Tool - Schism
Time: 2:22
And the circling is worth it
Finding beauty in the dissonance
There was a time that the pieces fit

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
Time: 2:22
And the circling is worth it
Finding beauty in the dissonance
There was a time that the pieces fit

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

Time: 0:25
Long live our symphony in infamy
Where dissonance remains
We score the final scene, adrenaline

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

Time: 0:32
Your heart is where my head should be
The dissonance is killing me
It breaks my heart

Time: 1:44
Those Joules define what we are
An energy born in dissonance
Long before first ever star

Time: 1:12
Just limited, misfit, itinerant
Outcasts singing about the dissonance
We were just kids, wide-open

Time: 0:56
Wrapped up in dissonance
I'm sorry that I just walked away

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'

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.

Time: 2:14
Will I?
There's a dissonance in all that I do
Yeah, nothing feels right or true

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

Time: 1:24
To what only speaks inside
Every raging dissonance
Each jarring note

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?

Time: 0:20
Until you've had enough
Dissonance makes the accidents
All become too much

Time: 0:28
Chord shapes in air
Caress that dissonance if you dare
And you, breathing in

Time: 0:32
Her message clear
How can he hear through all the noise and dissonance?
I've seen a sign

Time: 0:18
That doesn't sound right (right)
What's with the dissonance?
You told me you got somethin' to say tonight

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

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

Time: 0:43
Web of night
Enthralled by the dissonance that's living in
Night visions of your hand in mine

Time: 7:51
We contemplate oblivion
As we resonate, our dissonance
In godless random interpretation

Time: 0:22
There ain't no coming back
Your cognitive dissonance
Prevents you from listening

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

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

Time: 1:06
Can't you see you're ringing? You're ringing out
This is dissonance
This is dissonance

Time: 3:12
C'est ta chance
Ta force, ta dissonance
Faudra remplacer tous les "pas de chance" par de l'intelligence

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

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)

Time: 0:51
The lore lives on
Impeding the dissonance to resolve
♪

Time: 0:35
Nothing to dismay
The dissonance runs deep in me, resort to weak applause
Associate and denigrate the root without a cause

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

Time: 1:48
All I hear is
Dissonance

Time: 1:17
Ever shall they rise from the underground,
The defiant chords of dissonance, to shatter harmony.
Beware; that sound,

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

Time: 2:00
I am bound in a straitjacket
Grand dissonance
The strings of my puppet are cut

Time: 1:48
Come crowding in a different key
Melodies decaying in sweet dissonance
There was a rush along the Fulham Road

Time: 4:46
that our work is never done
Cognitive dissonance
Proud of your ignorance

Time: 0:58
It was never a coincidence
It's always cognitive dissonance
Playing games with my innocence

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

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

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

Time: 0:24
Pulsing streams
Scratching for dissonance, laying codes
Matter chords interchanging playing modes

Time: 0:38
But I love you so much
The cognitive dissonance
It ain't easy

Time: 2:36
Annihilation unfortunately inhibited itself
In the name of humanity the dissonance spread
The heavenly became so ripped and blurred

Time: 0:47
To more and more life in these eddies in our water under the bridge
Celebrants of the dissonance
