A Perfect Circle Lyrics

    ------ About the song The Noose performed by A Perfect Circle

For all of you saying this is not about addiction, THE WHOLE ALBUM IS! The 13th step refers to those in the AA or NA program. The 13th step is banging someone in the program! If you listen to the rest of the album, you'll see it is mostly about addiction, "the package" about a full blown addict, lying and cheating to get what they need, "weak and powerless" is about being addicted to heroin (china white), "the noose" is about making amends and taking accountability for ones actions (step 9 in the program), "blue" is about overdose, "vanishing" about near death, or relapse, "a stranger" where he has a conversation with his drug of choice, "the outsider" Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet at a time. What's your hurry? Everyone will have his day to die. (pretty self explanatory...

I could go on, but I rest my case.

    ------ About the song Pet performed by A Perfect Circle

This song is just incredible honestly. I'm not going to write what I think this song means because honestly, all the emotions I feel when I listen to it are to overwhelming to think through so I just go with the music, the words, and Maynard's voice. Regardless, it's all very powerful and something that should be enjoyed although Maynard might (?) want us to also consider what it means and roll that around in our heads for a bit

    ------ About the song A Stranger performed by A Perfect Circle

I can't believe how wrong so many people can actually be, but that is okay, Maynard himself has mislead most of you to make you do some actual research. Do not forget that this man is a professional artist and a brilliant thinker. One must read "The Outsider" by Albert Camus to fully grasp the depth of this song's meaning. Everyone is too distracted by the ideas of drug addiction, but addiction is certainly an element. Two songs specifically on The 13th Step album are titled after famous Albert Camus novels, A stranger 6#, and The Outsider 7#, and I don't think this is a coincidence. Camus was an existentialist philosopher and he wrote at lengths about the 'absurd'. Understanding the absurd life is key to understanding this song. When we live our lives with a misconception about what life is, then we become destructive, we can even become suicidal, believing that life is meaningless, which some aburdists assert. The song is about waking up to the realisation that you are addicted to a misconception about your reality and this misconception is going to inadvertently kill you. This song is about an immenent need for us all to wake up to the fact that life is more meaningful than they had ever imagined. We are not bodies with spirits, but rather spirits with bodies and if any of you are true Maynard fans, you know that most of Tools albums are supportive of transcending the limitations of this restricted material world and expanding your inner consciousness and higher spirit. I know this is not what most people will deduce it means, but I am quite confident that this is it! You're welcome! Peace/Love

    ------ About the song Pet performed by A Perfect Circle

I have been an (opiate) addict, and while everybody has a different interpretation of songs I can definitely see addiction in this. I feel like it is the drug talking, because it does feel like nobody cares and everyone hates you. The drug makes you feel calm, happy, safe. You feel like nothing can hurt you, even if you're really just lying to yourself.
As an opiate addict, there is nothing you fear more than abstinence. It is pure anxiety and pain, your body and mind feels like a war. You just want to die. I feel like the boogeyman is the abstinence in this song. It's so relatable, I love it a lot.

    ------ About the song Judith performed by A Perfect Circle

Heresy by nine inch nails comes to mind. Your god is dead. So I do disagree on one part "fuck your god". No, fuck you weak minded flock of sheep that follow a dead Jewish carpenter.here is a band with a hit album and they still didn't make as much money as the pope did that year.

    ------ About the song Judith performed by A Perfect Circle

Sad lyrics. I feel bad for his mother. I feel worse for him though. I was a little disappointed in the lyrics. I draw a faith message from it anyways though, irony. He wrote this song to send anger towards God and here I am finding not malice but faith in it. Goes to show you that you cannot go again the Will of the Lord. He will use even songs directed against Him for Him. I like the way the song sounds. His mother has the right idea. Maynard is a lost man. Hopefully he will get it one day. His mother's faith angers him at the time, but one day he will understand what it means. She has it right, Christ would be proud.

    ------ About the song Orestes (Alternate Lyrics) performed by A Perfect Circle

They want it, They got it. Got it. Lets do it. They want it, they got it. Show it, control it. They say it, you do it. Dolly, hop too it. Either way, you know, they got it.... Just do it(:

    ------ About the song Orestes performed by A Perfect Circle

The song's most likely about his struggles with his ailing mother who's medical condition caused her not to be cognizant with the outside world, something like a coma I believe, look it up. Many of her songs were about "Judith" his mother and both of their struggles. This particular song is about Maynard's struggle of letting her die, in order to release her soul trapped in her body, but he can't seem to let her go, so he has "to cut away, clear away the umbilical residue" which is "keeping me from killing you"

    ------ About the song Passive performed by A Perfect Circle

I feel like this song talks about the empty, unfeeling, passive-aggressive nature of the narcissist. He or she cannot feel, cannot love, and is barely human mentally. No matter how much we love them or try to be a friend or partner to them, it just won't work. It's best to leave them to their hollow lives - they are not alive emotionally and will never care about us.

    ------ About the song Weak And Powerless performed by A Perfect Circle

i just love this song so much. Its a super deep song and i feel as though everyone needs to hear it. Jambi by tool and weak and powerless by a perfect circle are currently my two go to songs on my ipod.