*sighs*

Well, since I'm here for a couple hours, I may as well post a bit. I think I'll go for somethin light, and sing the praises of the music I listened to while trying to bully myself to wakefullness this fine RUDDY NOON!!! >:-[]

I speak of Tool...

That raucous and sometimes bombastic musical genera known as Metal has and always will have a special place in my heart. (Helped me bulldoze over a rough patch or two in my time.) In my opinion Tool is probably one of the greatest metal bands evah. :-D

They have a great, resonant sound, are musically complex, have intelligent lyrics, and their lead singer can actually sing! (Mind you I appreciate a good scream, but not when it's overused...)  Maynard James Keenan is definitely one of the best vocalists in metal.
The band as a whole has a lot of power, but not at the sacrifice of melody (and I think that is very special, folks).

So, that in mind, I hereby submit the lyrics to the songs I listened to while waking up... Enjoy :-*

FORTY-SIX & 2

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.

THE GRUDGE

Wear your 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 it 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.

Clutch it like a cornerstone. Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip it to the lonesome end.
Saturn ascends, comes round again.
Saturn ascends, the one, the ten. Ignorant to the damage done.

Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what you 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 we're 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 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.