TOOL LYRICS (UNDERTOW)

"Intolerance"

I don't want to be, hostile. I don't want to be, dismal. But I don't want to, rot in, an apathetic existance. See I want to, believe you, and I want to, trust you, and I want to have, faith to, put away the dagger. But (you lie, cheat, and steal. 3x) And yet I toleraaate you. But (you lie, cheat, and steal.3x) And yet I toleraaaaaate you. Veil of, virtue, hung to, hide your, method, while I, smile and, laugh and, dance and, sing your, praise and, glory. Shroud of, virtue, hung to, mask your, stigma, as I, smile and, laugh and, dance and, sing your, glory, while (you lie, cheat, and steal. 3x) How can I toleraaaaate you? (You lie, cheat, and steal. 3x) How can I toleraaaaaaaaaate you?Our guilt, our blame, I've beenfar too sympathetic. Our blood, our fault. I've beenfar too sympathetic. (I am not innocent. 2x) You are not innocent. No one is innocennnt!(You lie, cheat and steal. 15x)(I will not toleraaaaaate you. 2x) Even if (I must go down besiide you. 2x) No one is innocennnt!

"Prison Sex"

It took so long to remember just what happened. I was so young and vestal then, you know it hurt me,but I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive, even if signs seem to tell me otherwise. I've got my haaands bound, my heeead down, my eyyyes closed, and my throat's wide open. (Do unto others what has been done to you. 2x) I'm treading water, I need to sleep a while. My lamb and martyr, you look so precious. Won't you, won't you come a bit closer, close enough so, I can smell you. I need you to feel this, I can't stand to burn too long. Released in this sodomy. For one sweet moment I am whooooole. (Do unto you now what has been done to me. 2x) You're breathing so I guess you're still alive even if signs seem to tell me otherwise. Won't you, won't you come just a bit closer, close enough so I can smell you. I need you to feel this. I need this to make me whole. Release in this sodomy. For (I am your witness that blood and flesh can be trusted 2x). And only this one holy medium brings me piece of mind.Got your haaands bound, your heeeead down, and your eyyyes closed. You look so precious now. I have found some kind of temporary sanity in this shit blood and cum on my hands. I've, come, round, full circle. My lamb and martyr, this will be over soon. (You look so precious. 4x) You look so precious now. You look so precious.

"Sober"

There's a shadow just behind me, shrouding every step I take, making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me.Waiting like a stalking butler, who upon the finger rests. Murder now the path called must we, just because the son has come. (Jesus, won't you fucking whistle, something but the past and done? 2x)Why can't we not be sober? Just want to start this over. Why can't we drink forever? I just want to start things over.I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile. I will only complicate you. Trust in me and fall as well. I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave, I will work to elevate you, just enough to bring you down. (Mother Mary won't you whisper, something but what's past and done. 2x) Why can't we not be sober? I just want to start this over. Why can't we sleep forever? I just want to start this over.I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile. I will only complicate you. Trust in me and fall as well. I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave (Trust me. 5x) Why can't we not be sober? I just want to start things over. Why can't we sleep forever? I just want to start this over. (I want, what I want. 4x)

"Bottom"

My compassion is broken now. My will is eroded now, and my desire is broken now and it makes me feel ugly. I'm on my knees and burning. My piss and moans are the fuel that, set my head on fire. So smell my soul is burning. I'm broken, looking up to see the enemy. And I have swallowed the poison you feed me... but I survive on it, and it leaves me guilt, fed, hatred fed, weakness fed.. and it makes me feel ugly. On my knees and burning. My piss and moans are the fuel that set my head on fire. I'm dead insiiiiiiiiiiiiide!(Shiiit aadds up 3x) Shit adds up at the bottooom...-Henry Rollins: If I let you, you would makke me destroy myself. But in order to survive you, I must first survive myself. I can sink no further and I cannot forgive you. There's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you. There's no other choice. Shameless now. Nameless now. Nothing now. No one now. But my soul must be iron cause my fear is naked. I'm naked and fearless.-And my fear is nakeeeeeeeeed!(Deead iinsiide. 4x)Neeeedless now, shaaameless now, noooothing now, nooo one now.(Shit adds up 4x)You see me naaaaked now, feeeearless now, naaaaked now, feeeeearless now.You see... shit adds up. Shit adds, shit adds, shit adds up.It leaves me (deeead iinsiide 3x), dead, insiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide!Hatred keeps me alive,ugliness keeps me alive,weakness keeps me alive,guilt keeps me alive at the bottoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!

"Crawl Away"

You crawled away from me, slipped away from me. I tried to keep a hold, but there was nothing I could say. Slid away from me, and crept away from me, tried to keep you down, and there was nothing I could saay. So what you're trying to say, is you don't wanna play. But what you want and what you need, don't mean that much to me. I can see your back is turning. If I could I'd, stick the knife iiiiin, in. You crawled away from me, slipped away from mee. I tried to keep a hold, but there was nothing I could say. Slid away from me, and drift away from me, tried to keep you down, but there was nothing I could saaaay.So what you're trying to say, is you don't wanna play. But what you want and what you need, don't mean that much to me. I can see your back is turning. If I could I'd, stick the knife iiiiiiin.(This is love. 2x) (This is my love for you. 5x) This is my looooooooooove!Saaaaaaaay yooooou wooooon't goooooogot you in a strangleholdget up, get up, get up, babygot you in a stranglehold, baby.get up, get up, get up nowSo what you're trying to sayis you don't wanna play. But what you want and what you need don't mean a fuck to me. I can see yooour back is turning.If I could I'd, stick the knife iiiiiiiiinnnn!

"Swamp Song"

My warning meant nothing. You're dancing in quicksand. Why don't you watch where you're wandering? Why don't you watch where you're stumbling? (You're wading knee deep and going in. 2x)This bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a stupid, belligerent fucker.This bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a dumb ass, belligerent fucker. I hope it sucks you down. (Doownnn 3x)My warning meant nothing.You're dancing in quicksand. Why don't you watch where you're wandering? Why don't you watch where you're stumbling? You're wading knee deep and going in,and you may never come back again.This bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a stupid, belligerent fucker.This bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a dumb ass, belligerent fucker. I hope it sucks you down!My warning meant nothing,You're dancing in quicksand.Why don't you watch where you're wandering? Why don't you watch where you're stumbling? You're wading knee deep and going in,and you may never come back again.This bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a stupid, belligerent fucker.This bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a dumb ass, belligerent fucker. I hope it suck, I hope it suck, I hope it sucks you fucker, I hope it suck, I hope it suck, I hope it sucks you down!Wander in and wandering. No one even invited you in. But still you stumble in, suffocate, so suffocate, why don't you geeeeet awayyyy?Wander in and wandering. No one even invited you in. But still you stumble in, suffocate, so suffocate, why don't you geeeeeet oooout while you can?No one told you to coooooooooooooome! My warning meant nothing,You're dancing in quicksandWhy don't you watch where you're wandering? Why don't you watch where you're stumbling? You're wading knee deep and going in,and you may never come back again.This bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a stupid, belligerent fucker.This bog is thick and easy to get lost in cause you're a dumb ass, belligerent fucker. I hope it suck, I hope it suck, I hope it sucks you fucker, I hope it suck, I hope it suck, I hope it sucks you......

"Undertow"

Two times in!I've been struck dumb by a voice that speaks from deep beneath the endless waters. It's twice as clear as heaven, and twice as loud as reason. It's deep and rich like silt on a riverbed, and just as neverending. The current's mouth below me, opens up around me. Suggests and beckons all while swallowing. It surrounds, and drowns, and sweeps me awaaaaaaaaay. But I'm so comfortable... so comfortable. (shut up 4x) you're saturating me. How could I let, this bring me back to my knees?Third time in!I've been baptized by your voice. it screams from deep beneath the cold black water. and it's half as high as heaven, and half as clear as reason. it's cold and and black like silt on the riverbed, and just as neverending.The current's mouth below me, opens up around me. Suggests and beckons all while swallowing. It surrounds and drowns and sweeps me awaaaaaaaaay.But I'm so comfortable. Too comfortable. (shut up 4x) you're saturating me.How could, I let, this happen?Why don't you kill me, I am, weak and, numb and, insignificant, how could, I let, this bring me back to my knees?eu-pho-ri-aeu-pho-ri-ai-ai-aeu-pho-ri-aI'm back doooooown. I'm in the undertooow. I'm helpless and I'm awaaaake, I'm in the undertooow. IIII'll die in the undertow. It doesn't seem that there's a waaay, ouuut of the undertowwww.euuuuuuuuu-phoooooooo-riiiiiiii-aaaaaaaaaa

"4 Degrees"

(Get up 8x)and (free yourself from yourself 2x) Locked up inside you, like the calm beneath castles, is a cavern of treasures that no one has been to. (Let's go diiigging. 2x)Bring it out to take you back in. Yooou do what you'd like to do. Laaay back and let me show you another waaaay. I'll kill what you want me to, take what's left and eat it. Take all or nothing. Life's just too short to push it awaaaay. Take it all. Take it all in. (All the way in. 2x)Let it go. Let it go in. You won't feel what you'd like to feel. Laaay back and let me show you another waaaay. I'll kill what you want me to, take what's left and eat it. Take all or nothing. just too short to push it awaaaay.Knock me down I'll just come back running, knock you down, it won't be long now (All the waaay in. 4x)All the waay. I'll kill what you want me to, take what's left and eat it. Take all or nothing. just too short to push it awaaaay. Take it up, take it up higher.4 degrees now, 4 degrees warmer. (Give in now 2x),let meeeeeeeeee in. You'll like this,this brings us out. You'll like this.It brings us closer than, dying and, cancer and, crying. -Why don't you take it all. Take it. Want yyou to take it all. Take it. Take it, c?mon. C?mon take it all. Take it on up. Won't you take it all. Take it. Want you to take it. Take it all. Want you to take it. Take it. Won't you take it. Take it. Take it. Take it. Take it. Mmmha mmmha mmmmmm whooooa!-I'll kill what you want me to, take what's left and eat it. Take all or nothing. just too short to push it. (Just like that. 2x)Just liiike!

"Flood"
{4:42}

All I knewww and all I belieeeeved are crumbling images that no longer comfort me. I scramble tooo reach higher grounnnd, some order and sanity, or something to comfort me.I take what is mine, and hold what is mine, suffocate what is mine, and bury what's mine. Soon the water will come and claim what is mine. I must leave it behind, and climb to a new place now. This ground is not the rock Iii,thought it to beeeeeeee. Thought I was high, thought i was free. I thought I was there, divine destiny. -I was wrong. This changes everything.- We?re running away. We?re running away. Now. We?re running away. We?re running away. Now. We?re running away. We?re running away. Now. We?re running away. We?re running away.I take what is mine, and hold what is mine, suffocate what is mine, and bury what's mine. Soon the water will come and claim what is mine. I must leave it behind, and climb to a new place now. (The water is rising up on me. 2x)Thought the sun would come deliver me, but the truth has come to punish me instead. Theeeeeee, ground is breaking down right under me. Cleanse and purge me in the wateeeeeeeeer.

"Disgustipated"

{track 69, 1:10}-And the angel of the Lord came unto me, snnatching 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 possesed 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, 2x)Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on........ (This is necessary, 2x)Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life.(This is necessary, 2x)Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on........ (This is necessary, 2x)Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life.(This is necessary, 2x)Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on........ (This is necessary, 2x)Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on........(This is necessary, 2x)Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on........(This is necessary, 2x)Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on liiiiife!{13:52}-It was daylight when you woke up in your dditch. 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.-