Tool - Schism
Time: 4:48
A tendency to
Atrophy any
Sense of compassion

wasting away; a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
Heard in 43 songs (64M+ combined views) — most famously in "Schism" by Tool.
Updated August 14, 2026
Time: 4:48
A tendency to
Atrophy any
Sense of compassion

Time: 1:42
Deface the life inside of me
Drain the heart with atrophy
And take away the remedy

Time: 1:18
The gears are set in place to guide me to affinity
Atrophy, the thorn of time's aging vine
Harrowing winds press the mesh and curse the flesh rotting away

Time: 0:33
His accent sounds like the rarest culture
Asking me, my atrophy stabbin me gradually
Says his attribute, was satanic, masonic, ironic

Time: 1:05
There is a circle, it is a plan
Dead skin will atrophy itself to start again
Look closely at the open wound

Time: 0:34
Sit still long enough to listen to yourself
Or maybe just long enough for you to atrophy to hell
C'est comme ça, c'est comme ça

Time: 1:30
Darkened bridges sink away into the brackishness
Swirling sin into a rainbow of atrophy
♪

Time: 1:09
Sandman point you down to me
Hesh made make the rest stiff atrophy
Fuck weak, no respect, no chance

Time: 2:02
In prolonged silence, we all stand defiled
We fall in line with the atrophy of life
The calm before the storm is a deafening silence

Time: 0:18
My peace, my empathy
No babies sleep on atrophy
Your unborn love and fetal stress

Time: 0:24
You never talk to me
Do we suffer from social atrophy?
♪

Time: 1:01
Piece by piece you take
I'm stuck in atrophy
I'm trapped inside this state I fade

Time: 1:20
Insanity is so near
Heart begins to seize, watch you atrophy
Reality is now clear

Time: 0:26
What's the matter with you? How come you rhyme monosyllabically?
Is atrophy shrinking your entire vocabulary?
Your style's like garbage cans meant to be taken out on a weekly basis

Time: 1:18
I've nothing left to give
I've nothing but atrophy
Did I cross you?

Time: 2:19
Your head (time with the family, sleep the wheel, the tomb, the)
Take form (dance with the atrophy cold, and warm, and warm, your)
Your first body, last body

Time: 2:59
When you don't know what you're missing
It's apathy turned into atrophy
A lesson learned in human anatomy

Time: 3:11
From packed in a menagerie to cheese and crackers at the apogee
Add a little finding God and trying not to atrophy, um
I know you're whispering about me at the corner store

Time: 0:12
Can't switch the tone while I'm 'bout to leave (come back, come back)
I worked it down 'til the atrophy (come back, come back)
You missed the mark and her majesty (come back, come back)

Time: 0:22
Nothing controls us, nothing breeds
The void awakens in the quickening of atrophy
Answer no master, never the slave

Time: 0:19
Air blast to pull you in
You feel the atrophy
Electric, electric pulse

Time: 4:05
Listening to that empty space
Atrophy of the mind
Chasing fear

Time: 0:04
Paralyzing atrophy locked
In her web of mimicry

Time: 1:36
The flesh is soaking in the brine
The atrophy is undefined
It's funny just the way it always seems to be

Time: 0:20
Just a little hush, babe
Our veins are busy but my heart's in atrophy
Any way to distract and sedate

Time: 1:57
Skin now falls away
Facial muscles atrophy, soon to putrefy
The soul has failed mankind

Time: 3:30
Caught in this endless spiral, locked equilibrium
A stasis founded in this atrophy of thought
Your eyes unflinching, unaffected by the misery

Time: 1:59
Dementia and senility
My failing muscles atrophy
I've lost all ability

Time: 2:20
no more just settling.
This time goodbye to atrophy for
we were meant to be alive.

Time: 0:26
In a house without a hallway, there's nothing more to see
Four walls full of pickup sticks and atrophy
Where the sun shines bright and I don't have to lock my door

Time: 0:44
(Waiting for you to decide)
Simultaneous sitting 'til you atrophy
Maybe you try to be pretty instead of kind

Time: 5:13
In times of peace and embrace
When the minstrel of atrophy mock us
There's need for love and there's need for death

Time: 1:42
But I'm done and bringing the agony
Going together like Gollum and atrophy
Ravaging all of your bodily cavities

Time: 1:26
So lay here awake with me
In beautiful atrophy
Feeling heartless

Time: 0:52
Sleep now in the soil, the dust in the debris
A stolen smoke ascends, leaving a shell to atrophy
Meet with the earth as the sober spirit sings

Time: 2:36
It's 'cause they have to be
These motherfuckers weaker than muscle atrophy
This life feels like a simulation, man, it has to be

Time: 0:00
The mind can atrophy
Such mediocrity

Time: 0:00
Atrophy, atrophy
I deteriorate

Time: 2:34
Ecstasy
Atrophy
Genocide

Time: 1:13
Bleaching bones calcified trophy
Spindly veins feel now atrophy
Darkened call coming forward

Time: 2:03
pornographic fuck-fest ride, A.I.D.S.-infested diatribes,
orgiastic atrophy all reduced to greed,
forced penetration, not one a willing slave?

Time: 1:39
You might actually need physical therapy to walk again
Your leg muscles atrophy that fast
It's the same thing with ideas

Time: 0:51
Tradition rules despite the rotten truth
Despite the atrophy, despite the waste and greed
It's too easy to feel conceit
