It is that way with everything...each listener interprets the music and message in their own way; hence the phrase "music evokes emotion". Our idividualness makes the music great because we all hear something different and feel something diffefrent from the same sound, same song and same words! I love it!
"Maynard, lead singer, meant for people to take the lyrics how they wish and make the song their own"
that's how i feel everyone is going to feel differently about this song so trying to interpret it for others will never work you have to find the meaning for your self
I don't give a fuck what this song is about, you white boys can fucking jam!!!!!! No wonder you rule the world. love my black folks but no matter what we think of you, you are a force to be reckoned with and one day embraced. Jesus Christ this band is good! Almost nothing compares to the artistry of this entire album. If only....
Nah bro, we all rule the world, all races, but Tool is the fucking shit. xD
Also, if you want to know what the song is about then just check out Toolshed. com I didn't link it sorry. This is the main fan site, all about them and their music. This song in particular is about anal. JK all their stuff is metaphoric and Maynard, lead singer, meant for people to take the lyrics how they wish and make the song their own, but It's about how human kind has no moral taboo.
@BanditOMG I'm from Kentucky, and I heard it was about anal sex, then I heard it was about heroin....so actually they both make sense...its awesome really!!! LOL you hit it right on the head bro..this is a girl btw:-)
@ozzylane14 Not quite, its about the social environment we are all stuck in, the paradigm crosses a lot of "areas" from sex, to drugs, paying taxes and being P.C. But in the end, it is what YOU make of it.
FANS : lyrics meaning how us as human can't settle for normale anymore, and that we strive for something more extreme and/or abnormal to be satisfied.The song is one big metaphor. He's talking about how people are so desensitized to everything. He uses "fisting" as a metaphor for how far people will go in order to find enjoyment in everyday things still.
The song is one big metaphor. He's talking about how people are so desensitized to everything. He uses "fisting" as a metaphor for how far people will go in order to find enjoyment in everyday things still. I.E., sex. >.>
goddmait why does everyone think this song is about fucking?? same with a milion other songs i looked up, omy GAWD maybe u should look up the meaning of it and understand that the song means something entirely different. thats what i did. oh, one more thing: "the red" by chevelle is not about fucking, its about anger
@uhohisharted first time i heard this song its a really good song but all i can think about is its about fisting... the line 'finger deep within the borderline' did not help the situation XD
i read the comments and listened again. i understand this to be about addiction to stimulation; whatever that might be. too much is never enough. but this is only my opinion and my experience. and now i want more.
I love all of tools songs and all songs of a perfect circle and real fans know that his lyrics have deeper meanings than the perversion people think TOOL ROCKS!! ✌
maynard said it himself "if you really look at it and really look at us and who we are, you'llthat we go a little deeper than some write-off song about fist-fucking."
this is a song about drug addiction
he keeps falling deeper and deeper into it
he doesn't want it he just needs it to feel alive, as is the case with most hard drug users they feel sick and waist away without the drug
@privatechavez0022 Thanks, I already knew that. But still, when I was 10 and I first heard this song, I always saw it as dirty. So now, it's drilled in my brain as dirty.
i definitely feel that this song is really sexual however it could also be about the vice of a hard drug, maybe heroin, and how the addiction gets more painful the longer it goes on. thats why as the song goes on he goes from finger deep to elbow deep. he is progressively slipping deeper into addiction. thats just my opinion though.
This song is about fisting, but only as a metaphor for the lengths that people will go to to maintain and even elevate their high. As old boundaries are crossed, new ones are needed to keep the same feeling. The only option is to take it further, whether it be sexually, mentally, spiritually, or in the form of drugs.
@fotwen haha any true tool fan would know all the members are pretty fucked up and this song is most certainly to them about fisting buuut doesnt have to have the same meaning for others
@brentslabaugh You're wrong, Tool's musics have meaning, there's nothing wrong when people analyze, you're just being troll... People are free to comment whatever they want, and you just read if you want...
hate to break it to you but this is song is a complete retaliation towards Stinkfisters essay about Tools correlation between Drunvalo and Frissels writings about 46+2. Drunvalo is a piece of shit scam artist but non the less Maynard himself pointed out exactly what this song was about.
@wonderwall135 He's saying its annoying like annoying people like you keep saying random shit about this song. Just read the damn lyrics then you'll get it. I'm getting annoyed by going to one video and seeing random shit. I want to listen to the video without reading a dumbass analyzation
A friend of mine once told me that its about the way an alcoholic feels about alcohol. I'm still not sure what it's about. Isn't that the same about every great work of art? I can see why MJK just simplified it to every asshole that kept asking him to tell them what it's about though. If only I could be so simple minded to believe everything I am told.
@osuckah wow someone who actually knows the meaning of the lyrics- im impressed- but theres little reason to call people morons and order them to 'get it right' when you have the ability to educate and enlighten people who do not have it right-it shows maturity and humility thus making you look like less of a tool- pardon the pun
@osuckah I like how people assume it's anal fisting, when it could be either that or regular fisting. I mean someone other than me must think, " Maybe it's regular fisting." Come on guys it's not like he specifies.
@osuckah i don't know his name, but the leader of the band actually said this song was meant to be open to interpretation, so if you want to think its about anal fisting then feel free, but others can think of all the deep meanings they want, get that right >.>
kudos brother. Evident Maynard knows how to use ambiguity in his lyrics, leaving meanings to his songs open to interpretation. I choose to think its a reference to our depth into this thing called reality, and sharing it with others. But who the fuck am I? just a Tool fan.
The song is about how people as a whole have become bored with normal conventional sex and resort to "abnormal" fetishistic types of sex mostly anal fisting hence the title "Stinkfist"
I dont think the lyrics could be any clearer....lol. Its about fisting. Its SO to the point, how can it be taken as anything else. MJK is usually pretty clear on wtf he's trying to say. Same thing with Prison Sex, The Noose, and so on. Take as you will but its clearly stated.
my meaning of this song is the fact that people have become more inclined to be selfish, and desenitizied to the fact that our government has lied to us so much, the evidence is in your face but its your choice to find it
Every time i listen to this song, i am more and more convinced, that its about SEX. Love the part, "fingers between the borderlines", in the vid you can see the hand as its pulling those "strings", like a vagina, haha :D
@ODsDalton well it didnt stop for me until i was arrested and forced to change my life....i hated every moment of it but in the end i see that it saved my life. admit you need help and put yourself in rehab if you are afraid you cannot stop on your own....i still smoke weed man but i get my shit done too. everything is in moderation
@TheyCallMeMoney420 Iv'e been arrested too, i know i need to stop this lifestyle because it's getting me nowhere. I don't smoke weed because i always freak out! My problem is whit alcohol, it's a habbit i developed because of the lack of jobs available. . . . .leaving me whit nothing else to do. I'm planning to move and really look for a job and get my life on track, before this problem worsens and leaving me whit no choice but to book myself into rehab, i think i can cut down on my own!
For me this song symbolises sexual pleasure (not implying that's what the song is about) with all the sexual media that is on offer today we try it all and in the end nothing is satisfying because we have become savages of the flesh and now are bored so that something that was thrilling and exciting has become a little mundane, now no amount of toys or drugs can heighten our b
Passions to what they once were because we are too greedy and self indulgent.
I think itrs about how physicall y things feel good but then become addictive. these "things", physical pleasures, become hurtful to us, but as an addiction grows it becomes more needed. The addiction is the stink fist, starting with a pleasuring finger and ending at a shoulder depth of pain, and still can be mentally subdued.
Always on to the next pleasure, never content where you are. The human is always striving and seeking something, but we dont know what. We are always seeking ourselves, but are looking for ourselves in things. Just my interpretation.
Alright - for me this song is one of desperation... Disneyland dreams are not satisfying and we're struggling to figure things out for ourselves. By taking drugs and recollecting we're messing with our consious reality and going beyond the boundaries... And then (my favorite line of lyrics) "I'll keep digging - till I fell something". This line states that this type of struggle might not make absolute sense but it's a step in the right direction...
Alright - for me this song is one of desperation... Disneyland dreams are not satisfying and we're struggling to figure things out for ourselves. By taking drugs and recollecting we're messing with our consious reality and going beyond the boundaries... And then (my favorite line of lyrics) "I'll keep digging - till I fell something". This line is states that this type of struggle might not make absolute sense but it's a step in the right direction...
To me, this song is about how the modern human race is becoming self centered, fed from a centralized source both diet and media/info...how people are being dumbed down and not allowed to think for themselves anymore. how nanny states have taken over..how fucked people really are when they "wake up" from our facebooks, ipods, jersery shore drama and even YOUTUBE. ....self centered is the new normal....seems like a lot of people are really just "sheeple" these days.
You almost went to far, but you didn't. A very nice comment :) I agree fully. All well to you, my friend, may you have a nice life, and of course, keep spreading your wisdom around. Who knows, maybe it takes root ;)
hmmm...valid point,bt i think that has nothing to do with this song.i think this song is about excess.primarily sexual.the need to push it further and further because,as a man,i understand that you cant always masturbate to pictures of boobs.next you want video.then you want to see it go in.then you want something specific like spanking or whatever.and then it gets more and more intense and you want to push it further and further until youre elbow deep in your girlfriends ass
@67mustangreg I'm pretty sure people need someone to follow. Hence why there is always some form of government. People follow trends, and have always been self-centered. Nothing changed my friend.
@Whateveryalll ...I'm pretty open minded but sorry you're wrong as far as nothing changing. I might not be 100% right but I know that "our" generation is much different from any before us. WW2 vet generation puts us to shame. If you can't open up to look around and see the world how it really is, I feel a bit bad for you.
@67mustangreg No. They were just as bad. The human race needs to move past our little "phase" and start seeking knowledge. We aren't getting anywhere by working as accountants and coming home to a life of Facebook, TV, and the phone. I'm not just bashing them however, our lives seem centered around constant pleasure like wasting time at a bar or a party, or playing some stupid nonsensical joke on a coworker. People can't just sit still and seriously think.
To me this song is about how society has royally shafted us all. About how everything these days is about greed and wanting more and how were supposed to just quietly accept this but he sayin that despite how its affected him, just like everyone else, he hasn't given up hope that things can still change and wont give up as in he can't even if he wanted to. Also about how we've lost our innocence and we've become numbed to experiencing life because of the way we now live
@SlipknotFanGirl22 It's about a heroin addiction that almost ruined Maynard's life :) He made a post about it on the thread on this song on Songfacts doht cohm.
art is what it means to the person that is listening, or looking to interpret for themselves what emotions, life situations that they can relate to. It doesn't matter so much what Maynard wrote these lyrics about, it matters to you. ( i think it has a reaccurng theme about media over exposer, other songs hint to it, like vicarious.
If you would like to know the true meaning of any ']['{[]}{[]}][,, song, contact @BelieveandtrustJesus . Questions pertaining to Tool song content must have a header(Title). No header, No response. Header should read; ']['{[]}{[]}][,,= god --- Pickle Fisted ShitSwallower.
This could just be an intense metaphor like everyone is saying, or, these guys could just be really into fisting. I'd like to believe its just a metaphor, but the only way to really know for sure is to ask them.
@FedorfaN79 the songs meaning is clearly about an addiction to pleasure. You can take that how u want and i obviously didnt write the song, and yes it is brilliant (most of tool and maynard's songs are)
@iibroken333 Thats a pretty good take on it. I always felt it was about how we've become desensitized . Needing more and more to entertain or make us feel emotion. Just think of how different society is now from what it was in the 50's. Takes a lot more to "shock" these days
its about fisting groupies. about how bored he became on tour. nothing more.
thatguy1479 1 week ago
@thatguy1479 in the ass
thatguy1479 1 week ago
@thatguy1479 I Doubt it!
MegaStonedGamer 1 week ago
Relax.. slip awayyyyy..
That's what I tell myself when I shoot up
Cracky13 2 weeks ago
Tool is unique
hammettfcb 2 weeks ago
The "Something kind of sad about the way that things have come to be" part of the song always gives me goosebumps.
hj7397 2 weeks ago
It is that way with everything...each listener interprets the music and message in their own way; hence the phrase "music evokes emotion". Our idividualness makes the music great because we all hear something different and feel something diffefrent from the same sound, same song and same words! I love it!
mkay217 2 weeks ago
"Maynard, lead singer, meant for people to take the lyrics how they wish and make the song their own"
that's how i feel everyone is going to feel differently about this song so trying to interpret it for others will never work you have to find the meaning for your self
ajaxthepooper 3 weeks ago 2
@ajaxthepooper Yes Thank-You.
MegaStonedGamer 1 week ago
These guys "stink" In a very good way!
AAAbstractJack 3 weeks ago
awe sick now that i know wat he's singing about you people ruin everything LOL yuck
sabinabean 3 weeks ago
& this whole time i thought it was about butt fucking..
AshleeAnn12691 1 month ago
I don't give a fuck what this song is about, you white boys can fucking jam!!!!!! No wonder you rule the world. love my black folks but no matter what we think of you, you are a force to be reckoned with and one day embraced. Jesus Christ this band is good! Almost nothing compares to the artistry of this entire album. If only....
avengerspeel 1 month ago
@avengerspeel
Nah bro, we all rule the world, all races, but Tool is the fucking shit. xD
Also, if you want to know what the song is about then just check out Toolshed. com I didn't link it sorry. This is the main fan site, all about them and their music. This song in particular is about anal. JK all their stuff is metaphoric and Maynard, lead singer, meant for people to take the lyrics how they wish and make the song their own, but It's about how human kind has no moral taboo.
BanditOMG 1 month ago
@BanditOMG I'm from Kentucky, and I heard it was about anal sex, then I heard it was about heroin....so actually they both make sense...its awesome really!!! LOL you hit it right on the head bro..this is a girl btw:-)
ozzylane14 2 weeks ago
@ozzylane14 Not quite, its about the social environment we are all stuck in, the paradigm crosses a lot of "areas" from sex, to drugs, paying taxes and being P.C. But in the end, it is what YOU make of it.
skb0rzn 1 week ago
i agree with viking 99 this song sounds like its about losing a battle with drugs and getting pulled in further and further.
phillking1989 1 month ago
this song is about drugs
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FANS : lyrics meaning how us as human can't settle for normale anymore, and that we strive for something more extreme and/or abnormal to be satisfied.The song is one big metaphor. He's talking about how people are so desensitized to everything. He uses "fisting" as a metaphor for how far people will go in order to find enjoyment in everyday things still.
MAYNARD : PITIFUL DUMBFUCKS !
DayyanAli200 1 month ago
Obviously this song is about a tasty sandwich. Mmm, sandwich.
MastaKadaj 1 month ago
blend and balance...its heroin. blend: mix in spoon, balance: flick needle to get rid of the air bubbles
redrum41987 1 month ago
God I hated tool when I was younger but now.... Damn I can't get enough!!
stungunmillie7 1 month ago
my appetite is insatiable for this song... its sad to think i will someday be desensitized
NicholeSack17 1 month ago
The song is one big metaphor. He's talking about how people are so desensitized to everything. He uses "fisting" as a metaphor for how far people will go in order to find enjoyment in everyday things still. I.E., sex. >.>
spiikespiegel89 1 month ago
"stinkfist"?, duh, anal fisting.
mrdarkhalo666 1 month ago
Hence the name stinkfist, what a fuckin creep. Yet this song and story is amazing.
starslight13 1 month ago
This is something Tool would do. Make a song that's serious about something (drugs) but also make it sounds extremely dirty..GO TOOL!
PhatBacon123 1 month ago
tool+nazi zombies=:)
shadowman222222 1 month ago
ANAL FISTING !!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:D
running90away 1 month ago
goddmait why does everyone think this song is about fucking?? same with a milion other songs i looked up, omy GAWD maybe u should look up the meaning of it and understand that the song means something entirely different. thats what i did. oh, one more thing: "the red" by chevelle is not about fucking, its about anger
jasonandme1230 1 month ago
@jasonandme1230 No shit. The video takes place in an anger management class.
And no, stinkfist is about anal fisting.
wonderwall135 1 month ago
@wonderwall135 yea i probly need anger management too thanks to assholes like you:)
jasonandme1230 1 month ago 6
S E X
shadowman222222 1 month ago
His shoulder!? Thats one deep stink hole.
supercosplaypro 1 month ago
I take it at face-value...name of song "Stinkfist"..you get that by fisting right?
uhohisharted 1 month ago
@uhohisharted first time i heard this song its a really good song but all i can think about is its about fisting... the line 'finger deep within the borderline' did not help the situation XD
coolies94 1 month ago
Thanks a lot uploader.
ganzalooba 2 months ago
i read the comments and listened again. i understand this to be about addiction to stimulation; whatever that might be. too much is never enough. but this is only my opinion and my experience. and now i want more.
gonervy 2 months ago
the opening guitar immediatly made me want more of tool. there music is amazing nuff said
dude5468 2 months ago
its a fuckin great song....thats all...
GTN310 2 months ago
I love all of tools songs and all songs of a perfect circle and real fans know that his lyrics have deeper meanings than the perversion people think TOOL ROCKS!! ✌
Mommydaddyparts 2 months ago
Thank you private chavez . No one i know seems to get that.
mhuggins38 2 months ago
ô.Ô
PacisVictus 2 months ago
It's beautiful and filthy, best two words for it. in my opinion. I love this song so much.
TheCamelKing 2 months ago
Anyone alse think this song sounds dirty? :D
DoinUrLawnGnome 2 months ago in playlist Tool 3
@DoinUrLawnGnome Just the name sounds dirty lal
MegaDchamp 2 months ago
@DoinUrLawnGnome
this song is FAR from dirty
maynard said it himself "if you really look at it and really look at us and who we are, you'llthat we go a little deeper than some write-off song about fist-fucking."
this is a song about drug addiction
he keeps falling deeper and deeper into it
he doesn't want it he just needs it to feel alive, as is the case with most hard drug users they feel sick and waist away without the drug
there is nothing dirty here
privatechavez0022 2 months ago 3
@privatechavez0022 Thanks, I already knew that. But still, when I was 10 and I first heard this song, I always saw it as dirty. So now, it's drilled in my brain as dirty.
DoinUrLawnGnome 2 months ago
This song is clearly about a meloncoly turtle who is fed up with eating waffles and recycling his banana peels in a compopst pile.
87chrisballb 2 months ago 64
@87chrisballb AHHHHHHH HAHAHAHHAHA XD
NavySealWannabe67 2 months ago
@87chrisballb That has to be one of the greatest things I've seen in a while! xD
spiikespiegel89 1 month ago
i definitely feel that this song is really sexual however it could also be about the vice of a hard drug, maybe heroin, and how the addiction gets more painful the longer it goes on. thats why as the song goes on he goes from finger deep to elbow deep. he is progressively slipping deeper into addiction. thats just my opinion though.
xAlanMaverickx 2 months ago
and turnin someone else on to em
anger1107 2 months ago
i think it's about drugs not that theres anything wrong with that
anger1107 2 months ago
He says relax turn around and take my hand... which obviously is refering to the back of someone. The songs about ass fisting. Take a hint..
SkySkellington08 2 months ago
prison sex.. yo bubba!
singspiel35 2 months ago
@singspiel35 Lmao :P day = made.
TheBand360 2 months ago
This song is about fisting, but only as a metaphor for the lengths that people will go to to maintain and even elevate their high. As old boundaries are crossed, new ones are needed to keep the same feeling. The only option is to take it further, whether it be sexually, mentally, spiritually, or in the form of drugs.
bluesfan57 2 months ago 3
@bluesfan57 well said
amusingmyslf 2 months ago
shut the hell up listen enjoy enough said.
psychojujubee 2 months ago
Any real true fan of tool would know this song isn't about anal fisting... Lol. :p
fotwen 3 months ago
@fotwen haha any true tool fan would know all the members are pretty fucked up and this song is most certainly to them about fisting buuut doesnt have to have the same meaning for others
icanonlyscreamsoloud 2 months ago
its scary how many different meanings to this song can be interpreted from anal fisting.
rabbitwithaglock 3 months ago
Tool is my favorite band ever. But i cant stand alot of tool fans. Just listen to it, dont analyze it
brentslabaugh 3 months ago 29
@brentslabaugh Overthinking and aver analyzing seperate the body from the mind... so if you aren't into that then yes, do not analize their music.
MasterShake4932 2 months ago
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@brentslabaugh Overthinking and over* analyzing seperate the body from the mind... so if you aren't into that then yes, do not analize their music.
MasterShake4932 2 months ago
@brentslabaugh You're wrong, Tool's musics have meaning, there's nothing wrong when people analyze, you're just being troll... People are free to comment whatever they want, and you just read if you want...
AcidDvl 2 months ago
@brentslabaugh true
mguygh 2 months ago
@brentslabaugh
hate to break it to you but this is song is a complete retaliation towards Stinkfisters essay about Tools correlation between Drunvalo and Frissels writings about 46+2. Drunvalo is a piece of shit scam artist but non the less Maynard himself pointed out exactly what this song was about.
rippedmiscr 1 month ago
@brentslabaugh No . i have every right to analyze it.
wonderwall135 1 month ago
@wonderwall135 He's saying its annoying like annoying people like you keep saying random shit about this song. Just read the damn lyrics then you'll get it. I'm getting annoyed by going to one video and seeing random shit. I want to listen to the video without reading a dumbass analyzation
Xanedon122798 1 month ago
@brentslabaugh How about you listen to the song and don't tell people how to listen to it.
Atlasbreaker666 1 month ago
@Atlasbreaker666 Or ignore his opinion and just listen to it
AliceNchainz011 4 weeks ago
@brentslabaugh well said :)
pimpc1125 1 month ago
A friend of mine once told me that its about the way an alcoholic feels about alcohol. I'm still not sure what it's about. Isn't that the same about every great work of art? I can see why MJK just simplified it to every asshole that kept asking him to tell them what it's about though. If only I could be so simple minded to believe everything I am told.
dmike272 3 months ago
This song doesnt have any deep meaning morons, it's about Anal Fisting. Get it right >.>
osuckah 3 months ago
@osuckah NOPE! It's about chuck testa
MrBrooksGrant 3 months ago
@osuckah wow someone who actually knows the meaning of the lyrics- im impressed- but theres little reason to call people morons and order them to 'get it right' when you have the ability to educate and enlighten people who do not have it right-it shows maturity and humility thus making you look like less of a tool- pardon the pun
dancingnancy09 3 months ago
@osuckah I like how people assume it's anal fisting, when it could be either that or regular fisting. I mean someone other than me must think, " Maybe it's regular fisting." Come on guys it's not like he specifies.
karmaofgood 2 months ago
@osuckah i don't know his name, but the leader of the band actually said this song was meant to be open to interpretation, so if you want to think its about anal fisting then feel free, but others can think of all the deep meanings they want, get that right >.>
Snoogen11 2 months ago
@Snoogen11
kudos brother. Evident Maynard knows how to use ambiguity in his lyrics, leaving meanings to his songs open to interpretation. I choose to think its a reference to our depth into this thing called reality, and sharing it with others. But who the fuck am I? just a Tool fan.
jconstable02 2 months ago
Relax, turn around and take my hand.
elihup 3 months ago
The song is about how people as a whole have become bored with normal conventional sex and resort to "abnormal" fetishistic types of sex mostly anal fisting hence the title "Stinkfist"
MollyBrown6363 3 months ago
This song makes me think of a drug addiction. Most likely heroin or meth.
TheTylerGeissler 3 months ago
I dont think the lyrics could be any clearer....lol. Its about fisting. Its SO to the point, how can it be taken as anything else. MJK is usually pretty clear on wtf he's trying to say. Same thing with Prison Sex, The Noose, and so on. Take as you will but its clearly stated.
ginababee21 3 months ago
the first time i heard this song only thing i thought it was about is how far someone can shove their fist up ur ass
KYLEINC100 3 months ago
dude what is it with ppl leaving comments that are just the song lyrics again, like this guy 2 or 3 below me?...i dont get it
NeuralNetProcessor 3 months ago
my meaning of this song is the fact that people have become more inclined to be selfish, and desenitizied to the fact that our government has lied to us so much, the evidence is in your face but its your choice to find it
systemofadownrocs1 3 months ago
Something kinda sad about
the way that things have come to be.
Desensitized to everything.
What became of subtlety?
brandonvass1002 3 months ago 2
@brandonvass1002 those lines remind of a sexy dance party i went to yesterday
facecheek 3 months ago
@facecheek that doesn't sound gay at all.
brandonvass1002 2 months ago
i can think of alot of meanings for this song but one stands out. it may just be about fisting....
RyanLLcoolster 3 months ago
analfisting XD turn "turn around and take my hand"
stark8D 3 months ago
I'm pretty sure its about addiction too.
xXbluedawnXx 3 months ago
Every time i listen to this song, i am more and more convinced, that its about SEX. Love the part, "fingers between the borderlines", in the vid you can see the hand as its pulling those "strings", like a vagina, haha :D
LudwigVanKaos 3 months ago
sounds like a killer is coming coming for you at the intro :O
egondog 3 months ago
As an old school music fan i used to think tool was just average until i heard this song
pentaxsubversion 3 months ago
Sounds like it's talkin about addiction to me.
zedacar 3 months ago
@zedacar Almost all of Tool's songs have some kind of connection to drug abuse & addiction, emotional pain and drug trips
Vo0D0oCH1LD 3 months ago
i had a dream about killing my friends to this song D:
Harleyquinn191 3 months ago
Oh the joys of being born into an apathetic, numb self centered world.
dreadedcod5sniper 3 months ago
Dudes its about an ass pounding...
Daaannkk 3 months ago
DAMN!!!THIS SONG TURNS ME ON!!!!!!!
dooterjean 3 months ago 2
@dooterjean that just made my day xD
thomasjawesome665 3 months ago
@thomasjawesome665 glad i could be of service.
dooterjean 3 months ago
who the fuck is cindy
jasonandme1230 4 months ago 8
@jasonandme1230 lol
x7Olimacx7 2 months ago in playlist Favoritos de x7Olimacx7
can anyone tell me what the beginning noises in the song are? sounds really cool.
TheBrutalLegends 4 months ago
@TheBrutalLegends i'm pretty sure it's an ebow and probably some studio effects in there as well
markbooher1 4 months ago
@markbooher1 thank you mark booher. Now, look out your window. Cindy sees you.
TheBrutalLegends 4 months ago
@TheBrutalLegends CINDY!
markbooher1 4 months ago
@markbooher1 I hope you enjoy your cake.
TheBrutalLegends 4 months ago
This is about dopamine O.o
apocalist420 4 months ago
this song, for me, is about how when i was younger i couldnt even sleep unless i was fucked up. Didnt care what it was just take me somewhere else
TheyCallMeMoney420 4 months ago
@TheyCallMeMoney420 Iv'e recently developed that problem, so i know what you mean. . . . .it's horrible!!! Peace from the Republic of Ireland.
ODsDalton 4 months ago
@ODsDalton well it didnt stop for me until i was arrested and forced to change my life....i hated every moment of it but in the end i see that it saved my life. admit you need help and put yourself in rehab if you are afraid you cannot stop on your own....i still smoke weed man but i get my shit done too. everything is in moderation
TheyCallMeMoney420 4 months ago
@TheyCallMeMoney420 Iv'e been arrested too, i know i need to stop this lifestyle because it's getting me nowhere. I don't smoke weed because i always freak out! My problem is whit alcohol, it's a habbit i developed because of the lack of jobs available. . . . .leaving me whit nothing else to do. I'm planning to move and really look for a job and get my life on track, before this problem worsens and leaving me whit no choice but to book myself into rehab, i think i can cut down on my own!
ODsDalton 4 months ago
@ODsDalton be strong brother, and remember even the strongest people need help from others.
TheyCallMeMoney420 4 months ago
@TheyCallMeMoney420 I know man, thanks for the conversation. Have a good day!!!
ODsDalton 4 months ago
For me this song symbolises sexual pleasure (not implying that's what the song is about) with all the sexual media that is on offer today we try it all and in the end nothing is satisfying because we have become savages of the flesh and now are bored so that something that was thrilling and exciting has become a little mundane, now no amount of toys or drugs can heighten our b
Passions to what they once were because we are too greedy and self indulgent.
megor7866 4 months ago
2:20 Thats what I told my GF last night
pauisnow 4 months ago
@pauisnow helllll yeahhh ;)
xXashlenmerazXx 4 months ago
@pauisnow that was pretty damn funny haha
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HillbillyMetalMan 4 months ago
I think everyones opinion is right, the songs depth and meaning is endless and it means anything you think
DisturbedDanny94 4 months ago
I think itrs about how physicall y things feel good but then become addictive. these "things", physical pleasures, become hurtful to us, but as an addiction grows it becomes more needed. The addiction is the stink fist, starting with a pleasuring finger and ending at a shoulder depth of pain, and still can be mentally subdued.
jaareeen 4 months ago
I love tool. Reading all these comments about the songs meaning and they are all different and in their own respects right. This is what tool its
ScientaEstVox 4 months ago
I LOVE 3:30=3:50, best part of the song! tool rox:)
jasonandme1230 4 months ago
@jasonandme1230 I was thinking the same thing xD
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@SomaComa89 haha
jasonandme1230 4 months ago
My personal interpritation is two sex addicts. nuff said.
ShokanPrince812 4 months ago
fist
dennispeel2 4 months ago
Always on to the next pleasure, never content where you are. The human is always striving and seeking something, but we dont know what. We are always seeking ourselves, but are looking for ourselves in things. Just my interpretation.
AhlmKrehza 4 months ago
I enjoyed and respected your description for the video. That doesn't happen often.
Slaytounge 4 months ago
It's about the day when you're staring at your telivision, you notice what you're watching is bullshit, break your television and run into the woods
23cornchip 4 months ago
Alright - for me this song is one of desperation... Disneyland dreams are not satisfying and we're struggling to figure things out for ourselves. By taking drugs and recollecting we're messing with our consious reality and going beyond the boundaries... And then (my favorite line of lyrics) "I'll keep digging - till I fell something". This line states that this type of struggle might not make absolute sense but it's a step in the right direction...
ColoradoSon19 4 months ago
Alright - for me this song is one of desperation... Disneyland dreams are not satisfying and we're struggling to figure things out for ourselves. By taking drugs and recollecting we're messing with our consious reality and going beyond the boundaries... And then (my favorite line of lyrics) "I'll keep digging - till I fell something". This line is states that this type of struggle might not make absolute sense but it's a step in the right direction...
ColoradoSon19 4 months ago
you faggots...get it straight...just sayin...how can this mean anything to me.....
TatteDarkFallenAngel 4 months ago
this song is not about fisting! its about drugs.... But of course you can translate it any way you want
Melieb90 5 months ago
To me, this song is about how the modern human race is becoming self centered, fed from a centralized source both diet and media/info...how people are being dumbed down and not allowed to think for themselves anymore. how nanny states have taken over..how fucked people really are when they "wake up" from our facebooks, ipods, jersery shore drama and even YOUTUBE. ....self centered is the new normal....seems like a lot of people are really just "sheeple" these days.
67mustangreg 5 months ago 17
@67mustangreg
You almost went to far, but you didn't. A very nice comment :) I agree fully. All well to you, my friend, may you have a nice life, and of course, keep spreading your wisdom around. Who knows, maybe it takes root ;)
krxZGB 3 months ago
@67mustangreg Really, i thought it was about armfucking.
CyanoticFuture 3 months ago
@67mustangreg GO BACK TO SLEEP. Excatly
TheDonIrish 3 months ago
@67mustangreg
hmmm...valid point,bt i think that has nothing to do with this song.i think this song is about excess.primarily sexual.the need to push it further and further because,as a man,i understand that you cant always masturbate to pictures of boobs.next you want video.then you want to see it go in.then you want something specific like spanking or whatever.and then it gets more and more intense and you want to push it further and further until youre elbow deep in your girlfriends ass
twatwaffle9244 3 months ago
@67mustangreg I'm pretty sure people need someone to follow. Hence why there is always some form of government. People follow trends, and have always been self-centered. Nothing changed my friend.
Whateveryalll 3 months ago
@Whateveryalll ...I'm pretty open minded but sorry you're wrong as far as nothing changing. I might not be 100% right but I know that "our" generation is much different from any before us. WW2 vet generation puts us to shame. If you can't open up to look around and see the world how it really is, I feel a bit bad for you.
67mustangreg 3 months ago
@67mustangreg No. They were just as bad. The human race needs to move past our little "phase" and start seeking knowledge. We aren't getting anywhere by working as accountants and coming home to a life of Facebook, TV, and the phone. I'm not just bashing them however, our lives seem centered around constant pleasure like wasting time at a bar or a party, or playing some stupid nonsensical joke on a coworker. People can't just sit still and seriously think.
Tigerbeetweenie 3 months ago
@67mustangreg I have no idea what this even is. Sorry, my son posted that comment!
Whateveryalll 3 months ago
But watever this song means it's still just so freaking awesome!
catss84 5 months ago
To me this song is about how society has royally shafted us all. About how everything these days is about greed and wanting more and how were supposed to just quietly accept this but he sayin that despite how its affected him, just like everyone else, he hasn't given up hope that things can still change and wont give up as in he can't even if he wanted to. Also about how we've lost our innocence and we've become numbed to experiencing life because of the way we now live
catss84 5 months ago
@BurningSofas it isn't about fist fucking XD it has a different meaning.
SlipknotFanGirl22 5 months ago
@SlipknotFanGirl22 It's about a heroin addiction that almost ruined Maynard's life :) He made a post about it on the thread on this song on Songfacts doht cohm.
Simba7032 4 months ago
@Simba7032 now that you mention it, if you listen to the words carefully it makes alot of sense... >ex addict
HillbillyMetalMan 4 months ago
makes no difference whether you accept this comment or not, the point is it's still here.
Orestesol 5 months ago
shoulder deep? holy shit xD
oftenlostinwhat 5 months ago 2
Every tool song seems to have a debate going on in it
pwnedforlife 5 months ago
everytime i hear this i do the robot dance, dont ask why
thecripper4 5 months ago
art is what it means to the person that is listening, or looking to interpret for themselves what emotions, life situations that they can relate to. It doesn't matter so much what Maynard wrote these lyrics about, it matters to you. ( i think it has a reaccurng theme about media over exposer, other songs hint to it, like vicarious.
confront5 5 months ago
Marynard sung my panties off yet again.
Melieb90 5 months ago
If you would like to know the true meaning of any ']['{[]}{[]}][,, song, contact @BelieveandtrustJesus . Questions pertaining to Tool song content must have a header(Title). No header, No response. Header should read; ']['{[]}{[]}][,,= god --- Pickle Fisted ShitSwallower.
JesusFknChrist666 5 months ago
So many memories in this song... good riddence.
ConstantinEWire 5 months ago
Maynard stated this song is about his friend being limitless and always going beyond boundaries trying something new.. Fun Fact For Ya
FamVIDS2012 5 months ago
Shoulder deep? I think they'd be dead.
BurningSofas 5 months ago
@BurningSofas that is fuckin funny
aockdiamond429 5 months ago
i dont get it what is it about
HomeSlice3601 5 months ago
@HomeSlice3601 Then your not old enought for youtube.
BiOhAzArDoUs10001 5 months ago
The song is about drugs.. in some verses its maynard speaking, in others its the dope.
Insomniac2I7 5 months ago
i came here because of angry grandpa :)
piratemtc 5 months ago 7
a fist smelling of shit after exploring the interior of an anus.
stinkfist.
fatesrush 5 months ago
@balanceambrosia101 at least the bass sounds epic :-/
TheBladeEdge 5 months ago
Lol @ people disliking this song. Fucking idiots.
tr4nsist0r 5 months ago
seems 17 ppl got elbow deep within the borderline as a child maybe......
remotecontrolhorror 5 months ago
This could just be an intense metaphor like everyone is saying, or, these guys could just be really into fisting. I'd like to believe its just a metaphor, but the only way to really know for sure is to ask them.
joninalabama 5 months ago
The meaning to this song is so simple.
Insert your opinion here _____.
That's exactly what it means. Brilliant
FedorfaN79 5 months ago 54
@FedorfaN79 the songs meaning is clearly about an addiction to pleasure. You can take that how u want and i obviously didnt write the song, and yes it is brilliant (most of tool and maynard's songs are)
iibroken333 5 months ago
@iibroken333 Thats a pretty good take on it. I always felt it was about how we've become desensitized . Needing more and more to entertain or make us feel emotion. Just think of how different society is now from what it was in the 50's. Takes a lot more to "shock" these days
FedorfaN79 5 months ago
@FedorfaN79 agreed our society can not continue on as is. Nor can this world continue to support us as we suck it dry like a parasitic little tick ;)
iibroken333 5 months ago
@FedorfaN79 your a genius, how else can you put someone elses problem in a box for them
chriswilliamstool 5 months ago