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The second track on 'Ænima', 'Eulogy' adopts the structure of a funeral speech to dismantle the figure it ostensibly mourns. Maynard James Keenan's lyrics describe a loud, charismatic leader whose certainty and martyrdom mask an emptiness at the core, the narrator confessing an eagerness to follow someone prepared to die for a cause before turning that devotion into scorn. The song's subject is widely understood to be L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, though the critique extends to any self-appointed saviour trading on devotion and spectacle. Tool builds the mood through deliberate heaviness, the track stretching past eight minutes as it shifts between restraint and eruption. The arrangement allows space for the central accusation to land with full weight: the martyr had a lot to say, and a lot of nothing to say. By the final verse, the sarcasm hardens into dismissal, the narrator demanding the figure step down from the cross to make room for the next fool willing to die for someone else's sins. 'Eulogy' was issued as a promotional single from the album, one of four tracks selected for release alongside 'H.', 'Forty Six & 2', and 'Ænema'.
"Eulogy" is a track by Tool, from the album Ænima, released 17th September 1996. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Tool.
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