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Rating: Don't worry, unfortunately it's not the new Tool album (the album that the four Californians are working on), but a demo released way back in 1991, printed in limited quantities (maximum 1000 copies) and only on cassette tape; maybe some of you have downloaded it under the name "Toolshed", or "Tool": I have it with the mysterious title "72826", and on a cellphone keypad, the numbers correspond to the word 'Satan'...
Returning to the demo, it was recorded manually by Maynard James Keenan (singer and lyricist, for those who don't know), and the band lineup still included Paul D'Amour on bass. The recording quality is quite debatable, but by observing the six songs you can already tell that, despite being in their early stages, the band was already talented: indeed, "Cold And Ugly", "Hush", "Part Of Me" and "Jerk-Off" are present, which would end up on the "Opiate" EP (1992), and they are very similar to the respective final versions that fans know, although they are characterized by a certain recording poverty. The other two songs, which would end up on their first LP "Undertow" (1993), are "Crawl Away", however, without the intro with Andean chants that would only feature on the LP, and the demo version of one of my all-time favorite songs: "Sober". Every Tool fan must surely know this song, and those who don't know it should instantly make up for this absence.
I only give this demo three stars precisely because it's a demo, as the songs present are of exceptional quality. Here, the early Tool is still present, angry, direct, and no-frills, far from the peaks they would achieve later, but if you want to hear where the Tool story begins, give this demo a listen: from the subsequent EP, the story will become legend...
Tracklist and Lyrics
02 Hush (02:38)
Fuck you
I can't say what I want to
Even if I'm not serious
I can't say what I want to.
Even if I'm not serious
Things like
Go fuck yourself
Go fuck yourself
You piece of shit
Why don't you just go and kill yourself?
I said
I can't say what I want to
Even if I'm not serious
I can't say what I want to
Even if I'm just kidding
People tell me what to say
What to think and what to play
I said
People tell me what to say
What to think and what to play
I said
Fuck yourself
Fuck yourself
You piece of shit
Why don't you just go and kill yourself?
I said
I can't say what I want to
Even if I'm not serious
I can't say what I want to
Even if I'm just kidding
Go fuck yourself
Go fuck yourself
You piece of shit
Why don't you go fuck yourself?
People tell me what to say
What to think and what to play
I said
People tell me what to say
What to think and what to play
Just kidding
Just kidding
Just kidding
03 Part of Me (02:58)
I know you well.
You are a part of me.
I know you better than I know myself.
I know you best, better than anyone.
I know you better than I know myself.
You are a part of me.
You are just a part of me.
You are just a part of me.
You are just a part of me.
You are just a part of me.
Give it up!
You don't speak.
You don't judge.
You can't leave.
You can't hurt me.
You're just here for me to use.
I know you well, you are a part of me.
I know you better than I know myself.
I know you best, better than anyone.
I know you better than I know myself.
I know you well, better than anyone might think.
I know you better than I know myself.
I know you well, you are a part of me.
I know you best, better than anyone.
I know you well, you are a part of me.
I know you best, better than one might think.
It's time for you to make a sacrifice.
It's time to die a little.
Give it up.
I know you best, better than anyone.
I know you better than I know myself!
A part of me.
04 Crawl Away (04:46)
Crawled away from me.
Slipped away from me.
I tried to keep ahold,
But there was nothing I could say.
Slid away from me
Crept away from me
Tried to keep you down
But there was nothing I could say.
What you try to say
Is you don't wanna play.
What you want and what you need
Don't mean that much to me.
I can see your back is turning.
If I could I'd stick the knife in.
You crawled away from me.
Slipped away from me.
I tried to keep ahold,
But there was nothing I could say.
Slid away from me
Crept away from me
I tried to keep you down
But there was nothing I could say.
What you tried to say
Is you don't wanna play.
But what you want and what you need
Don't mean that much to me.
I can see your back is turning.
If I could I'd stick the knife in.
This is love.
This is love,
This is my love for you,(x5)
This is my love.
Say you won't go.
Say,
Get up.
Get up.
Say.
Get up,
Get up,
Get up,
Now!
What you try to say
Is you don't wanna play.
But what you want and what you need
Don't mean a fuck to me.
I can see your back is turning.
If I could I'd stick the knife in.
05 Sober (04:30)
There's a shadow just behind me
Shrouding every step I take
Making every promise empty
Pointing every finger at me
Waiting like a stalking butler
Who upon the finger rests
Murder now, the path called "must we"
Just because the son has come
Jesus, won't you fucking whistle
Something but the past and done?
Jesus, won't you fucking whistle
Something but the past and done?
Why can't we not be sober?
I just want to start this over
And why can't we drink forever?
I just want to start this over
I am just a worthless liar
I am just an imbecile
I will only complicate you
Trust in me and fall as well
I will find a center in you
I will chew it up and leave
I will work to elevate you
Just enough to bring you down
Mother Mary, won't you whisper?
Something but what's past and done
Mother Mary, won't you whisper?
Something but the past and done
Why can't we not be sober?
I just want to start this over
And why can't we sleep forever?
I just want to start this over
Why?
I am just a worthless liar
I am just an imbecile
I will only complicate you
Trust in me and fall as well
I will find a center in you
I will chew it up and leave
Trust me
Trust me
Trust me
Trust me
Trust me
Why can't we not be sober?
I just want to start things over
And why can't we sleep forever?
I just want to start this over
Why?
I want what I want
I want what I want
I want what I want
I want what I want
06 Jerk-Off (03:56)
Someone told me once
That there's a right and wrong
Punishment was the cure
For those who dared to cross the line
But it must not be true
For jerk-offs just like you
Maybe it takes longer
To catch a total asshole
I'm tired of waiting
Someone told me once
That there's a right and wrong
Punishment was the cure
For those who dared to cross the line
But it must not be true
For jerk-offs just like you
Maybe it's just bullshit
I should play God, and shoot you myself
Consequences dictate a course of action
And it doesn't matter what's right
It's only wrong if you get caught
If consequences dictate, my course of action I should
I should play God and just shoot you myself
Tired of waiting
Die
Shoot it
Kick it
Fuck it
Shoot you in your fucking head
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