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Tool – Flood Lyrics 15 years ago
I think a lot of these analyzes are trying to prod and pull specifics when there may be a much simpler interpretation.

I think the narrator is learning about the nature of things, of life...He was one who was very set, very grounded by his religious beliefs that he would be protected and saved through faith in "god". But, as this elemental, chaotic force of CHANGE bears down upon him, shakes the ground beneath him, and brings these constructs that hes built around him crumbling away, he realizes how very wrong he was.

He is afraid. But, in the end, it is a necessary fear. To avoid change, to hunker down in what is ultimately a false sense of security, he learns, is to set yourself up for the fall. You have to keep moving, learning, growing, with the change, and the only thing that is going to save you is YOURSELF, your will to stay afloat.

The end can be a reference to baptism, but also to a purging of ones fears, old ways, and outdated notions, as one evolves and takes higher spiritual ground. Nes pa?

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KoЯn – Twist Lyrics 16 years ago
I want you all to take a listen to Idiot Flesh's "Twitch". This song is either a rippoff/homage to that song.

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Tool – Pushit Lyrics 16 years ago
this really conjures up past relationships
and kind of gives me a better understanding of my ex's side....
whether or not it is the true meaning, it makes a lot of sense to me

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Tool – Pushit Lyrics 16 years ago
Ive been quite enamored with this song for a long time-its got such passionate delivery with a varied amount of tension and emotional range...so i finally decided to sit down and try to get a more vivid interpretation from it: Try this on for size

Theres this distance between us…you really want to be with me
But I want to keep my distance because I want to retain my sense of self
Im feel like suffocating this young, precious emotion we have between us
In its infancy
Before I can finally take this in, and accept that wholeness.
Is this my nature…Is this sense of self that im perceiving?
Im at a point of confliction…Maybe I just need time

But youre pushing yourself on me
Your love is thrusting itself on me
With a weight I may not have the heart to accept yet

Youre resting more love, and in turn, fault and guilt on me for feeling this way
Racking more pressure…There is a connection.. but your not giving it time
And I feel this tension and expectation and its getting more heated
I am not ready to feel this close to you
If you force this, as much as I feel I care for you, it will end
And yet you still push and force this love on me so quickly
Beyond its capacity…beyond my current ability to receive
And accept it and return it openly

Im feeling myself pull back again from you
Things are too unstable
Too mixed up for me to firmly be able to plant my feet
One minute things are passionate and the next theyre painful

Something happens…a fight…
A situation…a side of myself…or you
Perhaps something that reminded me
Of a time before that I was hurt
That ive been trying to distance myself from
And it feels like its repeated itself

Im leaving and youre begging me to stay
We have this love but its totally imperfect
Unbalanced, passionate, but destructive for both of us
Im being smothered and your still reaching out to cling
Trying to get more out of me...
…its grown into this persistent tainted ugly thing between us
Born from both of our misgivings

I felt drawn in by you to stay and make it work
Even though it has been eating me up inside
But Ive worked up the courage to finally leave
Another huge fight... bitter angry violent and abrupt and I didn’t mean what I said
it hurt both of us

But if I tried to tell you what ive been really feeling
And I tell you this love will kill me
Youll just try and convince me to stay
And try to make it work
There is really no choice but to just let things go violently, angrily
Without regret
Persuade you to hate me now so we can both move on
Rather than try and rope me into this relationship

Love shouldn’t feel this way.
Im afraid of being close to you
Ive got my own past I must overcome
And youre afraid of being without me
Youre maybe insecure and not truly ready to be loved
Theres no love in fear
And so im ending this
Its scary to lose you like this and its strange being alone again
Just remember as I hurt you
To create this necessary distance
And be at peace again
Don’t hate me for it
Deep down inside you should cherish the good we saw
in one another and
The love that we did share together
As abusive as this relationship was
And realize eventually that either way it would have ended badly

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Faith No More – Last Cup Of Sorrow Lyrics 17 years ago
i definitely think this is about dealing with a bad situation, acknowledging it, as well as the process of getting over it, then moving on. It points out that if you dont bring yourself to let go, youll continue to be stuck in an emotional rut over it until you learn to finally face it. very cool song.

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Tomahawk – Capt. Midnight Lyrics 17 years ago
Not that it matters but its definitely not "burning it blue" its "burning igloos" interesting imagery nonetheless. id say yeah this is about finally putting your foot down and ending a relationship with a girl whos a manipulative energy vampire...maybe someone who he felt made him feel he couldnt do without from the looks of it-either way this song is easy to identify with- and has one of the most intense choruses ever.

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Tool – Schism Lyrics 18 years ago
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Tool – Schism Lyrics 18 years ago
we are all of one whole
if we learn to speak our minds
share our thoughts, experiences, and ideas
but respect our individual differences
and know the beauty of our "fundamental differing"
we can come together as one love
we have to learn to grow beyond
our yearnings for power
and the ape-like struggle for dominance
ideas of self importance
that lead to "coveting" and ostracizing
and ultimately divides us against ourselves

even this site is a testament to this idea
right and wrong are just words
everyone has their own perspective on what is
and when we find we can both agree or disagree
and respect it for what it is whether than bash eachothers heads in about it
its fucking poetry.

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