Deftones – Error: Lyrics and Meanings

Error is Track 04 on Deftones’ album Ohms.

Error Song Lyrics:

Tell me something
Have we escaped
Are we just lost?
The mirrors taunting
Us against the walls
We are running
Across the grid
Chasing honey
And closing in
We’re bound together
In neon tape
I taste in your mouth
We hang upside down
We are gliding
Above the planes
Dripping honey
That prances through our veins
Beyond the gates
Outside the grid
We follow in your grace
Let’s find a way through
Shiny candy
Glowing fruits
Drop from the trees
I watch the serpents
Writhe beneath
We are floating above the grid
Dripping honey
That’s rushing through our veins
Beyond the gates
Outside the grid
We follow in your grace
But someday the clouds will break
And we’ll all drift through
In lion’s trance we’ll all create some way through
Frozen in town sinking underground
I’ve thrown out fear, I’ve shouted these hymns
I kept drowning
Kept nothing
I kept trying
I kept floating

Error Song Meaning:

Deftones dive deeper into metaphors and spirit in the 4th track of the album Ohm with “Error”. Chino’s lyrics on this track hints toward a questioning of being, while blending many religious words used in the book of Genesis, which also happens to be the title track of the album.

Being the second song to use “honey” as a lyric, it is interesting that in Genesis they are searching for a land of milk and honey. This song seems to heavily relate to soul searching and finding a kind of pure happiness or peace.