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Tool

Intolerance

Release date: 6th April 1993

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About This Track

'Intolerance' opens Tool's debut album with a confrontation between desire for trust and the repeated betrayal that makes trust impossible. The narrator wants to believe, to have faith, to move past suspicion, but the subject's pattern of deception leaves no room for tolerance. Each verse tightens the knot: first the plea for faith, then the performance of praise whilst the other hides behind virtue, finally the recognition that complicity runs both ways. No one emerges innocent. The song builds its argument through repetition, the chorus hammering the same three words until they become a kind of incantation, a spell that cannot be broken. By the bridge, "you lie, cheat, and steal" has stopped being accusation and become simple fact, repeated so many times it approaches inevitability. The track's intro, a sound variously described as a scuba tank emptying or someone drowning, sets the album's waterlogged atmosphere from the first second, anchoring the song's emotional suffocation in something physical and irreversible.

"Intolerance" is a track by Tool, from the album Undertow, released 6th April 1993. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Tool.

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Lyrics

Intolerance

[Verse 1]

I don't wanna be hostile

I don't wanna be dismal

And I don't wanna rot in an apathetic existence

See, I wanna believe you

And I wanted to trust you

And I wanna have faith to put away the dagger

[Chorus]

But you lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

And I tolerate you

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

I cannot tolerate

[Verse 2]

Veil of virtue hung to hide your method

While I smile and laugh and dance and

Sing your praise and glory

Shroud of virtue hung to mask your stigma

As I smile and laugh and dance and

Sing your glory while

[Chorus]

You lie, cheat, and steal

Lie, cheat, and steal

Lie, cheat, and steal

How can I tolerate you?

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

I cannot tolerate

[Verse 3]

Our guilt, our blame, I've been far too sympathetic

Our blood, our fault, I've been far too sympathetic

I am not innocent

I am not innocent

You are not innocent

No one is innocent

[Bridge]

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

You lie, cheat, and steal

I cannot tolerate

[Outro]

I will not tolerate you

I will go down beside you

I must go down beside you

No one is innocent

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Track details

From Undertow

1993
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Album
Undertow
Undertow
Tool
6th April 1993
Release year
1993
  1. 1Intolerance
    4:54
  2. 2Prison Sex
    4:56
  3. 3Sober
    5:07
  4. 4Bottom
    7:14
  5. 5Crawl Away
    5:30
  6. 6Swamp Song
    5:32
  7. 7Undertow
    5:22
  8. 84°
    6:03
  9. 9Flood
    7:48
  10. 10Disgustipated
    15:47
  11. —Flood
  12. —4°
  13. —Crawl Away
  14. —Bottom
  15. —Swamp Song
  16. —Disgustipated
  17. —Undertow
  18. —Intolerance

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Production & Engineering

Writer
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