This song can be interpreted as being about the struggle of being a woman in modern society.
The repeating refrain of ‘I bled for days’ seems to reference both a slow but debilitating loss of energy and life force and menstruation. The references to anger, emotional suppression and exhaustion, and...
[Verse 1]
Meaningless
It's meaningless
It's meaningless
It's meaningless
I take the hold
I take the hold
I take the hold
I take the hold
[Verse 2]
It's mindlessness
It's mindlessness
It's mindlessness
It's mindlessness
I bled for days
I bled for days
I bled for days
I bled for days
[Bridge]
Get to the rage (Hate)
The healing of it fucking with it
Conceal the scab
You don't want to show (Fate)
Into the hate (No)
I channel all the negative and
I bled for days
Now I take the hold, go! (Break)
Get to the rage (Hate)
The healing of it fucking with it
Conceal the scab
You don't want to show (Fate)
Into the hate (No)
I channel all the negative and
I bled for days
Now I take the hold (Break)
[Chorus]
I don't believe it
Fuck me, read me, get me (Bled for days)
Smile on my rage
I'm scarred by age, I bled (Bled for days)
[Verse 3]
Uselessness
It's uselessness
It's uselessness
It's uselessness
I make my weapons
Make my weapons
Make my weapons
Take the hold
[Chorus]
I don't believe it
Fuck me, read me, get me (Bled for days)
Smile on my rage
I'm scarred by age, I bled (Bled for days)
I don't believe it
Fuck me, read me, get me (Bled for days)
Smile on my rage
I'm scarred by age, I bled (Bled for days)
[Post-Chorus]
Bled for days
Bled for days
[Bridge]
Get to the rage
The healing of it fucking with it
Conceal the scab
You don't want to show
Into the hate
I channel all the negative and
I bled for days (Bled for days)
Now I take the hold
Get to the rage
The healing of it fucking with it
Conceal the scab
You don't want to show
Into the hate
I channel all the negative and
I bled for days (Bled for days)
Now I take the hold
[Outro]
Bled for days
Bled for Days was written by Tony Campos & Koichi Fukuda & Ken Jay & Wayne Static.
Bled for Days was produced by Static-X & Ulrich Wild.
Static-X released Bled for Days on Tue Mar 23 1999.
Drummer Ken Jay in this 2020 interview gives what it was like playing the song with the remaining band members:
[…] The first song we played together was, of course, Bled for Days, which was really one of the first three songs that we had written that made us become Static-X. It was the song that c...