I feel with my break up recently.
The song is about Corey's relationship with a woman who helped him through his addiction but left after he told her his feelings for him Paul pushed him to put the song out then short time later Paul passed
It took the death of hope to let you go. Really hits hard
I always love this video because i always felt like when corey is clearly having a hard time the fans make noise and support him and i invision it as if they helping hold him up while he plays with such sorrow and emotion. This is why i love metal music.
I’ve seen Slipknot and Stone Sour multiple times and Corey Taylor is a master at connecting with the audience. He makes it so personal and he really makes you feel his appreciation for you being there. I love seeing him live. He’s one of the GOATs in my opinion.
"Angel's lie to keep control", this one always hurts so much, finding out how many things are said behind my back, the guilt trips, the conditioned isolation to keep providing the life someone else wanted. Over 12 years of marriage of always feeling worried I'm doing something wrong, some flaw or crack that will cause me to say one wrong word and they will take my family from me. It took a long time to even talk about any of this and how much of all these years, its such a mix of anger, fear, anxiety, relief, and finally feeling that there can be some hope in finding a new way in life. I was never perfect, feeling at times I didn't deserve happiness because I made mistakes in trying to find people that didnt want to change who I am. Talking to friends and less and less over years as I felt I lost more and more agency over every part of my life as everything needed a good enough reason. Sorry this is sort of just a splatter of emotion without much structure to it.
This song as hit me differently nearly every year I've listened to it, hating my life at times, feeling trapped, just going through the motions of life, resentment, suppressed pain, blaming myself for letting it get to this point, etc, this song hits it all.
Another pair of songs that just kills me as a father is "The Whaler" by Thrice, and "Against the Tide" by Celldweller, both are amazing songs.
Great reaction you 2 are great.
The "I only wish you weren't my friend so I can hurt you in the end" part hits me every time.
Music truly IS Magic.
This song is about a girl that helped him thru a dark time in his life and didn't feel the same way about him that he did her
Also yes he has since dedicated this song to paul gray his best friend after his passing
If you want a tear jerker check out the video of him getting pauls tattoo
I’ve been going to see Slipknot repeatedly since 1999, up until
last year(almost every year). The crowd is always incredibly charged emotionally, but the first time he performed “Snuff” was a whole new wave of emotion. It was phenomenal.
2 lyrics that to me are just powerful "it took the death of hope to let you go" "if you still care don't ever let me know"
"The air around me still feels like a cage" such a heavy line, going around just living and feeling like your eternally trapped is a terrifying feeling
"when you refuse to fight" this hits hard..
Dude. That whole live in London set is incredible. During the song "bother" the entire auditorium starts screaming the lyrics so loud he has to stop and applaud them. One of the most beautiful moments ive ever seen during a set.
Corey gets a lot of grief from some Slipknot fans (and haters) but love or loath him, this is a beautiful albeit sad song. I only heard this version relatively recently and it’s one of my favourite songs ever. Feels weird to say favourite but I can’t think of another word to describe it.
"Angels lie to keep control" hits hard!
I always felt like this was done as the perspective of the friend who took their life. Like, Corey watched his friend that fell into this hell, and it hits so many lows in a self destructive mentality.
Another video from the same show is his song from his other band, Stoned Sour, called “Bother”.
I hope everyone watches it, but it very rarely gets reacted to. Anyways, it’s worth a watch even if it’s just a private watch.
I can relate to two sets of lyrics in this song. The feeling of not deserving someone, and my heart being too dark to care. I've hurt people and I've been hurt by people. I fought a disease and I'm losing the battle, so I tend to push people away, tell them they deserve better, and even make them think my heart is just too cold to care or keep fighting anymore. In the end, this illness will win. It doesn't matter how hard i fight, i cannot beat it, and I'm tired in every way a person can possibly be. I feel like the people I love are watching the vibrant warrior, loving wife, doting mom, and helpful daughter that they knew so well, turn slowly into a person they don't recognize. I am just a shell of the person I once was. I'm in severe chronic pain, my body doesn't function like I want it to, my quality of life is almost nonexistent. My illness is aggressive and only has 1 way out. I'm simply a useless, sad little sack of a human, as well as a burden on everyone around me. The physical and emotional pain and battles that go on in my brain are becoming unbearable. It's definitely a shitty situation. There are no winners. Only death, grief, anger, and sadness will be left in its wake. And it's perfectly fine for anyone reading this to feel sad. But please don't express any pity. That isn't at all the reason I decided to do a little "Journaling" here. I hope everyone is doing well and living their best lives. Thank you for taking the time to read this. 💓
From PenArt: @THEgothicqueen1882 My dear friend,
I am so glad you wrote this, thank you for writing.
I hope you don’t read any of this as pity, only praise and encouragement.
First off, I want to thank you for being so strong. Clearly you love the people around you and you have such a strong heart. Unfortunately, when we love others more than ourselves, it's so easy for our mind to tell us how bad we are for those we love. It can be uncomfortable and even scary to accept help and rely on others to take care of us, especially when we’ve taken care of them in the past, or know how they look up to us. Being ’the strong one’, ’the bright one’, or even just ’mom’... that’s the best title of all. But it’s so hard when the meaning or expectations of us change, and then we ourselves feel changed, as if these titles define us.
But they don’t! Your thoughts, feelings, words and actions define who you are! Even the fact that you’ve made it through this far is testament enough as to how strong you are! You are a fighter and a survivor! That sounds like a warrior in my book.
Even through the pain your body is dealing with, you have a mind and soul inside of you full of life! I’m so glad you wrote this and said something, not everybody would. Some people keep it to themselves and shove it inside, keeping themselves locked away and closing every door and window of opportunity. But you know how to use your voice! Your mind is your most powerful ally, but can also be your worst enemy. You can befriend it, or you can let it win… that’s when pain and grief are the true winners.
But you can change the outcome! You can choose to leave joy, kindness and truth behind, and the ones that love you will always remember the best of you.
You are strong, my friend, and I want you to know that you are worth fighting for. You are a hero. You are loved.
~ Pen
From PenArt: @THEgothicqueen1882 My dear friend,
I am so glad you wrote this, thank you for writing.
I hope you don’t read any of this as pity, only praise and encouragement.
First off, I want to thank you for being so strong. Clearly you love the people around you and you have such a strong heart. Unfortunately, when we love others more than ourselves, it's so easy for our mind to tell us how bad we are for those we love. It can be uncomfortable and even scary to accept help and rely on others to take care of us, especially when we’ve taken care of them in the past, or know how they look up to us. Being ’the strong one’, ’the bright one’, or even just ’mom’... that’s the best title of all. But it’s so hard when the meaning or expectations of us change, and then we ourselves feel changed, as if these titles define us.
But they don’t! Your thoughts, feelings, words and actions define who you are! Even the fact that you’ve made it through this far is testament enough as to how strong you are! You are a fighter and a survivor! That sounds like a warrior in my book.
Even through the pain your body is dealing with, you have a mind and soul inside of you full of life! I’m so glad you wrote this and said something, not everybody would. Some people keep it to themselves and shove it inside, keeping themselves locked away and closing every door and window of opportunity. But you know how to use your voice! Your mind is your most powerful ally, but can also be your worst enemy. You can befriend it, or you can let it win… that’s when pain and grief are the true winners.
But you can change the outcome! You can choose to leave joy, kindness and truth behind, and the ones that love you will always remember the best of you.
You are strong, my friend, and I want you to know that you are worth fighting for. You are a hero. You are loved.
~ Pen
A song about lost love, sang in honour of a lost brother. So many deep cuts.
I love Jake getting in on these.
"You couldn't hate enough to love..." This. All of this.
As far as live preformances go This song and bards song are the ones that get the emotions flowing for me. For different reasons but lfg boys
The lyric “it took the death of hope to let you go” kills me on a personal level
I'm going through some tough times with my girlfriend right now. It's like I'm at my breaking point but it's so damn hard because we've been together over 5 years now. I've loved this song for a long time but right now in this moment this song speaks to me in ways it never has. Thank you for doing these videos
From ThriceTheThird: @jeremylong7533 Thank you for sharing with us what you are going through. I'm sorry that your relationship seems to be under a lot of stress right now. If you ever want to share more with us. Feel free to let it out. <3
I survived leaving a 25 year relationship best thing I did was walk away. I'm so much happier in my life without that relationship but I definitely get the wanting to stay it's just not worth it in the long term
From Micro: @jeremylong7533 It's impressive how songs can resonate with our heart differently depending on what we are going through, or what our life looks like at a given time. With what you describe regarding your relationship with your girlfriend, I imagine this music in particular must echo deeply some of the ways you've been feeling. The sensation of distance being created, the grief that piles up, the raw honesty filled up with both sadness and anger at the same time. It's a brutal, honest message about one's heart, and even though there is something of a relief to have those emotions put into music, it releases a lot of the pain too at the same time.
I'm sorry you've been feeling similar things, friend, and that your relationship with your girlfriend has been difficult lately. It is so hard when the connection you have with very person you love seems to be impacted by pain and frustration. It's like something that is supposed to elevate you and make you feel safe becomes a place of hurt and burdens to carry with you. Five years of life spent together is a very significant amount of time, and I would imagine that the perspective of seeing what you've built together breaking down must be awfully painful. It's the kind of situation that can easily bring its share of helplessness to your heart, and it's certainly difficult to not surrender to it.
I am personally in a relationship of 13 years now with my partner, and over the years there's surely been a couple of times when we've felt enstranged from each other, and like we would be touching some issues that felt unsolvable at the time. The stress and heartache it created in me wasan awfulexperience. I had this voice in the back of my mind that would keep making me thinkthat the worst could happen - a separation -, which I would have definitely not been prepared for. My heart goes out to you as you navigate this rollercoaster of emotions somehow. I don't know your context of course, but the weight of this situation is felt through your words here.
Of course challenges and more tumultuous times are part of any relationship, but it hits differently when it's about *your* relationship directly. I don't know the specifics of what you are going through, but I do hope that you'll have both the possibility to discuss openly and respectfully, in a way that will allow you to heal and progress together. Sometimes, romantic relationships get stronger by walking through the fire together. In any case, you absolutely deserve some relief, some positive change, some healing, and not to feel like being stuck in some kind of rut.
I wish you all the best moving forward and hope for you to find peace and healing from this. You matter, friend.
Love this collab!!
React to Purple Rain by Corey Taylor. Just happened to be at First Avenue the day of Prince's passing. Pleaee
People always react to the later sentence "it took the death of hope to let you go" and I get it, if they are thinking about someone they lost.
For me the earlier one "My smile was taken long ago, if I can change I hope I never know" hits way deeper, because it's an endless internal pain.
This is an amazing song, I would love to hear you do a break down on their song hesitate
I've commented about this on orher reactions to this, this song literally saved my life. It released a couple days after my ex-fiancee and girlfriend of 7 years left me. I was absolutely done with everything. I heard this song then the story behind it and I didn't feel like I was alone and just a singular useless piece of garbage human. Knowing I wasn't alone made me think about everything more and more. I really thought about my parents a lot. I had my dog who'd been through a lot with me who'd just lay with me and I needed to show him tge same love, feed him, play with him. It all kept me going. It's been 7 years now and I'm still not fully better, still have dreams about her and my old life but I am better. I've quit drinking, I'm going to the gym again, just making other people smile and laugh makes me happy so I try to do that everyday. The empty house still stings a lot though.
That last line in the song "if you still care dont ever let me know" is so true for me. She tried coming back after everything and I could see she hadn't changed at all and it was just going to happen again and again so that's basically what I told her. I didn't wanna hear it anymore because it would draw me back in and I'd just relive the pain over and over.
This song saved at least one life.
From DyllonKG: @fgialcgorge7392 Hey there friend. Thank you SO so much for posting.
I want to say that I'm glad you're here. And that I'm glad that music saved you. And I'm glad you shared your story. In a strange way, you sharing your story may give someone courage the way that the song did - someone else may see this and think "someone else made it through this. Maybe I can too."
You mentioned feeling completely at the brink after your ex left you. I get the feeling that things were rocky for a minute given how you said "she hadn't changed" when she tried to come back.
And that for a while you felt empty or alone, that you didn't have much besides your dog. But your dog kept you in it. Kept you going.
Im sorry you had to go through that hurt. I'm sorry that you were ever in that position. I could see feeling discarded. Wounded. Being alone and unsure what the next steps are, now that the road forward you once saw was wiped away.
I've been in that spot at least once. I had someone that I thought was my world and my everything. I know that isn't the case anymore - I personally had some attachment issues that I needed to get through. But when they walked away, it hurt so bad. I felt like I was worthless. Like I was trash to them.
Now, Im married, beyond happy. Im still healing a lot of my personal stuff but each day Im glad to be able to do that. It's a blessing just to have a chance to do it.
And it sounds like you're getting there two. Our stories aren't the same - but we both fought like hell to find ourselves.
You kicked drinking and that's incredible. You're working out. You're investing in others.
You sound like such an incredible soul and Im glad to have replied to you here.
Don't stop, ok? You keep going. We're all proud of you.
Hold fast.
You got the vocalist of ABR!! WTF Awesome
Heartsupport is a nonprofit founded by Jake ;)
I’m pretty sure that whole concert is on UA-cam. You could watch the whole thing and cut it up. He plays a bunch of great songs and a couple cover songs
Another song part of this concert is Bother, by Stone Sour, coreys other band. Very intimate also with the crowd singing along, would be awesome to see a reaction to that!!
I was at a SlipKnot concert live and everyone I knew was there started crying during this song
"Angels lie to keep control." That is my highlight line here, and it has many reasons. I will abstain from writing here due to length, sob story, lack of want to give her the satisfaction.
Please Dive into Stone Sour! The first song I would recommend is "Taciturn".
Another song that would be awesome to hear you react to from Atone Sour is "Zzyzx Rd."
I would have recommended scars or bother by stone sour
@holycegaming4367 I try to sway away from the songs that are most commonly played on the radio. Can't get a pure reaction from music that is popular and played on every Rock station in America. I know most people don't listen to the radio which I find sad.
I wanted to be a radio DJ, but as I came to the age where that was a feasible career it became a career on the verge of being extinct due to digital music downloads and streaming music services like Spotify.
Another master piece is Gordon Lightfoot and his son If You Could Read My Mind. Gordon was a amazing songwriter from Canada and he is Bob Dylan favorite songwriter.
This did make me a big fan!
music IS magic!
"It took the death of hope to let you go." 💔
You need to watch From can to can't by Corey Taylor you will enjoy it I promise you please 🙏🏻 ❤️
I love Corey Taylor the video surprised me at the end
chills every time
@heartsupport whenever you ask anyone to explain me they say just listen to snuff and you'll understand him. Thank you for this breakdown it helped me a lot to look further into myself. Maybe you can do a breakdown on the band Highly Suspect song serotonin.
He just recently started to sing this song live at his concerts with Slipknot starting on his tour last year because of how personal this song is to him. Before he would start crying mid song.
Acoustic corey taylor will rock your socks off. You should check out some of his others that he does for his other band Stone Sour. Some of my favorite songs of theirs sound so much better when you get more of his voice with the lyrics that sometimes get hidden in the chaos of the instrumentals.
Great performance by Corey. You should react to the same song video!
If memory serves, Paul was in the middle of writing this song when he passed. I think it was Joey and others that pushed him to finish the song.
Corey has said in interviews that this song probably wouldn't have made it on the record without Paul Gray pushing him to see the song through to completion. Paul knew how powerful a song it would be and how important it was for Corey to process how he felt and let it out. It was kind of a watershed moment for Corey growing to be more comfortable with expressing through a much more vulnerable lens. The song now means that much more to Corey after Paul's death because it was a great example of the very close friendship they had. These days it hard for him to perform that song because it makes him think of Paul much more than the ex he wrote it about.
"It took the death of hope to let you go" is the lyric for me
I don't know how i came across your channel the other day but I'm glad i did. I wish I had a Therapist like you, because you really do get it.