Third Eye (Live)

By Tool

On Salival

Released on December 12, 2000

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[Intro: Timothy Leary]

Think for yourself, question authority

Think for yourself, question authority

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we're going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities Who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality

To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness;

Chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself

Think for yourself, question authority

Think for yourself, question authority

Think for yourself, question authority

Think for yourself

Think for yourself

Order, regulations, rules

Think for yourself, question authority

Order, regulations, rules, comfort us


[Verse 1]

Dreaming of that face again

It's bright and blue and shimmering

Grinning wide

And comforting me with its three warm and wild eyes


[Verse 2]

On my back and tumbling

Down that hole and back again (And back again)

Rising up

And wiping the webs and the dew from my withered eye


[Refrain]

In, out, in, out

In, out, in, out

In, out, in, out

In, out, in, out

In, out, in, out

In, out, in, out

In, out, in, out

In, out, in, out

In, out, in, out

In, out, in, out

In, out, in, out

In, out


[Verse 3]

A child's rhyme stuck in my head

It said that life is but a dream

I've spent so many years in question

To find I've known this all along


[Chorus 1]

So good to see you

I've missed you so much

So glad it's over

I've missed you so much

Came out to watch you play

Why are you running away?

Came out to watch you play

Why are you running?


[Bridge]

Shrouding all the ground around me

Is this holy crow above me

Black as holes within a memory

Blue as our new second sun

I stick my hand into the shadow

Pull the pieces from the sand

Try to attempt to reassemble

See just who I might have been

I do not recognize the vessel

But the eyes seem so familiar

Like phosphorescent desert buttons

Singing one familiar song


[Chorus 1]

So good to see you

I've missed you so much

So glad it's over

I've missed you so much

Came out to watch you play

Why you running away?

Came out to watch you play

Why you running away?


[Post-Chorus]

Prying open my third eye

Prying open my third eye

Prying open my third eye

Prying open my third eye


[Chorus 2]

So good to see you once again

I thought that you were hiding

And you thought that I had run away

Chasing the tail of dogma


[Pre-Chorus]

I opened my eye, I opened my eye

I opened my eye and there we were

I opened my eye, I opened my eye

I opened my eye and there we were


[Chorus 2]

So good to see you once again

I thought that you were hiding from me

And you thought that I had run away

Chasing a trail of smoke and reason


[Post-Chorus/Outro]

Prying open my third eye

Prying open my third eye

Prying open my third eye

Prying open my third eye