Slipknot - The Blister Exists
Time: 0:50
Bones in the water and dust in my lungs!
Absorbing archaic like a sponge
The ultimate way is the way you control!

out of date; so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
Heard in 30 songs (44M+ combined views) — most famously in "The Blister Exists" by Slipknot.
Updated August 12, 2026
Time: 0:50
Bones in the water and dust in my lungs!
Absorbing archaic like a sponge
The ultimate way is the way you control!

Time: 2:33
The piano player stopped playing
In the shadows I could hear Archaic Spanish phrases
The preacher stood up from his table In his right hand he held a bible

Time: 3:27
Blood is on your tongue as well as your hands
Archaic and content, you just wash them off
Blood is on your tongue as well as your hands

Time: 1:08
Delicate in every way but one (the swordplay)
God knows we like archaic kinds of fun (the old ways)
Chance is the only game I play with, baby

Time: 3:25
Yeah, people, I've got something to say to the State Department.
I say Take that archaic Monroe Doctrine,
And that Marshall Plan that says we're supposed to police force the world, and throw 'em out!

Time: 1:47
And dog, you know how come
Labels are archaic, formulaic with their outcomes
They don't know, they just study the charts

Time: 0:59
Artificial, divine
Great archaic obseletum
A prevarication, deceitfully contrived

Time: 0:10
Towards the rich archaic heavens
Towards the lack diorama

Time: 0:29
Archaic Disgustion
Gourmalic repulsion

Time: 0:18
Can't justify greed at the cost of equality
Tangled in endless archaic chains of power, profit, gain
What about the poor bearing poverty's mark?

Time: 3:47
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An archaic way of thinking, so monstrous and absurd
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Time: 0:41
Fucking go
Enter the archaic abattoir
Exiled to a pernicious wasteland

Time: 0:09
A morbid tradition
Of archaic value systems
Where violence justified

Time: 4:55
To scheme of my return
Archaic ghostly echoes breathe like thunders of the
Storm

Time: 2:27
I am a man who still does what he can
To dispel our archaic reputation
I am a man who has heard all he can

Time: 0:58
The how is not important, it's the translation that matters
It says, "Beware the flesh in which archaic evils gathers", goddamn
I slosh when I move, mop not a broom, my body ate my shoes

Time: 1:42
The reddest type of blood will stain the nation's leader
Repeat archaic history of corrupted deceiver
And in the shattered glass, a barbaric aggressor

Time: 2:00
And it ain't over 'til we all say it (yeah)
And you ain't shooting shit, them guns is archaic
In closing, I see I'm chosen, all my pressure points frozen

Time: 1:36
In a world that's always changing (changing)
Sanity so quietly is kept resisting archaic tradition
Now pass some down

Time: 0:16
In what you call purity
It's an archaic fallacy
That doesn't belong to me (jo-jo-joga pra mim)

Time: 0:10
Living these days is making me nervous
Archaic doctrine no longer serve us
Now we're left as silent witnesses

Time: 1:38
And destiny falls to ruin
No discourse but archaic filterings
Of black and cryptic signs

Time: 0:50
The gallery of suicide, internal torment
Archaic carcasses, displayed degeneracy
Once within these walls a life of death will be unleashed

Time: 1:09
A fresh balance of terror, the equilibrium of hate
Archaic nescience unleashed
Entrenched, a bitter legacy

Time: 2:07
♪
Since you've been away on holiday we've stomached your archaic rule
And since you've been away on holiday we've hosted some wars over you

Time: 0:54
Like sand between fingers
Archaic anthems obscuring the picture
Analog mediums

Time: 0:32
The very doctrines that perpetuate your cult
Archaic ways that would take the place
Are just an inverted spin on the regimented code

Time: 0:55
Free your bodies from the contempt of a soul
Let it die with archaic ideals
The only heaven and hell are the ones you create for yourself here and now

Time: 1:50
Advances in design will free us
From this archaic obsession
To grow and leave your fellow man below

Time: 0:23
Fantasize exploding hands
Archaic science
Master plan
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