| Stone Temple Pilots – Creep Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I have a strong tendency to overthink but this song spells it out plainly. Listen carefully, to not just the lyrics, but the key, the beat, the movement, it's all right there. | |
| Tool – Sober Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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In my opinion you're on to something SpunkySkunk347 when you say that Maynard may have had himself in mind when writing this song. However, while I definitely consider the possibility that a peak and the comedown from a drug-induced experience may have had a lot to do with the fuel for this song, I think the end result of the lyrics has a lot more to do with power. I have a feeling that whatever may have been the plateau (I suspect a spirtual experience) caused both an awakening, and simltaneously, soon before, or after, regret for the way life has been carried out. I also think that the slamming of Christianity in this track makes way for the song to draw the audience in through a sense of empathy for those who are lost and search for meaning- those who reject Chrisitanity, or more broadly, overtly organized religion. The slower section "I am just a worthless liar...." is the narrator struggling with one's own power, or perhaps even tricking the audience to seem as though Maynard wouldn't want people to follow him while that might be exactly his goal as after the last time Maynar sings that section he repeats "trust me" which is up in the air, it could be a sardonic take on Jesus's words, giving in to the will to influence others, both, or the mindset during whatever inspired the song lyrics taking over the narrator, shouting over what could have been individuality, or it could be the major cataylst for Maynard's will to define himself as an individual, or again, both. We don't don't definitely what Tool's songs are actually about. I hope this blurb may have shown that there are a variety of possiblities as to the meaning of the song that may be equally credible, as to not get locked into thinking one take on it is the only true way of interpreting the song. |
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| Tool – Undertow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is the best song to listen to when I'm angry and don't want to calm down. The reason is so radically simple when the chorus kicks in. Don't want to hear anything from anyone, including myself, just want to beat somethings face in. That kind of mood. A little more deeply it's like a struggle to use anger to avoid whatever pattern a person might fall into. The song digresses from reason/heaven as the saturating focus increases. check out Sweat too. The cycle being described in it has a lot of similarities to this song while they have pretty different emotional states. |
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| Tool – Sweat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The song to me is about some sort of cycle, could be drugs, sex in general, or a person that greatly alters one's consciousness. I wouldn't say any are wrong but I would say that the explanation for drugs probably has the least depth to it as only pertains to a few of the lines in the song and the cd title "Opiate" makes for an easy explanation. No comment I saw on here based on a trip explained much beyond that. Spinning, sinking, sweating, even swimming could all be attributed to the effects of opiates but I'm pretty sure the meaning of the song goes deeper than that. I think the lines: "It's the way you whisper. Drags me under. Takes me home" get overlooked. They aren't even in the lyrics for this website. It's like slipping back into a fold, an old way of thinking, a tired consciousness that is so comfortably addicting. That's as far as I feel I can define the song. |
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| Darkest Hour – Sound the Surrender Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song definitely reminds me of some sort of abusive relationship where problems were covered with physical comfort "embraced in vain". Sounds like both parties let themselves be seduced but it could be just that the narrator is finally opening their eyes to the person that they have given in to. This dissolution leads to the kind of explosiveness in this song. The riff that hits right at the chorus is one of my favorites. The whole song is a reminder to myself about not giving control of my life to others. | |
| Tool – H. Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| When this song spoke to me the most, it held more emotional potency than any other song I have heard, I do not want to define the song too much so that I do not instill my opinions on anyone but i can vividly remember listening to this song with headphones in the dark and having an overwhelming warm feeling with goosebumps leading to some intense crying but silencing it so people in the house wouldn't hear it so I bridged my body back so all my weight was on my head to try and hold back the sound at the climax of the song thinking about someone I love. That can really wash anxiety away. I think people who are familiar with the kind of intense relationship described in the song know what I am talking about so I won't rip the lyrics up because this song can truly be special. | |
| Tool – Crawl Away Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yeah this song can definitely be interpreted as feelings in the repressed rage stage of a splitting relationship where someone gets left and gets bitter. But it is also really interesting to look at it from an internal standpoint as they might be angry at this one person now, but they know the real problem is getting over it and having to hear and deal with these dark thoughts inside them self when this happens in their relationships with others as a result of feeling isolated, misunderstood, rejected, call it what you want. The narrator could be talking to a part of them self that keeps escaping them self. The narrator shows disrespect to this part of them self "what you want and what you need doesn't mean that much to me" that they view as naïve or "innocent" of them self and lacks deep feeling but the narrator wants it back and tried to make in stay but could not regain the part of them self they view as innocent. The narrator would stick a knife in it, destroy, kill it but it's just a part of them self, it’s intangible. Also check out Swamp Song because it is kind of the answer to this song with the lines “My warning meant nothing. You're dancing in quicksand” and “No one told you to come” the words “my warning” also come out a little bit as “what I wanted” when listening to the song which would really relate to Crawl Away. | |
| Tool – Swamp Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yeah this song can definitely be interpreted as feelings in the repressed rage stage of a splitting relationship where someone gets left and gets bitter. But it is also really interesting to look at it from an internal standpoint as they might be angry at this one person now, but they know the real problem is getting over it and having to hear and deal with these dark thoughts inside them self when this happens in their relationships with others as a result of feeling isolated, misunderstood, rejected, call it what you want. The narrator could be talking to a part of them self that keeps escaping them self. The narrator shows disrespect to this part of them self "what you want and what you need doesn't mean that much to me" that they view as naïve or "innocent" of them self and lacks deep feeling but the narrator wants it back and tried to make in stay but could not regain the part of them self they view as innocent. The narrator would stick a knife in it, destroy, kill it but it's just a part of them self, it’s intangible. Also check out Swamp Song because it is kind of the answer to this song with the lines “My warning meant nothing. You're dancing in quicksand” and “No one told you to come” the words “my warning” also come out a little bit as “what I wanted” when listening to the song which would really relate to Crawl Away. | |
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