Cyber_7 August 25th, 2009 11:32PM  
Why can't we not be sober?
I just want to start this over.
Why can't we drink forever.
I just want to start things over

It's not about anything to do with drinking or mind altering drugs but the idea of being apart of religion and the fact they they try to brainwash you into thinking that they are right nd everything you do/say/or believe is wrong unless you follow them.

Wel that's what I think anyway.

Cyber_7 August 25th, 2009 11:32PM  
Why can't we not be sober?
I just want to start this over.
Why can't we drink forever.
I just want to start things over

It's not about anything to do with drinking or mind altering drugs but the idea of being apart of religion and the fact they they try to brainwash you into thinking that they are right nd everything you do/say/or believe is wrong unless you follow them.

Wel that's what I think anyway.

anonymous September 4th, 2009 02:23AM  
Have you guys not been paying attention? In one of the flashes where you see the lead singer, he has bleading hands from the center of his palms. Watch it and you will know that this was directed toward the catholic church.

anonymous September 4th, 2009 09:19AM  
I think it's about some guy the band knows who can't think creatively unless he's under the influence.... actually I've heard quite a few people say that.

anonymous October 1st, 2009 11:50PM  
This song reminds me of a drug addiction: "there's a shadow just behind me, shrouding every step I take, making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me." When you are addicted to a drug that addiction is always and unlying issue, "hiding in the shadows" so to speak. I don't know how many of you have ever been or known someone who was drug addicted but they make many promises that they rarely keep. As for the chorus, "Why can't we not be sober", is a double negative which would be the opposite of sober...intoxication. Sounds to me like an addict justifying their addiction as if to say, "what so wrong with being high, drunk, etc." Then there is the bridge: "I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile. I will only complicate you. Trust in me and fall as well. I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave, i will work to elevate you just enough to bring you down." If that is not an example of exactly what drugs do to a person than I don't know what is. Drugs do all of those things to otherwise respectable people. I could be wrong, but that's is what I think of when I here this song.

anonymous December 31st, 2009 01:46AM  
facts mjk had a very very close friend they used to drink and do drugs together friend got sober and didn't want to be around not sober people this all took place in grand rapids michigan while he attended kendall college lived in house on fulton st or was it fuller...near diamond..smelled like cat piss address of the force that drove the friends apart...1020 college ave sorry to burst the bubble of "not literal" this one actually is.

anonymous December 31st, 2009 01:51AM  
oh yeah...."I am just a worthless liar. I am just an imbecile. I will only complicate you. Trust in me and fall as well. I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave, i will work to elevate you just enough to bring you down." ....this is what mjk's friend's , new and sober aquaintences said to him about mjk...he's mocking them

anonymous January 20th, 2010 05:36PM  
I agree with all the ones about religion completely, however there is a double meaning behind the "Why can't we not be sober" part. Tool themselves said that a friend of the band could only tap into his creative side when he's drunk.