Ænima

Track Listing

	1. Stinkfist
	2. Eulogy
	3. H.
	4. Useful Idiot
	5. Forty-Six & 2
	6. Message to Harry Manback
	7. Hooker with a Penis
	8. Intermission
	9. jimmy
	10. Die Eier von Satan
	11. Pushit
	12. Cesaro Summability
	13. Aenima
	14. (-) ions
	15. Third eye

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Stinkfist

something has to change undeniable dilemma boredom's not a burden anyone should bear constant over stimulation numbs me but I wouldn't want you any other way it's not enough I need more nothing seems to satisfy I said I don't want it I just need it to breathe to feel to know I'm alive finger deep within the borderline show me that you love me and that we belong together relax, turn around and take my hand I can help you change tired moments into pleasure say the word and we'll be well upon our way blend and balance pain and comfort Deep within you 'til you will not have me any other way. I need more nothing seems to satisfy I said I don't want it I just need it to breathe to feel to know I'm alive knuckle deep inside the borderline this may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to relax slip away something kinda sad about the way that things have come to be desensitized to everything what became of subtlety how can this mean anything to me if I really don't feel anything at all I'll keep digging 'til I feel something elbow deep inside the borderline show me that you love me and that we belong together shoulder deep within the borderline relax turn around and take my hand Back to top

Eulogy

he had alot to say
he had alot of nothing to say
we'll miss him
he had alot to say
he had alot of nothing to say
we'll miss him
we're gonna miss him

so long
we wish you well
you told us how you weren't afraid to die
well then, so long
don't cry
or feel too down
not all martyrs see divinity
but at least you tried

standing above the crowd
he had a voice that was strong and loud
we'll miss him
ranting and pointing his finger
at everything but his heart
we'll miss him
we're gonna miss him

no way to recall
what it was that you had said to me
like I care at all

but it was so loud
you sure could yell
you took a stand on every little thing
and so loud

standing above the crowd
he had a voice that was strong and loud
swallowed his facade 'cuz I'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the ground
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
someone who would die for me

will you
will you now
would you die for me
don't you fuckin' lie

don't you step out of line
don't you fuckin' lie

you've claimed all this time that you would die for me
why then, are you so surprised to hear your own eulogy

he had alot to say
he had alot of nothing to say

come down
get off your fuckin cross
we need the fuckin space
to nail the next fool martyr

to ascend you must die
you must be crucified
for your sins and your lies
goodbye..

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H.

what's coming through is alive
what's holding up is a mirror
but what's singing songs is a snake
looking to turn this piss to wine

they're both totally void of hate
but killing me just the same

the snake behind me hisses
what my damage could have been
my blood before me begs me
open up my heart again

and I feel this coming over like a storm again
considerately

venomous voice tempts me
drains me
bleeds me
leaves me cracked and empty
drags me down like some sweet gravity

the snake behind me hisses
what my damage could have been
my blood before me begs me
open up my heart again

and I feel this coming over like a storm again

I am too connected to you to
slip away
fade away
days away I still feel you
touching me
changing me
and considerately killing me

without the skin
beneath the storm
under these tears
the walls came down

the snake is drowned and
as I look in his eyes
my fear begins to fade
recalling all of those times
I could have cried then
I should have cried then

as the walls come down and
as I look in your eyes
my fear begins to fade
recalling all of the times
I have died
and will die
I don't mind

I am too connected to you to
slip away
fade away
days away I still feel you
touching me
changing me

considerately killing me

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Useful Idiot

(No words)

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Forty-Six & 2

my shadow's
shedding skin
i've been picking
scabs again
I'm down
digging through
my old muscles
for a clue

I've been crawling on my belly
clearing out what could've been
I've been wallowing in my own confused
and insecure delusions
for a piece to cross me over
or a word to guide me in
I wanna feel the changes coming down
I wanna know what I've been hiding

in my shadow

change is coming through my shadow
my shadow's shedding skin
I've been picking
my scabs again

I've been crawling on my belly
clearing out what could've been
I've been wallowing in my own chaotic
insecure delusions

I wanna feel the change consume me
feel the outside turning in
I wanna feel the metamorphosis and
cleansing I've enduring

my shadow
change is coming
now is my time
listen to my muscle memory
contemplate what I've been clinging to
forty-six and two ahead of me

I choose to live and to
grow, take and give and to
move, learn and love and to
cry, kill and die and to
be paranoid and to
lie, hate and fear and to
do what it takes to move through

I choose to live and to
lie, kill and give and to
die, learn and love and to
do what it takes to step through

see my shadow changing
stretching up and over me
soften this old armor
hoping I can clear the way
by stepping through my shadow
coming out the other side
step into the shadow
forty six and two are just ahead of me

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Message to Harry Manback

[words in brackets unclear]

Figlio di puttana, sai che tu sei un pezzo di merda? (1)

Hm?  You think you're cool, right?  Hm?  Hm?
When you kicked out people [out of] your house

I tell you this, one of three Americans die of cancer,
you know? Asshole. You're gonna be one of those.

I [didn't too / don't have the] courage
to kick your ass directly.
Don't have enough courage for that,
I could, you know.

You know you're gonna have another accident?
You know I'm involved with black magic?
Fuck you. Die. Bastard.
You think you're so cool, hm?
Asshole.

And if I ever see your fucking face around,
In Europe or Italy,
Well I'll -- That time I'm gonna kick your ass.
Fuck you. Fucking Americans, Yankee.
You're gonna die outta cancer, I promise.

[Bang bang / Deep pain]

No one does what you did to me.
You wanna know something?  Fuck you.
I want your balls smashed, eat shit. Bastard.

Pezzo di merda, figlio di puttana. (2)
I hope somebody in your family dies soon.

Crepa, pezzo di merda, e vai
a sucare cazzi su un aereo! (3)


(1) Son of a bitch, do you know you are a piece of shit?
(2) Piece of shit, son of a bitch.
(3) Die, piece of shit, and go
    sucking dicks on a plane!

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Hooker with a Penis

I met a boy wearing Vans, 501's, and a
Dope Beastie t, nipple rings, and
new tattoos that claimed that he
was OGT
back in '92
the first EP

and in between
sips of Coke
he told me that
he thought
we were sellin' out
layin' down
suckin' up
to the man

well now I've got some
advice for you, little buddy.
before you point the finger
you should know that
I'm the man
and you're the man
and he's the man as well so you can
point that fuckin' finger up your ass

all you know about me is what I've sold you
dumb fuck
I sold out long before you ever even heard my name

I sold my soul to make a record
dip shit
and you bought one

so I've got some
advice for you, little buddy
before you point your finger
You should know that
I'm the man
If I'm the fuckin' man
then you're the fuckin' man as well
so you can
point that fuckin' finger up your ass

all you know about me is what I've sold you
dumb fuck
I sold out long before you ever even heard my name

I sold my soul to make a record
dip shit
and you bought one

all you read and
wear or see and
hear on TV
is a product
begging for your
fat ass dirty
dollar

shut up and

buy my new record
send more money
fuck you, buddy

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Intermission

(No words)

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jimmy

what was it like to see
the face of your own stability
suddenly look away
leaving you with the dead and hopeless
eleven and she was gone
eleven is when we waved good-bye
eleven is standing still
waiting for me to free him by
coming home

moving me with a sound
opening me within a gesture
drawing me down and in
showing me where it all began
eleven

it took so long to realize that
you hold the voice that's been calling me back home

under a dead ohio sky
eleven has been and will be waiting
defending his light
and wondering..
where the hell have I been
sleeping, lost, and numb
so glad that I have found you
I am wide awake and heading home

hold your light
eleven
lead me through each gentle step by step
by inch by loaded memory
I'll move to heal
as soon as pain allows so we can
reunite and both move on together
hold your light
eleven
lead me through each gentle step by step
by inch by loaded memory
'til one and one
are one eleven
so glow, child, glow
I'm heading back home

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Die Eier von Satan

Eine halbe Tasse Staubsucher
Ein viertel Teel&ffel Salz
Eine Messerspitze turkisches Haschisch
Ein halbes Pfund Butter
Ein Teel&ffel Vanillenzucker
Ein halbes Pfund Mehl
Einhundertfunfzig Gramm gemahlene Nasse
Ein wenig extra Staubsucker
... und keine Eier

In eine Schassel geben
Butter ein Uhren
Gemahlene Nasse zugeben und
Den Teig verkneten

Augenballgro Stucke vom Teig formen
Im Staubzucker walzen und
Sagt die Zauberwurter
Simsalbimbamba Saladu Saladim

Auf ein gefettetes Backblech legen und
Bei zweihundert Grad fur funfzehn Minuten backen und
KEINE EIER

Bei zweihundert Grad fur funfzehn Minuten backen und
Keine Eier ..

-OR- (english)

The Eggs of Satan

Half a cup of powdered sugar
One quarter teaspoon salt
One knifetip Turkish hash
Half a pound butter
One teaspoon vanilla-sugar
Half a pound flour
150 g ground nuts
A little extra powdered sugar
... and no eggs

Place in a bowl
Add butter
Add the ground nuts and
Knead the dough

Form eyeball-size pieces from the dough
Roll in the powdered sugar
and say the Magic Words:
"Sim sala bim bamba sala do saladim"

Place on a greased baking pan and
Bake at 200 degrees for 15 minutes
...AND NO EGGS

Bake at 200 degrees for 15 minutes
...and no eggs.


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Pushit

I will choke until I swallow..
choke this infant here before me
what is this but my reflection
who am I to judge and strike you down

but you're
pushing and shoving me
you still love me and you push it on me

rest your trigger on my finger
bang my head upon the fault line
take care not to make me enter
'cause if I do we both may disappear

but you're pushing me
shoving me
push it on me

slipping back into the gap again
I'm alive when you're touching me
alive when you're shoving me down

but i'd trade it all
for just a little bit of
piece of mind

put me somewhere I don't wanna be
seeing someplace I don't wanna see
never wanna see that place again

saw that gap again today
as you were begging me to stay
managed to push myself away
and you, as well

you put me somewhere i don't wanna be
I never want to see that place again

if, when I say I may fade like a sigh if I stay
you minimize my movement anyway
I must persuade you another way

there's no love in fear

staring down the hole again
hands upon my back again
survival is my only friend
terrified of what may come

remember I will always love you
as I tear your fucking throat away
it will end no other way

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Cesaro Summability

(No words)

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Aenima

some say the end is near
some say we'll see armageddon soon
I certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this
bullshit three ring circus sideshow
of freaks
here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
the only way to fix it is to flush it all away
any fucking time
any fucking day
learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay

fret for your figure and
fret for your latte and
fret for your hairpiece and
fret for your lawsuit and
fret for your prozac and
fret for your pilot and
fret for your contract and
fret for your car

it's a
bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
freaks
here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
the only way to fix it is to flush it all away
any fucking time
any fucking day
learn to swim
I'll see you down in Arizona bay

some say a comet will fall from the sky
followed by meteor showers and tidal waves
followed by faultlines that cannot sit still
followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits

some say the end is near
some say we'll see armageddon soon
I certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this

silly shit, stupid shit..

one great big festering neon distraction
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied

learn to swim

mom's gonna fix it all soon
mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be

learn to swim

fuck L. Ron Hubbard and
fuck all his clones
fuck all those gun-toting
hip gangster wannabes

learn to swim

fuck retro anything
fuck your tattoos
fuck all you junkies and
fuck your short memory

learn to swim

fuck smiley glad-hands
with hidden agendas
fuck these dysfunctional
insecure actresses

learn to swim

I'm praying for rain
I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way
I wanna watch it all go down
Mom please flush it all away
I wanna watch it go right in and down
I wanna watch it go right in
watch you flush it all away

time to bring it down again
don't just call me pessimist
try and read between the lines
I can't imagine why you wouldn't
welcome any change, my friend

I wanna see it all come down
suck it down
flush it down

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(-) ions

(No words)

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Third eye

dreaming of that face again
it's bright and blue and shimmerin'
grinning wide
and comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes

on my back and tumbling
down that hole and back again
rising up
and wiping the webs and the dew from my withered eye

so good to see you
I've missed you so much
so glad it's over
I've missed you so much
came out to watch you play
why are you running away

shrouding all the ground around me
is this holy crow above me
black as holes within a memory
and blue as our new second sun
I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand
which I attempt to reassemble
to see just who I might have been
I do not recognize the vessel
but the eyes seem so familiar
like phosphorescent desert buttons
singing one familiar song..

prying open my third eye

so good to see you once again
I thought that you were hiding
you thought that I had run away
chasing the tail of dogma

so good to see you once again
I thought that you were hiding from me
you thought that I had run away
chasing the trail of smoke and reason

prying open my third eye

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