A Perfect Circle – The Noose

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So glad to see you well
Overcome and completely silent now
With heavens help you cast your demons out

And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more then just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your amends
To the dead
To the dead

Recall the deeds as if they're all
Someone else's atrocious stories
Now you stand reborn before us all
So glad to see you well

And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you to the ground
But I'm more then just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your amends
To the dead
To the dead

With your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping
Your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping down

But I'm more then just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your
More then just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your
More then just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your amends

Your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping down
To choke you now

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Lyrics submitted by Ironic, edited by ruttentud, Plld2Bits

Track duration: 04:53

"The Noose" as written by Maynard James/howerdel Keenan

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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    My Interpretation:Although this song may be already explained i wanted to share the meaning that it has for me, as I think the meaning is open for interpretation individually as almost every song out there. That is the beauty of music it does not really matter the actual meaning, but the meaning you give to it its what makes the song special for every individual.
    For me this song reminds me of suicide, describing everything perfectly but in metaphor, making reference to the person as a kind of an angel and hanging himself, as for the parts like "so glad to see you well" for me its not actually watching the person but to know that he might be in a better place.
    Flag mepgon April 23, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:The lyrics in the first verse are:
    "So glad to see you have, overcome them...Completely silent now"
    Just because he says "so glad to see you well" - doesnt mean he says it at the beginning.

    And he clearly said what this song is about on the commentary on the DVD with the video - funny how some of those mentioning that source are still getting the details wrong. This is like a game of "telephone". lol
    Flag Plld2Bitson April 14, 2013   Link
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    Song Meaning:Maynard said that during the time that he and most of the rest of A Perfect Circle were in early recovery they had written half of this song, expressing that many of them had lost people they cared about to addiction and expressing the regret they had that many in recovery were flippant about the way they used to live their lives, thinking that they were angelic now. They were all in disagreement about how to finish the song as it was an emotional production for the band, until they heard someone in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting express that they hoped while people were distancing themselves from their former lives, they didn't allow the "halo" that they had given themselves to come down and choke them. Maynard and the band had found the perfect ending to their song...
    Flag Casey8219on April 10, 2013   Link
  • +5
    Song Meaning:This song is about Alcoholic Anonymous... If you din't notice the name of the album is "Thirteenth Step" There are 12 steps in AA. He is talking about how sometimes in AA people are on a "pink cloud" the pink cloud represents how people are overly confident in early recovery and get cocky. They think they are angelic and a totally different person that when they were using, hence the halo... One of the steps in AA is to make amends to people you have harmed in your addiction. Maynard is saying that the feeling one gets of perfection in their recovery can be their biggest downfall. Their halo will be their end. How do you make amends to someone you've killed in your addiction? You can't so you're not as perfect as you think.
    Flagged lanntayon December 01, 2012   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:Forgiving yourself, or someone else forgiving you... this song to me seems like a very complicated issue concerning many people's lives. Not to pull your halo down, around your neck and tug you to the ground. To me means hey! can you please end this crappy situation.. to the dead, with your halo slipping down... can you pound this down to forget it?

    To choke you... it means you've been sorry. Get this off of your chest is the general assessment.
    Flagged Ahourstoryon November 25, 2012   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:I always felt this song is about someone finding "god" and kicking a n addiction. But the person had a very bleak, perhaps violent and murderous, past. The song is basically sarcastically asking "Well, now that you have forgiven yourself, how do you go about getting forgiveness from those you killed or hurt?"
    Flagged Mabvson September 30, 2012   Link
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    My Opinion:"So glad to see you well
    Overcome and completely silent now" = The church remaining silent during times of need for guidance and response (molestation, contraception, science/evolution, etc.).

    "With heavens help you cast your demons out" = The church using religion to defeat its political enemies throughout the ages.

    "And not to pull your halo down
    Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
    But I'm more then just a little curious
    How you're planning to go about making your amends" = A question for Jesus Christ regarding all those who die unjustly. What reward do such souls as raped and dismembered children receive for their torments? What amends are to be made? (mocking religion's assurance of justice in the afterlife)

    "Recall the deeds as if they're all
    Someone else's atrocious stories" = God (all-powerful and all-knowing) had to have sanctioned Lucifer in order for any of the devil's atrocious acts to have occurred in the bible. Yet, the bible depicts these acts as those of the devil's alone.

    "Now you stand reborn before us all
    So glad to see you well" = Jesus
    Flagged PennyOfferon September 10, 2012   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:I think there are many possible right answers and some which plainly aren't correct.

    One of the videos on Youtube made for this song is full of pictures of George Bush which is actually very clever as this song could be aimed at a dictator or leader who has officially won a war although also questionably lost due to loss of life. This song could be questioning the victory and how the leader will share his victory with the dead.

    I think it could also be about a murderer or other criminal who has 'repented' and is now supposedly a good person and this song asks how they will repay those who have been harmed, killed, effected by them in the past which they now ignore.

    Both are just ideas although the repetition of "to the dead" makes me certain that is related to death by some fault of others from a group or an individual.

    Epic song. This is a proper band not just a group of people with expensive equipment. Enjoy it!
    Flag Alastair16on July 24, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Sung from the point of view of someone that is in a relationship with a recovering abuser (spouse/significant other/family member). They have been wronged somehow due to the substance abuse. "The dead" refer to the feelings of love or trust that have been lost due to the abusers addictions. Love or trust lost due to lies that were told. Therefore the feelings or trust are now "dead" and the person singing the song is asking how the recovering addict is going to go about "making your amends to the dead".
    Flag Chemuzaon March 17, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:For the Bible thumpers who somehow confuse APC's philosophy with that of a so called " Born Again" christian philosophy you are not only blind but completely delusional. Everything they produce is anti-religion. They make the music for the blind "sheeple" who think they can trade deeds and tithes for salvation. If their is a heaven and hell the first people in hell will be the hypocritical and judgmental religion freaks who are so busy pointing their filthy fingers at others to see their own self righteousness.
    Flagged SleepySmokeron March 13, 2012   Link
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