Useful Idiot Lyrics

Lyric discussion by nastynickknocker 

Cover art for Useful Idiot lyrics by Tool

i heard that a "Useful Idiot" was the name for the peasants in the old soviet union who would follow the government's every word and just stand in their breadlines beliving their government was doing a great job. These useful idiots were still necessary for the economy but only to that extent, like little worker bees.

Not quite. The "useful idiots" were western intellectuals who sympathized with Soviet communism.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

Whoever the Useful Idiots were, I'm not sure how much Tool had in mind when creating this "song". It should be enough to make people happy for the idiots to be useful. Even in communism. Just a filler track. Tool is amazing though. They can do whatever they want.