#tool band
I am just a worthless liar
I am just an imbecile
I will only complicate you
Trust in me and fall as well
Tool - Sober, 1993
The other gem I found on tools reddit site
New lockscreen. Found it plus a ton other on Reddit’s tool subreddit.
This is basically unheard of from a rock band after a 13 year hiatus. But TOOL did it. That’s why that are the best band in the biz… hands down
Now my favorite song on Fear Inoculum
Free fall through our midnight
This epilogue of our own fable
Heedless in our slumber
Floating nescient we
Free fall through this boundlessness
This madness
Of our own making
Falling isn’t flying
Floating isn’t infinite
Come, our end, suddenly
All hail our lethargy
Concede suddenly
To the quickened dissolution
Pray we mitigate the ruin
Calling all to arms and order
Drifting through this boundlessness
This madness of our own making
Sound our dire reveille
Rouse all from our apathy
Lest we
Cease to be
Stir us from our
Wanton slumber
Mitigate our ruin
Call us all to arms and order
Sound the dread alarm
Through our primal body
Sound the reveille
To be or not to be
Rise
Stay the grand finale
Stay the reading of our swan song and epilogue
One drive to stay alive
It’s elementary
Muster every fiber
Mobilize
Stay alive
Stir us from our
Wanton slumber
Mitigate our ruin
Call us all to arms and order
Mad TOOL
The Torch. Fear Inoculum album art by Alex Grey
We barely remember who or what came before
We are choosing to be here, right now
Hold on, stay inside
This holy reality
This holy experience
Choosing to be here in
This body, this body holding me
Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me
Feeling eternal, all this pain is an illusion
Alive, I
In this holy reality
In this holy experience
Choosing to be here in
This body, this body holding me
Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me
Feeling eternal, all this pain is an illusion
Twirling round with this familiar parable
Spinning, weaving round each new experience
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing
The chance to be alive and breathing
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality
Embrace this moment, remember
We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion
So familiar and overwhelmingly warm
This one, this form I hold now
Embracing you, this reality here
This one, this form I hold now
So wide eyed and hopeful
Wide eyed and hopefully wild
We barely remember what came before this precious moment
Choosing to be here right now
Hold on, stay inside
This body holding me, reminding me that I am not alone in
This body makes me feel eternal
All this pain is an illusion
Pneuma" details concepts of seeking enlightenment and ‘waking up’, channeling ones spiritual focus, so to speak.
“Invincible’s” lyrics describe a victorious warrior, who, in his prime was 'invincible’, but is now dealing with his limitations and mortality in his old age. Knowing Maynard, this is probably a metaphor for the band struggling to stay relevant in the world and music industry that has changed so much around them during their hiatus.
REVEREND MAYNARD
And the angel of the lord came unto me
Snatching me up from my place of slumber
And took me on high and higher still
Until we moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself
And he brought me into a vast farmlands of our own Midwest
And as we descended cries of impending doom rose from the soil
One thousand nay a million voices full of fear
And terror possessed me then
And I begged Angel of the Lord what are these tortured screams?
And the angel said unto me
These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots!
You see, Reverend Maynard
Tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust
And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat
Like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared
“Hear me now, I have seen the light!
They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul!
Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers!
Can I get an amen? Can I get a hallelujah? Thank you Jesus
This is necessary
This is necessary
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on
This is necessary
This is necessary
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life
This is necessary
This is necessary
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on
This is necessary
This is necessary
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life
This is necessary
This is necessary
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on
This is necessary
This is necessary
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life
This is necessary
This is necessary
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on
This is necessary
This is necessary
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life
It was daylight when you woke up in your ditch
You looked up at your sky then
That made blue be your color, you had your knife there with you too
When you stood up there was goo all over your clothes
Your hands were sticky
You wiped them on your grass, so now your color was green
Oh Lord, why did everything always have to keep changing like this
You were already getting nervous again
Your head hurt and it rang when you stood up
Your head was almost empty
It always hurt you when you woke up like this
You crawled up out of your ditch onto your gravel road and began to walk
Waiting for the rest of your mind to come back to you
You can see the car parked far down the road and you walked toward it
If God is our Father, you thought, then Satan must be our cousin
Why didn’t anyone else understand these important things?
You got to your car and tried all the doors
They were locked. it was a red car and it was new
There was an expensive leather camera case laying on the seat
Out across your field, you could see two tiny people walking by your woods
You began to walk towards them
Now red was your color and, of course
Those little people out there were yours too
Tool’s ‘Undertow’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know
Undertow, one of my top three favorite Tool albums.
Maynard and Justin discuss some of why it took 13 years for a new album
Long in tooth and soul
Longing for another win
Merge into the fray
Weapon out and belly in
A warrior
Struggling
To remain
Consequential
Bellow aloud
Bold and proud
Where I’ve been
But here I am
Beating chest and drum
Beating tired bones again
Age-old battle, mine
Weapon out and belly in
Tales told
Of battles won
Of things we’ve done
Caligula would grin
Beating tired bones
Tripping through, remember when
Once invincible
Now the armor’s wearing thin
Heavy shield down
A warrior
Struggling
To remain
Relevant
A warrior
Struggling
To remain
Consequential
Cry aloud
Bold and proud
Where I’ve been
Here I am
Where I am
A warrior
Struggling
To remain
Relevant
A warrior
Struggling
To remain
Consequential
A tear in my eyes, chasing Ponce de León’s phantom song
Filled with hope, I can taste mythical fountains
False hope, perhaps, but the truth never stood in my way
Before now, feel the sting, feeling time, bearing down
A tear in my eyes, chasing Ponce de León’s phantom song
Filled with hope, I can taste mythical fountains
False hope, perhaps, but the truth never got in my way
Before now, feel the sting, feeling time, bearing down
False hope, perhaps, but the truth never stood in my way
Before now, feel the sting, feeling time, bearing down
Bearing down
Heat lighting flash, but don’t blink
Misleading
Tranquility ruse
You’re gonna happen again
That’s what I think
Follow the evidence
Look it dead in the eye
You are darkness
Trying to lull us in, before the havoc begins
Into a dubious state of serenity
Acting all surprised when you’re caught in the lie
We know better
It’s not unlike you
It’s not unlike you
We know your nature
Blame it all on the bastards when you’re blowing out
Shame on you
Shame on you, now
No amount of wind could to begin to cover up your petulant stench and demeanor
Calm as cookies and cream, so it seems
We’re not buying your dubious state of serenity
Acting all surprised when you’re caught in the lie
We know better
It’s not unlike you
It’s not unlike you
We know your nature
Calm before the torrent comes
Calm before the torrent comes
Calm before the torrent comes
Calm before the tempest comes to reign all over
Disputing intentions invites devastation
A tempest must be true to its nature
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
Control, your delusion
Insane and striking at random
Victim of your certainty
And therefore your doubt’s not an option
Blameless, the tempest must will be just that
So try as you may, feeble, your attempt to atone
Your words to erase all the damage cannot
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
Disembodied voices deepen my
Suspicious tendencies
Conversations we’ve never had
Imagined interplay
Psychopathy
Don’t you dare point that at me
Heated altercations we’ve never had
so I’m told
Yet guided by them all
Every single one
Psychopathy
Misleading me over and over and over
Judge, condemn, and banish any and everyone
Without evidence
Only the whispers from within
Psychopathy
Misleading me over and over
Psychopathy
Misleading me over and over and over
Don’t you dare point that at me
Don’t you dare point that at me
Don’t you dare point that at
Don’t you dare
Don’t you dare
Don’t you dare point that
Don’t you dare
Don’t you dare
Don’t you dare point that at
Throw that Bob-Marley-wannabe motherfucker out of here
Fade
Underneath the skin and jewelry
Hidden in her words and eyes
Is a wall that’s cold and ugly
And she’s scared as hell
Trembling at the thought of feeling
Wide awake and keeping distance
Nothing seems to penetrate her
‘Cause she’s scared as hell
I am frightened too
I am frightened
Oh no, oh-oh
Trembling at the thought of feeling
Wide awake and keeping distance
Nothing seems to penetrate her
'Cause she’s scared as hell
I am frightened too
I am frightened
Wide awake and
Keeping distance from my soul
Wide awake and
Keeping distance from my soul
Fade
Underneath the skin and jewelry
Hidden in her words and eyes
Is a wall that’s cold and ugly
And she’s scared as hell
Trembling at the thought of feeling
Wide awake and keeping distance
Nothing seems to penetrate her
'Cause she’s scared as hell
I am frightened too
I am frightened too
I am scared like you
I am frightened
The new album has dropped onto my iTunes! Happy tooling everyone!!
Monkey killing monkey killing monkey… Right In Two live
Invincible
Long in tooth and soul
Longing for another win
Merge into the fray
Weapon out and belly in
A warrior
Struggling
To remain
Consequential
Bellow aloud
Bold and proud
Where I’ve been
But here I am
Beating chest and drum
Beating tired bones again
Age-old battle, mine
Weapon out and belly in
Tales told
Of battles won
Of things we’ve done
Caligula would grin
Beating tired bones
Tripping through, remember when
Once invincible
Now the armor’s wearing thin
Heavy shield down
A warrior
Struggling
To remain
Relevant
A warrior
Struggling
To remain
Consequential
Cry aloud
Bold and proud
Where I’ve been
Here I am
Where I am
A warrior
Struggling
To remain
Relevant
A warrior
Struggling
To remain
Consequential
A tear in my eyes, chasing Ponce de León’s phantom song
Filled with hope, I can taste mythical fountains
False hope, perhaps, but the truth never stood in my way
Before now, feel the sting, feeling time, bearing down
A tear in my eyes, chasing Ponce de León’s phantom song
Filled with hope, I can taste mythical fountains
False hope, perhaps, but the truth never got in my way
Before now, feel the sting, feeling time, bearing down
False hope, perhaps, but the truth never stood in my way
Before now, feel the sting, feeling time, bearing down
Bearing down
Pnuema
We are spirit bound to this flesh
(We) Go round one foot nailed down
(But) Bound to reach out and beyond this flesh, become Pneuma
We are will and wonder, bound to recall, remember
We are born of one breath, one word
We are all one spark, sun becoming
Child, wake up
Child, release the light
Wake up now, child
Child, wake up
Child, release the light
Wake up now, child
(Spirit, Spirit, Spirit, Spirit)
Bound to this flesh, this guise, this mask, this dream
Wake up remember
We are born of one breath, one word
We are all one spark, sun becoming
Pneuma
Reach out and beyond
Wake up remember
We are born of one breath, one word
We are all one spark, eyes full of wonder
