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About This Track
“Needles” is the second song in System of a Down’s album Toxicity, connected to the previous track “Prison Song”.
It was written by Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian. The lyrics, are about drug (such as heroin) abuse and its dangers. Just like having a tape worm, you keep feeding this addiction without ever being “nourished”. The more you feed it the bigger it gets and the less you get from it. After the second chorus, there is a bass riff that leads into bridge, where Malakian the guitarist sings “I’m sitting in my room with a needle in my hand. Just waiting for the tomb of some old dying man”, and later Tankian joins and leads into the last chorus, with his famous death growl.
The band has denied ever using drugs.
At concerts, the band makes the bridge a total funk style.
It was written by Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian. The lyrics, are about drug (such as heroin) abuse and its dangers. Just like having a tape worm, you keep feeding this addiction without ever being “nourished”. The more you feed it the bigger it gets and the less you get from it. After the second chorus, there is a bass riff that leads into bridge, where Malakian the guitarist sings “I’m sitting in my room with a needle in my hand. Just waiting for the tomb of some old dying man”, and later Tankian joins and leads into the last chorus, with his famous death growl.
The band has denied ever using drugs.
At concerts, the band makes the bridge a total funk style.
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kato1984 wrote:
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass! [3]
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jimmy2605 wrote:
Pull the tapeworm outta your ass!!!
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SargentAwsome wrote:
SOAD RULEZ
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NaniiSparrow wrote:
just waiting for the tomb of some old dying man
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KittPaws wrote:
I'm sitting in my room with a needle in my hand <333
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Banets wrote:
HOORAY!
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Storchel wrote:
HEY!
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TommyMonoTone wrote:
HEY!
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DementedSmile wrote:
my tapeworm tells me what to do, my tapeworm tells me where to go
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Albert19749802 wrote:
Im Sitting In My Room With A Shotgun On My Head Waiting For The Tune Of Some Old Dying Man
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terzzii wrote:
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass! [2]
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lukasz_pulawski wrote:
Beware of needles.... some good growling.........nobody beats Mike Patton
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PeterCore wrote:
What a sludgy riff at the beginning! :)
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Seberinoid wrote:
Inspiration for Irvine Welsh perhaps? Mental good song:)
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TrY-H0neStY_- wrote:
I can safely say this is their best track [2]
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Idoja wrote:
I can safely say this is their best track
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xXPyrophorusXx wrote:
They need new material
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Kirin_d wrote:
+100500
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Dizguztipated wrote:
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass!
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