Throughout “Fear Inoculum”, the highly anticipated comeback song from Tool, the speaker seems to be addressing a blight or foe they’ve named ‘The Deceiver.’ He seems to be standing up to him in order to end the misery, fear, hatred, and isolation that he’s brought to the speaker’s life.
The song se...
[Verse 1]
Immunity, long overdue
Contagion, I exhale you
Naive, I opened up to you
Venom and mania
Now, contagion, I exhale you
[Interlude]
The deceiver says, he says
"You belong to me
You don't wanna breathe the light of the others
Fear the light, fear the breath
Fear the others for eternity"
But I hear them now, inhale the clarity
Hear the venom, the venom in
What you say inoculated
Bless this immunity
Bless this immunity
Bless this immunity
[Chorus]
Exhale, expel
Recast my tale
Weave my allegorical elegy
[Verse 2]
Enumerate all that I'm to do
Calculating steps away from you
My own mitosis
Growing through division from mania
[Chorus]
Exhale, expel
Recast my tale
Weave my allegorical elegy
[Bridge]
Forfeit all control
You poison, you spectacle
Exorcise the spectacle
Exorcise the malady
Exorcise the disparate
Poison for eternity
Purge me and evacuate
The venom and the fear that binds me
[Outro]
Your veil now, lift away
I see you runnin'
Deceiver chased away
A long time comin'
Fear Inoculum was written by Danny Carey & Justin Chancellor & Adam Jones & Maynard James Keenan.
Fear Inoculum was produced by Tool & Mat Mitchell & Andrew Means & Tim Dawson.
Tool released Fear Inoculum on Wed Aug 07 2019.
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