dissonance

lack of harmony; a conflict of people’s opinions or actions or characters

Heard in 46 songs (70M+ combined views) — most famously in "Schism" by Tool.

Updated August 8, 2026

Songs Featuring “dissonance

Tool - Schism

Time: 2:22

And the circling is worth it

Finding beauty in the dissonance

There was a time that the pieces fit

Tool - Schism

Alessia Cara - My Song

Time: 1:19

'Cause I'm a movement

There's dissonance, sometimes I make mistakes

Oh, I'm human after all, I'm not your expectations

Alessia Cara - My Song

Motionless in White - Scoring the End of the World

Time: 0:25

Long live our symphony in infamy

Where dissonance remains

We score the final scene, adrenaline

Motionless in White - Scoring the End of the World

Zack de la Rocha - Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)

Time: 1:55

Waitin' for their christenin', I know the neighbors can't help but listen in

A dirty boy who come down on a side of dissonance

I can't even relax without sirens off in the distances

Zack de la Rocha - Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)

John Mayer - Emoji Of A Wave

Time: 0:32

Your heart is where my head should be

The dissonance is killing me

It breaks my heart

John Mayer - Emoji Of A Wave

Meshuggah - Born In Dissonance

Time: 1:44

Those Joules define what we are

An energy born in dissonance

Long before first ever star

Meshuggah - Born In Dissonance

Switchfoot - Who We Are

Time: 1:12

Just limited, misfit, itinerant

Outcasts singing about the dissonance

We were just kids, wide-open

Switchfoot - Who We Are

Ben Howard - Time Is Dancing

Time: 0:56

Wrapped up in dissonance

I'm sorry that I just walked away

Ben Howard - Time Is Dancing

Russ - Take You Back

Time: 1:23

And you getting' it

I'm too raw of a bitch, to be moving with dissonance

Nah, that's not my mission, yeah, that's why you trippin'

Russ - Take You Back

Every Time I Die - Wanderlust

Time: 3:29

Put my body out to sea because your heart is no place for a wretch like me.

Another stranger passing, a common dissonance.

If life is pointless, then point taken.

Every Time I Die - Wanderlust

girl in red - Apartment 402

Time: 2:14

Will I?

There's a dissonance in all that I do

Yeah, nothing feels right or true

girl in red - Apartment 402

Periphery - The Way the News Goes...

Time: 0:37

This heart has chords, but not single one sounds new or fun

Hit strings in dissonance

Pick on and on and on

Periphery - The Way the News Goes...

Dark Tranquillity - In My Absence

Time: 1:24

To what only speaks inside

Every raging dissonance

Each jarring note

Dark Tranquillity - In My Absence

Trivium - The Wretchedness Inside

Time: 2:56

How the fuck did it come to this?

Our love and hate collide in all this dissonance

How did it come to this?

Trivium - The Wretchedness Inside

Less than Jake - Bomb Drop

Time: 0:20

Until you've had enough

Dissonance makes the accidents

All become too much

Less than Jake - Bomb Drop

Frou Frou - Breathe In

Time: 0:28

Chord shapes in air

Caress that dissonance if you dare

And you, breathing in

Frou Frou - Breathe In

Dream Theater - Chosen

Time: 0:32

Her message clear

How can he hear through all the noise and dissonance?

I've seen a sign

Dream Theater - Chosen

24kGoldn - Yellow Lights

Time: 0:18

That doesn't sound right (right)

What's with the dissonance?

You told me you got somethin' to say tonight

24kGoldn - Yellow Lights

Steve Vai - Down Deep into the Pain

Time: 1:22

I don't need sacrifice, I don't need advice

This hurt surrounds me like a dissonance

Anger is power, I use it to protect myself from insanity

Steve Vai - Down Deep into the Pain

Jack Johnson - 3 AM. Radio

Time: 0:27

I wanted proof, you wanted something you could hold onto

But in the end we mistook all the dissonance as the truth

Well, some will sleep in the back-seat, some will look on down the road

Jack Johnson - 3 AM. Radio

Liana Flores - Nightvisions

Time: 0:43

Web of night

Enthralled by the dissonance that's living in

Night visions of your hand in mine

Liana Flores - Nightvisions

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

Time: 7:51

We contemplate oblivion

As we resonate, our dissonance

In godless random interpretation

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

Jfarrari - Cognitive Dissonance

Time: 0:22

There ain't no coming back

Your cognitive dissonance

Prevents you from listening

Jfarrari - Cognitive Dissonance

Temachii - lovin' lowly

Time: 0:46

Repeating what they heard, secrets told to them

A sound I reminisce and lips I've yet to kiss, so much dissonance

A sound I reminisce and lips I've yet to kiss, no self discipline

Temachii - lovin' lowly

Gatton - More

Time: 0:49

Well, wasn't it supposed to be more grand? Oh-oh

I swore on the plane I'd find the cure for dissonance

Flying through this thoughtless course, oh

Gatton - More

August Burns Red - Rationalist

Time: 1:06

Can't you see you're ringing? You're ringing out

This is dissonance

This is dissonance

August Burns Red - Rationalist

Jean-Jacques Goldman - C'est ta chance

Time: 3:12

C'est ta chance

Ta force, ta dissonance

Faudra remplacer tous les "pas de chance" par de l'intelligence

Jean-Jacques Goldman - C'est ta chance

Lamb of God - The Killing Floor

Time: 2:34

A puppet god dancing at the end of icy strings

Of cognitive dissonance, purchased tyranny

A red Caesar rising, and history does rhyme

Lamb of God - The Killing Floor

Andrew Bird - Stop n' Shop

Time: 1:15

It's what you think you are, are, are, are, are

Whoa, you hear that dissonance now (dissonance)

Yeah, the sound of sweet romance now (sweet romance)

Andrew Bird - Stop n' Shop

José González - The Void

Time: 0:51

The lore lives on

Impeding the dissonance to resolve

José González - The Void

Bad Religion - Nothing to Dismay

Time: 0:35

Nothing to dismay

The dissonance runs deep in me, resort to weak applause

Associate and denigrate the root without a cause

Bad Religion - Nothing to Dismay

Earl Sweatshirt - EAST

Time: 1:13

I wait to be the light shimmering from a star

Cognitive dissonance shattered and the necessary venom restored

As if it matters if you think it matters anymore

Earl Sweatshirt - EAST

Hatebreed - Dissonance

Time: 1:48

All I hear is

Dissonance

Hatebreed - Dissonance

Watain - De Profundis

Time: 1:17

Ever shall they rise from the underground,

The defiant chords of dissonance, to shatter harmony.

Beware; that sound,

Watain - De Profundis

David Crosby - Time I Have

Time: 0:24

Angry isn't how I want to spend what time I have

Cognitive dissonance they call it

I wonder just how small it

David Crosby - Time I Have

Alanis Morissette - Straitjacket

Time: 2:00

I am bound in a straitjacket

Grand dissonance

The strings of my puppet are cut

Alanis Morissette - Straitjacket

Jethro Tull - The Silver Cord

Time: 1:48

Come crowding in a different key

Melodies decaying in sweet dissonance

There was a rush along the Fulham Road

Jethro Tull - The Silver Cord

Primal Scream - Innocent Money

Time: 4:46

that our work is never done

Cognitive dissonance

Proud of your ignorance

Primal Scream - Innocent Money

Nia Perez - cognitive dissonance

Time: 0:58

It was never a coincidence

It's always cognitive dissonance

Playing games with my innocence

Nia Perez - cognitive dissonance

The Armed - A More Perfect Design

Time: 0:56

I'm putting blinders on, and I can't stand to see

The dissonance is turning sadness to fatigue

Vacation, workout tip, then child amputee

The Armed - A More Perfect Design

SHeDAISY - Rush

Time: 1:34

To know that here and now with you remains forever after all

To hear the beauty in dissonance

To finally know that all our questions make perfect sense

SHeDAISY - Rush

The Mars Volta - Graveyard Love

Time: 0:06

There's a little house on the outskirts of town

Tilted in a vow of dissonance

You better walk behind me, walk behind me again

The Mars Volta - Graveyard Love

Voivod - Holographic Thinking

Time: 0:24

Pulsing streams

Scratching for dissonance, laying codes

Matter chords interchanging playing modes

Voivod - Holographic Thinking

Muni Long - Ain't Easy

Time: 0:38

But I love you so much

The cognitive dissonance

It ain't easy

Muni Long - Ain't Easy

Covenant - Wind of the North

Time: 2:36

Annihilation unfortunately inhibited itself

In the name of humanity the dissonance spread

The heavenly became so ripped and blurred

Covenant - Wind of the North

Nickel Creek - Water Under the Bridge, Pt. 2

Time: 0:47

To more and more life in these eddies in our water under the bridge

Celebrants of the dissonance

Nickel Creek - Water Under the Bridge, Pt. 2