Interesting thing about carrots: my wife and I bake them in the oven with some olive oil, salt, and pepper. They come out of the oven whistling (the cries of the carrots I assume).
You're just an enjoyer man. 99% of tools shit is awesome including this song. You just named what would be radio hits. All awesome no doubt but you're just an enjoyer too.
It has that effect when your stoned. So does the "you awoke in a ditch...your color is green..." always made my mind see one of those school speakers that the principle could talk to a classroom. Of course, I had this as a tape, before cds. Lol (edit added) There was also the space to doze off Into silence before the hidden track played.
I fell asleep in the middle of the 'midnight sounds', around min 9 ... and woke up just when I heard the "It was daylight when you woke up in your ditch". It scared the hell out of me 😂😂😂😂
I just love how so many comments are from those who had an experience listening to this while high...I will never forget chilling with my friends while the background crickets chirped until suddenly the narrator started talking about "colours". We all fell silent and went bug eyed listening to that, it was great.
I have heard some say that Tool is not to be considered a Metal band. But honestly I can't think of anything more metal than using a god damn shotgun as a musical instrument.
Mick Gordon using a chainsaw in the Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal soundtracks Sabaton using a 9mm, .50BMG, and clanging bayonets for their drum track on The Lost Battalion Tchaikovsky using cannons in 1812 Overture
His perception on the world and its suffering due to religious beliefs and how it will eventually lead to the fall of man. A lot of people don’t understand what he’s saying because they are asleep he isn’t hiding his message or making it complicated if you understand his lyrics you are aware of the world around if you are still trying to figure out the his message you are one of the sheep
Gnosticism. This material world is not fallen from God. Rather, the evil one created it out of ignorance. Its a disgusting world of beastly desires, violence and death. A world in which life does not beget life. No. Rather, so called life eats itself, endlessly. A disgusting creation.
@@d.h.9239 it iz what it iz. luckly for us monkeyz,serpent gave us the Fruit and now we see. ignorance iz bliss? not a fuking chance. godlike?not realy..maybe just a bit. godlike would be boring as shit or god.u know? like playing any FPS with cheat codes.iz fun at first,but one god/monkey wantz some challenge.but not too much.then it becomes over-powe-ring. god damn them all to non-existing hell. that god fella and that archon fuk-head. and all of us shitheadz for creating fairy-tales and when they age enough re-branding them as religion. smile-face
This song helped me construct my views on vegetarianism. Just because you don't eat meat, doesn't mean you aren't killing something. Just because something doesn't have vocal cords and can't scream while you cut it down, doesn't make it any less than murder. That's why I give thanks when I eat food. Something had to die, in order for me and my family to live.
This used to be the Tool album I least liked for years. Now I'm listening to this song and hearing "life feeds on life", then it is followed by an interlude of crickets. I think of crickets as cousins to the locusts which if you ever see videos of locusts you will most likely see some feasting on others. This song has great meaning to me now.
I think of crickets as people who are absorbed with their own lives, their own idealogies, and their own egos to even lift an eyelash to care about others. Especially "others" that don't think exactly like they do. All the kids dying. All the young athletes falling over dead on the field. But it's ok.. let's buy decorations for the current holiday because we're the lucky ones who were untouched. We have the luxury of going along like sheep. We don't care if the rabbits wear glasses. We aren't carrots.
This song was my first interaction with second person narrative, and it thoroughly creeped me out at 13/14. But it showed me how to get out of the confines of just thinking in 1st & 3rd person.
Interesting take.... I'm not sure if I consciously had that realization...around the same age as you back then, but it wouldn't surprise me if I did. Interesting thought for sure...
I never listen to this track unless it's nighttime and I've listened to the whole album from the beginning up to this song, which I think really fits well
When I hear the cricket part in this, I feel alone and scared. It's very unnerving and gives me this feeling of anxiousness and slight terror even though there's nothing I can be really scared about other than hearing the crickets. It's something about after hearing the beginning of the song with the scary loud noises and weird sounds and the singing, the crickets give me this feeling like I'm in shock of seeing something traumatizing and I'm in disbelief with no word. But this is why I like this track though
@@noahortiz1620 It does fuck with my mind a little this track, but not severely and I think that's the point of this track and that's why I like though.
God I miss the days of hidden CD tracks. Finding them unintentionally.. by chance, without being told by thousands of people online about it was. It's indescribable. I still remember playing this CD in my truck at night and hearing this for the first time.. See you all 1/24/2024
Hah! I used to bump my Kenwood basic M2 220 watts rms x2 mtx 3 way monitors 12 inch. Now, a vintage Yamaha 40 watt amp with Sony h.d. book shelf speakers. But I did just listen to this on my cell phone, smdh hahaha 😂😂
I adore this song. SO crunchy and abstract and idiosyncratic and darkly comical in the way only Tool can pull off. But I remember first hearing this around 1998, when I was 15...and it TERRIFIED me. Everything about it was unnerving. The sounds, the lyrics, Maynard's preacher affectation, and especially that final part after the crickets. At 15 I was genuinely afraid of alien abduction...and I was convinced that final narrative was about that. I still don't know if that's true, or what that part is even from or what it means. And I don't want to know. I'm 39 now and no longer believe alien abduction is something that is...real. BUT, I have had intense sleep paralysis most of my life and once knew _for certain_ that a "grey" was in my room, standing behind me, while I was petrified by a feeling of nihilistic fear I cannot put to words...so, in a certain sense...it IS real. 100% _subjectively_ real. So yeah....still scary! lol... o_o
I always felt it was the pov of a serial killer. The ever changing color association, the being sticky, the knife, the sense of owning all you see before you are all signs of psychopathic behavior.
@@jordanzinser8248It is, but maybe some of these people are trying to look behind that. I don't know, I'm kind of autistic and take everything literally, so I don't even know if I'm being helpful or sarcastic. This song is about death as a real part of every life. It shows that life eats energy provided by other life. The serial killer is a human evolution that is not desirable, but is still real. It is built on the biological necessity of killing for food. It is a mutation that is not productive, yet it is still somewhat prevalent, and as a sort of alpha trait, it is still in the breeding pool.
@@jordanzinser8248 When the 2nd person narrator, I assume it's Maynard, comes to the field and sees his people by his woods and his color becomes red, I tend to think of someone saying, "Don't touch! That's my hamburger!" That's Tool.
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... [x3] This is necessary This is necessary 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
I discovered this more than 25 years ago, as a French teenager I could only get a few words. The way he says them always touched me. But thank you so much for making me re discovering that beautiful text so long after. Gotta love the internet
I love it! I grew up on a farm and whenever I hear it, I imagine myself on the road I grew up on in the middle of nowhere. Waking up and crawling out of the ditch along the side of the gravel road. Walking over to my car that is also red. Staring out to the wooded area across the field. It fits the description in the story almost perfectly!
@@bongboi2831 The lyrics to this entire album is about addiction and psychopathy (um, like the words to "Prison Sex"??), so much so, it makes me ill to listen to most of it. They tell too much way too much t-root-h !! Amazing musicians and magicians: I truly pray their magickal salve and incantations have shifted the paradigm.
The part your speaking of is a message left on Maynard's answering machine by his land lord at the time.cant remember where I came across that tidbit of information though
@@rebeccathorndale7359 the album the 13th step by a perfect circle has a unique concept as well,each song is from a different perspective of addiction,for example "the outsider " is from the perspective of the older jock brother that tells you to just walk it off having any idea what the other person is going through
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on This is necessary. This is necessary. Life feed on life feeds on life feeds on This…is necessary. This is necessary.
I would love to recreate that rhythm with a shotgun. You would have to get good at loading the shells in between. You would have to load 5 shells unchambered then do as follows, 1. pump-fire-pump-fire-pump-fire-pump-fire 2. load 4 shells quickly, empty shell is chambered so gun is safe. Still point downrange only. repeat steps 1 and 2 1. pump-fire-pump-fire-pump-fire-pump-fire-pump 2. wait a bit 3. fire (this is where the 5th shell comes in, you would also have to have a magazine tube that holds 5 or more shells for this)
Chris Haskett from Rollins Band was there with them when they recorded this track, he smashed shit with a sledgehammer and is credited as such on the album
I was with 5 friends tripping. We just thought the disc was over. And we were just talking then it started and we all did the wtf. Had listened to it a 100 times before, but always changed to something else or started it over. It was funny as hell.
Way back when... none of my folks bothered with this. If you got the disc.. you had it. If you cared.. you let this disc play to the end. Even into sleep. It's legendary. Treat as such. Leave your feelings out of it.
this song is just a perfect example of TOOL's art tracks with how it enstills an almost dread like emotion through audio alone. absolutley one of my favorite tracks
@@peppermillers8361 Especially the first time you loaded the cd into your player. Finished the album, and then the tracks just kept going up...and going up...and going up. lol
Those who got to experience this as bonus track 69 on the CD without any context know... I was probably 14-15 when I was initiated and I remember being truly disturbed by the cries of the carrots. Honestly fellas, who's to say they don't have souls, who's to say we shouldn't let the rabbits wear glasses? If everything material and immaterial is generated from one consciousness (one breath, one word, one spark) it would mean that even the carrots, the trees, the dirt itself has some form of consciousness. If harvest day is their holocaust then what or who harvests us? I think these lyrics are far more literal and less tongue-in-cheek than most people realize🤔
And the Angel of the lord came onto me snatching me up from my pleasant slumber.I played this in the car with my grandma on max volume.She was very confused Amen Reverend Maynard
I remember being a teenager in the middle of the woods with a killer system in the truck and this coming on while we were stoned out of our minds!!!!!! Life changing shit lol
I remember some friend of mine dared me to request this song from our college radio station back in the early 90s. I did so. The DJ, not knowing the song at all, stopped it in the middle and was both mortified and pissed off about being trolled. XD!!!!
Tops even the Nevermind secret track. I first heard Tool in '93 after jumping out the window in middle school to ditch and hitch a ride to go buy a Crack pipe... the man who picked me up was playing it. Nice guy
Love tool especially everything from opiate to anima this is probably one of my favorite hidden tracks ever love the creativity in it I believe the guys smashed a few old pianos & Maynard shot one with a shotgun multiple times plus the spoking part at the end by Maynards landlord supposedly it's cool how it just pops up out of nowhere during the crickets chirping best way to end the song & album
Carrots have very smaller seeds, so in small gardens the weaker smaller plants are pulled out too give the stronger plants a better chance of living. In some concentration camps, the prisoners were separated into two lines each morning, the healthy to live and the weak to die. Kind of like carrots.
Every once in a while my mind makes a connection. Sometimes concepts just correlate. I forgot all about this song and upon hearing it randomly a vision of the island of dr moreau came to mind. If you havnt seen the movie i highly recommend it.
just listened to the full album and after arriving here knowing the meanings of each of the songs I can say that I am afraid of this one. I was never afraid of this song because I didn't know what it meant. This song better not be from experience or Maynard is a mass murderer. All I can say.
Its always sad to hear the ending of the album .The voice clip always freaks me out a bit and has some anxiety feel ,That's the reason I like it so much though .
"Plants are alive fallacy" Vegans draw the line at hurting sentient individuals. Plants lack nerves, let alone a central nervous system, and cannot feel pain or respond to circumstances in any deliberate way (not to be confused with the non-conscious reactions they do have). Unlike animals, plants lack the ability or potential to experience pain or have sentient thoughts, so there isn't an ethical issue with eating them. The words 'live', 'living' and 'alive' have completely different meanings when used to describe plants and animals. A live plant is not conscious and cannot feel pain. A live animal is conscious and can feel pain. Therefore, it's problematic to assert that plants have evolved an as-yet undetectable ability to think and feel but not the ability to do anything with that evolutionary strategy (e.g. running away, etc.). Regardless, each pound of animal flesh requires between four and thirteen pounds of plant matter to produce, depending upon species and conditions. Given that amount of plant death, a belief in the sentience of plants makes a strong pro-vegan argument.
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on... This is necessary This is necessary This is necessary...Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on...This...That's reality of life on Earth summed up in two lines. It's all being born, eating other life forms because you must. It's all cyclical and never ends. What an amazing way of putting that into words just as cyclical as life actually is...
Interesting thing about carrots: my wife and I bake them in the oven with some olive oil, salt, and pepper. They come out of the oven whistling (the cries of the carrots I assume).
You're Hitler
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Carrots need suger.
@@oceanmachine1906 was only one Hitler! and he was my father.
Damit..let..the rabbits! WEAR GLASSES!
What I instrument do you play?
Me: the shotgun
I think that repetitive gunshot sound is part of the reason I love this song. That and the carrot Holocaust thing.
Wait, you're the quiet kid?
I use elixir strings on my fender sledgehammer..
LOL
This is necessary
Tool Fans: Sober, Stinkfist, Schism
Tool Enjoyers: 7 minutes of uninterrupted cricket noises
Your color was green.
@@Dead_Again1313I hate android users too! 🤣
I've been called reverend Maynard ever since this song came out. Lastname is, but after being in the military, everyone calls you by that anyway's.
You're just an enjoyer man. 99% of tools shit is awesome including this song. You just named what would be radio hits. All awesome no doubt but you're just an enjoyer too.
When I bought the CD of this I listened to it while falling asleep and I woke up in a cold sweat during this song
It has that effect when your stoned. So does the "you awoke in a ditch...your color is green..." always made my mind see one of those school speakers that the principle could talk to a classroom. Of course, I had this as a tape, before cds. Lol (edit added) There was also the space to doze off Into silence before the hidden track played.
@gaugustson Same here, except on Cassette Tape...and I had dozed off...and I awoke in a ditch, my color was green. Lol
I fell asleep in the middle of the 'midnight sounds', around min 9 ... and woke up just when I heard the "It was daylight when you woke up in your ditch". It scared the hell out of me 😂😂😂😂
Imagine how I felt when I woke up in the middle of, "Be careful with that axe Eugene" by Pink Floyd. Lol.
That’s awesome, i actually fell asleep listening to this lol
I just love how so many comments are from those who had an experience listening to this while high...I will never forget chilling with my friends while the background crickets chirped until suddenly the narrator started talking about "colours". We all fell silent and went bug eyed listening to that, it was great.
This isn't a song, it's a whole experience
Their Concerts is an experience this is just a Free Trial Version of AOL 🤣
This. Is. LEGENDARY.
THIS! IS! *LEGENDARY!!!!*
ART THRIVES ON ART, THRIVES ON ART, THRIVES ON ART, THRIVES ON ART
@@sxywyka:
You either get it, or you don't.
Word . I had it on cassette tape B side
I have heard some say that Tool is not to be considered a Metal band. But honestly I can't think of anything more metal than using a god damn shotgun as a musical instrument.
Their metal. They just want to be different.
Except maybe Jackyl and Jesse James Dupree's use of the chainsaw. But NOT Jethro Tull and their flute! 🙄
Mick Gordon using a chainsaw in the Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal soundtracks
Sabaton using a 9mm, .50BMG, and clanging bayonets for their drum track on The Lost Battalion
Tchaikovsky using cannons in 1812 Overture
😜😜🤘
industrial.
One of my favorite lines of all time, 2:20 "LET THE RABBITS WEAR GLASSES!"
"Can I get an Amen!"
Can I get a hallelujah!
facts
Thank you, Jesus.
Agreed. 😉
I’m gonna have “this is necessary,” stuck in my head all day
Evol•lovE
Strength on the Journey, Journey well.
😂😂😂😂
Life feeds on life.
@@IAmNoeyes BOOM
I love creative, crazy and abstract ending tracks like this. Nobody does this anymore. I also love NIN The Downward Spiral last track.
Plenty of people still do this!
Iowa :D I was listening to it then I cut it short to return to my roots
The title track or "Hurt"? I'm assuming the title track, even if it technically is just the second-to-last track.
NIN?
Lol you pathetic fuck.
@@Vicus_of_Utrecht what
I’ll never forget the first time I played this cd. I couldn’t understand what the he’ll was happening
Exactly!!!
His perception on the world and its suffering due to religious beliefs and how it will eventually lead to the fall of man. A lot of people don’t understand what he’s saying because they are asleep he isn’t hiding his message or making it complicated if you understand his lyrics you are aware of the world around if you are still trying to figure out the his message you are one of the sheep
@@justiosua5357 no he's talking about the 59 1-minute tracks of silence in between Flood and Disgustipated
Gnosticism. This material world is not fallen from God. Rather, the evil one created it out of ignorance. Its a disgusting world of beastly desires, violence and death. A world in which life does not beget life. No. Rather, so called life eats itself, endlessly. A disgusting creation.
@@d.h.9239 it iz what it iz. luckly for us monkeyz,serpent gave us the Fruit and now we see. ignorance iz bliss? not a fuking chance. godlike?not realy..maybe just a bit. godlike would be boring as shit or god.u know? like playing any FPS with cheat codes.iz fun at first,but one god/monkey wantz some challenge.but not too much.then it becomes over-powe-ring.
god damn them all to non-existing hell. that god fella and that archon fuk-head. and all of us shitheadz for creating fairy-tales and when they age enough re-branding them as religion. smile-face
Of all the creepy weird tool songs this one takes the cake in a good way of course
A tasty carrot cake
@@oujimandias6485 hear them scream in the cake
@@oujimandias6485 man, I was gonna make that joke. Great minds think alike I guess
@@tortis6342 und keine eier
Woke up in a ditch unsure of how I got there. So, I put this song on and backtracked.
Listening to this during the day: Humor
Listening to this at night: Terror
this is the closest Tool has gotten to sounding like the band Swans
Lucky me gets drunk at night
It seems very matter of fact to me.
When I try to connect with old friends, I leave this on their voicemail.
😂😂😂 good idea!!!
This song helped me construct my views on vegetarianism. Just because you don't eat meat, doesn't mean you aren't killing something. Just because something doesn't have vocal cords and can't scream while you cut it down, doesn't make it any less than murder. That's why I give thanks when I eat food. Something had to die, in order for me and my family to live.
don't want to complain...but we are missing like 59 tracks from the cd
erm, nope.... see redd;s comment (above) for details.
@@theangriestcatintheworld out pls 🤢
@@alienduce-unocero Out? Out where? Out why? You're not trying to make me go outside again, are you? Nooooooo. (Stubborn meows)
💕 >^. .^< 💕
@@joshasaro4190 Eh? Meow meow mew meow mewp *grrrrrr* (teehee)
💕 >^. .^< 💕
@@theangriestcatintheworld god, I hate furries and roleplayers
Heard about the research concerning plants emitting ultrasonic screams when stressed or injured. Immediately thought of the first part of this.
They release "chemical screams" as well, the smell of mowed grass are the pheromones they release to warn neighbors of danger for example.
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This used to be the Tool album I least liked for years. Now I'm listening to this song and hearing "life feeds on life", then it is followed by an interlude of crickets. I think of crickets as cousins to the locusts which if you ever see videos of locusts you will most likely see some feasting on others. This song has great meaning to me now.
This song is about the balance and the horror of the universe
Imo, the still haven't topped this one.
@@isopropyltoxicity no it’s about carrots
locust eat crops.... plants... not corpse
I think of crickets as people who are absorbed with their own lives, their own idealogies, and their own egos to even lift an eyelash to care about others. Especially "others" that don't think exactly like they do. All the kids dying. All the young athletes falling over dead on the field. But it's ok.. let's buy decorations for the current holiday because we're the lucky ones who were untouched. We have the luxury of going along like sheep. We don't care if the rabbits wear glasses. We aren't carrots.
This song was my first interaction with second person narrative, and it thoroughly creeped me out at 13/14. But it showed me how to get out of the confines of just thinking in 1st & 3rd person.
Interesting take....
I'm not sure if I consciously had that realization...around the same age as you back then, but it wouldn't surprise me if I did. Interesting thought for sure...
Reading this comment I realized that my first interaction with 2nd person naratives was a bunch of really old Choose Your Own Adventure books.
the hidden track in the album
probably the most underrated song from tool
I never listen to this track unless it's nighttime and I've listened to the whole album from the beginning up to this song, which I think really fits well
I saw Tool at the Gorge in 2017.
The crowd was saying 'baaaaa' and 'moooooo' as we walked through the gates.
I joined in, of course.
You ever fall asleep to this & wake up 59 tracks later in pure & udder terror?
UDDER TERROR LOL!!! I don’t know if that was intentional but it’s hilarious
@@tortis6342 haha dont have a cow, man
You are afraid of cows?
@@rickhobson3211eat my shorts man.
When I hear the cricket part in this, I feel alone and scared. It's very unnerving and gives me this feeling of anxiousness and slight terror even though there's nothing I can be really scared about other than hearing the crickets. It's something about after hearing the beginning of the song with the scary loud noises and weird sounds and the singing, the crickets give me this feeling like I'm in shock of seeing something traumatizing and I'm in disbelief with no word. But this is why I like this track though
@@noahortiz1620 It does fuck with my mind a little this track, but not severely and I think that's the point of this track and that's why I like though.
Around this timestamp > 6:20 < I put in both my AirPods and put ‘em on noice cancellation.I got freaked tf out and I need an explanation please?
@@noahortiz1620 they're not Harvard drop outs?
It's super relaxing to me, but I've integrated my internal psychopath
It is calming to me. But I guess it's because I live in the forest. It is total absolute silence you have to worry about.
Saw a rediculously HUGE bag of carrots at the grocery store and had to hear this song again!! THANK you Maynard!!! 😎😍
That is hilarious
These are the cries of the carrots... THE CRIES OF THE CARROTS!
🔧🤘🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀
God I miss the days of hidden CD tracks. Finding them unintentionally.. by chance, without being told by thousands of people online about it was. It's indescribable. I still remember playing this CD in my truck at night and hearing this for the first time.. See you all 1/24/2024
if you actually own a copy of the CD, pull out the black plastic part that holds the disc itself. Theres a picture beneath it!
Ty.. fucking tools around here
What's the picture of?
@@DJTide prob the cow licking its own ass pictre
@@DJTide a cow licking its b hole 😂
@DJTide a cow licking it's butthole
This song is especially great if you have a stereo that shakes your house...
Fuck me! First, we have screaming carrots, now the taco's are typing! Everything is going Kerr-Ayzy!
Or you played it in an area that currently already had really loud crickets, making a guy talking even more alarming.
In fucking deed ,,, happened in highschool,,had a badass pioneer
and lsd its nice with it mmmm
Hah! I used to bump my Kenwood basic M2 220 watts rms x2 mtx 3 way monitors 12 inch.
Now, a vintage Yamaha 40 watt amp with Sony h.d. book shelf speakers.
But I did just listen to this on my cell phone, smdh hahaha 😂😂
NOBODY:
TOOL: sprays fanbase down with massive digital content
I adore this song. SO crunchy and abstract and idiosyncratic and darkly comical in the way only Tool can pull off.
But I remember first hearing this around 1998, when I was 15...and it TERRIFIED me. Everything about it was unnerving. The sounds, the lyrics, Maynard's preacher affectation, and especially that final part after the crickets. At 15 I was genuinely afraid of alien abduction...and I was convinced that final narrative was about that. I still don't know if that's true, or what that part is even from or what it means. And I don't want to know.
I'm 39 now and no longer believe alien abduction is something that is...real. BUT, I have had intense sleep paralysis most of my life and once knew _for certain_ that a "grey" was in my room, standing behind me, while I was petrified by a feeling of nihilistic fear I cannot put to words...so, in a certain sense...it IS real. 100% _subjectively_ real. So yeah....still scary! lol... o_o
Mr. Grey hasn't forgotten you.
I always felt it was the pov of a serial killer. The ever changing color association, the being sticky, the knife, the sense of owning all you see before you are all signs of psychopathic behavior.
@@jordanzinser8248It is, but maybe some of these people are trying to look behind that. I don't know, I'm kind of autistic and take everything literally, so I don't even know if I'm being helpful or sarcastic. This song is about death as a real part of every life. It shows that life eats energy provided by other life. The serial killer is a human evolution that is not desirable, but is still real. It is built on the biological necessity of killing for food. It is a mutation that is not productive, yet it is still somewhat prevalent, and as a sort of alpha trait, it is still in the breeding pool.
@@jordanzinser8248 When the 2nd person narrator, I assume it's Maynard, comes to the field and sees his people by his woods and his color becomes red, I tend to think of someone saying, "Don't touch! That's my hamburger!" That's Tool.
You can expect more visites, could be nice and better. Did you know you could use sleep paralysis for S** stimulation?
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...
[x3]
This is necessary
This is necessary
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
Satan himself.......wrote this ............👌
Is that the full verse from the bible
Thx
I discovered this more than 25 years ago, as a French teenager I could only get a few words. The way he says them always touched me. But thank you so much for making me re discovering that beautiful text so long after.
Gotta love the internet
@@pierric2748 même chose.
Is it just me, or is the hidden story beginning at 13:51 the most tripped out thing you've ever heard?
I love it! I grew up on a farm and whenever I hear it, I imagine myself on the road I grew up on in the middle of nowhere. Waking up and crawling out of the ditch along the side of the gravel road. Walking over to my car that is also red. Staring out to the wooded area across the field. It fits the description in the story almost perfectly!
Its the view from a psychopath I believe, they believe that everything is theirs and they deserve the right to themselves
@@bongboi2831 The lyrics to this entire album is about addiction and psychopathy (um, like the words to "Prison Sex"??), so much so, it makes me ill to listen to most of it. They tell too much way too much t-root-h !! Amazing musicians and magicians: I truly pray their magickal salve and incantations have shifted the paradigm.
The part your speaking of is a message left on Maynard's answering machine by his land lord at the time.cant remember where I came across that tidbit of information though
@@rebeccathorndale7359 the album the 13th step by a perfect circle has a unique concept as well,each song is from a different perspective of addiction,for example "the outsider " is from the perspective of the older jock brother that tells you to just walk it off having any idea what the other person is going through
Digital cannot provide this song justice. I am repeating these lyrics in the produce section of the grocery store next time I go.
Life feeds on life... This is necessary
Life feeds on life... This is necessary
You all got the Lyric wrong! He sings: "Life feeds on life feeds on Life feeds on... This is necessary" (< something incoming)
@@janm.8157 🤦🏻♂️
Life feeds on life... This is necessary
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on This is necessary. This is necessary. Life feed on life feeds on life feeds on This…is necessary. This is necessary.
FUN FACT: Maynard shot a piano with a shotgun and the gang all smashed another with sledghammers to get that sound
These motherfuckers know how to party!
To add onto it, they got permission from the studio to do it, and then cleaned it up after. They didn't just trash the place.
I would love to recreate that rhythm with a shotgun. You would have to get good at loading the shells in between.
You would have to load 5 shells unchambered then do as follows,
1. pump-fire-pump-fire-pump-fire-pump-fire
2. load 4 shells quickly, empty shell is chambered so gun is safe. Still point downrange only.
repeat steps 1 and 2
1. pump-fire-pump-fire-pump-fire-pump-fire-pump
2. wait a bit
3. fire (this is where the 5th shell comes in, you would also have to have a magazine tube that holds 5 or more shells for this)
Chris Haskett from Rollins Band was there with them when they recorded this track, he smashed shit with a sledgehammer and is credited as such on the album
@@fritzmusic Fuck yeah 😂
This is my favorite song of Tool. A flawless piece of art totally untouchable
track 69 on Undertow....on the CD version from 90's...was amazing easter egg
So was the hidden artwork. Moooo
hehe 69 funni redit moment
I was with 5 friends tripping. We just thought the disc was over. And we were just talking then it started and we all did the wtf. Had listened to it a 100 times before, but always changed to something else or started it over. It was funny as hell.
Way back when... none of my folks bothered with this. If you got the disc.. you had it. If you cared.. you let this disc play to the end. Even into sleep. It's legendary. Treat as such. Leave your feelings out of it.
this song is just a perfect example of TOOL's art tracks with how it enstills an almost dread like emotion through audio alone. absolutley one of my favorite tracks
this song genuinely makes the hair on my arms stand up.
It's incredible
You are that guy from doomworld!
@@Shrek_es_mi_pastor indeed i am!
Me too
Nevermore did a song like this: strange ending, but still loved it. Weird, but awesome
I bet Maynard's grapes cry before they become wine
Most underrated comment in this thread.
Haha.... no doubt bro. \,,\
Naw, they just let out a little wine.
🤣🤣🤣 lmfao love this comment section
You already know
I wish I was able to "like" the secret track. Either way; *Double Thumbs Up*
Xander O'Shields I was doing my homework one night listening to the whole undertow album and this song came on freaked me out!!!😳
Can I get an amen? Can I get a hallelujah? Thank you Jesus
Meow!!!
@@theangriestcatintheworld fuck you
@@theangriestcatintheworld goofy ass furry
That country guy talking about the cries of the carrots sounds like Les Claypool 🥁🎸🤟🏼
That’s Maynard
Another great band good and weird of good concepts /sounds ..well done again Maynard and co 👍
this is the first TOOL song ive ever heard
holy shit
That's a rough start lol Hope you still kept listening!
Hopefully you kept going, this is the hardest one to get into I'd say. Totally worth it once you do tho.
It's the best kind of track to end an album on.
@@peppermillers8361 most definitely
@@peppermillers8361 Especially the first time you loaded the cd into your player. Finished the album, and then the tracks just kept going up...and going up...and going up. lol
Those who got to experience this as bonus track 69 on the CD without any context know... I was probably 14-15 when I was initiated and I remember being truly disturbed by the cries of the carrots. Honestly fellas, who's to say they don't have souls, who's to say we shouldn't let the rabbits wear glasses? If everything material and immaterial is generated from one consciousness (one breath, one word, one spark) it would mean that even the carrots, the trees, the dirt itself has some form of consciousness. If harvest day is their holocaust then what or who harvests us? I think these lyrics are far more literal and less tongue-in-cheek than most people realize🤔
Tripped my brains out while listening to this tune. I was like is this part of the trip ?
I will never forget the moment I heard this track for the first time. I was happy but I didn't know it back then.
And the Angel of the lord came onto me snatching me up from my pleasant slumber.I played this in the car with my grandma on max volume.She was very confused Amen Reverend Maynard
They have a soul! Damn you!
I remember being a teenager in the middle of the woods with a killer system in the truck and this coming on while we were stoned out of our minds!!!!!! Life changing shit lol
Lmao sounds scary but awesome at the same time
Were they your woods?
Me & my friends listening to this in 1993 HOWLING WITH LAUGHTER at good ol Maynard!! What a fucking sense of humor!!! The CARROTS!!🤣🤣🤣
I remember some friend of mine dared me to request this song from our college radio station back in the early 90s. I did so. The DJ, not knowing the song at all, stopped it in the middle and was both mortified and pissed off about being trolled. XD!!!!
It’s one of my all time favorite songs. Silly and deep but mostly deeply silly.
Perfect for Halloween. Kids don't even come close to the front door. The carcasses lying about randomly may have something to do with that as well.
Tops even the Nevermind secret track. I first heard Tool in '93 after jumping out the window in middle school to ditch and hitch a ride to go buy a Crack pipe... the man who picked me up was playing it. Nice guy
We used to listen to this in Hamilton nz 95 stoned at varsity before we'd heard of the clean 🌻
The Undertow album is so full of aggression. To hear crickets chirping after all the madness for several minutes is really a cool contrast.
I remember waking up in the middle of the night to this song. I thought I was dreaming. Nope, just Maynard.
13:50
...it was daylight when you woke up in your ditch...
Sounds like something out of a David Lynch movie.
What Disgustipated said: *THESE. ARE THE CRIES. OF THE CARROTS!*
How my brain interprets the lyrics:
*THESE. ARE THE CRIES. OF THE KARENS!*
I agree, we should eat the Karen’s.
@@tortis6342 no Karen's should Learn to Swim. Lol
The crickets part has me laughing out loud 😂
Zajebisty utwór
I still love that they put a bunch of blank tracks on the CD to make it track 69
Legend has it that the hidden track was a voicemail left by Maynards landlord for some reason.
The best song on the album!
Love tool especially everything from opiate to anima this is probably one of my favorite hidden tracks ever love the creativity in it I believe the guys smashed a few old pianos & Maynard shot one with a shotgun multiple times plus the spoking part at the end by Maynards landlord supposedly it's cool how it just pops up out of nowhere during the crickets chirping best way to end the song & album
Thank you Tool!!
Hadn't heard this in about 20 years. Holy crap! "And now red was your color" Damn, what a piece of art.
Let the rabbits wear glasses!
I'm in San Diego getting ready too swim. Fri 8-18-2023 ill be back.
Carrots have very smaller seeds, so in small gardens the weaker smaller plants are pulled out too give the stronger plants a better chance of living. In some concentration camps, the prisoners were separated into two lines each morning, the healthy to live and the weak to die. Kind of like carrots.
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MEZMERIZE you’re welcome
Incredible. But not in the bad way.
Every once in a while my mind makes a connection. Sometimes concepts just correlate. I forgot all about this song and upon hearing it randomly a vision of the island of dr moreau came to mind. If you havnt seen the movie i highly recommend it.
A vision of the book or the movie
Look up human repopulation in the 1800s and go wild
just listened to the full album and after arriving here knowing the meanings of each of the songs I can say that I am afraid of this one. I was never afraid of this song because I didn't know what it meant. This song better not be from experience or Maynard is a mass murderer. All I can say.
Oh damn, I just found my new jam
I could say... this was necessary
reading the comments as listening for the first time is golden I’m so confused 😂
3:53 when team fortress 2 is loading.
"Oh lord, why did everything have to keep changing like this?"
I heard this at the same time I read you. O_O
@@weapontheory Nice!
@@weapontheory same
I remember me and my dad would listen to this tool cd in his old truck years ago. And I vaguely remember the song number being something weird like 95
69 bro
the best part of this is Maynard shooting a piano with a shotgun in the studio.
Its always sad to hear the ending of the album .The voice clip always freaks me out a bit and has some anxiety feel ,That's the reason I like it so much though .
Tool is the best.
My favorite song by far
Love this song had it stuck in my head so had to listen to it
I was listening to this while reading Berserk and now it’s my headcanon that Ubik sounds like Reverend Maynard
The panning of the speech around 1:30 to 1:50 makes it seem like he is walking around behind you. Creepypasta with Headphones on.
vegans have left the chat
They're aware of the cries of the carrots... Just not as loud as the cries of the rabbits.
Still here, bebe
Good.
hey bro us vegans still feed on life
"Plants are alive fallacy"
Vegans draw the line at hurting sentient individuals. Plants lack nerves, let alone a central nervous system, and cannot feel pain or respond to circumstances in any deliberate way (not to be confused with the non-conscious reactions they do have). Unlike animals, plants lack the ability or potential to experience pain or have sentient thoughts, so there isn't an ethical issue with eating them.
The words 'live', 'living' and 'alive' have completely different meanings when used to describe plants and animals. A live plant is not conscious and cannot feel pain. A live animal is conscious and can feel pain. Therefore, it's problematic to assert that plants have evolved an as-yet undetectable ability to think and feel but not the ability to do anything with that evolutionary strategy (e.g. running away, etc.).
Regardless, each pound of animal flesh requires between four and thirteen pounds of plant matter to produce, depending upon species and conditions. Given that amount of plant death, a belief in the sentience of plants makes a strong pro-vegan argument.
i listened to this around the same time i still was enamored with barney and big bird. i love this song.
Lmao yeah my dad used to show me this stuff too and I was just kinda like wtf dude 😂😂😂
Skip to about 13:50 to bypass the crickets......
Bypass? No way you pass up the crickets...
Thx
This is what your father teached you? To cheat your way out of the crickets?
Legit waited for about 4 minutes listening to them lol
Back in my day we listened to the crickets
Good message, awesome album.
Here it is, the longest TOOL song
Is it not 7empest?
@@TheOddTimesMusic this beats 7empest by about 10 seconds.
The longest TOOL song YET
I had this album my cousin and I smoked a few joints and were toast listening to this .
i also smoked joints woth your cousin and got toast and listenedto this
AMEN! And, the instrumentals in this, A+++++++++
Oh this hidden song? It would come up on song 99 in your CD player if you let it play long enough
It would be amazing if this song was put into Outlast. This chorus is mesmerizing.
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on... This is necessary This is necessary This is necessary...Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on...This...That's reality of life on Earth summed up in two lines. It's all being born, eating other life forms because you must. It's all cyclical and never ends. What an amazing way of putting that into words just as cyclical as life actually is...
When one track is all it takes to remind me of the worlds dark side which Im blinded from by the peace Im unfairly privileged to have.
No man, icreible, yo buscando musica para relajarme y encuentro este temita de Tool.
Long live the memory of Bill Hicks