Reclaim My Place
by Korn

Album: Follow The Leader (1998)
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  • Korn frontman Jonathan Davis was picked on as a high school kid for wearing makeup and loving new wave bands like Duran Duran. He still gets teased for being different even by his own bandmates. He explained this song was his response to the stick he gets from them.

    "I'm talking about being a kid that's always known as the f---in' town faggot, and this one is about the whole band and how all my life I've been called a homosexual. Even now, I became this big rock star in a band and I'm still called a fag even by my own band. So it's like I was f---in' pissed off at them. It's like, 'erase them all because I'm gonna reclaim my place and say hey, they owe a lot to me for what I did, and I owe a lot to them back, but, it still kinda sucks.' I've never ever gotten away from that 'fag' f--kin' title. Just because I'm a sensitive kinda guy, and kinda feminine. It really sucks."

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