Most Meaningful Tool Songs
NOTE: Tool rarely reveals or discusses their songs' meanings, it is all up to interpretation and therefore, a Tool song can have several meanings.
I love the meaning of this. We all get pleasure in watching the news and learning of the misfortune of others. Vicariously I live while the whole world dies. Much better you than I
Watch the unofficial music video for it. It's absolutely mindblowing. It is about how evil and viscous the human race is
Monkey killingmonkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground
The rant on Hollywood we all need to hear. Tribute to Bill Hicks
Lyrics like "my lamb and martyr" make me think the child abuse thing is around indoctrinating children into a religion. Maynard's mother was very religious, and in Passive (APC song, not Tool) and Judith he talks about how he hates his mother for how she treated him.
About coming to the realization that you were abused as a child. Chilling lyrics
We are all desensitized to the horrors of the world, the media is essentially corrupting our minds.
Both songs have the same lyrics. It's about the state of being human
Mocks people who do psychedelics and think they hold all the answers to the universe. It tells a story of a guy who smoked DMT, tripped out and thought ET abducted him and gave him the answer as "the chosen one". Quite humorous and insightful
The most common interpretation is about a broken relationship. It can also be equated to the Protestant Reformation (Division of the Christian church)
Based on Carl Jung's theory that through evolution, humans will eventually have 46 autosomes (instead of the normal 44) and 2 sex chromosomes.
A big middle finger to the fans who try to tell Tool what to write about
A song about drugs and hypocrisy of the law and of the people around you in general.