Lyrics for No Quarter as interpreted by zekey baby

No Quarter Lyrics
TOOL VERSION

Lock the door, kill the light.
No one's coming home tonight.
The sun beats down and don't you know?
All our lives are growing cold, oh...
They bring news that must get through.
To build a dream for me and you, oh.

Locked in a place where no one goes.

They ask no quarter
They have no quarter.

Lock the door, kill the light
No one's coming home tonight

It's getting colder (7x)
Locked in a place where no one goes.

Lock the door, kill the light
No one's coming home tonight

They bring news that must get through.
Dying peace in me and you

Locked in a place where no one goes.

We have no quarter
We have no quarter
We ask no quarter

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knowledge6
01-28-2002

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This is one of the best covers I've ever heard in my life!!
Tool is one of the few bands of today that can produce such energy.........

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joshthack
04-19-2002

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Is it just me or does Maynard seem to be speaking from the other end of the specrum from what Led Zepplin wrote the song to be?

This song is a great cover though

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stayhuman
06-06-2002

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i agree, joshthack - a pretty different (but totally awesome) interpretation of led zep, again highlighting how tool are supremely talented technically as well as artistically

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ledzepp115
06-12-2002

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Excellent cover of Led Zeppelin. However, I still like the orignal better.

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joshthack
06-14-2002

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no way man, if ever there was a remake that was actually a tribute to a great artist, it is this song. Maynard takes a great song, adds new learics, and stretches it out to make it even better.

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Aneurysm1985
07-19-2002

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As much as I love Tool (saw them in Brisbane about 4 months ago), and like some of the stuff they've done to the song, they still don't match the creepy feel that Led Zep had in the original!

Oh well, its still cool!

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daffster13
07-21-2002

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dude (aneurysm1985), you couldn't have put it better, led zep just had that way with their music. it just fits the time that when you hear the song the first time you picture the knights riding horseback fighting off the opposing forces. but tool's cover definitely fits their style. this cover definitely rocks

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Lateralus
08-14-2002

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i think this song is about being in a lonely place that you dont want to be in.this song has a very overt meaning.

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Disposition_987
03-29-2003

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I love this song so much... so i downloaded the original.... seriously people, the original is downright awful. It sounded like a MIDI file.... i think Led Zeppelin is so overrated....

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Eyepooped
04-01-2003

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Hey does anyone know about that barely audible message that they talk about all the time on toolband.com?

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MountainJew
04-05-2003

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This is a better version of the Zeppelin version, however i like the Zep lyrics better.

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Muzzy
06-25-2003

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Honestly I think the Zeppelin version is darker, and better. I dunno, I love the way Page plays the riff in the original, in Tools version you barely hear the guitar or Maynard.

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egb
06-27-2003

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It's all fucking guitar man. It's just way more distorted than the zeppelin version. As for hearing maynard you could take out every word in this song exept the line "locked in a place where no one goessssss" and the song would still kick ass.

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Melange
04-13-2004

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this is the first cover song EVER that sounds better than the original...and since its a zeppelin cover that says alot...when he says "its gettin colder" i knew this song truly kicked ass...as for dispositon....zeppelin is not overrated...without zeppelin there would be no tool

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Ben2k9
04-29-2004

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ok after listening to both after each other, i must say the Tool version is very very good, and a nice spin on the lyrics to turn them into the first person perspesctive.

However, (i may sound biased here because No Quarter is one of my favourate, if not most favorate led zep song) the Tool version isnt as good as the original. Dont get me wrong, its fuckin awsome! Its a very big task to cover a led zep song, and they did it perfectly, its just that it lacks something the original has, its scary yes, its dark yes, but its not as haunting, in the original theres a perfect amount of destortion on the guitar, here theres a little to much. I would say the tool version is more apocalyptic, and it works, but its not what led zep intended the song to be, here you dont get the feel of being all alone on that dark, cold, wintery road in the middle of nowhere, you get something else, which i think what Tool intended to do, and it definatly works. Led zep win by a margin (a very small margin) but still, this is probably the best cover of any song ive ever heard. Period.

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Melange
05-14-2004

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whoever said that Led Zeppelin is over-rated doesnt know shit about music. But, this song is better than the original.

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obscuredbyclouds77
05-27-2004

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Ok people, I am huge Tool fan and i honestly think they are the best band ever, behind only Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. This cover is amazing, Maynard's new lyrics, and the added riffs are all pure genius, but to say it is better then the Zeppelin version is going against the laws of rock music. First of all, if you knew the Tool version first, then your an ass, plain and simple. Secondly if anyone here has heard the live version of No quarter from the Song Remains the Same Album of Zeppelin, they would instantly agree that Zeppelin plays the song better. Jimmy Page's solo in that version is the greatest recorded solo in the history of the world, so yes this song is excellant and Tool is an amazing band, been a fan for over 7 or 8 years or so, but nothing compares to Led Zeppelin, especially when it comes to No Quarter

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M-Opiate-A
06-01-2004

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MAYNARD COULD COOK ROBERT PLANTS ASS ON A FUCKIN COOKIN POT AND THEN SHIT HIM OUT ROLL HIM UP AND SPIRAL OUT ON HIS GRASSY ASS!
-OGT \m/ \m/

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heirophant
09-19-2004

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I look at this song as someone coming to grips with their own death.

It reminds me very much of a person I just got to know just a few days ago, and we're talking and she brings up the fact that she may have cancer. She's had a cyst in her chest for over a year, which can't be healed, and her family gets different kinds of cancer very easily (she's already losing two close relatives to it). She says she could go at anytime, but she's okay with that.

After she told me that, I listened to this when I got home and it reminded me of her, and her situation.

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Ben2k9
09-25-2004

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"MAYNARD COULD COOK ROBERT PLANTS ASS ON A FUCKIN COOKIN POT AND THEN SHIT HIM OUT ROLL HIM UP AND SPIRAL OUT ON HIS GRASSY ASS!
-OGT \m/ \m/"

STFU n00b.

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6th_sadistic_sniper
10-14-2004

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Led Zep version > Tool version.

But they're both good. It's one of the greatest covers around, that's for sure.

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Al.B.Crazy
10-19-2004

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Don't you think, 'Locked in a place where no one goes' is the half-melon, that is your head? Your mind? Believing so strongly in your opinion that you sometimes feel it's only you that exist, and that no one can understand the way you do. Just a thought.

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Addo
10-19-2004

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HEY IDIOTS
Page - rated one of the gretest of all time, your are fool's and have no idea do you, sure tool is good but why do think bands like tool copy Zep, Floyd and so on, it's cause they can't do it this good them selves.
Tell me what you think of Steve Morse, Hendrix, David 'the PINK FLOYD' Gilmore. Do you know who these people are? I'll help you they are -----
Rock God's.

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Addo
10-19-2004

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For those who want to know who the best are:

The FINAL Official L&R Top 100 Guitar Players of All TimeTM
http://www.leftandright.us/archives/cat_official_lr_top_100_guitar_players.html

1 - Jimi Hendrix
2 - Stevie Ray Vaughan
3 - B.B. King
4 - Eric Clapton
5 - Jimmy Page
6 - Jeff Beck
7 - Duane Allman
8 - Chuck Berry
9 - Eddie Van Halen
10 - Ry Cooder
11 - Steve Cropper
12 - Carlos Santana
13 - Pete Townshend
14 - Peter Green
15 - Frank Zappa
16 - Les Paul
17 - Randy Rhoads
18 - Mark Knopfler
19 - Robert Johnson
20 - John McLaughlin
21 - David Gilmour

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6th_sadistic_sniper
10-20-2004

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I can only recognise maybe 12 of that top 21, but yeah, I agree with the ones I recognise. Good stuff.

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