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Tool

Jimmy

Release date: 17th September 1996

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About This Track

'Jimmy' is rooted in a traumatic moment from Maynard James Keenan's childhood. When he was eleven, his mother suffered an aneurysm that left her paralyzed. The song channels the pain, fear and confusion of that rupture, framing it as a kind of abandonment and a long, unresolved waiting. Keenan has described it as a sequel to 'Prison Sex', another track preoccupied with childhood trauma and its aftermath. The lyrics move between direct address and fragmented memory, circling the number eleven as both a fixed point in time and an ongoing state. There is a quality of reaching across distance, of calling someone back, of trying to move toward healing through accumulated small steps. The song builds toward reconciliation, a moment where fractured pieces might align again: "One and one are one, eleven."

"Jimmy" is a track by Tool, from the album Ænima, released 17th September 1996. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Tool.

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Lyrics

Jimmy

[Verse 1]

What was it like to see

The face of your own stability

Suddenly look away

Leaving you with the dead and hopeless?

Eleven and she was gone

Eleven is when we waved goodbye

Eleven is standing still (Waiting for me)

Waiting for me to free him by

Coming home

[Verse 2]

Moving me with a sound

Opening me within a gesture

Drawing me down and in

(Showing me where it all began)

Showing me where it all began

Eleven

He was too scarred to realize

You were the voice that's been calling me back home

[Verse 3]

Under a dead Ohio sky

Eleven has been and will be waiting

Defending his light and wondering

Where the hell have I been?

Sleeping lost and numb, I'm

So glad that I have found you

I am wide awake and heading home

[Bridge]

I wish that I could see you

Turn and run to play

Dreams are fading

Carry my ancient soul

Carry me into the light

Aim your body heavenly

Enduring a memory

I'll come to your light

Hold your light where I can see it

High

[Verse 4]

Hold your light, Eleven

Lead me through each gentle step, by step

By inch by loaded memory, I'll move to heal

As soon as pain allows so we can

Reunite and both move on together

Hold your light, Eleven

Lead me through each gentle step, by step

By inch by loaded memory until

One and one are one, eleven

So glow, child, glow

I'm heading back home

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Track details

From Ænima

1996
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Ænima
Ænima
Tool
Release year
1996
  1. —Jimmy
  2. —Die Eier von Satan
  3. —(-) Ions
  4. —Intermission
  5. —Cesaro Summability
  6. —Message to Harry Manback
  7. —Hooker with a Penis
  8. —Third Eye
  9. —Eulogy
  10. —Pushit
  11. —Useful Idiot

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Writer
Adam Jones, Danny Carey, Justin Chancellor, Maynard James Keenan
Producer
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Drums
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Guitar
Adam Jones
Vocals
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Bass Guitar
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Mastering Engineer
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