TOOL Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN

Saturday, 23rd January, 2016

SETLIST & LYRICS

1. No Quarter, (Led Zeppelin cover)

Close the door, put out the light.
You know they won't be home tonight.
The snow falls hard and don't you know?
The winds of Thor are blowing cold.
They're wearing steel that's bright and true
They carry news that must get through.
They choose the path where no-one goes.
They hold no quarter.
Walking side by side with death, The devil mocks their every step
The snow drives back the foot that's slow, The dogs of doom are howling more
They carry news that must get through, To build a dream for me and you
They choose the path where no-one goes.
They hold no quarter. They ask no quarter.
The pain, the pain without quarter.
They ask no quarter.
The dogs of doom are howling more!

2. The Grudge 11th Lateralus (2001)

Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.
Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end.
Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Terrified of being wrong. Ultimatum prison cell.
Saturn ascends, choose one or ten. Hang on or be humbled again.
Humbled again.
Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end.
Saturn ascends, comes round again.
Saturn ascends, the one, the ten. Ignorant to the damage done.

Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.

Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.
Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control.
Unable to forgive. And sinking deeper.
Defining, confining, sinking deeper.
Controlling, defining, and we're sinking deeper.
Saturn comes back around to show you everything
Let's you choose what you will, will not see and then
Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again
Spits you out like a child, light and innocent.
Saturn comes back around. Lifts you up like a child
Or drags you down like a stone to
Consume you till you choose to let this go.
Choose to let this go.
Give away the stone. Let the oceans take and
Transmutate this cold and fated anchor.
Give away the stone. Let the waters kiss and
Transmutate these leaden grudges into gold.
Let go.

3. Parabol 19th Lateralus (2001)

So familiar and overwhelmingly warm
This one, this form I hold now.
Embracing you, this reality here,
This one, this form I hold now, so
Wide eyed and hopeful.
Wide eyed and hopefully wild.
We barely remember what came before this precious moment,
Choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside...
This body holding me, reminding me that I am not alone in
This body makes me feel eternal. All this pain is an illusion.

4. Parabola 10th Lateralus (2001)

We barely remember who or what came before this precious moment
We are choosing to be here right now
Hold on, stay inside...
This holy reality, this holy experience

Choosing to be here in...

This body, this body holding me
Be my reminder here that I am not alone in...
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal
All this pain is an illusion
Alive!
In this holy reality, in this holy experience
Choosing to be here in...
This body, this body holding me
Be my reminder here that I am not alone in...
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal
All this pain is an illusion
Twirling round with this familiar parable
Spinning, weaving round each new experience
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing
A chance to be alive and breathing
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality
Embrace this moment, remember, we are eternal
All this pain is an illusion

5. Schism 3rd bass interchanges w /opiate, Lateralus(2001)

I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them fall away.
Mildewed and smoldering. Fundamental differing.
Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion
Disintegrating as it goes testing our communication
The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so
We cannot seem to reach an end crippling our communication.
I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them tumble down
No fault, none to blame, it doesn't mean I don't desire to
Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over.
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication
The poetry that comes from the squaring off between,
And the circling is worth it.
Finding beauty in the dissonance.
There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall away.
Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting
I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing.
Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication.
Cold silence

has a tendency
to atrophy any
sense of compassion
between supposed lovers,
between supposed lovers,
I know the pieces fit [8x]

6. Opiate 7th (Opiate 1992)

Choices always were a problem for you.
What you need is someone strong to guide you.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow,
what you need is someone strong to guide you..
like me, like me, like me, like me
If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me.
Now don't judge or question.
You are broken now, but faith can heal you.
Just do everything I tell you to do.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow.
What you need is someone strong to guide you.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow.
Let me lay my holy hand upon you.
My Gods will becomes me.
When he speaks out, he speaks through me.
He has needs like I do.
We both want to rape you.[x2]
Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life now
Open my eyes and blind me with your light
If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me.
Now don't you judge or question.
You are broken now, but faith can heal you.
Just do everything I tell you to do.[x2]
Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life now.
Open my eyes, blind me with your light now.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow,
Let me lay my holy hand upon you.
My Gods will becomes me. When he speaks, he speaks through me.
He has needs like I do.
We both want to rape you

7. nema 6th Aenima (1996)

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of freaks
Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay.
Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your Prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.
It's a bullshit three ring circus sideshow of freaks
Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay.
Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dip shits.
Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cause
I sure could use a vacation from this
Stupid shit, silly shit, stupid shit...
One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.
Learn to swim. [3x]
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.
Learn to swim.
Fuck L Ron Hubbard and

Fuck all his clones.

Fuck all these gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes. Learn to swim.
Fuck retro anything.
Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and
Fuck your short memory.
Learn to swim.
Fuck smiley glad-hands
With hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional,
Insecure actresses.
Learn to swim.
Cause I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way. I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom, please flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.
Time to bring it down again. Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines. I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend. I wanna see it all come down.
Bring it down Suck it down. Flush it down.

8. Descending 50th
9. Jambi 8th 10,000 Days (2006)
Here from the king's mountain view Here from a wild dream come true
Feast like a sultan I do
On treasures and flesh, never few.
But I, I would wish it all away.
If I thought I'd lose you just one day.
The devil and his had me down,
In love with the dark side I'd found.
Dabble in all the way down
Up to my neck soon to drown.
But you changed that all for me.
Lifted me up, turned me round.
So I... I... I would Wish this all away
Prayed like a martyr dusk to dawn.
Begged like a hooker all night long.
Tempted the devil with my song.
And got what I wanted all along.
But I, And I would, If I could, And I would Wish it away, Wish it away,
Wish it all away, Wanna wish it all away, No prize that could hold sway,
Or justify my giving away, My center.
So if I could I'd wish it all away.
If I thought tomorrow would take you away.

You're my peace of mind, my home, my center.

I'm just trying to hold on, One more day.
Dim my eyes If they should compromise
Our fulcrum Wants and needs divide me then I might as well be gone.
Shine on forever. Shine on benevolent sun.
Shine on upon the broken. Shine until the two become one.
Shine on forever. Shine on benevolent sun.
Shine on upon the severed. Shine until the two become one.
Divided I'm withering away.
Shine on upon the many, light our way Benevolent sun.
Breathe in union.
So as one survive. Another day and season.
Silence, legion, save your poison Silence, legion, stay out of my way.

10. Forty-Six & 2 2nd Aenima (1996)

My shadow's Shedding skin and
I've been picking Scabs again. I'm down Digging through My old muscles
Looking for a clue.
I've been crawling on my belly Clearing out what could've been.
I've been wallowing in my own confused
And insecure delusions
For a piece to cross me over
Or a word to guide me in.
I wanna feel the changes coming down.
I wanna know what I've been hiding in
My shadow. Change is coming through my shadow.
My shadow's shedding skin I've been picking
My scabs again.
I've been crawling on my belly Clearing out what could've been.
I've been wallowing in my own chaotic
And insecure delusions.
I wanna feel the change consume me,
Feel the outside turning in. I wanna feel the metamorphosis and
Cleansing I've endured within
My shadow Change is coming.
Now is my time.
Listen to my muscle memory.
Contemplate what I've been clinging to.
Forty-six and two ahead of me.
I choose to live and to
Grow, take and give and to
Move, learn and love and to Cry, kill and die and to
Be paranoid and to
Lie, hate and fear and to

Do what it takes to move through.

I choose to live and to
Lie, kill and give and to
Die, learn and love and to
Do what it takes to step through.
See my shadow changing, Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor.
Hoping I can clear the way
By stepping through my shadow, Coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.

Intermission, Drum Solo (with synth)

11. Sweat 39th Opiate (1992)
I'm sweating, and breathing
and staring and thinking and sinking deeper.
It's almost like I'm swimming.
The sun is burning hot again on the hunter
and the fisherman, and Im trying to remember when,
but it makes me dizzy.
Seems like I've been here before. Seems so familiar.
Seems like I'm slipping into a dream within a dream.
Must be the way you whisper.
The sun is setting cool again. I'm the thinker
and the fisherman and I'm trying to remember when
but it makes me dizzy.
and I'm sweating,
and breathing,
and staring and thinking
and sinking deeper
and it's almost like I'm swimming.
Seems like I've been here before.
Seems so familiar.
Seems like I'm slipping into a dream within a dream.
It's the way you whisper.
Seems like I've been here before.
Seems so familiar. Seems like I'm slipping
into a dream within a dream. Its the way you whisper
drags me under takes me home

-) Ions
12. Stinkfist 1st (aenima 1996)
Something has to change. Un-deniable dilemma.
Boredom's not a burden
Anyone should bear.
Constant over stimu-lation numbs me but I would not want you

any other way.

It's not enough. I need more. Nothing seems to satisfy.
I said I don't want it.
I just need it. To breathe, To feel, 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 want me any other way.
It's not enough. I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I said I don't want it.
I just need it. To breathe, To feel, 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.

13. Vicarious 9th 10,000 Days (2006)

Eye on the TV
'cause tragedy thrills me
Whatever flavour
It happens to be like;
Killed by the husband
Drowned by the ocean
Shot by his own son
She used the poison in his tea
And kissed him goodbye
That's my kind of story
It's no fun 'til someone dies
Don't look at me like
I am a monster
Frown out your one face
But with the other
Stare like a junkie
Into the TV
Stare like a zombie
While the mother
Holds her child
Watches him die
Hands to the sky crying
Why, oh why?

'cause I need to watch things die

From a distance
Vicariously I, live while the whole world dies
You all need it too, don't lie
Why can't we just admit it?
We won't give pause until the blood is flowing
Neither the brave nor bold
The writers of stories sold
We won't give pause until the blood is flowing
I need to watch things die
From a good safe distance
Vicariously I, live while the whole world dies
You all feel the same so
Why can't we just admit it?
Blood like rain come down
Drawn on grave and ground
Part vampire
Part warrior Carnivore and voyeur
Stare at the transmittal
Sing to the death rattle La, la, la, la, la, la, la-lie
Credulous at best, your desire to believe in angels in the hearts of men.
Pull your head on out your hippy haze and give a listen.
Shouldn't have to say it all again.
The universe is hostile. so Impersonal. devour to survive.
So it is. So it's always been. We all feed on tragedy
It's like blood to a vampire Vicariously I, live while the whole world dies
Much better you than I

NOT PLAYING
Lateralus 4th Lateralus (2001)
Black then white are all I see in my infancy. red and yellow then came to be,
reaching out to me. lets me see.
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn beyond the lines of reason. Push the envelope. Watch it bend.
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.
Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
lets me see there is so much more
and beckons me to look through to these infinite possibilities.
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind.

Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.

Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.
I embrace my desire to, I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected
enough to step aside and weep like a widow
to feel inspired, to fathom the power,
to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral, to swing on the spiral,
to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.
With my feet upon the ground I lose myself
between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out.
I'm reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me.
Whatever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out. Keep going...

Sober 5th
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 of "must we"
Just because the son has come.
Jesus, won't you fucking whistle
Something but the past is done?
Jesus, won't you fucking whistle
Something but the past is done?
Why can't we not be sober?
I just want to start this over.
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 the past is done.
Why can't we not be sober?
Just want to start this over.
Why can't we sleep 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,

Trust me [x5] Why can't we not be sober?

Just want to start things over.
Why can't we sleep forever.
I just want to start this over.
I want what I want [x4]

Pushit 12th Salival (2000)

I saw the gap again today,
While you were begging me to stay.
Take care not to make me enter
If I do we both may disappear.
You know that I will choke until I swallow...
Choke this infant here before me.
What is this but my reflection?
Who am I to judge or strike you down?
But you're pushing and shoving me. [8x]
You still love me, you still love me but you didn't need to shit on me.
You still love me, you still love me and she didn't mean to pushit on me.
Rest your trigger on my finger,
Bang my head upon the fault line.
You'd better take care not to make me enter.
'Cause if I do we both may disappear.
But you're pushing, shoving me. [2x]
You're pushing and shoving me
You're pushing and shoving me
You still love me, you still love me, she didn't mean to pushit on me.
You're pushing and shoving me
You're pushing and shoving me
I'm slipping back into the gap again.
I'm alive when you're touching me,
Alive when you're shoving me down, hey
But I'd trade it all for just a little peace of mind.
Pushit on me [4x]
You're pushing and shoving and scrambling... keep my feet flat on the ground.
I am somewhere I don't wanna be
Push me somewhere I don't wanna be.
Put me somewhere I don't wanna be.
Seeing someplace I don't wanna see.
Never wanna see that place again.
Saw that gap again today
While you were begging me to stay.

Managed to push myself away,

And you, as well, my dear
If when I say I might fade like a sigh if I stay,
You minimize my movement anyway,
I must persuade you another way.
Pushing and shovin', pushing and shoving, push at me!
There's no love in fear.
Staring down the hole again.
Hands are on my back again.
Surviving is my only friend.
Terrified of what may come.
Just remember I will always love you,
As I claw your fucking throat away.
It will end no other way.

Rosetta Stoned 13th 10,000 Days (2006)

Alright then, picture this if you will:
10 to 2 AM, X, Yogi DMT, and a box of Krispy Kremes, in my "need to know"
pose, just outside of Area 51.
Contemplating the whole "chosen people" thing with just a flaming stealth
banana split the sky like one would hope but never really expect to see in a
place like this.
Cutting right angle donuts on a dime and stopping right at my Birkenstocks, and
me yelping...
Holy fucking shit!
Then the X-Files being, looking like some kind of blue-green Jackie Chan with
Isabella Rossellini lips and breath that reeked of vanilla Chig Champa,
Did a slow-mo Matrix descent out of the butt end of the banana vessel and
hovered above my bug-eyes, my gaping jaw, and my sweaty L. Ron Hubbard
upper lip and all I could think was: "I hope Uncle Martin here doesn't notice that
I pissed my fuckin' pants."
So light in his way,
Like an apparition,
He had me crying out,
"Fuck me,
It's gotta be,
Deadhead Chemistry,
The blotter got right on top of me,
Got me seein' E-motherfuckin'-T!"

And after calming me down with some orange slices and some fetal spooning,
E.T. revealed to me his singular purpose.
He said, "You are the Chosen One, the One who will deliver the message. A
message of hope for those who choose to hear it and a warning for those who
do not."
Me. The Chosen One?
They chose me!!!
And I didn't even graduate from fuckin' high school.
You better listen.
Then he looked right through me
With somniferous almond eyes.
Don't even know what that means
Must remember to write it down.
This is so real.
Like the time Dave floated away.
See my heart is pounding,
'Cause this shit never happens to me.
Can't breathe, right now!
It was so real.
Like I woke up in Wonderland.
All sort of terrifying.
And I don't wanna be all alone when I tell this story.
And can anyone tell me why
You all sound like Peanut's parents
Will I ever be coming down?
This is so real.
Finally it's my lucky day.
See my heart is racing,
Cause this shit never happens to me.
Can't breathe, right now!
You believe me, don't you?
Please believe what I just said, see the Dead ain't touring.
And this wasn't all in my head.
See they took me by the hand and invited me right in,
Then they showed me something.
I don't even know where to begin.
Strapped down my bed. Feet cold and eyes red.
I'm out my head. Am I alive, am I dead?
Can't remember what they said.

God damn. Shit the bed!

(high... I I I I I... high... I I I I I)
(high)
[Repeated]
Overwhelmed as one would be, placed in my position.
Such a heavy burden now to be the one.
Born to bear and read to all
The details of our ending.
To write it down for all the world to see.
But I forgot my pen,
Shit the bed again,
Typical.
Strapped down my bed. Feet cold and eyes red.
I'm out my head. Am I alive, am I dead?
Sunkist and sudafed, gyroscopes and infrared.
Won't help, brain dead.
Can't remember what they said.
God damn. Shit the bed!
I can't remember what they said to me.
Can't remember what they said to make me out to be a hero!
Can't remember what they said.
Bob help me.
Can't remember what they said.
Don't know.
Won't know.
[Repeated]
God damn shit the bed!

Prison Sex 14th

It took so long to remember just what happened.
I was so young and vestal then,
you know it hurt me,
but I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive
even if signs seem to tell me otherwise.
I've got my hands bound,
my head down , my eyes closed,
and my throat wide open.
Do unto others what has been done to you
I'm treading water,

I need to sleep a while.

My lamb and martyre, you look so precious.
Won't you come a bit closer,
close enough so I can smell you.
I need you to feel this,
I can't stand to burn too long.
Released in this sodomy.
For one sweet moment I am whole.
Do unto you now what has been done to me.
You're breathing so I guess you're still alive
even if signs seem to tell me otherwise.
Won't you come just a bit closer,
close enough so I can smell you.
I need you to feel this.
I need this to make me whole.
There's release in this sodomy.
For I am your witness that
blood and flesh can be trusted.
And only this one holy medium brings me piece of mind.
Got your hands bound, your head down,
your eyes closed.
You look so precious now.
I have found some kind of temporary sanity in this
shit blood and cum on my hands.
I've come round full circle.
My lamb and martyr, this will be over soon.
You look so precious.

Disposition 15th Lateralus )2001)