Tool - Lateralus lyrics
- The Grudge
- Eon Blue Apocalypse
- The Patient
- Mantra
- Schism
- Parabol
- Parabola
- Ticks & Leeches
- Lateralis
- Disposition
- Reflection
- Triad
- Faaip De Oiad
The Grudge
Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity
Calculate what we will, or will not tolerate
Desperate to control all and everything
Unable to forgive your scarlet letterman
Clutch it like a cornerstone; Otherwise it all comes down
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end
Clutch it like a cornerstone; Otherwise it all comes down
Terrified of being wrong; Ultimatum prison cell
Saturn ascends, choose one or ten
Hang on or be humbled again...
Clutch it like a cornerstone; Otherwise it all comes down
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end
Saturn ascends... comes 'round again
Saturn ascends... the one, the ten
Ignorant to the damage done
Wear the Grudge like a crown of negativity
Calculate what we will, or will not tolerate
Desperate to control all and everything
Unable to forgive your scarlet letterman
Wear the grudge like a crown; Desperate to control
Unable to forgive; and sinking deeper
Defining; confining; sinking deeper
Controlling; defying; and we're sinking deeper
Saturn comes back around, to show you everything
Live to choose what you will, or will not see again
Drags you down like a stone; or lifts you up again
Spits you out like a child; bright and innocent
Saturn comes back around; Lifts you up like a child
Or drags you down like a stone to consume you
Until you choose to let this go
Choose to let this go...
Give away the stone, let the waters take and transmutate
This cold and fated anchor
Give away the stone, let the waters kiss and transmutate
These leaden grudges into gold
Let go
Eon Blue Apocalypse
Instrumental
The Patient
A groan of tedium escapes me
Startling the fearful
Is this a test?
It has to be
Otherwise I can't go on
Draining patience
Drain vitality
This paranoid, paralyzed vampire act's a little old
But I'm still right here
Giving blood, keeping faith
And I'm still right here
But I'm still right here
Giving blood, keeping faith
And I'm still right here
Wait it out
I'm gonna wait it out
Gonna wait it out (be patient)
If there were no rewards to reap
No loving embrace to see me through
This tedious path I've chosen here
I certainly would've walked away
By now
Gonna wait it out
And if there were no desire to heal
The damaged and broken met along
This tedious path I've chosen here
I certainly would've walked away
By now
And I still may
(sigh)
I still may
"Be patient,"
"Be patient,"
"Be patient."
I must keep reminding myself of this
I must keep reminding myself of this
''I must keep reminding myself of this''
I must keep reminding myself of this!
If there were no rewards to reap (''I must keep reminding myself of this'')
No loving embrace to see me through (''I must keep reminding myself of this'')
This tedious path I've chosen, here (''I must keep reminding myself of this'')
I certainly would've walked away (''I must keep reminding myself of this'')
By now
And I still may
And I still may
And I still may
''And I am''
Gonna wait it out
Gonna wait it out
Wait it out
Gonna wait it out
Mantra
Instrumental
Schism
I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them fall away
Mildewed and smoldering; fundamental differing
Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lover's souls in motion
Disintegrating as it goes, testing our communication
The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us
So we can not see to reach an end, crippling our communication
I know the pieces fit, 'cause I watched them tumble down
No fault; None to blame; That doesn't mean I don't desire
To point the finger, blame the other, watch the Temple topple over
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication
The poetry has come from the squaring off between
And the circling is worth it; finding beauty in the dissonance
There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away
Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting
I've done the math enough to know the dangers of a second guessing
Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion....
Between supposed lovers
Between supposed lovers
But I know the pieces fit... I know the pieces fit
I know the pieces fit...
I know the pieces fit...
I know the pieces fit...
I know the pieces fit...
I know the pieces fit.... and I know the pieces fit.
Parabol
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
Parabola
We barely remember
Who or what came before this precious moment
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'm...
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
A 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
Ticks & Leeches
Suck and suck
Suckin' up all you can suckin' up all you can suck and suck
And workin' up under my patience like a little tick
Fat little parasite
Suck me dry
My friend is bruised and borrowed
You thieving bastards, you have
Turned my blood cold and bitter
Beat my compassion black and blue
Hope this is what you wanted
Hope this is what you had in mind
'Cause this is what you're gettin'
I hope you're chokin'
I hope you choke on this
I hope you're chokin'
I hope you choke on this
Takin' all you can takin' all I can we can take
Takin' all you can takin' all you can we can take
Got nothing left to give to you
Blood suckin' parasitic little
Tick suckin' parasitic little
Blood suckin' parasitic little
Tick
Take what you want and then go
Hope this is what you wanted
Hope this is what you had in mind
'Cause this is what you're gettin'
Suck me dry... Suck me dry... Suck me dry...
Suck me dry, baby
Suck
Suck me dry
Suck me dry
Suck
Suck me dry
Is this what you wanted?
Is this what you had in mind?
Is this what you wanted?
'Cause this is what you're gettin'
I hope
I hope
I hope
You choke
Lateralis
Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
Red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
Lets me see.
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
Drawn beyond the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.
Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
Red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
Lets me see
There is so much more that
Beckons me to look through to these infinite possibilities.
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
Drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind.
Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.
Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.
I embrace my desire to
Embrace my desire to
Feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow
To feel inspired to fathom the power, to witness the beauty,
To bathe in the fountain,
To swing on the spiral
To swing on the spiral
To swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.
With my feet upon the ground I move myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me.
Whatever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Disposition
Mention this to me
Mention this to me
Watch the weather change
Watch the weather change
Watch the weather change
Watch the weather
Change
Mention this to me
Mention something
Mention anything
Mention this to me
Watch the weather change
Watch the weather change
Watch the weather change
Watch the weather change
Watch the weather
Change
Watch the weather
Change
Mention this to me
Mention something
Mention anything
Mention this to me
Watch the weather
Watch the weather
Change
Watch the weather change
Watch the weather
Reflection
I have come curiously close to the end, down
Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole.
Defeated,
I concede and move closer. I may find comfort here.
I may find peace within the emptiness. How pitiful.
And it's calling me.
It's calling me.
It's calling me.
It's calling me.
And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping.
The moon tells me a secret. My confidant.
As full and bright as I am, this light is not my own and
A million light reflections pass over me
It's source is bright and endless.
She resuscitates the hopeless
Without her we are lifeless satellites drifting
And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt
Don't want to be down here soothing my narcissism
I must crucify the ego before it's far too late
I pray the light lifts me out before I pine away.
Before I pine away.
Before I pine away.
Before I pine away.
So crucify the ego before it's far too late
To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical
And you will come to find that we are all one mind
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
Just let the light touch you and let the words spill through
Just let them pass right through, bringing out our hope and reason.
Before we pine away.
Before we pine away.
Before we pine away.
Before we pine away.
Triad
Instrumental
Faaip De Oiad
"I, I don't have a whole lot of time. Um, OK, I'm a former
employee of Area 51. I, I was let go on a medical discharge
about a week ago and, and... [chokes] I've kind of been
running across the country. Damn, I don't know where to start,
they're, they're gonna, um, they'll triangulate on this position
really soon. OK, um, um, OK, what we're thinking of as, as
aliens, they're extradimensional beings, that, an earlier
precursor of the, um, space program they made contact with.
They are not what they claim to be. Uh, they've infiltrated a,
a lot of aspects of, of, of the military establishment,
particularly the Area 51. The disasters that are coming, they,
the military, I'm sorry, the government knows about them. And
there's a lot of safe areas in this world that they could begin
moving the population to now. They are not! They want those
major population centers wiped out so that the few that are
left will be more easily controllable."