Lyrics for Stinkfist as interpreted by implode

Stinkfist Lyrics
Something has to change
Undeniable dilemma
Boredom's not a burden
Anyone should bear

Constant over stimulation numbs me
But I would not want you any other way

It's not enough
I need more
Nothing seems to satisfy
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 want me any other way

It's not enough
I need more
Nothing seems to satisfy
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 it 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

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jsschneidereit
03-14-2007

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I detest that "gay" meaning of the song, thats f.ucking shit. It is definately about being desensitized, I also appreciate that one early on where some guy said it was a dialouge between a drug and a user, i think that is a cool way to look at it, allthough that isnt what i think it is.
i loooove the part when he says "show me that you love me..." near the end and his voice is all muffled and it adds emphasis to how he seems to be "feeling"

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jesseb123
03-25-2007

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punkrockgroupie.. you're fucking retarded.

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Poonard
04-02-2007

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i agree with the folks who feel this is about a relationship with drugs. Anyone who has battled a drug knows how painful it can be and how the drug almost taunts you into taking it more. Then before you know it BAM nothing happens anymore. "What became of subtlety?" I know how it feels because of painkillers and yes it is something you'll get used to in other parts of life. love, friends, work. everything. but i believe maynard was talking about drugs in this song.

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Poonard
04-02-2007

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its meant to look like a song about fisting. but what's fisting you? thats up to you to decide groupie. that's what tool is all about. how does this song relate to your life. literal meanings aside this song can be translated a million ways or even better as many ways as there are human beings on earth. that's the real beauty of tool.

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HumanSculpture
04-04-2007

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This is what you would call a "lust" song. It's full of it but then again it is about bored'm.

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Elementa
04-05-2007

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This song is quite ambiguous in the fact that it can describe any sort of user/provider relationship. of course it can describe drugs (kookie hit it on the head), yet it can also describe religion, relationships, whatever. Needing more to satiate our desires. Moving farther and farther down the rabbit hole...

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Brenosantos
04-23-2007

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yeah, tool can make lyrics about universal phenomenums(dunno how to write it =p)

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haloshade
05-04-2007

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I think the song is about reaching out in life and trying to get the most of it, and once you find out you like it you want to keep going untill you die.

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Vulken
05-07-2007

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Keep in mind that all TooL songs are open to interpretation. Fighting over silly details like silly monkeys isn't an approach the band tends to take.

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crackillz13
05-22-2007

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I think that whoever is getting fisted is kind of a loosey goosey if you get my drift. Shoulder deep? Keep digging till I feel something? ugh..... you know if that were really what the lyrics were about. Which really depends on what the listener wants to hear.

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WittoTimmy
05-27-2007

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i acually believe that this song is about sticking your hand up your... well lets just call it your bottom side

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snow.blind
05-29-2007

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The song can easily put into a sexual interpretation. Tthe guy is experienced and is telling the girl (that seems to be a virgin) that it may hurt at first, but once your used to is you wouldnt have it any other way.

In the second part of the song you are hearing it from the girls point of view. She became desensitized and is just using sex as a way to get by and searching for something in sex.

That is one interpretation, but the main idea of the song would be this: You could look for pleasure in everything, but it needs to be taken in rationally (interpreted as many things such as sex, drugs, etc). Toward the end of the song you hear it from the person that tried whatever they are getting pleasure from and are now hooked. They cant stop, and are searching for something that they wont find. (a purpose a meaning, love, a relationship, a connection, etc.) What they are trying to find could be anything really, but this song is left open for interpretation, and thats how Maynard wanted it.

He doesnt have a set story to his music, there are many options and ways to interperate them and thats how he leaves it. Gives the main generalization, but never the details that would create a personal story (even though im sure he has one in mind in this song).

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anti-hero714
05-30-2007

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My interpretation is that this song is about how over exposure in the modern world has reduced the significance of everything.

"Desensitized to everything
What became of subtlety?"

Nothing is shocking anymore so there is no limit on how people act, thus subtlety has vanished.

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julsey
06-06-2007

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personally, I don't think tool/apc's songs have one specific meaning. there's many different interpretations on what it may and could be, but I think their lyrics are made like that to make you think. that's what I love about them. they're unlike any band out there these days, all that mainstream bullshit should die.

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clash_in_my_mind
06-18-2007

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a love song..aye. anyone tht has read the celestine prophecy might have a good idea. when your in love its like your share energy with your equal. around the first sparks of a relationship. if your really mad about them it can get like u need them. there your addiction. and its hard to be without them. there you opium..love is like opium. kinda like wht marx siad but not..or somethin. without the love we're used to from someone we can startfeelin needy. this could be a dangerous thing. bein in love has all the characteristics of bein high. sorry tht was so fckn long. i jst couldnt stop

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TRussMu
06-18-2007

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This song is no doubt about people desensitizing to the things that are going on in the world and especially the media's portrayal of that. This song has similar meaning to Vicarious. Great Band though can't wait to see them in concert this week!!!

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wallyy
07-01-2007

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A lot of people think this (amazing, wonderful,assome) song about drugs….

It's not enough
I need more
Nothing seems to satisfy
I don't want it
I just need it
To breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive

Maybe the drug is called media.

Everyday we watch TV. We see people dying, starving, suffering… but we are
“desensitized to everything”.

How can it mean anything to me
If I really don't feel anything at all?

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cktaresh
07-02-2007

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There's really no deep meaning to this song, just deep lyrics to throw you off. Tool is known to do that. This song is not just about fisting but a mroe grotesque version of fisting, anal fisting. Plainly this song is about anal fisting.

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cktaresh
07-02-2007

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FYI this song cannot be about regular fisting. Look at these lines (they bear repeating).

"Finger deep within the borderline
Show me that you love me and that we belong together
Relax, turn around and take my hand

Knuckle deep inside the borderline
This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to
Relax, slip away

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."

The song is clearly about anal fisting because the borderline is clearly the rectum, because if you've ever seen a girl's pussy, it does not look like a borderline or any line for the matter, it looks like flower for lack of a better description. Finger deep within the borderline cannot be interpreted differently, it's clearly sexual.

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knightvision
07-02-2007

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I don't actually think it's about the actual act of fistfucking. I think it's about some meaningless sexual relationship. He has no feelings for this person or has any desire to have any feelings for them. He doesn't even want to be in the relationship but without it he would be alone.

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vampireX
07-08-2007

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dude, its totally about anal sex, plain and simple

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gaodene
07-15-2007

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i don't know about the whole 'drug' interpretation on this song because at later on in the album they have the hicks sample advocating acid. the whole desensitizing thing makes more sense. about going somewhere you'd never go to get that extra something.

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3rdeye
07-24-2007

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I believe the song is a reflection of Maynard's addiction to sex and the lengths at which he must go to stimulate himself only to feel ultimately unsatisfied when it's all said and done. Being a sex addict myself I whole heartedly believe that this is it's meaning as every line fits the emotions I too experience. I do love that the song can be interpretted in multiple ways, however I believe the sex addiction he is experiencing is the point of view from which the song was written.

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autumnsky
07-30-2007

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i'm not so sure but i think its about taking too much of something till it sort of bores or "numbs" u so u have to keep taking it till u get the same feeling u once had.

i guess he's trying to say he no longer wants it just feels the need to do it anyways

idk.
i hope im close :l

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hxl2009
08-12-2007

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to cktaresh- how ignorant can you be? I bet you also think The Pot is about drugs.

it's about desensitization of humans due to the media. "I'll keep digging til i feel something" obviously meaning that the narrator of this song is desensitized by sex completely.

Something kinda sad about
the way that things have come to be
Desensitized to everything
What became of subtlety?

How can it mean anything to me
If I really don't feel anything at all?

to those who are ignorant- subtlety means not being outspoken, being reserved. the media is able to show pretty much anything they want now, and say pretty much anything they want. and we don't flinch at all. it's progressed incredibly over such a short amount of time- in the 50s you couldn't say anything. sex was never spoken of, and if you were a pregnant teenager you were the spawn of satan.

now, even public news tells us all about shootings, deaths, kidnappings, rape, everything that was once taboo.

and it's also describing how we're desensitized to sex itself- "how can it mean anything if i don't feel anything at all" and "show me that you love me and that we belong together." kids are having sex at the age of 12-13 these days. Why? because they're horny little shits who just want to get laid because it's "cool." sex means nothing these days, when 30-50 years ago people were actually in love and married before they had sex. "show me that you love me and that we belong together" is one person saying to their partner to show them their love through sex, whenever that isn't what love is. love is something much deeper, and the narrator doesn't feel it because the way media portrays love is through sex, but that's not the case, and the narrator is beginning to realize that, and is digging deeper and deeper to feel love, but can't.

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