Again fellow Tool Fans, just KISS (Keep It Simple Silly)! This song is on the '96 album AEnima, a tribute to Bill Hicks, another dead hero, who passed in '94 (no doubt the song writing began soon after the 32 y/o died). The album title requires you ignore the "E" (so Anima translates "life force" or "soul").
Then with the album's title track, spelled AEnema, you are to ignore the "A," you know, to start the detoxing process. Brilliant word smithing by MJK and the band! Bill Hicks in the afterlife is loving it!The song is simply about the famous phrase "sink or swim." Or, to be more L.A. like, "detox or die!"
If you... Read Between The Lines (by the lines I mean "Learn To Swim"), you'll see the "sink" parts (things we fret for, things that make us followers) and the "swim" parts (things to say f-you to, ways to go left when everyone else is going right).
If this song were written today, I'm sure Tool would have mentioned another item to fret: The Mother-F-ing Cell Phone!!! I'm a math professor at a California college who recently went to open a classroom door at which my students were waiting. As I was walking toward the door, I noticed at least 80% of them with their heads down playing with their cell phones (themselves... metaphorically... if you consider F-Book). Sadly, behind them was one of the most spectacular sunsets I'd ever seen. I'm not sure any of my 40 students even noticed "MOM's" work. That says a lot if you think about it.
And speaking of saying a lot, a certain magazine's person of the year is "The PROTESTOR." If you really want to protest something worthwhile, "Protest The Cell." If for no other reason, do it for the sake of humanity.
We're going to reap what we sow in 20-30 years when we start realizing the long term effects of carrying cell phones with their ever-increasing (4G, 8G, 16G, ...) electropollution (EMFs) being emitted 24-7 so near our collective reproductive organs.
"Learn To Swim" well enough to make it to the "Arizona Bay."
Translations?
Get the cells away from the bells! This goes for us ladies too.
Got EMF-ed? Ignore the EMF, and what do you get?
If you limp, you a wimp!
If you sink, we can't link!
Don't treat your "TOOL" that way and you'll make it to the Arizona Bay!
Learn to swim!
Oh, and don't forget about the little swimmers. I'm imagining headlines in 2030: All the franks are shooting blanks! No more eggs between the legs!
For the sake of humanity, to hell with the cell. Learn to swim!
@rad4761 I think this comment gave me more cancer than a cell phone would ever have. I am scared to think that there's a math teacher out there that thinks that low energy electromagnetic waves can give cancer. I bet you don't talk on the phone at the gas pump too lmao XD
And man aren't you so cultured and pure to just gaze at the sunset without one of those horrid cellular devices.( "cough cough" retard)
Who knows maybe those kids were on Wikipedia learning about math or physics. NAHHH just throw all those kids under the bus. They are all...
@rad4761 I think this comment gave me more cancer than a cell phone would ever have. I am scared to think that there's a math teacher out there that thinks that low energy electromagnetic waves can give cancer. I bet you don't talk on the phone at the gas pump too lmao XD
And man aren't you so cultured and pure to just gaze at the sunset without one of those horrid cellular devices.( "cough cough" retard)
Who knows maybe those kids were on Wikipedia learning about math or physics. NAHHH just throw all those kids under the bus. They are all peasants and have no clue about real beauty.
Tbh you sound like the typical washed up old fart math teacher that would get a hot steamy dump on his desk instead of an apple. Then you would proceed to eat it JoeysWorldTour style.
I just want you to know how much of a retard you are.
@Can of milk, fuck off, prick. if you think youre so smart, you interpret the fucking song. @rad4761, great interpretation, you stole the words right out of my mouth!
@Can of milk, fuck off, prick. if you think youre so smart, you interpret the fucking song. @rad4761, great interpretation, you stole the words right out of my mouth!
Again fellow Tool Fans, just KISS (Keep It Simple Silly)! This song is on the '96 album AEnima, a tribute to Bill Hicks, another dead hero, who passed in '94 (no doubt the song writing began soon after the 32 y/o died). The album title requires you ignore the "E" (so Anima translates "life force" or "soul").
Then with the album's title track, spelled AEnema, you are to ignore the "A," you know, to start the detoxing process. Brilliant word smithing by MJK and the band! Bill Hicks in the afterlife is loving it!The song is simply about the famous phrase "sink or swim." Or, to be more L.A. like, "detox or die!"
If you... Read Between The Lines (by the lines I mean "Learn To Swim"), you'll see the "sink" parts (things we fret for, things that make us followers) and the "swim" parts (things to say f-you to, ways to go left when everyone else is going right).
If this song were written today, I'm sure Tool would have mentioned another item to fret: The Mother-F-ing Cell Phone!!! I'm a math professor at a California college who recently went to open a classroom door at which my students were waiting. As I was walking toward the door, I noticed at least 80% of them with their heads down playing with their cell phones (themselves... metaphorically... if you consider F-Book). Sadly, behind them was one of the most spectacular sunsets I'd ever seen. I'm not sure any of my 40 students even noticed "MOM's" work. That says a lot if you think about it.
And speaking of saying a lot, a certain magazine's person of the year is "The PROTESTOR." If you really want to protest something worthwhile, "Protest The Cell." If for no other reason, do it for the sake of humanity.
We're going to reap what we sow in 20-30 years when we start realizing the long term effects of carrying cell phones with their ever-increasing (4G, 8G, 16G, ...) electropollution (EMFs) being emitted 24-7 so near our collective reproductive organs.
"Learn To Swim" well enough to make it to the "Arizona Bay."
Translations?
Get the cells away from the bells! This goes for us ladies too.
Got EMF-ed? Ignore the EMF, and what do you get?
If you limp, you a wimp!
If you sink, we can't link!
Don't treat your "TOOL" that way and you'll make it to the Arizona Bay!
Learn to swim!
Oh, and don't forget about the little swimmers. I'm imagining headlines in 2030: All the franks are shooting blanks! No more eggs between the legs!
For the sake of humanity, to hell with the cell. Learn to swim!
@rad4761 I think this comment gave me more cancer than a cell phone would ever have. I am scared to think that there's a math teacher out there that thinks that low energy electromagnetic waves can give cancer. I bet you don't talk on the phone at the gas pump too lmao XD And man aren't you so cultured and pure to just gaze at the sunset without one of those horrid cellular devices.( "cough cough" retard) Who knows maybe those kids were on Wikipedia learning about math or physics. NAHHH just throw all those kids under the bus. They are all...
@rad4761 I think this comment gave me more cancer than a cell phone would ever have. I am scared to think that there's a math teacher out there that thinks that low energy electromagnetic waves can give cancer. I bet you don't talk on the phone at the gas pump too lmao XD And man aren't you so cultured and pure to just gaze at the sunset without one of those horrid cellular devices.( "cough cough" retard) Who knows maybe those kids were on Wikipedia learning about math or physics. NAHHH just throw all those kids under the bus. They are all peasants and have no clue about real beauty.
Tbh you sound like the typical washed up old fart math teacher that would get a hot steamy dump on his desk instead of an apple. Then you would proceed to eat it JoeysWorldTour style.
I just want you to know how much of a retard you are.
RETARD
@Can of milk, fuck off, prick. if you think youre so smart, you interpret the fucking song. @rad4761, great interpretation, you stole the words right out of my mouth!
@Can of milk, fuck off, prick. if you think youre so smart, you interpret the fucking song. @rad4761, great interpretation, you stole the words right out of my mouth!