TOOL LYRICS (LATERALUS)

"The Grudge"

Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity.Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.Desperate to control all and everything.Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.Justify denials and grip it to the lonesome end.Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.Terrified of being wrong. Ultimatum prison cell.Saturn ascends, choose one or ten. Hang on or be humbled agaiiiiin.I'm born againnnn....Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end.Saturn ascends, comes round again.Saturn ascends, the one, the ten. Ignorant to the damage dooooone.Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity.Calculate what you will or will not tolerate.Desperate to control all and everything.Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control.Unable to forgive. And sinking deeper.Defining, confining, sinking deeper. Controlling, defining, and we're sinking deeper.Saturn comes back around to show you everythingLet's you choose what you will not see and thenDrags you down like a stone or lifts you up againSpits you out like a child, light and innocent.Saturn comes back around. Lifts you up like a childor drags you down like a stone to Consume you till you choose tooooooo, let this goooooooo. Choose tooooooo, let this gooooooo.Give away the stone. Let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and fated anchor.Give away the stone. Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold.Let gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!{repeating quietly and fading in}Let go!

"Eon Blue Apocalypse"
{No Lyrics}

"The Patient"

{vocalizing}A groan of tedium escapes me, startling the fearful.Is this a test? It has to be. Otherwise I can't go on.Draining patience, drain vitality,this paranoid, paralyzed vampire act's a little ooold.But I'm still right here, giving blood, keeping faith. And I'm still right here. But I'm still right here, giving blood, keeping faith. And I'm still right heeeeeeeere.(I'm gonna wait it oooout 3x)If there were no rewards to reeeeap, loving embrace to see me throuuuugh,this tedious path I've chosen heeeeere,I certainly would've walked awaaay by nooooow.I'm gonna wait it oooout.If there were no desire to heaaaal, The damaged and broken met alooong,this tedious path I've chosen heeeere,I certainly would've walked awaaay by nooooow.-And I still may. And I still may.-(Be patieeent. 3x)I must keep reminding myself of this... {repeats continually in background...If there were no rewards to reaaaaap, loving embrace to see me throuuuugh,this tedious path I've chosen heeeeere,I certainly would've walked awaaay by nooooow. ...finishes}(And I still maaaay. 3x)And I...Gonna wait it out.Gonna wait it ouuuut.Gonna wait it out.Gonna wait it ouuuuut.

"Mantra"
{No Lyrics}

"Schism"

I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them fall awaymildewed and smoldering, fundamental differing,pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motiondisintegrating as it goes testing our communicationthe light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us sowe cannot see to reach an end crippling our communicatioooon. I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them tumble downno fault, none to blame it doesn't mean I don't desire topoint the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over.To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communicatioooon.The poetry that comes from the squaring off between,And the circling is worth it.Finding beauty in the dissonance.There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away.Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our covetingI've done the the math enough to know the dangers of a second guessing Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communicatioooon.cold, cold, cold,Cold silence haaaasa tendency toooo atrophy anyyyyy sense of compassiooooon.between supposed loverrrsbetween supposed brotherrrrrs.(I know the pieces fit. 7x)I know the pieces fiiit!

"Parabol"

So familiar and overwhelmingly warmThis one, this form I hold now.Embracing you, this reality here,This one, this form I hold now, soWiide eyed and hoopeful.Wiide eyed and hoopefully wild.We barely remember what came before this precious moment,Choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside...This body holding me, reminding me that I am not alone inThis body makes me feel eternal. All this pain is an illuuuusion.[Parabola]We barely remember who or what came before this precious moment,We are Choosing to be here, right now. Hold on, stay inside...This hoooooly realityy, this hoooooly experience.Choosing to be here in...This body. This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone inThis body, this body holding me, feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion.Aliiiiive!In this hoooooly reality, in this hoooooly experience. Choosing to be here in...This body. This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone inThis body, this body holding me, feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion...Twirling round with this familiar parable.Spinning, weaving round each new experience.Recognize this as a holy gift and, celebrate this (chance to beeeeee alive and breathing 2x)This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment. Remember. we are eternal.all this pain is an illusion.

"Ticks & Leeches"

{1:08}Suck and suuuuuuuck. Suckin up all you can suckin up all you can suck and suck.Workin up under my patience like a little tick.Fat little parasite. Suuuuuck me dry.My blood is bruised and borrowed. You thieving bastards. You have turned my blood cold and bitter, beat my compassion black and blue!Hope this is what you wanted.Hope this is what you had in mind.Cuz this is what you're getting.I hope you're choking. I hope you choke on this.I hope you're choking. I hope you choke on thiiiiiiiiiiiis.Taken all I can taken all I can, we can take. Taken all you can taken all you can, we can take.Got nothing left to give to you.Blood suckin parasitic little blood suckin parasitic little blood suckin parasitic little tick!Take what you want and then go.Hope this is what you wanted.Hope this is what you had in mind.Cuz this is what you're getting.{indistinct, quiet, about sucking dry...}{6:09}(Suuuuuck me dry! 2x)Suuuuckin' me dry!Suuuuuuck,Suck me dry.{indistinct, quiet, about sucking dry...}Is this what you wanted?Is this what you had in mind?Is this what you wanted?Cuz this this is what you're getting.I hope, I hope, I hope you choke!

"Lateralus"

{1:37}Black then white are, all i see in my infancy.Red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me. Lets me see.As below, so above and beyond, I imaginedrawn beyond the lines of reason.Push the envelope. Watch it bend.Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I mustFeed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.Black then white are, all i see in my infancy.red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me. lets me seethere is so much more and beckons meto look thru to these infinite possibilities.As below, so above and beyond, I imaginedrawn outside the lines of reason.Push the envelope. Watch it bend.Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind.Feed my will to feel this moment, urging me to cross the line.Reaching out to embrace the random. Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.(I embrace myyydesire to 2x)feel the rhythm, tofeel connected,enough to step aside and, weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, toswing on the spiral, to swing on the spiral, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a humannnnnnnnnWith my feet upon the ground I move myeslf between the sounds and open wide to suck it in. I feel it move across my skin. I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.what ever will bewilder me.And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.(Spiral out. Keep going. 4x)

"Disposition"

{1:07}mention this to me.mention this too me.and watch the weather change.watch the weatherr change.watch the weatherr change.watch the weatherrr..... change.mention this to me.mention something, mentionnnn anything.mention this to me,and watch the weather change.watch the weatherr change.watch the weatherr change.watch the weather change.watch the weatherrr..... change.watch the weatherrr..... change.mention this to memention something, mentionnnn anything.mention this to me,and watch the weather.watch the weather.... change.watch the weather change.watch the weather.

"Reflection"

{there's an echo effect throughout the song, echoes are not counted in the repeats}{3:43}I have come curiously close to the end, downBeneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole. Defeated, Concede and move closer. I may find comfort here I may find peace within the emptiness. How pitiful.(It's calling meee. 3x)It's calling meeeeeeAnd in my darkest moment, fetal annnnd weeeeping.The moon tells me a secret. My confidant.As full and bright as I am, this light is not my own A million light reflections pass over meIt's source is bright and endless. She resuscitates the hopeless.Without her we are lifeless satellites driiiiiifting.And as I pull my head out I am without one doubtDon't want to peer down here serving my narcissismI must crucify the ego before it's far too lateI pray the light lifts me out (before I pine awaaaay. 3x)pine away.before I pine awaaaaaaaay.{8:48}So crucify the ego before it's far too lateTo leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynicalAnd you will come to find that we are all one mindCapable of all that's imagined and all conceivable.Just let the light touch you and let the words spill throughJust let them pass right through, bringing out our hope and reason.before we pine away. pine awaybefore we pine away. pine awaybefore we pine away. pine awaybefore we piiiiiine away.

"Triad"
{no lyrics}

"Faaip De Oiad"

-I, I don't have a whole lot of time. Um, OK, I'm a former employee of Area 51. I, I was let go on a medical discharge about a week ago and, and... {chokes} I've kind of been running across the country. Um, um, Damn, I don't know where to start, they're, they're gonna, um, they'll triangulate on this position really really soon. OK, um, um, OK, what we're thinking of as, as aliens, uh, they're extradimensional beings, that, an earlier precursor of the, um, space program they made contact with. They are not what they claim to be. Uh, they've infiltrated a, a lot of aspects of, of, of the military establishment, particularly the Area 51. The disasters that are coming, they, the military, I'm sorry, the government knows about them. And there's a lot of safe areas in this world that they could begin moving the population to now. They are not! They want those major population centers wiped out so that the few that are left will be more easily controllable.-