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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Reverend-Maynard
06-25-2004

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Something kinda sad about
the way that things have come to be
Your sister taught you everything
Fuckin hell it's so upsetting.

No joke this is what I thought the lyrics where before I read the real version. Listen for yourself and tell me if I am crazy. It certainly made my stomach churn!

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Dogamad
06-16-2004

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I feel this song is about fisting (obviously) and a metaphor. I think it portrays the idea of the hedonic treadmill. (Hedonist meaning pleasure seeker) The more stimuli one receives, we need more next time to keep the buzz. Take anything that offers up an amount of pleasure or reward for example: drugs, sex, video games, thinking of heaven, money, and exedra. The more pleasure of one thing we get, the more is needed next time to seek that same level of pleasure. Many of you probably can relate with it with drugs, but money can be an obvious one. The more money we make we feel gratified. Yet after a while we take it for granted and consider it to be the given that we may make a lot of money. So you keep striving to make more money and more! You never really are satisfied because there is no one amount that gives you contentment with this mind set.


One of my favorite parts of this song is when it says:
I just need it
To breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive

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

Systematic desensitization has made this person feel almost nothing again. If he feels nothing than is he really alive? Is he dead inside? Which leads to more interpretation with emotional theories (james-lang theory. cannon-bard theory. schachter’s
Two factor theory) Basically it asks the old question when a tree falls in the forest and no one is there does it make a sound? OR If we feel nothing did we really experience anything at all? And do I need this pleasure to know I am a being on this earth?

P.S. The only way the old question, “when a tree falls in the forest and no one is there does it make a sound?” is applicable if we actually have the emotion of pleasure in our head but we fail to recognize it. But, for example, a person with a hedonic treadmill mindset (someone addicted to drugs for example) may not have that initial emotion because more pleasure may be needed to even have that emotion even exist until that emotion will almost be extinct. If that has happened then no tree is falling in the forest but someone was there to here nothing. Kind of a depressing thought.

This is just what I was thinking about Stinkfist, but this song has confused me for the longest time. It is worth it to check out those theories above too.

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Slightly_Shinobi
05-10-2004

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I'm with Treestump, It's compating fisting to the way we live. We get so attuned to things that we have that would seem seem extreme to people years ago. From drugs to sex to video games. We get bored with things so easy, and we take it to the next level, eventually becoming extremists on the matter. You can only imagine what people years from now will be doing for entertainment.

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quiffporn
05-03-2004

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I love the way that this song could so easily just be about fist fucking your girlfriend, but it's also a metaphore for becoming immue to everything. Maynard is a genius.

"Something kinda sad about, the way that things have come to be, desensitized to everything, what became of subtlety?" I love the way Maynard sings that line.

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oioichick
07-05-2003

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...there can be so many possibilities to this song, its just how u see and hear it. and dont ever let others tell u that their idea of the song is correct, "think for yourself" like maynard said. to my opinion this song has 2 meanings. it can be about the pleasure of life(drugs, money, girls, etc.), we strive so much on what we want and when we get it later we end up getting bore. then we're gonna keep on digging until something satisfies us, but we all dont know that the "wantings of pleasures" never stop. another i took this song into my head was just a sexual action of a guy fingering a girl giving her pleasure....and that is why I think they called it STINK FIST.

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Muzzy
06-30-2003

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I think it's amazing how so many people can have so many different ways of interpreting this song. And so many of the ways make sense man.

The people that don't get Tool, don't know what they're missing.

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chino69
06-23-2003

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It is sad... on one hand its a good thing to be numb to pain and suffering and possibly every voilent act covered by the media on TV, but when will we all wake up? Is humankind going to just spiral emotionless to the cold, dark place our world is becoming today? Or will a few of us actually realize that this pain and suffering must be stopped. That it cannot be ignored.

I've met so many people that have simply changed to the world. So many are numb because they've let the winds of change carve into the very core of their beliefs. There's a place where we can all go to where we can be free. And in that sacred place we can leave this all behind and it will restore the very essence of who we are. This place is our dreams. It is within our heart.

And though we have to come back, it is the best alternative to the sterile world we live in. Do not become intellectual. Think with your heart. Logic stands to be dangerous because it tries to cope with the times. But you have what it takes to shape things within you. Listen to that.

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toolgod001
06-20-2003

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the one line that is KEY to this song "Desensitized to everything, what became of subtlety?" This song is about MANY forms of desensitization. It could easily be taken as a drug metaphor. I always thought of it as more of how you see so much war and violence, etc. on the news, and how people aren't even affected by a MASSIVE death toll. It's like everyone is becoming numb to the world around them, and its becoming almost impossible to even arouse any sort of emotion from them.

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PoGo
06-19-2003

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UP THE BUTT

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takerzmuse
06-18-2003

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Maybe it's about fisting...maybe it's about drugs...maybe it's about desensitization. Interpret it how you want to - everyone's got a different opinion. And plus, it's Tool...it could be any one or all of these things.

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ilikepork
06-18-2003

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Since I don't know much about fisting, I looked at the song in a more general way. Stinkfist made me think about how some people are always looking for a central meaning, like us digging into the song.
"How can it mean anything to me If I really don't feel anything at all? I'll keep digging 'til I feel something "
How do you really know when you have reached the core, or ultimate reality? You don't. So you keep going. But one day you'll come to the end, which means that in looking for something better you have past your reality or your truth. Or you'll reach the end or your 'shoulder. Cause you can't dig past your shoulder unless your digging with a tool.

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lozz101
05-04-2003

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To me this song looks at how similar an addicion to someone you think you love is to a drug adiction. i think the pain described is physical pain which has resulted in phycological pain. I think what it describes is a very strange relationship between two people based on power and pain. Maybe I've interpreted it this way due to a past experience...??

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Waxter
04-28-2003

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I just think it's about pushing your comfort zone so you can branch out. In this case, the particular comfort zone is the sexual comfort zone. And apparently, the whispered lyrics "chupa minha pica pichu", are portugese for "suck my dick".

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Bon Jennett
04-15-2003

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This is the first song on an album meant to violate the common man. It's an introduction song meaning that if you are stuck in your simple ways and aren't open minded then he's gonna stick his arm further and further up your ass untill he feels some sence of intellegence.

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intoodeep
04-08-2003

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its about love not being enough, even though you want it to be, and unless u find the problem then your both gonna kill yourselves

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Alchemyrules
04-08-2003

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yeah its kinda obvious what this song is about. he's givin the good old fist.

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dontpanic42
04-04-2003

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This song is about going completely out of your mind and seeing where you end up.

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Wix3L
03-04-2003

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Its about a nuclear bomb if u watch the video.

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Darktoss
03-03-2003

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Looks to me like Maynard wants to shoot up through the ass. Just kidding so spare me your "Darktoss your so fuckign stupid" shit.

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JulieMarlene
10-13-2002

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I love Tool. I love Maynard. I hate stupid boys who I associate Tool with. A stupid boy that broke my heart. Shame on you stupid boys for ruining good bands like Tool for me.

Anyway. Freaking good song. To me, it's about continually being hurt by someone, but learning how to deal with that pain.

How ironic...

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section1211
10-11-2002

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brilliant tool song.

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KarKhys
10-11-2002

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As I said with "Die Eier Von Saten", I think this is another song Tool wrote to fuck with people, although the lyrics in this song are a little more obvious (although nothing about Tool is ever obvious).




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THr33_EL3v3n
10-10-2002

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This song rules so much ass. Tool rules because they incorprate disgusting things like fisting and prison sex into songs and give them meanings other than the disgusting names. I love this song. I love Tool.

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joshthack
09-29-2002

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I don't think that thing in the video was supposed to be a bong, it was just a symbol for a life sustaining device. Actually, I thought it was kind of like an air machine or something. But, hey, in regards to what narsil said, perhaps for you, toolpac, it is a bong?

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toolpac
09-29-2002

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it's a love / drug song cuz in the video there is a dude and a chick and they both take a puff of this cyber bong and it is also about boredom cuz the dudes all alone in this room and shit

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