Tool Lyrics

    ------ About the song The Patient performed by Tool

Being the no1 Tool fan the song only means what i interpret it to be.Fuck me wake up i really dont care what it means to you as it means what it means to me which is different to what it means to you.Whogives a fuck what the meaning is to the the band.Some seem to be missing the point of great music "we all relate in our own ways and thats what makes it special.Its not a competition of who is the biggest tool fan.I really couldnt give a fuck about what Maynard meant by this or that.

    ------ About the song Third Eye performed by Tool

Currently enjoying my first DMT experience. I was listening to random music, and this song comes on. Everything came together at once.

They came here to watch me play.

Prying open my third eye.

    ------ About the song The Patient performed by Tool

Nice job criticizing everyone else for their take, especially when much of Tool's music is meant to be open for interpretation. Besides, Eon Blue Apocalypse is about Jones' dog, not The Patient. Get it right if you're going to be that critical.

    ------ About the song Bottom performed by Tool

My homosexual friend thought it was about being a bottom? As in the guy who takes it up the pooper in a gay relationship.... and also the feelings associated with that when you are conflicted about it and overcoming them... I like the tree thing more...

    ------ About the song Vicarious performed by Tool

there are very few songs that are done perfectly and this is one of them..... perfect music and perfect lyrics. hats off to tool for coming up with it. to people who'd like to criticize it, well you're entitled to your own opinions but please, keep them to yourselves. you only make yourselves sound like imbeciles. peace.

    ------ About the song Third Eye performed by Tool

This song is, simply put, about whatever you think it is about. I grow tired of hearing fans try to decipher and cherry pick the meaning out of every line of every verse. Who cares what the song means to the artist(s) himself? It matters what the song means to you personally. If you just try to delve into the writers state of mind and try to figure out his meaning and what he was thinking during the writing process of the song, then Tool really isn't for you.

I'm not trying to be harsh, here. I'm really not. But trying to pondering what a writers work and saying that you know exactly the writers though process is about is no different that taking your own views on religion and attempting to stuff them down other people's throats and trying to pass it on as an original idea.

    ------ About the song Forty-Six & 2 performed by Tool

So Maynard has never had a drug addiction "Buddy". This could be the interpretation some people find in themselves, but it's doubtful he would base such an emotional song on a philosophy he hasn't had to deal with himself. Usually he reserves that sort of fiction for a story, like Rosetta Stoned. You're assumption isn't impossible, but is unlikely.

    ------ About the song Schism performed by Tool

Ok just a simplistic thought but this whole song refers to the story of Romeo and Juliet and I believe the last lyric of between supposed lovers is repeated twice I don't think it says brothers but again a lot of literary terms are used throughout the song and the comment about poetry is about William Shakespeare writing perhaps one of the greatest love stories that's actually ends in five deaths including the death of the two lovers because of a "miscommunication". I might be wrong I mean its all up to the individual but this really jumped out at me because I recently was talking about Romeo and Juliet during a lecture and heard this song later on.

    ------ About the song Stinkfist performed by Tool

This song is about the depths of Domination and submission. If you think its about bi-polar or drugs then you are so, so wrong. The song is about the intense sexual desire Dom's have with their submissives.

Constant over stimulation numbs me
but I would not want
you any other way.

Is the sexual desire and need that always surrounds the Dom, He has to feel this, even if he has to over stimulate himself to feel anything. He doesn't want his sub any other way.

Cause,
Not enough.
I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I said,
I don't want it.
I just need it.
To breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive.

If this part doesn't show you this is about bdsm then you are still completley jaded. Sexual dsire becomes larger the more you experiment. Eventually you become numb to anything "lesser" than what fulfils you. My experiences with rough sex have proved this. Once you have gathered your lust for it... you will need more. It's a drug. When you have this desire and need for sexual behaviour your taste becomes larger and theres nothing stopping you until you have more!! You will feel alive, empowered...

Finger deep within the borderline.

Is the act of fisting, if you havn't gathered this. As a woman who has experienced this in a D/S relationship This explains it all. The border in which your sexual desire is being met, you are on the edge of have an orgasm or going into subspace (the place where submissives crave, the euphoric feeling of pain and pleasure. THIS is a drug like feeling that is incredibly addictive, and highly satisfying)

I can help you change
tired moments into pleasure.
Say the word and we'll be
well upon our way.

This is the Dom telling his slave she can change...She can still change her mind all she has to say is the "Safe-WORD"

Blend and balance
Pain and comfort
Deep within you
Till you will not want me any other way.

This is talking about subspace again, the feeling of pain but also the numbness of pain when you're there. He will do it over and and over again until you crave it so much you won't want him another way (like he feels with her)

Knuckle deep inside the borderline.
This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to.
Relax. Slip away.

He's going further, deeper, harder inside her. He's taking her to the place of pain and pleasure, hes telling her (probably in her ear) to slip away, and relax and let the feeling overwhelm her.


Something kinda sad about
the way that things have come to be.
Desensitized to everything.
What became of subtlety?

This is the feeling that the Dom feels when he's away from his submissive. He has desensitized himself to alot of sexual things, and theres nothing that can satisfy him other than the control he has and the mental connection with his sub. This could also be referring to the feeling of the sub also, she will never be satisfied until she has more. It is quite sad, because like i said before, its like a drug. This type of sexual activity is highly addictive, and has side effects, because most of it is more mental than physical. You're going deeper into the minds of each other, the connection is very very intense.

How can this mean anything to me
If I really don't feel a thing at all?
I’ll keep digging ‘till
I feel something.

He's starting to feel a loss of connection with his sub, He's going to keep going, no matter what it takes. He needs to get off.

Elbow deep inside the borderline.
Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
Shoulder deep within the borderline.
Relax. Turn around and take my hand.

This part is a little unrealistic, but the mental aspects of these lines are what makes this song so beautiful. He's "elbow" deep and has found the border he can cross to get off all He wants his sub to love him (probably for the gift he is giving her, the experience) He's digging his way inside her body, He can get off all she has to do is trust him "Take his hand" and they can be free together, they can be "free" inside the Dom/Sub world, All she has to do is say yes.

    ------ About the song Third Eye performed by Tool

I also think this song is about spirituality but a forced spiritual awakening due to drugs rather than a natural one, hence "prying open my third eye" and the Bill Hicks narration at the start.

AMAZING song, and am hoping they play in in concert in two weeks time!