One More Medicated Peaceful Moment

Orestes icon-search-12x12 (track 05 from the Mer de Noms LP by A Perfect Circle icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

A Perfect Circle's "Mer de Noms" album cover. [Formatted]

Metaphor for a missing moment: pull me in to your perfect circle

One womb
One chain
One resolve

Liberate this will to release us all

Gotta cut away, clear away
Snip away and sever this umbilical residue that’s keeping me from killing you

From pulling you down with me, in here, I can almost hear you scream

Give me one more medicated peaceful moment

I don’t wanna feel this overwhelming hostility

Gotta cut away
Clear away
Snip away and sever this umbilical residue

Gotta cut away
Clear away
Snip away and sever this umbilical residue that’s keeping me from killing you

Angels On the Sideline

Right in Two icon-search-12x12 (track 04 from the 10,000 Days EP by Tool icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

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Angels on the sideline puzzled and amused
Why did Father give these humans free will?
Now they’re all confused

Don’t these talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around?
Plenty in this holy garden
Silly monkeys, where there’s one you’re bound to divide it right in two

Angels on the sideline baffled and confused
Father blessed them all with reason and this is what they choose

Monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground
Silly monkeys give them thumbs they forge a blade
Where there’s one they’re bound to divide it right in two

Monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground
Silly monkeys give them thumbs they make a club and beat their brother down
How they survive so misguided is a mystery
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven conscious of his fleeting time here

Cut and divide it all right in two

Fight over the clouds, over earth, over sky
Fight over life, over blood, over heaven
Fight over love, over sun, over another
Fight for each other for the ones who are rising

Angels on the sideline again benched along with patience and reason
Angels on the sideline again wondering when this tug of war will end

Cut and divide it all right in two