anonymous February 1st, 2006 11:41AM  
Ok, nice try buddy, the song the outsider is through the eyes of the agresser. MJK does songs in diffrent perpectives. The song is about a person telling you to suck it, move on, get over it, but in reality that person has no idea what the individual is going through mentally and or physicaly. MJK is singing through the eyes of a person that has a lack of compassion for the indivaul that he is prosicuting out of instinct and anger. "they were right about you" "suicidal imbesal" are some of the supports of what this song is about. Think before you open your god dam mouth. know the facts don't speak out of complete arggance. Its all on the APC DVD people

Timmy February 3rd, 2006 10:44PM  
I think that any song written by Maynard is up to the listeners interpretations so I don't think you should be so hard on Toolio. but I would agree with your interpretation.

anonymous November 22nd, 2006 01:30PM  
I think this song is in the perspective of someone who is talking about someone they know who wants to kill themself and he belives its all an act. That they're doing it for the attention and the reaction they'll get when people hear he wants to kill himself.
"drama queen, craving fame and all it's decadence"
supports the fact that this person belives he's doing it for attention and that he's a drama queen.
think about it.. put it on a fault line"
also says that he thinks about killing himself.. Then he just doesn't, he puts it on a fault line. If he really wanted to kill himself he would get it over with already.

anonymous April 17th, 2007 11:01AM  
Whatever Maynard's true intentions, this song seems to reflect and ridicule the type of behavior associated with Histrionic Personality Disorder. In summary, an attention seeker with emotions that appear shallow and transient as well as a whole lot of other symptoms that fit lines of the song. It seems as though Maynard is in the position of someone frustrated by the disorder, whether this was his intention or not is another matter.

anonymous May 9th, 2007 12:17AM  
I can't believe that incorrect lyrics to the climax of this song have so permeated the internet. Maynard sings "coalesce, coalesce!" not "come to this!" or "I'm over this" etc etc. Coalesce means to unite one's incongruencies, which Maynard is screaming (from the point of view of the outsider) at his friend as if to say - just get better! Put your pieces back together! How hard can it be?!

anonymous May 17th, 2007 08:55AM  
Ok I'm tired of everyone thinking that they know what Tool/APC songs are about. Maynard is always making the lyrics for the listeners to interpret for themselves and put in their own perspective. There are no true meanings to these songs. like Tool "stinkfist" for example. people were like "its about fist fucking" and other people were like no. So I was thinking, maybe Maynard wants everyone to think that and he wants the wise people to put in their own opinions. I think all apc/tool songs are all opinionated. So please don't be all super bitchy when it comes to interpreting their songs. oh and "think twice before opening your mouth"

anonymous September 20th, 2007 12:44PM  
It sounds to me like the song is about his concerns for a coked up actress friend that's depressed, suicidal and caught up in the whole superficial LA "it girl" lifestyle. "This is not the way I'm wired" likely refers to how his own cocaine use doesn't get the best of him. "One bullet at a time" refers to a vial used to store/snort coke. "Fault line" could be a semi cryptic reference to a "line" of coke. "Numb belligerence" could refer to numbing the gums of her mouth w/ cocaine and how she speaks/acts while under the influence of cocaine. Many references to addiction "lying to yourself again", "lying to my face again", "Disconnect and self destruct"

anonymous February 27th, 2008 05:18PM  
The line "one bullet at a time"
this may seem like a long shot, but could it be linked to actually killing people, before committing suicide, like the Virginia Tech shootings and other similar happenings? this song kind of ties this way for me. And Maynard could be tieing this with a "this might not have happened if the people around you weren't so ignorant to what is wrong with you" type theme? just wondering.

HACKER May 16th, 2008 09:34AM  
Ok it actually sounds like at the end he says such a mess, over this, coalesce! but that's up to yourself to determine. now I'm not going to give you my interpretation because I personally thought that the lyrics were very clear in this song unlike many others written by jimmy here.

anonymous August 13th, 2008 12:59AM  
Hmm that's neat, Maynard singing a song through the interpretation of someone with less compassion, not understanding the situation.

But I still have to say, I like this song for my interpretation, which is a cold lack of compassion for people who do unto themselves terrible things that they could avoid if they hadn't been so thoughtless and so easily influenced.

This song does Not validate the suicidal depressive ways of many youth today, even though Maynard's creation for the song attempts to bash, somehow, those whom disregard the suicidal depressive youth of today.

I personally believe that there is common ground needed to be taken. a compromise for both the compassionless side of those whom have avoided such fatal things as drugs and other addictions AND for those people who Have fallen victim to drugs, etc.

anonymous January 14th, 2009 11:53PM  
someone with a self destructive behavior and the narrator just doesn't get why they want to be that way. end of story.

anonymous March 31st, 2009 08:06PM  
This song is somewhat of a duality for me. Regardless of Maynard's explanation of this song's lyrics are, he does aim for leaving meaning up to the listener. It's like saying to someone who is depressed and suicidal "How bad can your life really be? Stop being such a bitch, you'll die anyway, so enjoy life." Some people aren't as resistant to stress and depression and have weaker wills and a low to non-existent sense of self. "Not the way I'm wired..." kind of shows that difference between strong and weak will. Some people sincerely do not want to be alive and deal with life. I believe that they have a personal right to take their own life.

anonymous May 14th, 2009 11:22AM  
I hve to agree with alot of the postings. It's up to you how you wanted to interpret. But, I think that this may have something to do with the music video. "Bikini Bandits" which he played a Satan character and the pope played by Dee Dee Ramone. So, possibly could be about Dee Dee (since he did die I think around 2002 and this album was released around that time too). Maybe, it's some twisted way of paying his respects. Just my opinion, which is just like an asshole (everyone has one).