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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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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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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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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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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jesseb123
03-25-2007

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punkrockgroupie.. you're fucking retarded.

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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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metalontheinside
03-01-2007

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Whats up with the video?

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River Wolf
03-01-2007

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Skinny Puppy does an awesome remix of this song

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GnomeQueen
02-27-2007

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therymz is right. It's about how we are shown sex and violence on TV all the time and it no longer shocks us. HOWEVER, sexual "depravaties" such as fisting do. So, all you people who have said 'IT'S ABOUT DRUGS, YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF MORONS!" You are wrong. A) People are entitle to their own opinions and do not wish to be called morons for that and B) You are wrong you MORONS! Now you know how it feels :)

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Mithrawn
02-09-2007

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oh..not to forget the note:

finger deep within the borderline
knuckle deep...

...elbow deep...

...shoulder...

he sinks into his spiral further and further until he can't come out of it by own strenght :/

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Mithrawn
02-09-2007

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Anyone here who ever heard of borderline syndrome?
it's a very common psychic derangement where you are living very impulsive, have problems with things that don't do the trick to satisfy your constantly changing soughts.
Borderline-patients allways seek for a way to let themselves know they're still alive and not drowning in the downward spiral of their own feelings. most of the things they are confronted with puts them in ...well... moods.. good moods, bad moods, and they can depress you enough to think that you have to cut yourself, do drugs or just jump of a bridge to get that last kick that refreshes your mind to become clear again for some seconds.
Also, another dilemma for the borderliners is that they are allways seeking for some secure emotional bond..like in a strong partnership or friendship...allways,even in that situation, changing themselves constantly and sometimes falling from love to hate and back in just some seconds without even realizing that they hurt their partner...

"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"

well...to me, it seems just like about borderline syndrome..

"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"

just my thoughts... :)

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Zetsumei
02-08-2007

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I don't feel like reading any of your meanings so I'll go ahead with mine :P. It's like how when you first get into a relationship you feel the love strongly and without any effort and simple things are enough to satisfy you both. But, like the song he keeps going deeper down his arm until his entire arm is inside, gradually the feeling is sometimes lost and you have to go to extremes to feel it.

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almostarrogant
01-29-2007

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I'm new to this whole "tool" thing but I am deffinitely hooked! This song, to me, means that as a people we will never have enough of anything. No matter what it is in life we have to over indulge so we have to go deeper and deeper into the borderline to feel any stimulation. Since we push the borderline so much as to where too much is no longer enough we have to keep digging until we feel something. Very powerfull song!!!

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InsatiableDick
01-22-2007

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you "tools" are thinking into it way too much. i say it's about fisting... the title is STINKFIST. DUH! what the fuck does a stinky fist have to do with drugs?? this is one of the easily interpreted songs by tool.

Faith hit it head on..

(sorry if i repeated anything... i didn't read all the comments.)

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GoD-Like
01-18-2007

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Okay this song is defindately NOT about anal fisting, it has nothing to do with sex, Tool knows people are perverts and would percieve this.

This song is on the album Aenima, which is a mix between the words Anima & Enema. An Anima is your soul (see Carl Jung teachings). An Enema is anal abortion, cleaning all the shit from your ass. When these words are mixed they make Aenima, which is soul cleansing.

Stinfist is the action of doing so, clearing out your soul, digging into yourself (I'll keep digging till I feel something"), and cleaning out all the shit. Hence the name, Stinkfist.

The begining talks about someone wanting to change, wanting to come clean. "Something has to change, undenyable dilemma, boredom's not a burden anyone should bare"

So that person starts digging into themself, "finger deep within the border line" But thats not enough to clean it entirely, its "not enough I need more, nothing seems to satisfy.." so as the song goes on, the person digs deeper, "knuckle deep...", elbow deep...", ect.

After this comes the person questioning why its so hard to come clean & why they would even want to, because it doesnt seem to be working.

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

After that, the decision comes to keep digging until its all gone, until the person can feel their true self again.

Note that after that part of the song, the "Not enough I need more" part is skipped twice, and replaced with more "digging" until the song ends with "Relax, turn around and take my hand" The song is over, the person is reunited with themself.

Having said all that you can guess what the other lines mean, im not typing it all down.

Two more things:

1. The "coming clean" could be literally coming clean off drugs, or could be a metaphor for finding inner peace...

2. judging by the perspective, it could be someone else cleaning this persons soul. "Show me that you love me and that we belong together.."

I'm just going to leave it at that.

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smokeybill08
01-17-2007

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I think the song has a double meaning. To some it may seem as if he is just talking about fisting. But, I think he is using the "stinkfist" as a metaphor and is talking about how other people use other people to bring them selfish pleasure without benefiting the person doing the work. But I could be wrong.

"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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Coach Slickback
01-13-2007

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SteelBlueRage...YOU ARE MY HERO!!!

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SteelBlueRage
01-02-2007

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I think he's just growling "RRRRRIIIIIIIGHT!"

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James.W.
12-31-2006

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I wonder if hes yelling anything in particular at 3:28

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SteelBlueRage
12-27-2006

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how do i know?

The lines "Somethings 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 (the violence and pain in the world) When I really don't feel a thing at all?"

there. It's not about fisting. It's just a clever double meaning.

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SteelBlueRage
12-27-2006

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Its about being desensitized to the violence and fucked up things around us.

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Coach Slickback
12-08-2006

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Ok almost all of youre theories are WAY off, a stinkfist is when you shove youre arm all the way up to the youre shoulder up someones asshole (yes it is possible, I dare you to look it up on google images) yet as funny as it is, I think the line Boredom's not a burden anyone should bear is the real plot of it, it shows the crazy things people do when they are bored...

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decadent2deth
10-28-2006

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Awesome song, my first impression is that this is about desensitization resulting from addictions and the need to continue to push the envelope as a result. But this song perfectly displays the genius behind Tool as lyricists and how well they use symbolism to represent ideas, the fact that this song and others can be interpreted as being about fisting, love, drug addiction, lack of spiritual depth as others have written is testament to this. In my mind it does not necessarily mean any of these things specifically from them to us, but it means what each of us would like. That is art as its finest, the ability for one piece of work to mean significantly different things to different people, Tool songs are like audible Rorschach tests, their definitions are the definitions of the listeners experiences and perceptions in their own lives. To me this is the greatness of Tool.

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NightWalkers-Itachi
10-18-2006

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I can play drums to it.....

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MarsSerpent
10-18-2006

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Awwww this song is sad. I think it's a sex addiction not a drug addiction...or it could be about the media how the fuck should I know. Tool confuses my brain.

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