"Something kind of sad about, the ways that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything, what became of subtlety?" is the main one. There are a few more. The kick drum could be a heart beat following the spine up through the chakra system from the bottom. The stomach section stays instrumental bc of fear and the song wakes back up at "ALIVE" once it gets to the heart. The creature at the end of the video whispering over the left shoulder of the male might be a representation of Aiwass that Crowley heard at the pyramids when he founded Thelema. This song has always been a love song of sorts to me but only in the context of Isis and Osiris recreating Horus when the beat reaches the crown at the end. A lot of the songs on Aenima have alchemical meanings to them but that's not the Harry Potter bs, it's a lot closer to the original Chemycal Wedding in the 1600s context of apotheosis. I could always be crazy as hell as well. @@MaleOrderBride
For real, I thought this song was about drugs forever . Until I learned he was talking about fisting someone literally. I guess it still could be about drugs, but ? ???
@@josephsmith6777 I can see why people would think it is about drugs and on some level, it is but not the drugs/chemicals you'd think because it centers around becoming desensitized from overstimulation, AKA your dopamine receptors are fried and your ability to feel has been damage. So due to this damage, and as the song progresses, you hear the attempt to feel via fisting and it starts with "finger deep within the borderline," and then "knuckle deep inside the borderline," and then "elbow deep," and then finally "shoulder deep." It is obviously an extreme way of pointing out a societal issue that has only gotten worse as people get blasted with the "everything, everywhere, all the time" aspect of the internet now that it has been fully corporatized for profiting off of the usage and engagement of people who use it. Naturally, this is my take from the lyrics and I hope you find it interesting! :)
Anybody that has dealt with addiction will immediately understand what these lyrics are talking about! Reading them while listening will give you chills!
@@mrkeith13it's about addiction in general and the need for stimulation, anything to escape this world and the mundane. Calling it a song only about sex is akin to calling animal farm a fantasy book just about animals.
Alcoholic, no intention of stopping until my liver looks like a rotten apple core. I'll switch to straight liquor again after that and finish the job. Fucked up part, I'll probably be the filthy Keith Richards type cockroach 😉 I'm not scared of the inevitable.
@@tarajonesanneyou'll never get elbow or shoulder deep into any borderline lol. Plenty of folks gotta have constant meaningless sex like a drug too tho.
I agree. Right now it gives me gov vibes..what they're doing to us as a society.. grooming us ..numbing us... normalizing some of the sickest perversions we never thought of..
Jan 2024. Everytime i listen to any Tool song it feels like the first time and the songs can change meaning depending on what stupid shit I am battling with physically or mentally or when I disassociate so much that I'm trying to feel something again anything that can make me want to keep going in this mad world we live in.
Hang in there Amanda, but I'm with you on all the shit one must go through on this World but I have to keep telling myself it's so we can get stronger and wiser to what may ly ahead, it's for good reason. So I'm told, so now I'm telling you.
Oh...it certainly will. At least until you've paid off that credit card for tickets, drinks, Schwag, parking, and whatever chemical makeover (drugs) you had on board. Might take a few months of a change in your life.@@melissabroadwell3494
The instrumentation in this badass song is 100% awesome, very intense, the lyrics are left up to the listener to interpret as usual for Tool's genius ingenuity
This song was the opener for the Tool laser show me and my buddies seen at the Telus World of Science at the Zeidler dome in Edmonton. Flying high on a fuck tonne of mushrooms, the laser show was absolutely legendary and this song always reminds me of it
Bir şeylerin değişmesi lazım İnkar edilemez ikilem Sıkıntılar bir yük değil Herkes katlanmalı Aşırı uyarılma beni uyuşturuyor Ama seni başka türlü istemezdim Çünkü yeterli değil Daha fazlasına ihtiyacım var Hiç bir şey yatıştırıcı değil Çünkü yeterli değil Ben sana söylüyorum artık istemiyorum Sadece ihtiyacım var Nefes almaya, hissetmeye Yaşadığımı bilmeye Parmak sınır çizgisinin derinliklerinde Bana beni sevdiğini göster Ve biz birbirimize aitiz Sakinleş Dön ve elimi tut Değişmene yardımcı olabilirim Yorgunluk anları zevke dönüşüyor O kelimeyi söyle ve biz yapacağız Yolumuz açık olsun Karıştır ve dengele Acı ve rahatlık senin derinlerinde Beni başka türlü istemeyeceksin Ama bu yeterli değil Daha fazlasina ihtiyacım var Hic bir şey yatıştırıcı değil Ben sana söylüyorum artık istemiyorum Nefes almaya, hissetmeye Yaşadığımi bilmeye Bu biraz acitabilir ama alışacağın bir şey Sakin Kayıp git İşlerin bu noktaya gelmesinde biraz üzücü durum var Herşeye duyarsizlastim İncelikten ne olurBunun benim için ne anlamı olabilir ki? Eger gerçekten hiç bir şey hissetmiyorsam Ben yapacağım Kazmaya devam edeceğim Ta ki ben Bir şey hissedene kadar omuz sınır
TH-cam ads are the worst. I pick this video and the preceding ad is three middle age women drinking crappy wine on the beach. I can just imagine me sitting behind them with a 6 pack cranking Tool while cooking burgers.
For me this song is totally about my marriage, the lack of sex and zero romance for 12 yrs. To breathe To feel To know I'm alive F'ing brilliant lyrics
I can't believe I only just realized this song has only one rhyme in it anywhere. That just goes to show how brilliant of a lyricist Maynard is.
wow
What is the one rhyme?
"Something kind of sad about, the ways that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything, what became of subtlety?" is the main one. There are a few more. The kick drum could be a heart beat following the spine up through the chakra system from the bottom. The stomach section stays instrumental bc of fear and the song wakes back up at "ALIVE" once it gets to the heart. The creature at the end of the video whispering over the left shoulder of the male might be a representation of Aiwass that Crowley heard at the pyramids when he founded Thelema. This song has always been a love song of sorts to me but only in the context of Isis and Osiris recreating Horus when the beat reaches the crown at the end. A lot of the songs on Aenima have alchemical meanings to them but that's not the Harry Potter bs, it's a lot closer to the original Chemycal Wedding in the 1600s context of apotheosis. I could always be crazy as hell as well. @@MaleOrderBride
@@FUBARx371lol you sound like a true tool fan lol
I like to think it just means to find a better part of your self ,if your everthing around you is not you
Ahhhh, the Tool lyrical rabbithole. They are whatever you want them to be.
It's about sex 😂
@@michaelstraubinger6687 Nope, it is about desensitization.
@@Essentialitybuuuut, it uses fisting as a metaphor to desensitization and stepping into areas you don’t want to, to change n’ stuff
For real, I thought this song was about drugs forever . Until I learned he was talking about fisting someone literally. I guess it still could be about drugs, but ? ???
@@josephsmith6777 I can see why people would think it is about drugs and on some level, it is but not the drugs/chemicals you'd think because it centers around becoming desensitized from overstimulation, AKA your dopamine receptors are fried and your ability to feel has been damage.
So due to this damage, and as the song progresses, you hear the attempt to feel via fisting and it starts with "finger deep within the borderline," and then "knuckle deep inside the borderline," and then "elbow deep," and then finally "shoulder deep."
It is obviously an extreme way of pointing out a societal issue that has only gotten worse as people get blasted with the "everything, everywhere, all the time" aspect of the internet now that it has been fully corporatized for profiting off of the usage and engagement of people who use it.
Naturally, this is my take from the lyrics and I hope you find it interesting! :)
This song was everything in the '90s and it's still going strong in 2024.
The perfect song to listen to when taking your prostate exam
😂
Man I wouldn't want it any other way.
😂😂😂😂😂
AJAJ
Anybody that has dealt with addiction will immediately understand what these lyrics are talking about! Reading them while listening will give you chills!
I always thought the song was about “sex”? Lol now I’m not sure what it’s about
song is about "fisting", not drugs
@@mrkeith13it's about addiction in general and the need for stimulation, anything to escape this world and the mundane. Calling it a song only about sex is akin to calling animal farm a fantasy book just about animals.
Alcoholic, no intention of stopping until my liver looks like a rotten apple core. I'll switch to straight liquor again after that and finish the job. Fucked up part, I'll probably be the filthy Keith Richards type cockroach 😉
I'm not scared of the inevitable.
@@tarajonesanneyou'll never get elbow or shoulder deep into any borderline lol.
Plenty of folks gotta have constant meaningless sex like a drug too tho.
This song has many meanings. Choose the one that speaks better to you. Sit back and relax...
I agree.
I prefer it being about fisting
It's about sex and fucking 😊
I agree. Right now it gives me gov vibes..what they're doing to us as a society.. grooming us ..numbing us... normalizing some of the sickest perversions we never thought of..
It's literally called stinkfist and depicts the desensitization of anal fisting 😂
Stinkfist is my favorite song by tool
It was the song that got me into Tool.
Most fun to karaoke, that's for damn sure lol
Jan 2024. Everytime i listen to any Tool song it feels like the first time and the songs can change meaning depending on what stupid shit I am battling with physically or mentally or when I disassociate so much that I'm trying to feel something again anything that can make me want to keep going in this mad world we live in.
i seen them for the first time live last night and i feel like it will change my life
Hang in there Amanda, but I'm with you on all the shit one must go through on this World but I have to keep telling myself it's so we can get stronger and wiser to what may ly ahead, it's for good reason. So I'm told, so now I'm telling you.
Oh...it certainly will. At least until you've paid off that credit card for tickets, drinks, Schwag, parking, and whatever chemical makeover (drugs) you had on board. Might take a few months of a change in your life.@@melissabroadwell3494
Disassociated unite 🙌🏾✨️💯
Spiral out! Keep going
The lyrics are whatever you relate to and the genius of this song.
Another romantic song by TooL the other one is prision sex ❤. Beautiful interpretation of love 😅.
The song that got me hooked on Tool
Me too.
✌️✝️
And fisting 😂😂😂😂 sorry had to
Confortably numb ❤
How bad does this song still slap in 2023? I was showing my friend the lyrics…Ty friend!
This song is about cats
The instrumentation in this badass song is 100% awesome, very intense, the lyrics are left up to the listener to interpret as usual for Tool's genius ingenuity
Greatest singer and lyricist of all time is MJK
GOAT lyricism.
best version on youtube that sounds the clearest
This song was the opener for the Tool laser show me and my buddies seen at the Telus World of Science at the Zeidler dome in Edmonton. Flying high on a fuck tonne of mushrooms, the laser show was absolutely legendary and this song always reminds me of it
My old workout songs from h.s. ❤❤❤❤❤
Beautiful wedding song
Sick
Only us 90s teens will get it 🤘😏
no
Yup….
Different time to be a teen we had feelings not technology 😂
Glad to know I was born too late to have feelings 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I bet this song brings back good ol' memories of your papa
So are you saying that post 90s teens don’t like this sort of music 🤨🤨🤨
Le faltó el "relax".
Gracias por compartir,muy bueno.
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Today is Happy 28th Birthday Aenima … released on vinyl 9/17/96 🎉
Bir şeylerin değişmesi lazım İnkar edilemez ikilem Sıkıntılar bir yük değil Herkes katlanmalı Aşırı uyarılma beni uyuşturuyor Ama seni başka türlü istemezdim Çünkü yeterli değil Daha fazlasına ihtiyacım var Hiç bir şey yatıştırıcı değil Çünkü yeterli değil Ben sana söylüyorum artık istemiyorum Sadece ihtiyacım var Nefes almaya, hissetmeye Yaşadığımı bilmeye Parmak sınır çizgisinin derinliklerinde Bana beni sevdiğini göster Ve biz birbirimize aitiz Sakinleş Dön ve elimi tut Değişmene yardımcı olabilirim Yorgunluk anları zevke dönüşüyor O kelimeyi söyle ve biz yapacağız Yolumuz açık olsun Karıştır ve dengele Acı ve rahatlık senin derinlerinde Beni başka türlü istemeyeceksin Ama bu yeterli değil Daha fazlasina ihtiyacım var Hic bir şey yatıştırıcı değil Ben sana söylüyorum artık istemiyorum Nefes almaya, hissetmeye Yaşadığımi bilmeye Bu biraz acitabilir ama alışacağın bir şey Sakin Kayıp git İşlerin bu noktaya gelmesinde biraz üzücü durum var Herşeye duyarsizlastim İncelikten ne olurBunun benim için ne anlamı olabilir ki? Eger gerçekten hiç bir şey hissetmiyorsam Ben yapacağım Kazmaya devam edeceğim Ta ki ben Bir şey hissedene kadar omuz sınır
@nemochi88
Years later I finally understand that I know nothing yet but love me some some tool
This song had me having the holes mixed up😅
this is so awsome lyrics
I live this 🦾🫶
Until i feel something
Song is awesome
for those who don't know this song is about FISTING
I used to be batshit crazy about this song.
First time seeing the lyrics in oh... 25 years. Maynard is a quirky fellow.
TH-cam ads are the worst. I pick this video and the preceding ad is three middle age women drinking crappy wine on the beach. I can just imagine me sitting behind them with a 6 pack cranking Tool while cooking burgers.
Subtle...like a brick dropped on your 'princess shoes'
My Morning Coffee
Im a piece of shit. thankyou tool helping me with my depression..
You have more potential than you think. Keep digging.
ALL BOW!
Great fucking song
Badazzzzzz
Maybe the hand is God
Who needs the lyryasiu mameamm.!?!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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yup. I feel like this everyday. Like I've been fckd in arse.
Autism be like:
Also ADHD be like:
H.
Yes to a t
wow what a song
For me this song is totally about my marriage, the lack of sex and zero romance for 12 yrs.
To breathe
To feel
To know I'm alive
F'ing brilliant lyrics
It's about bending over and taking it
Masterpiece 🔥🔥🔥
forever a BANGER
Tutta la vita !