God Hates A Coward

This song is about a bastard, probably a mean step dad with a huge ego.

I sow my seed with a metric Gross No footsteps go beyond it

He goes around knocking up every girl and makes them all get abortions.

I'll eat the dirt Where the rooster crows Flesh rodeos, yee-haw it's

This has some kind of pornographic connotation to it. Probably a poop fetish, and fleh rodeo is probably reference to a lap dance.

He is threatening his step son. He tells him that god hates a coward because he thinks the kid needs to learn how to be like him. Day, my day, my day (will come). I think is the allusion we are supposed to draw here. He is screaming like a mad man that his day will come.

I think he kills the kids mom in the middle of the song.

Then he is telling the kid why he did it and what he is going to do if the cops ever come to get him.

Just my opinion.

this song for some reason just sticks with me alot lol.

so i thought i'd share my interpretation of this song...

it starts in a living room, a man in a chair drinking a

beer or whatever, sitting staring at nothing and speaking

to a sniffling adolescent male. and in a emotionless and

slightly evil tone he begins telling the boy his life story...

"all my life i've never wanted kids. so far as to make my

women get abortions. i've stuck my dick in everything from

strippers to cowgirls. and i swear if you start crying i'll tear

your eyes out. now then your mother was a whore, and if

you say anything i'll kill your family too. i'm a piece of shit and i know it.

and i want to kill myself, but i stick through it."

"you'll get yours" the boy mumbles under his breath and the man hears it.

" you hear your mother anywhere? i drowned her and stuck her

in the corner and you're not going to do shit about it. so fuck off and

listen to your music or go watch some action movie and wish you were as tough as them."

switch to fresh orphaned child a few years later

he sits writing music to have a place to pour out his

emotions instead of bottling them, then one day he writes a

song fantasizing about killing the man that killed his

mother. all the evil thing he would do with the corpse to

defile it. he keeps remembering that one day the murderous

man's day will come and it will be him to exact revenge.

one day he finally breaks and kills the man, but during

that he's panicking looking for a way to hide the

body; bury it, grind it up and flush it, nothing,

and he starts thinking people have known what he's done.

so int he end he finally decides to cut the body up,

pack it in a satchel or suitcase and burn it.

mike patton is a fucking genius.

this song is simply awesome...

This song is hypnotizingly catchy, but that's not what makes it good. It's got a cryptic sound to it and the lyrics that I can understand are great. I can't wait to see Tomahawk open for Tool!

btw, can someone tell me who writes the tomahawk lyrics? mike?

I believe mike writes the lyrics.

Probably Mike, its seems like thew kind of thing he'd write.

anyone her mike say yehaw??? right after fresh rodeos??? i swear it goes fresh rodeos, yehaw ?..and they where great live in cleveland..tool sucked..no comment on why and mike...just great...im getting mr bungle and fantomas just because of this record..i heard fantomas was strange......anyone have any good stuff on them?

Fantomas and Bungle are both amazing bands, Mr.Bungle is my all time favorite band.

fantomas is definitely the least accesible project mike's ever been affiliated with..I can still find in enjoyment in their music but wow it takes some getting used to..anywho this is without a doubt my favorite song of all time.. and how in the HELL could you think tool sucked? the first time I saw them maynard got pissed off because of some fucktards in the crowd but the second time I saw them with tomahawk was easily the best show I've ever been to