I agree fully with the account by nonetospeakof. The references appear to be accurate. Hypocisy is disguised by those with power, who 'point the finger' at the apparent wrongdoers. This new album is just what i needed from the music world. For a long time I've felt cheated by it. Since I heard Lateralus i've been waiting for more! Trexor, no mean to offend, but i reckon you should calm down. He may have sounded pretentious to you, but he was only trying to explain the song to you so you didn't continue to insult a band he obviously adores and respects. Enjoy the album guys

TREXOR shut up! The cd is out and its really i picked up my copy right when the store opened, o by the way i already new it was real because i work at CC and it's been shiped in for weeks!!!!!!!

it's not about pot specificly but makes for good word-play. its that whole 'kids today & their music are so much worse than i was a kid', that the last 100 years+ worth of generations has thought. much like the church thinks scientists today are so much worse than before. the song is about power-groups loosing a sense of control. while these ridiculous power groups aren't 'high' but rather a much more sensible legally drunk, or god-like, or correctly medicated - about their power & the rationales used to propogandize, they'd do just as well to be high because the logic, lobbying, or trials/laws make no sense when there are much more dire needs to be addressed. so a person likes to smoke a l il pot or drink a little booze or kiss a same sex person or have an abortion or get some stem cell operation to heal themselves; the laws & efforts behind stopping these 'evil' are such a distraction & things could much better be concentrated towards ending famine, overpopulation, & other real worldy concerns, & better focused towards greater human growth while we spin on this random rock thru space, which isn't flat nor the center of the universe or other such nonsensical reasons one could have previously gone to prison for... like being a particular race & wanting to drink from a water fountain, or be a particular sex & wanting to vote, or smoking some pot... oh yeah, that ones still on the books.

most of the songs from the new album seem to be an observation of human nature. i think he's saying that everyone lies sometimes, whether you're a drug user or a well respected lawyer. there's no difference between people who lie, so the lawyer might as well be the one who's high. also, he says it's hard not to lie until you get your head out your ass. this isn't the first time maynard's talked about lying either-he siad "dont you fucking lie" in eulogy. also, he says that lying hurts people when he says "hung the guilty with the innocent" meaning that liars or drug users blame other things or people for their problems. also, he's saying that liars try to cover their tracks when he says "burn the evidence down".

TREXOR:

I think I speak for pretty much everyone when I say that you need to get the fuck out of here. The name of this website is songmeanings.net, NOT

insultoneofthegreatestbandseverandImanasshole.net

Why don't you go listen to Creed or something.

GET A LIFE

If you don't like the new album, since it most definitely is real, then disregard it and find something better to do.

Okay, I know I shouldn't doubt, but I need comfirmation: is it really Maynard singing on this song? Cuz it sounds like the guy from Weezer.

AT THE END MJK SCREAMS GANJA PLEASE!!! NOT LATCH UP LIES .. AND I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT NOONE CAN POSSIBLY GET A TOOL SONG FROM JUST HEARING IT A FEW TIMES. IT TAKES A WHILE AND YOU HAVE TO GET INTO THE OFFBEAT MUSIC BEFORE YOU CAN REALLY GET WITH IT .. TOOL KICKS ASS AND IM GLAD TO HAVE 10000 DAYS TO OVERPOWER ALL THE PUNKY ROCK SHIT THESE DAYS..

The term 'kangaroo court' is apparently an unauthorised or inproper court in which justice is perverted. This makes sense because it fits with the critique of using 'the guilty to hang the innocent', and with the corruption of 'lawyers', who are often 'liars'.

"Why don't you go listen to Creed or something. " that's a good idea because maynard is turning into scott stapp and this album might is right up there with creed.

and varulf, oh man, i am laughing my ass off.

album is right up there with creed* awe ffff!

i bet TREXOR would rather listen to nicleback than tool

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and the album is real stupid

i think i have an explination for the "muddy waters". some guy wrote a book about lachrymology, but most consider lachyrmology to be an invention of tool. it's literally means the study of crying, but basically it means going though pain to become a higher being. this is seen in such songs as 46 & 2-"i choose to live and to grow" and also in aenema with the whole water theme. i think the muddy waters in this song is someone crying for the wrong reasons-a way of lying to get what you want. in other words, the tears aren't pure-they're muddy.

Why the different sounding voice on this song? He sounds like the guy from Mars Volta. Anyways, i think Tool may have fallen short with this new album. It just doesn't have the spectrum of their previous albums. There is nothing that really "rocks" or any good meditative songs. I have been listening to their entire catalog for the last two months to prepare for the new album and it was kindve a letdown. I mean c'mon, in Vicarious he actually says, "la la lala la la." Maybe this album is a joke on all of us.

i think he says "hung a jury with the innocent" instead of a "juru". jury makes more sense.

"I Hold" Deep in Muddy Waters i think should be
"Eyehole"

The stupidity of the users on this site never ceases to astound me. Put some fucking THOUGHT into your posts, idiots. The song is about hypocracy. In an interview, Adam Jones said himself that the line, "Who are you to wave your finger?" is in reference to "the pot calling the kettle black". Tool purposely lined the lyrics with apparent drug references to hide the true meaning of the song from those who are shallow enough to think it truely is about drugs.

Here...let me break it down for those of you whose IQ's seem to be equivalent to that of a tick.

"Who are you to wave your finger? / You must have been out 'your head" = He's calling the person a hypocrite, saying that he must have been mad to think that he was any better than anyone else.

"Eyehole deep in muddy waters / You practically raise the dead" = The hypocrite is up to his eyes in trouble, so to speak, with his act of greatness. Yet he continues to act high-and-mighty as if he's better than everyone else. "You practically raise the dead" is a metaphor for the hypocrite acting as if he's on par with God.

"Rob the grave to snow the cradle / Then burn the evidence down" = The hypocrite performs immoral acts and profits from them. "Snow the cradle" could be considered a metaphor for "showering one's home in riches." This shows that the hypocrite has gained his self-proclaimed "greatness" (i.e. wealth) through improper means. The hypocrite then proceeds to attempt to cover up his doings.

"Soapbox house of cards and glass" = The hypocrite preaches as if he knows better than they, yet the base on which his points rest is as sturdy as a house of cards. It's easily shattered, like glass.

"So don't go tossin' your stones around" = This is another common statement about hypocrites altered into Keenan's own words: "Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones."

"You must've been high" = The hypocrite must've been really high on himself to actually think he was better than anyone else.

"Foot in mouth and head up ass / So what’chu talkin' 'bout?" = Again calling the person a hypocrite, this time two times in succsession, and in different words each time. "God your foot in your mouth" and "God your head up your ass".

"Difficult to dance ‘round this one / ‘Til you pull it out, boy" = A bit hard to show someone how hypocritical he is unless he pulls his foot out of his mouth or his head from his ass, isn't it?

"Steal, borrow, reaper, savior / Shady inference" = The difference between right and wrong is presented here; opposite sides of the spectrum, if you will. Sealing is to reaper as borrow is to savior. The hypocrite has been stealing, as evidenced in the earlier lyric, "Rob the grave to snow the cradle".

"Kangaroo done hung the juror with the innocent" = This applies to the term "kangaroo court," in reference to shady and improper trial proceedings. Here, it's telling the hypocrite that his ways are like that of a kangaroo court: shady and improper (i.e. stealing).

"Now you're weepin' shades of chosen indigo / Got lemon juice up in your eye / When you pissed all over my black kettle" = The metaphor of the hypocrite urinating on the other's kettle is used to describe the hypocrite disregarding what the others say against him as unimportant garbage. Similar to peeling/squeezing a lemon and it squirting its stinging juice into his eye, his urine (i.e. his downtalking of what the others warned him of: the warnings they gave him of the consequences for becoming too prideful) has splashed back up off the kettle into his eye, stinging. He now realizes what he's been doing was wrong and breaks into tears, regretting his immoral deeds. This is metaphorically explained with the line, "Now you're weepin' chosen shades of indigo" in that he chose this path, yet is now crying in regret over it. He chose his own fate, his own tears, if you will.

"So full of it" = Referring to when he was being prideful and holier-than-thou: his statements proved he was full of shit with his almost Godlike claims of being so great.

"Fuckin' hypocrite" = Check and mate. This line fully proves my theory.

"Liar, lawyer" = This further ties into the earlier line referencing the term "kangaroo court".

"Mirror, show me what's the difference?" = Reference to Snow White and the queen's magic mirror. The queen would request the mirror to show her who the greatest one of all was. Here, the person is saying that all are equal: no one is better than any other.

"Weeping shades of indigo / Shed without a reason" = The people still don't know how he became so wealthy and prideful; they know not of his wrongdoings or what he's crying over. He is crying over those wrongdoings, yet they do not know that. They cannot figure out the reason for his tears.

"Mirror, for you what's the difference?" = A mirror has no sense of preference or bias; it simply shows what's put in front of it. It knows not what ego, stature, position, or power are; it shows anyone, no matter what part they play in society. This can be seen as the basic idea of all being equal. All are simply human.

"Kangaroo be stoned / He's guilty as the government" = The hypocrite has been sentenced to death by stoning by the government, which is hypocritical in and of itself.The government is just as guilty as the "kangaroo courts" themselves for allowing them to happen, for not having a way of stopping them from happening.

"Eyeballs deep in bloody waters" = His own blood has been shed from all the trouble he's built upon himself.

"Ganja police, you must've been out 'your mind" = Ganja is a slang term for cannabis, the plant form of marijuana. Similar to the government not having a surefire way of preventing kangaroo courts, police trying to uphold the anti-marijuana laws really can't do anything to stop the drug from getting around and being used, no matter how hard they'd like to try. This could be a metaphor (again disguised as a drug reference) for the hypocrite.in that no matter how much the people tried to tell him he was no better than anyone else and that acting that way was wrong, there was no getting through to him. Sometimes there is just no way to stop certain problems though some wish they could.

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sess-that reenforces my point about lachrymology when you mentioned how he's "weepin' shades of indigo". lachrymology is literally the 'study of crying', but it basically means going through pain in order to become a higher being.

and sess-dont be an asshole to people.

hey sess- anyone who claims to understand a Tool song to the complete exclusion of everyone else's point of view doesn't get it...

who are YOU to wave your finger by the way?

damn straight egb.

Cool song, seems to stretch between anger and sarcasm which is always a good mix for maynard.

"Liar, lawyer, mirror for ya, what's the difference?"
Gotta love it.

Right on, Sess.

i hear after the solo

\"we\'ve been chained up here to grow.
trapped without a reason,
we\'ve been chained up here to grow.\"

TREXOR go back to listening to your backstreet boys