in the last part instead of "guilty, ask the government" i hear it as "guilty AS the government"

ok my turn.....:

"Who are you to wave your finger?
You must have been out your head
I hold deep in muddy waters
Your practically raised the dead

Rock the grave to snow the cradle
And burn the evidence down
Soapbox house of cards and glass
So don't go tossin' your stones around

You must have been high
You must have been high
You must have been

Foot in mouth and head up asshole
What ya talkin' 'bout?
Difficult to dance 'round this one
'til you pull it out, boy

You must have been so high
You must have been so high

Steal, borrow, reap, or save your shady inference
Kangaroo done hung the juru*(1) with the innocent

Now you're weeping shades of chosen indigo* (2)
Got lemon juice up in your eye

When you pissed all over my black kettle
You must have been high, high
You must have been high, high

Who are you to wave your finger?
So full of it
Eyeballs deep in muddy waters
Fuckin' hypocrite

Liar, lawyer -- mirror show me
What's the difference?
Kangaroo done hung the dodo* (3) with the innocent

NOW
You're weeping shades of chosen indigo
Got lemon juice up in your high eye
When you pissed all over my black kettle
You musta been

So who are you to wave your finger?
Who are you to wave your fatty fingers at me?
You must have been out your mind

Weeping shades of indigo
Shed without a reason
Weeping shades of indigo

Liar, lawyer
Mirror for you what's the difference
Kangaroo be stoned
He's guilty as the government

NOW
You're weeping shades of chosen indigo
Got lemon juice up in your eye
EYE

Now when you pissed all over my black kettle
You must of been high, high, high, high
Eyeballs deep in muddy waters
You're balls deep in muddy waters

Ganja police, you must have been out your mind"

*:
1) juru- the custodians of graveyards
2) indigo- 3) dodo- extremely farfetched... but hey. in reference to the dodo bird.
.....and then they killed them.

and for those who were too lazy to look up the kangaroo reference:

props to wikipedia

Alright here's my full lyrics (all from my own ears, typing as song goes)

Who are you to wave your finger?
You must have been out your head
Eyehole deep in muddy waters
You practically raised the dead

Rob the grave to snow the cradle then
Burn the evidence down
Soapbox house of cards and glass
So don't go tossin' your stones around

You must have been high
You must have been high
You must have been...

Foot in mouth and head up ass
So what you talkin 'bout?
Difficult to dance 'round this one
'Till you pull it out, boy

You must have been so high
You must have been so high

Steal : Borrow ; Reaper : Savior, shady inference*
Kangaroo done hung the jury with the innocent
Now you're weepin shades of chosen indigo
Got lemon juice up in your eye

When you pissed all over my black kettle
You must have been high, high
You must have been high, high

Who are you to wave your finger... so full of it
Eyeballs deep in muddy water... fuckin hypocrite

Liar/lawyer, mirror show me: what's the difference?
Kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent now

You're weeping shades of chosen indigo
Got lemon juice up in your eye, eye
When you pissed all over my black kettle, you must have been

So who are you to wave your finger?
Who are you to wave your fatty fingers at me?
You must have been out your mind!

Weepin shades of indigo
Shed without a reason**
Weepin shades of indigo

Liar/lawyer mirror for ya; what's the difference?
Kangaroo be stoned; he's guilty as the government
Now you're weepin shades of chosen indigo
Got lemon juice up in your eye, eye

When you pissed all over my black kettle
You must have been high, high, high, high
Eyeballs deep in muddy waters
You're balls deep in muddy waters

Ganja Police--you must have been out your mind!

*For explanation look for my previous post about this in this thread
** I took this line from jackobeast because I couldn't distinguish the word "shed"

i seriously can't comprehend how yall are getting "kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent"

one time he says "hung the jury (or juror)," the next time he says 'hung the guilty".. plain as day to me..

Listen to the second time he says it.

The progession goes:

"Done hung the jury with the innocent"
"Done hung the guilty with the innocent"
"As guilty as the government"

yeah i know... i still don't hear it.

i still think that he says "done hung the juru with the innocent"

the second one definitely does not sound like guilty either.

i agree with "as the government"

That actually makes a lot more sense in context than "shocked" does. Nice work jacko.

I agree with the Kangaroo court thing...

lyrics on lyric section:

Who are you to wave your (mighty, fatty) fingers at me?

What I think:

It's probably "Who are you to wave your MUDDY fingers at me?"

doesn't that make sense? If I'm way off base it could be that I'm drunk...I think that fits well with the muddy water theme. just a thought

its certainly, "kangaroo done hung the juror with the innocent"

then "kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent."

makes sense, has to be a reference to the military tribunals and the trials of the guantanamo prisoners.... and all the rest in unspecified locations in Eastern Europe etc..


i don't agree with muddy fingers, hes says muddy a few times in the song and that instance doesn't sound like it. I like fatty fingers, Bush is like an ape with quite thick-set hands and stubby fingers, I think, so fatty would make sense.

I sent him a clip of the part to which we were referring and he got it. All cleared up :)

And I entertained myself with the idea of muddy. Then I listened to it. Not a chance. And if you listen for a beginning "f" sound you can hear it.

Edit: another possible explanation for 'fatty' is that America's mostly overweight (and if you're overweight, I do mean offense. Start eating right and exercising, and all those excuses you have... save it for someone who believes it) and it would just enforce the fact that he's talkin 'bout the good ol' US of A.

I'm balls deep in muddy waters
you're balls deep in muddy waters
contra play
you must have been out your mind

or something like that

There's definitely an "s" sound in the line that I'm calling "Ganja police"

Hmm, close, but i am pretty sure the first line is:
Who are you to wave your finger?
You must have been out your hair (not head)

the whole "steal borrow reefer" assumption is as wrong as the "ganja police" one.

"steal,borrow, reap or save your shady inference"
"kangaroo done hung the juror with the innocent"

and the end is

"eyballs deep in muddy waters"
"elbows deep inmuddy waters"
"got to realize!!!!!!!!!"
"you must have been out your mind"

I heard two live recordings where he didn't sing an "s", that's why I'm saying this.

Soap box house of cards and glass, so don't be tossin your stones around...

you must have been so high,
you must have been so hiiigh!

Steal, borrow, reaper, savior shady inference..

There's definitely a "p" sound in that line, so it can't be "got to realize." Wrong. And I doubt the elbows part is right either. Actually... you're just wrong everywhere. Period.

And whoever said hair... first of all there's no "r" sound, and second of all why would he say that?

Edit: and I'm going with the "s" sound because I trust a studio version much more than a live version due to Tool's anal reputation about studio songs.

speaking of anal. i always hear Kangaroo Dung. Hung the juror with the innocent. it makes perfect sense. Dung=Shit. Kangaroo Shit...Wiki that one

I still think that it's head. The reason is that dead also sounds like dare. But he's definitely saying dead because then that line wouldn't make sense. I know that tool doesnt always tend to rhyme but head and dead rhyme.

Who are you to wave your finger?
You must have been out of your head.
Eye hole deep in muddy waters.
You practically raised the dead.

By the way. I still think he's saying "you must have been out your mine". </strange people here>

It's head and dead. End of friggin' discussion.

Here's a version I have.

Who are you to wave your finger?
You must have been out your head.
Eye hole deep in Muddy Waters,
You practically raised the dead.

Rob the grave to snow the cradle,
and burn the evidence down.
Soapbox house of cards and glass,
so don't go tossin' your stones around.

You must have been high.
You must have been high.
You must have been...

Foot in mouth and head up ass, so
what’cha talkin’ bout?
Difficult to dance ‘round this one,
‘til you pull it out, boy.

You must have been so high.
You must have been so high.

STEAL, BORROW...REEFER, SAVE YOUR:
shady inference.
Kangaroo done hung the jury,
with the innocent.

Now you weep in shades of chosen indigo,
got lemon juice up in your eye.
When you pissed all over my black kettle,
you must have been high, high,
you must have been high, high.

Who are you to wave your finger?
So full of it.
Eyeballs deep in Muddy Waters,
fuckin’ hypocrite.

Liar, lawyer, mirror, show me,
what’s the difference?
Kangaroo done hung the guilty,
with the innocent.

Now, you weep in shades of chosen indigo,
got lemon juice up in your, eye, high.
When you pissed all over my black kettle,
you must have been…

Who are you to wave your finger?
Who are you to wave your fatty fingers at me?
You must have been out your mind…

Weep in shades of indigo,
trapped without a reason.
Weep in shades of indigo.

Liar, lawyer, mirror, for ya,
what’s the difference?
Kangaroo be stoned, he's guilty
as the government.

Now you weep in shades of chosen indigo,
got lemon juice up in your eye, eye.
When you pissed all over my black kettle,
you must have been high, high, high, high.

Eyeballs deep in muddy waters.
Eyeballs deep in muddy waters,
GANJA PLEASE,
you must have been out your mind.

I think we're pretty close to the real ones.

Listen carefully for the "your/you're balls deep in muddy waters" during the last part, as silly as some seem to find it, it's definitely there.

hair

No.

I think it's "shed without a reason" as was said before by jacko. Otherwise your correction is pretty close, but I don't hear a "will" in that line at all.

Most of the rest is all arguable either way... the soundings are too close to be definite.

one question that I think will answer all these questions... Who is the ganja police?? rob the grave to snow the cradle and burn the evidence down, soapbox house of cards and glass so don't be tossing your stones around... Damn you must have been high!.. your full of shit... cant' see through the shit in your way..steal, borrow reefer ,save your shady inference<(The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true)......... mr. kangaroo, lemon juice and shades of indigo....... fuckin hypocrite, hung the guitly with the innocent.. Oh yeah did I fell to mention this song is tiiiiight!!!

If i'm getting the right picture here.... we need to kill the ganja police right?

Peace

-_-

Eyeballs deep in muddy waters
Elbows deep in bloody waters

99.9% certain.

I think it just might be me on this me one... but i swear he says "kangaroo DUNG hung the jury with the innocent" though to me it fits better in with it, i can honestly still see 'done' being instead. but yeh, just a thought

"Dung" fits better? It makes absolutely no sense.
How certain are you that you're 99.9% certain?
I still hear "your/you're balls" but I'll give another listen.

Sounds like "yum-balls" to me. By the way, I heard another live version and I'm pretty certain on "weep in shades of chosen indigo". In the last two live versions I've heard, the first word in the "? without a reason" part is something sounding like "jump". Like "jump without a reason" (only to describe the a or e or u). And in all three versions he sings "Ganja plea".

By the way, my interpretation of the "liar, lawyer, mirror, show me what's the difference" is: The lawyer which is a liar (= the one who is against his opinion) and the mirror (= himself; feeling bad for saying such brutal things :P) shall explain what is the difference between what Maynard did and what the hypocrite did (who are you to wave your finger).

Just if somebody's interested. Sorry for my bad English, lol.

I think you make a good point.
Don't worry about your English, I've seen some people here (with English as their first language) do worse.

At first I thought that was wrong because there is definitely a consonant sound before the vowel sound. However, I've listened to that a lot and you might be right. If you are though, he has some random consonant sound before the word that makes it sound like "lelbows deep." I'm 50/50 on that.

It's a specific consonant sound, Y, and it's "your/you're balls".

It could just be him throwing it in like he does in other places. He holds the r and the y sound could just be him rolling off of it.

I think we get the point that the line's trying to make. Why beat a dead horse?

Instead of these lines:

"Steal : Borrow ; Reaper : Savior, shady inference"

"Who are you to wave your finger... so full of it
Eyeballs deep in muddy water... fuckin hypocrite"

I hear:
"Steal : Borrow ; Reaver save your shady inference"

Reaver as in one who reaves:
reave
To seize and carry off forcibly.
To deprive (one) of something; bereave.
v. intr.
To rob, plunder, or pillage.

Got this idea from that Game title: Soul Reaver, as I hear a v sound not a p or f.
That way the lines read:
Liar/Lawyer: Mirror show me what's the difference
Steal/Borrow: Reaver save your shady inference

AND

"Who are you to wave your finger... Subordinant
Eyeballs deep in muddy water... fuckin hypocrite"

Just 'cause I hear a b sound and no f sound.

What do ya think?