4 Degrees (Tool)

[Spyke^]

If you have never listened to Tool you are really missing out although it is still hard to tell your friend how much you love Tool with a straight face...

Anyhoo, I've heard a lot of different ideas about what this particular song is about.
The best one so far is that the anal cavity is approx 4 degrees warmer than the vagina..

4 Degrees

Get up and free yourself from yourself.

Locked up inside you,
like the calm beneath castles,
is a cavern of treasures that
noone has been to.
Let's go digging.
Bring it out to take you back in.

You won't do what you'd like to do.
Lay back and let me show you another way.
I'll kill what you want me to,
take what's left and eat it.
Take all or nothing.
Life's just too short to push it away.
Take it all.
Take it all in.
All the way in.
Let it go.
Let it go in.
You won't feel what you'd like to feel.
Lay back and let me show you another way.

If you knock me down I'll come back running,
knock you down,
it won't be long now
All the way in.
All the way.
Take it up higher.
4 degrees warmer.
Give in now
and let me in.
You'll like this in
Don't pull it out.
It brings us closer than
dying and cancer and crying.
Come on .
You can take it all.
Just like that.


What do YOU think this song is about?

Compare to this one where I think it is pretty evident,

Hush

I can't say what I want to,
even if I'm not serious.
Things like....
"Fuck yourself,
kill yourself,
you piece of shit."

People tell me what to say,
what to think ,
and what to play.

I say...
"Go fuck yourself,
you piece of shit.
Why don't you go kill yourself?"

Just kidding.

Doesn't have quite the same possible hidden meanings does it?

[MBTN]

Awesome!

[dirtydx]

you're probably close to the meaning.. then again you could be completely wrong.. but who really cares.

Tool is art........

[dirtydx]

and tool isn't art....

[eversio11]

After awhile, all Tool songs start to sound the same. Same with Primus.

[goat_launcher]

Originally Posted by Spyke^

Anyhoo, I've heard a lot of different ideas about what this particular song is about.
The best one so far is that the anal cavity is approx 4 degrees warmer than the vagina..

WTF? okayyyy....(btw if that were true rectal thermometers would be inaccurate - dont think so man)

Originally Posted by eversio11

After awhile, all Tool songs start to sound the same. Same with Primus.

every single rock song in the last 5 years basically sounds the same - at least the guys from tool can play their instruments and not sing about being dumped, cheated on, or other boring ass cliches.

Karl.
From the Northside.