Tool - Stinkfist Lyrics

Tool
Ænima
Stinkfist
Something has to change.
Un-deniable dilemma.
Boredom's not a burden
Anyone should bear.

Constant over stimu-lation numbs me
and I wouldn't have
It any other way.

It's not enough.
I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I don't want it.
I just need it.
To feel, to breathe, to know I'm alive.

Finger deep within the borderline.
Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
Relax, turn around and take my hand.

I can help you change
Tired moments into pleasure.
Say the word and we'll be
Well upon our way.

Blend and balance
Pain and comfort
Deep within you
Till you will not have me any other way.

It's not enough.
I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I don't want it.
I just need it.
To feel, to breathe, to know I'm alive.

Knuckle deep inside the borderline.
This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to.
Relax. Slip away.

Something kinda sad about
the way that things have come to be.
Desensitized to everything.
What became of subtlety?

How can it mean anything to me
If I really don't feel anything at all?

I'll keep digging till
I feel something.

Elbow deep inside the borderline.
Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
Shoulder deep within the borderline.
Relax. Turn around and take my hand.

• Anonymous

  This song symbolizes anal sex and drug addiction. However you look at it.

• Anonymous

  practically every tool song sounds like it's about sex at the surface. Especially if you're a snickering teenager who just discovered how a penis fits in a vagina. a lot of them actually have the more mundane meaning of discovering yourself and your place within a relationship. as another poster mentioned about "crap" you have to work through; everyone comes to a relationship with baggage and eventually you push each other to work through it and come to closure together. there is an obvious reference to anal sex (not gay sex, anal. straight people do it too) because it is easy symbolism for all the emotional stuff people go through. it requires over submission and dominance at varying times, just like any relationship is give and take.

• Anonymous

  The meaning of a song is not to relay the bands beliefs to others. I write songs that are inspired by whatever i'm going through at that moment and whatever it means to everyone else is completely moot. I hope people take whatever they need from my music which translates to; it means something different to everyone. Regardless, stinkfist freaking rocks. It's just a hard rocking piece of music.

• Anonymous

  what i love about took is they are not simple..its poetic...other bands dont know what that even means

• Anonymous

  The song isnt about drugs or sex, its about abandoning an old way of life for a new one; finding a new consciousness. It's meant to be an introduction to the rest of the album, which is mostly about spiritual awakening and a rejection of consumer culture. Maynard is inviting us to come with him on this journey.

• Anonymous

  This song has Nothing to do with any kindsof sex...It&#039s about the addiction and use of drugs I&#039m thinking mainlining meth and with each member going into the borderline he&#039s becoming more and more addicted. He now needs the drugs to feel anything NOTHING TO DO WITH SEX!!!

• Anonymous

  figure it out: "the borderline" is the anus.

• Anonymous

  they like singing about perversions its their shock value; i had a gay friend tell me once that this song is about someone introducing someone else to homosexual sex by fisting (ie "balance of pain and pleasure") sick

• Anonymous

  its obvious this song is about someone introducing someone to gay sex
  title: stinkfist / and each of the verses progress deepness: finger-deep, elbow-deep, etc and each end with "relax," (something yo have to do as the taker) "turn around and take my hand"
  
  the singer is bored with every other form of stimulation. delving into this was something to know he's alive.
  
  Not a far stretch considering they have an album cover with a man doing auto-fellatio on himself and they're watching.
  
  just gross...it ruined this song for me.