For those who aren't members of Tool Army... (feel free to delete if this has already been posted) make sticky!

THE POT

who are you to wave your finger? you musta been outta your head.
eye hole deep in muddy waters. You practically raised the dead.
rob the grave to snow the cradle then burn the evidence down.
soap box house of cards and glass so don't go tossin' your stones around.

you musta been high

foot in mouth and head up ass, so watcha talking bout?
difficult to dance round this one till you pull it out. boy

you musta been so high.

steal, borrow, refer, save your shady inference.
kangaroo done hung the jury with the innocent.

now you're weeping shades of cozened indigo. (musta) got lemon juice
up in your eye when you pissed all over my black kettle.

you musta been high.

who are you to wave your finger? so full of it.
eye balls 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're weeping shades of cozened indigo. (musta) got lemon juice
up in your eye when you pissed all over my black kettle.

you musta been high.

So who are you to wave your finger?
who are you to wave your fatty fingers at me?
you must have been outta your mind.
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 weeping shades of cozened indigo. (musta) got lemon juice
up in your eye when you pissed all over my black kettle.

you musta been high.

eye balls deep in muddy waters.
you're balls deep in muddy waters.
Ganja, please, you must have been outta your mind.

WORDS BY MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN

fuck yeah!

and these are real, or at least they really were posted to TA.

edit: is it just me or is the lyric at 4:15 missing, between when he says "weeping shades of indigo" twice?

official doesn't mean correct, b...t...w...

these look good, tho

hey, GOOD JOB MAYNARD!

'you're balls.'

You are balls.

cozened???

edit:
v. coz·ened, coz·en·ing, coz·ens


1. To mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive.
2. To persuade or induce to do something by cajoling or wheedling.
3. To obtain by deceit or persuasion.


To act deceitfully.

aw, i thought he said "Conjure up Lies", but you all were right, he says Ganja :/

who are you to wave your finger? you musta been outta your head.


he doesnt say head he says hair wtf

mjr, haha. no.

anyways, are they saying that we have the characteristics of the indigo children?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_children

i always felt i rebelled to make a world a better place, more efficient and less bullshit ...not just to rebel.

fuck, they almost had me take medicine to calm that shit...

holy crap, MJK has been playing Indigo Prophecy!! that game kicks so much ass.

:(

I expected something like "guillaume boasts deep in Martin Walters!" or Gunshot paralyzed! or "fucking fingers".

I wait until they're confirmed.

Some of this doesn't sound right.

Agreed.

it's making more and more sense to the whole grand scheme of what tool's been doing every time someone makes a relative post that digs a little deeper.

wahay - the ONLY word i got wrong was cozened then ! hehe and i was one of the

"ganja puhleeeeeease" people too

yay my life is complete hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Can anybody copy the whole text of the poster on Toolarmy or tell me the way it was posted? Was there just a news entry "offical Pot lyrics"?

Isn't it interesting how the first two songs they release official lyrics for are both in some way connected to drugs?

EDIT: I don't think The Pot is about drugs, but it definitely could be.

worst tool lyrics ever.

You musta been high.

What part of the lyrics doesnt sound right?
More or less the only surprise out of the official release was the "cozened " lyric.

GANJA PUHHLEASE FTW!

I think the cozened part is correct (allthough I was sure it is "will you weep in..." instead of "you're weeping" oh and by the way isn't the "musta got lemon juice in your eye" part a contradiction to the weepin' shades interpretation? People said it is weepin' shades of indigo because of tears and they got tears from the lemon juice in the eye part, but if it's you MUSTA got lemon juice in your eye when you did this and that, then it's not the same as the weepin' shades thing).

What bothers me is the "steal borrow refer save your" part (steal borrow reversing your / steal borrow reaper saviour), "Ganja please" (conjure up lies / got'cha paralyzed) and "fatty fingers" (fatass fingers / fucking fingers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqzyU...elated&search= listen to the fingers part).

EDIT:

I just found this dudes, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cozened

he speaks "cozen" like "cousin".

???

He definately doesn't sing cousin'd indigo.

I came to the conclusion that I think these are NOT the real lyrics.

other than the fact that it's missing one line, they seem real enough to me. Blair posted this on toolband's main site, it's a "TA only" thing. i'll see if i can get one of my friends (TA member) to take a pic of it later.

What about the speech of cozen?

Maynard likes to pick unusual words out of the thesaurus and sometimes forgets to check the pronounciation?

Hhahaha. You only hate them because they aren't as deep as other songs by Tool. Most likely.

its a song. Maynard messes with syllabales and pronunciation all the time.

and furthermore, at first glance, just look at the word. cozen. kinda looks like frozen, eh? a lot of people pronounce normal words wrong. you know Apocalypse Now Redux? I've heard a lot of people pronounce Redux incorrectly, even though it's pretttty simple (REE DUCKS).

Ganja PLEASE!

I'm so glad that was the correct lyric. I remember being mocked for thinking that was what was being said months ago. Ha to the nonbeleivers.

dude he definitely says hair at the beginning. the way the word drags on there is no way its head. wtf...

I'm feeling too week to explain to you why it's not hair. And this is not another form of "it's obvious", I just don't have the energy. :P

And the cozen thing... You're taking a fact again and changing it to justify your opinion (or something like that). Maynard talks stuff different in songs, but he did it never like that. This sounds more like the person that wrote those lyrics wanted to do something individual to make people agree (that person also wrote everything in small capitals and wrote stuff that aren't in the lyrics to make it look like a real Maynard lyric). That may sounds like I'm having a really stupid and pathetic conspiracy theory going on, but I just think that the lyrics are wrong.

Are you retarded? First of all, that's not what the definition located mere inches above where you're typing says. Additionally, is Maynard saying that you acted the indigo deceitfully? Because that doesn't make any sense at all. Thanks for your (incorrectly) reworded synopsis of the definition of "cozened," but maybe next time you should omit your two cents from the post.

Of course, I think most of us knew what the word meant to begin with. Sorry to flame so hard, but it's early in the morning and I am getting fucking sick of reading posts by complete fucking illiterates.

I'm going to have to agree with Terry in that this is a copout. While I think these lyrics are official, I fear that the aforementioned idea of Maynard referencing a thesaurus and forgetting to look up pronunciations is not terribly far from the truth.

Lol that maynard.

well, i guess that might be a reason. they sound stupid to me and there's nothing to think about. so yea, the fact that they sound like stupid and forced lyrics and that there's nothing to think about makes for some shitty lyrics in my opinion. add that to the worst song musically tool has ever made and you have one hell of a joke.

I can't believe how even Kabir thinks those are really official. As official as Toolarmy's September Vicarious DVD in Japan?

What pisses me off too is that the dude really wrote "p-lease".

It's just a word, you don't have to tell me people how he sings it, they will hear it!

What makes your opinion greater then his, maybe you should omit your criticism from the posts.

Sorry it's early in the morning and I am getting fucking sick of reading posts by complete fucking assholes.

Alex In Chanes, that stupid post was completely unecessary, I would suggest you to say sorry to the original poster, because he did NOTHING, not even say something bad, he just said "cozened???" and a definition of it. Nothing more.

These lyrics are suspect. I can't ignore the fact that I'm about as sure as you can be about MJK singing "Noooooow you're weeping shades of cozened indigo, got lemon juice in your HIGH eye", but yet "HIGH eye" is not what's in the "official" lyrics.

Mysteriously, there is also no mention of what is said in the middle of the song where things calm down for a moment... I've suggested before that it was something like "Weeping/reaping shades of indigo... chakra laraesa (pronunciation of some mystery word relating to "chakra")"


It may be the case that MJK released these... but it seems he takes liberties at times to release only partial lyrics to his songs. I think he likes to keep a bit of mystery to his lyrics. There has certainly been instances in the past where he does not include in the official lyrics the things that he whispers in a low key manner during songs.

hah so true. I used to think it was pronounced "ray-doo" like a French word or something.