Tool

For years rock music has had the label of being the senseless rants of angry white people. Most people who do not take the time to really listen to the lyrics of these songs pass them off as songs about hate, drugs or the troubles the artist has had in the past. The truth could not be farther from this. Many of the songs written by today’s top rock groups are songs with deep seeded meanings that are lost on the uninformed public. One band that has commonly been misunderstood is “Tool”. For years they have been writing songs, which without careful interpretation, are pointless to listen to. One of their most famous songs, “The Pot”, has unfortunately been commonly thought to be about marijuana and other drugs. In reality the song is about Maynard James Keenan’s, the writer of the song, distaste toward hypocrisy. When carefully studied the song is revealed to be Maynard James Keenan’s attack on people who live on double standard