Lyrics for Ænema as interpreted by implode

Ænema Lyrics
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 L.A.
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 latté 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 L.A.
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 fault lines that cannot sit still
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dip-shits

Some say the end is near
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon
I certainly hope we will because
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 going to fix it all soon
Mom's coming around 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

Because I'm praying for mayhem
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I want to see the ground give way
I want to watch it all go down
Mom, please flush it all away
I want to see it go right in and down
I want to 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 want to see it all come down
Suck it down
Flush it down

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UmqualmVarius
12-08-2001

Rated -2 
i say this is one of Tools all time best songs. It is mostly about the Apocaylpse and how it is viewed in the eyes of people and how we all "fret" over all the little things and how we could all use a vacation from all of this stupid shit so learn to swim

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toolbuff
12-09-2001

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This song took maynard 6 whole mounths to write the song. Every second was well spent. Incredible meaning and sound. Genius's, all of em....

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AlmightyRuler
12-13-2001

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Great song...
About the apocalypse? Yes, but more specifically about California(more specifically LA) sinking into the ocean. I think it really shows how much maynard hates a lot of that city...
'fret for all the things you spend time and money on, cuz in the end they're gone'
"The only way to fix it is to flush it all away," and that about sums up how screwed up things are in LA, or any huge metropolis really.

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TheFullEffect82
01-05-2002

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Hey everyone!
I just gotta say, by lookin past the surface of this song, or at least by tryin too, I get a lot more out of it. It goes past bein angry at how fake and superficial people and LA are. The word AEenma is a mixture of the word Enema, which is clearing of the bowels with fluid, and the word Anima, which is, in Jungian theory, the true inner subconscious self. It seems to me that this song is about clearing away those attachments to stupid useless shit that we don't need, and getting back to nature. He makes multiple references to mom, which is probably Mother Nature. Its about getting back to our true inner selves, uncovering what's hidden in our subconcious, and clearing away all of the shit, and learning how to swim. LEARN TO SWIM,
The Full Effect

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savannah
01-10-2002

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The 'learn to swim' part is a message for all Californians because maynards praying for it to sink into the ocean...if you notice in the in-lay of Tool's cd the 3-d picture, if you move it...only California dissappears.

"fret for your pilot" hes talking about a television pilot..etc

this song is just one big fuck you to Los Angeles, the entertainment industry, and to all the narcissistic people in california.

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Babyeater
01-22-2002

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The song is just to point out that the people in LA are trivial and in need of change. The allusions to the armageddon and flooding is to show how desperately needed it is, plus the speaker's a little pissed off. The song is filled with verbal irony but all you need to work with is "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."

And the allusion to mom is just that our moms fix everything and make it all better. I love you mom.

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MHR
01-25-2002

Rated -1 
This is one song that I actually think is rather ridiculous. Yes, I'm a Tool fan, but you can go ahead and say I'm not, I couldn't care less. Before all of you are so quick to call people in California "superficial" and the people of LA "trivial," why don't you try coming here instead of seeing it on TV, and I don't mean taking visiting Hollywood & Vine and Mann's Chinese Theater. We live in the United States of America, a capitalist nation where money is the first and foremost concern of most people. To limit this attitude to California is absurd. Just because the media makes California and LA out to be a place where everyone's trying to become a star and where you can see celebrities walking around like it's nothing doesn't mean you have to believe it's like that. If someone can get tourists to pay them for a map of celebrity houses, more power to that person for making a dollar in our world.

I'm really ashamed of Tool for taking such a *superficial* look at the population of California and LA. People are people, and just because LA happens to be the center of the entertainment industry doesn't mean even a significant portion of the people here are like that. I'm all for criticizing the capitalist system that is the USA, but don't blame the people for it, blame the cause behind it.

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deminois
02-01-2002

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To me:

A dream of life, and how it should be. People ponder and worry their minds about when the world is going to end. Will it be tommorow or today? Who cares? We have lost focus of what life is. It isn't about what we own or who we are friends with. Life is about this moment, who we are inside and out, what we share with each other. I feel that Maynard paints a clear picture of how society has become a monster. We lost the whole meaning of life. We have become obssesed with money, sex, and power. Not about love for each other, the ability to understand someone else, to share the pain someone feels, to care about what we do. The morality has been lost and it's time we brought it back. I believe Maynard just used L.A. as an example. The whole U.S. is like it. The world is like it. To me the sweetest taste is the one of revival. A new and fresh start. It's like when you wash you face when you wake up. Cool and soothing. It hurts to see the insainty, to hear people hate so much. To know what people feel. And personally, seeing all this hate and lack of compassion make some want to have faith in something more powerful than us. Because that is what it would take to make things right again. Put aside our petty wants, and feel for a change. Money, drugs, meaningless sex, it is all false realities. Something to hold you in one place. Think outside the box. Think outside of your body and trust in your spirit. Allow your soul to join with others and celebrate life. But many don't see it, they just want to be laid, intoxicated, famous, and rich. Money is a object, not a person. Why love it. Why put aside you awareness to feel helpless? Why share yourself with someone you don't care about? Why waste your life worring about what people think of you, and not focus on what you think about you. Be who you are, your better that way. Seems like it does need to be washed away. He said it best, "Don't just call me pessimist
Try and read between the lines!"

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unScathed
02-05-2002

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He didn't just use LA as an example... he truly wants that city to be wiped off the face of the world...

and MHR i dont think that you should be ashamed of Tool for taking that look... because if you would do your research ... they are From LA ... i think they have a pretty good idea of what it is like.


Interpretation is a Gateway into the soul, when you hear anothers interpretation it gives you just a little glimpse at who they truly are....


- unScathed



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life_hazard
02-08-2002

Rated 0 
Can someone tell me why Maynard is talking about meeting someone down at Arizona bay?
And who in the hell is L. Ron Hubbard?
Not like I'm complaning, just what do these things have to do with the song?

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*SoBeR~STiNKFiST*
02-08-2002

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about L. Ron Hubbard
that fat old fucker who is dead for a while, but his religion ("Scientology") is still stealing money and killing people
the headquarters of the scientology religion are based in Los Angeles, and i think that many people who believe in Scientology, live in L.A

that also explains a part of Maynards hate to L.A

a anti-scientology site (tool-based) --> http://fuckhubbard.cjb.net/
(if you think that's too much text for you to read, just scroll down and you will see lots of anti-scientology links)

so ---> FUCK THAT HUBBARD BITCH AND HIS GREEDY PSYCHOPATIC LYING FUCKIN CLONES !!!

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theprynce
02-09-2002

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I personally think it's MJK's Anti-Tribute to the fakeness in the world which L.A. seems to spawn. Most of the things he mentions are things that no one really needs, ya know? "Stupid shit, silly shit". It's hard to give a full opinion on something MJK writes anyway. I mean, maybe he just wrote it as some sort of joke that's meant to sound like it means something deep but isn't. Listen to Die Eier von Satan FFS! You hear it and you're like "Wow he must be totally ripping someone/something apart in this song! It sounds so dark and scary!" then you read the translation and it's a recipe for hash cookies! I mean, I'm the first to say we all need to 'open the third eye' but sometimes it's not needed. Anywho, I'm way off subject now and half that's probably wrong... I'm sure he just hates the fakeness of L.A. as we all do. If you hate L.A.'s fakeness, gimme a "hell yeah!"!!!! lol, peace



-The Prynce

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Parabola898
02-11-2002

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does anyone know if maynard has an email address?


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AylaRose
02-16-2002

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This song absolutely drew me into Tool's magnetic personality, so to speak. This song is brilliant, even though I spent hours pondering over it, I still find new meanings in it every day.

To me, this song means that Maynard, or whomever is the narrator in Aenima, is fed up with life, fed up with things in life. To me, I always think about suicide. When I hear this song, I sort of conclude that Maynard sort of implies that he wants the world to kill itself, not him kill himself. He wants the world to end, for all the disgusting narcisistic people and "idols" such as television, media, and many other things people, and he hates. "Learn to swim" caught my attention, and it always helps me out. Learn to swim. I think his referance to water was that of a purifying sort, as the water would flush all of the evil out of this world.

Maynard, to me, almost seems to laugh at all the rediculous actions and things that go on in the world. "Silly shit/Stupid shit". I can totally relate. Everything in this song. Please, if anyone has insight, e-mail me... I love this song. plopabductiondoo@go.com

Learn to swim :)

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BlackLight
02-16-2002

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Thanks unScaythed, saved me some time; MHR, how can you be ashamed of someone for expressing their opinions? If you want to attack capitalism, don't waste time and space on a song meanings site. That out of the way, yeah, this is an excelent song, Tool rocks.

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MadMouser
02-23-2002

Rated 0 
THE BEST.

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Meredith8490
02-23-2002

Rated -4 
y'all r weird! ya like tool! haha tool seems so mad at the world and the fact is he is fucking lame and y'all r 2 if ya like him

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stonetemplechick
02-23-2002

Rated 0 
everyone has their own opinion meredith, and ours is that we like tool. we recognize the talant and identify with a lot of what their songs say. don't diss on that. and if tool and us are so fucking lame, what are you doing even posting that? why waste your precious time? this song and this band rock, and that's about all i have to say about that.

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ashley007
02-23-2002

Rated 0 
Tool kicks ass!!!! And if you don't like them, who gives a fuck, you don't got to let everyone know your shitty opinion.

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Harry Manback
03-12-2002

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This is one of the best LA-hating songs there is. Another is 'Headless' by Dog Fashion Disco. am I the only DFD fan cos everyone I ask seems oblivious as to who they are.

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LordJezz
03-23-2002

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You people are over analyzing this song so much. My theory is that the band is tired of LA and all the trivial/superficial bullshit in that city and they want to see it go down to stop. I feel the band is talking about the big earthquake that people predict will one day hit California (LA). The lines Moms gonna fix it all soon...The only way to fix it is to flush it all away....and Learn to swim/ See you down in Arizona Bay....clearly back up that thats what they are talking about. Moms (mother nature)gonna fix it all soon meaning there will be a big quake to flush all the bullshit away. Learn to swim...(because Cali will fall away into the ocean)/See you down in Arizona Bay...after the big one hits, Arizona will be the western most state with nice new beach front property.

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paga105
04-10-2002

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TOOL FUCKIN ROCK. Its great to see a band that actually is talented, isnt over amrketed and actually puts effort into everyone of there songs.

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paga105
04-10-2002

Rated 0 
AENEMA IS THE BEST ALBUM EVER.

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danothemano00
04-12-2002

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The world has become a rat race. Maynard's saying that Mother Nature needs to and will restore it all to normal. Given time, anything in nature can reheal itself, look at Yellowstone. LA is a really seedy area now.....he's saying its going to be cleaned....in a natural way, by an earthquake. It does not have to be a quake, any change will do....just something needs to fix this problem.

And the lyrics are wrong, its fret for your lawsuit then hairpiece...i'm surprised all you TOOL fanatics didn't catch that :P


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ibelieve
04-13-2002

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meridith, you fucking suck, go play in the traffic and do us all a favour. Obviously you don't know what real music is, and i bet britney spears is your idea of a good time. Oh, i love this song..and i camped out for 6 hours to get my tickets for tool on the 22nd of april...YAY!!

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