Tool | Sober
I am just a worthless liar
I am just an imbecile
I will only complicate you
Trust in me and fall as well
I will find a center in you
I will chew it up and leave
I will work to elevate you
just enough to bring you down
Tool | Pushit
Slipping back into the gap again
I’m alive when you’re touching me
alive when you’re shoving me down
but I’d trade it all for just a little peace of mind
Is this a test?
It has to be, otherwise I can’t go on
Draining patience, drain vitality
this paranoid, paralyzed vampire act’s a little old
But I’m still right here,
giving blood, keeping faith
and I’m still right here.
Tool | Parabol
…this body makes me feel eternal,
all this pain is an illusion.
Tool | Eulogy
So long, we wish you well. You showed us how you weren’t afraid to die. Well, so long. Don’t cry, or feel too down. Not all martyrs see divinity, but at least you tried.
Defeated, I concede and move closer. I may find comfort here. I may find peace within the emptiness. How pitiful.
Tool | The Patient
If there were no rewards to reap, no loving embrace to see me through this tedious path I’ve chosen here, I certainly would have walked away by now.
Tool | Hooker with a Penis
All you know about me is what I’ve sold you,
Dumb fuck, I sold out long before you’d ever even
heard my name. I sold my soul to make a record
Dip shit, and you bought one.
Tool - Crawl Away
This is my love for you
Say you won’t go.
Tool | H.
And as the walls come down
and as I look in your eyes
my fear begins to fade
recalling all of the times
I have died and will die.
It’s all right. I don’t mind.
I am too connected to you
to slip away, to fade away.
Days away I still feel you
touching me, changing me,
and considerately killing me.
Tool | Forty-Six & 2
The first level of consciousness has forty-two plus two chromosomes, and this is harmonic with unity consciousness. At this point, collective consciousness operates such that if one person experiences something, it is possible for everyone else to access this memory and relive it.
The second level of consciousness is where we are now. We no longer have this unity consciousness; we are cut off and separated. The second level has forty-four plus two chromosomes.
In the third level of consciousness, there are forty-six plus two chromosomes. At the third level, there is really only one consciousness that moves through everything; its key is memory.
This is what immortality is all about. Immortality is not living in a body forever because there is always someplace higher to move. The key is not having a break in consciousness as you move through the different levels, not having a memory loss, being able to leave when you want to and continuing to know where you’ve been.
—from Nothing in This Book is True, but It’s Exactly How Things Are by Bob Frissell
