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Sweat by TOOL

TRACK

TOOL

Sweat

Release date: 10th March 1992

From Opiate
Track 1
3:46
MetalMusicRockHard Rock
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About This Track

'Sweat' by TOOL is a 1992 metal track from the album 'Opiate'. The lyrics put the speaker in a feverish, out of control state, with sweating and breathing alongside looping thoughts and a dizzy sense of repetition, as if they have been in the same place before. Lines turn the scene into a burning, sun-soaked image, with a hunter and the fisherman under heat, while the speaker sinks deeper, almost as though they are swimming. The overall impression is claustrophobic and disorienting, captured in the recurring feeling that everything is familiar and yet slipping.

"Sweat" is a track by TOOL, from the album Opiate, released 10th March 1992. The track is 3:46 long. It's filed under Metal. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about TOOL.

About the Artist

TOOL

TOOL

Lyrics

Sweat

I'm sweating and breathing and staring and thinking
And sinking deeper and it's almost like I'm swimming
The sun is burning hot again on the hunter and the fisherman
And I'm trying to remember when but it makes me dizzy

Seems like I've been here before
Seems so familiar
Seems like I'm slipping
Into a dream within a dream
It's the way you whisper

The sun is setting cool again, I'm a thinker and a fisherman
And I'm trying to remember when but it makes me dizzy
And I'm sweating and breathing and staring and thinking
And sinking deeper and it's almost like I'm swimming

Seems like I've been here before
Seems so familiar
Seems like I'm slipping
Into a dream within a dream
It's the way you whisper
Drags me under
Takes me home

Seems like I've been here before
Seems so familiar
Seems like I'm slipping
Into a dream within a dream
It's the way you whisper
Drags me under
Takes me home

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Track details

From Opiate

3:461992
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Album
Opiate
Opiate
TOOL
10th March 1992
Track number
1
Release year
1992
  1. 1Sweat
    3:46
  2. 2Hush
    2:48
  3. 3Part of Me
    3:18
  4. 4Cold and Ugly (Live)
    4:09

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Adam Jones, Danny Carey, Maynard James Keenan, Paul D’Amour
    Producer
    Steve Hansgen, Sylvia Massy, Tool
    Engineer
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    Jeff Sheehan, John Jackson (Engineer)
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    Mastering Engineer
    Eddy Schreyer
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