 Genius Meanings
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Tool – Flood
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[Intro] / Here comes the water / [Verse 1] / All I knew / All I believed / Crumbling images / No longer comfort me / Scramble to / Reach higher ground / Order and sanity
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Tool – Flood (Live)
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All I knew and all I believed / [00:29.36]Are crumbling images / That no longer comfort me / I scramble to reach higher ground / Some order and sanity / Or something to comfort me
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Tool – Prison Sex
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With introspection that Maynard seems to bring to the table almost constantly, “Prison Sex” addresses the psychological, almost procedural impact of abuse on its victims.
The song
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Frank Ocean – Wise Man
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Originally intended for the 2012 film Django Unchained, according to the director Quentin Tarantino, “there just wasn’t a scene” for Frank Ocean’s “Wise Man.” In an interview with
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22Gz – Twirlanta
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[Intro] / Gang, gang, gang / I'm the hottest young nigga in the city (Skrrt, skrrt, skrrt) / (Grah, grah, grah) / I'm just in charge of this shit / Gang, gang, gang / Skrrt, skrrt
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Tool – Undertow
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The Tool FAQ offers this explanation of the lyrics:
Undertow is a song about repeated drug use. The voice that he hears is some sort of craving for this drug (or something), it
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Frank Ocean – Wise Man (Final)
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Frank wrote “Wiseman” for Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 slavery western Django Unchained but Tarantino couldn’t find the right scene for it and so the song went unused. Frank shared the
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Tool – 4°
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[Intro] / Get up, get up now / Get up, get up now / Get up, get up now / Get up, get up now / And free yourself from yourself / Free yourself from yourself / [Verse 1] / Locked up
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Young Thug – Gangster Shit
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The title is “Gangster Shit,” and that’s just what Young Thug raps about on this 2016 single. Produced by Wheezy, the song ended an unusually long drought for the hyper-prolific
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Playboi Carti (Ft. Lil Uzi Vert) – Shoota
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“Shoota” was recorded on July 6, 2017. Carti previewed a video of the instrumental on Snapchat. A rough demo of the track was leaked on May 2, 2018. It featured more Auto-Tune
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Tool – Intolerance
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Intolerance is the first song on Tool’s first full-length studio LP. The song’s intro consists of what some claim to be the sound of a scuba tank running out of air, someone
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Genius Users – Secrets & Easter Eggs in Tool Songs
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Created: August 1st, 2021
Last modified: January 22, 2022
Hello and welcome! This is a page created by louiedro dedicated to exploring secrets, easter eggs and other interesting
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Sleep Token – Chokehold
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[Verse 1] / When we were made / It was no accident / We were tangled up like branches in a flood / I come as a blade / A sacred guardian / So you keep me sharp and test my worth in
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Tool – Disgustipated
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A portmanteau of disgust and constipated (obviously).
Another religious satire.
At 15:47, “Disgustipated” was as of its release the longest song in Tool’s discography, even
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Tool – Bottom
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[Verse 1: Maynard James Keenan] / Compassion is broken now / My will is eroded now / Desire is broken now / It makes me feel ugly / [Chorus: Maynard James Keenan] / On my knees and
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Tool – Ænema
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The word Ænima is a portmanteau of the words Enema and Anima.
An enema is a procedure of introducing liquids into the rectum and colon via the anus. Metaphorically, it could refer
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Aesop Rock – Mindful Solutionism
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[Verse 1] / 2.5 million years ago, a friend of mine / Made a tool from a stone and defended his tribe / It's technology, sorry for the technical term / It's a wheel then a fire and
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21 Savage – Nothin New
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21 Savage gets political on “Nothin New,” voicing his frustrations with the system and systematic racism that black people in America face. The title reflects how blasé events like
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Haken – Drowning in the Flood
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Calling S.O.S. in deep despair / Please teach me, how the hell do I breathe down there? / Waves crash on me, I can't hold my breath / There's no coming up for
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Big L (Ft. Bloodshed, Cam'ron, Ma$e & McGruff) – American Dream
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The message of this song is to show that the American Dream of Harlem people is to get rich off hustling.
This is the first group Mase and Cam'ron were in, in high school. The
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Tool – Sober (Live)
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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
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Tool – Jerk-Off (Live)
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[Intro] / "Used to be a bunch of assholes that lived in this part of the building here. But we systematically removed them like you would any kind of termite or roach." / [Verse 1
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Boosie Badazz – Confused (2007)
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And lately, I, been so confused / Dropped outta school got a beef and got a tool / Now I'm ready to chop ya crew / Been talkin to tha devil is whateva with lil bo / You ain't heard
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Nine Inch Nails – Closer
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“Closer” is one of Nine Inch Nails‘ more famous songs, and was released as Halo 9 (with different US and UK versions), the second single from their second studio album The Downward
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Momus – The World of Night
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One, two, testing, one two three / I hate the world and world hates me / I've got tats, I make gang signs / Even when I don't know what they mean / I'm a gangster, I do drugs
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Tool – Crawl Away
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“Crawl Away” is a song about a controlling narcissist, who loses a person close to them (presumably a significant other).
The fifth track on Tool’s full-length debut, Undertow, it
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Freddie Dredd – Tool
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[Chorus] / "Where'd you get the tool?" / I just got it from the store / It was $3.75, now you saw it, now you die / "Please don't hurt me", I don't care, now say goodbye / Start to
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System Of A Down – Toxicity
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“Toxicity” is one of System of a Down’s biggest hits, the song reached No. 70 on Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on Mainstream Rock chart. During a performance at the 2005 Download
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Waka Flocka Flame (Ft. Roscoe Dash & Wale) – No Hands
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This song was on Waka Flocka Flame’s debut studio album Flockaveli, which was executive produced by his mother Deb Antney amongst others. The album’s title is a portmanteau of ‘
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Lil Uzi Vert – Moon Relate
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On “Moon Relate” (originally titled “Me and The Moon Relate”), Lil Uzi Vert uses the moon as a metaphor for the effects of drugs and expresses his frequently-mentioned claim of not
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