Tool - Forty-six & 2

  

Forty-six & 2 by Tool

ALBUM
Ænima, 1996 (second release)

BAND MEMBERS AT THE TIME
Danny Carey, Justin Chancellor, Adam Jones, Maynard James Keenan

FUN FACT
The band’s name supposedly means that it is a tool to raise awareness of and understand lachrymology, the study of crying. A religion has stemmed from the belief and claims that only people who express sorrow can reach enlightenment.

ABOUT THE SONG
It is about the evolution of humans, who currently have 46 chromosomes.

LYRICS
My shadow’s shedding skin
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 have been
I’ve been wallowing in my own confused and insecure delusions

For a piece cross me over
Or a word to guide me in
I want to feel the changes coming down
I want to know what I’ve been hiding

In my shadow, my shadow
Change is coming though my shadow
My shadow
Shedding skin
I’ve been picking my scabs again

I’ve been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could have been
I’ve been wallowing in my own chaotic, insecure delusions

I want to feel the change consume me
Feel the outside turning in
I want to feel the metamorphosis and cleansing I’ve endured

In my shadow, 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 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

VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIuZUCpm9hc