| Tool – The Pot Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Wow, some of the interpretations are quite... interesting. A couple of things to note... this song is multi-layered, but the most obvious theme here is satire. Tool is playing on words right from the title! The song is called The Pot, referring both to marijuana and the dirty pot looking at its own reflection. People seem to be really confused by robbing a grave to snow the cradle, the muddy waters, lemon juice and weeping shades of indigo. Robbing a grave to snow the cradle: Drug meaning: Doing DMT. Hypocrisy meaning: Possibly using the deceased to pad election votes into a win. Eye ball deep in Muddy Waters + Lemon juice in your eye: Drug meaning: An alcoholic drink containing lemon juice. Hypocrisy meaning: Being blinded by drunkenness and making a poor decision making the decision maker as guilty as whomever he is accusing of wrong-doing. Weeping shades of indigo: Drug meaning: Having purple tears is an idiom for someone who is high. Hypocrisy meaning: Shakespeare referenced "purple tears" in more than one of his plays, which was actually not talking about crying at all, but rather bleeding and dying, and in all the times I'm aware of, the protagonist had slain an enemy and referred to his blood-loss leading to death as crying/shedding purple tears. Cozened basically means "coaxed by deceit". Of course, this blood would not be literal, so the bleeding hypocrite is up for interpretation. |
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