Tool - Fear Inoculum
Time: 4:02
Recast my tale
Weave my allegorical elegy
♪

lament; a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
Heard in 24 songs (51M+ combined views) — most famously in "Fear Inoculum" by Tool.
Updated August 19, 2026
Time: 4:02
Recast my tale
Weave my allegorical elegy
♪

Time: 0:39
Serenade with a swollen tongue
Let no elegy be sung
I am the deep shade of jaded

Time: 2:44
Then allow her all my power in the shower, nigga
This is an elegy to celery, a tribute to the green
'Cause it's the only thing these motherfuckers need is getting money

Time: 0:56
I want to, I just want to flee
To flee from this elegy
Those funny faces in mind

Time: 0:56
The sky, the earth, and all between
You've written out my elegy again, again, again, again
Yeah

Time: 3:16
Elegy for love that couldn't end

Time: 2:36
But I'll take the
Rewrite my elegy, childhood memories
Fall in love with me, get soaked

Time: 2:11
I hear the morning choir
Sing to me their elegy

Time: 3:07
A requiem was never sung
No elegy was read
No monument was carved in stone in memory of the dead

Time: 0:19
My ecstasy, my remedy
It's enthralling now, in the elegy
How you're all I see

Time: 0:04
This is the end of everything
A degenerate culture's elegy
Now the reaper is waiting at the door

Time: 0:58
闇夜に踊る Beast
潜む本性 (Enemy) と 歌う哀歌 (Elegy)
鏡の前 睨み合う You and me

Time: 1:24
♪
I've got your epitaph written, elegy to scream
A hole dug deep for the gluttony

Time: 0:45
Divides and conquers my mind
An elegy for fading youth
Welcome to mankind

Time: 0:59
The drip with a frenzy (drip, drip)
To rewrite the elegy (drip, drip)
That would trigger your fury

Time: 0:40
From the branches to the apple
To the elegy in the bone yard
You'll be knockin' in my heart

Time: 0:45
Part the matted overgrowth
To read the carven elegy
Some think it so haunting

Time: 2:14
Stay close to me, my love
Theosophy, in elegy love me
Oh, my heart will fantasize of Eden

Time: 0:23
Funeration
That was my elegy
Open casket full of lies

Time: 2:08
Your senses awake
The final elegy waits
Cold harsh first light

Time: 1:29
To the ruin of your face
Elegy of your name
Still burning in my chest

Time: 4:02
In the curving strains
Of this tragic elegy
Will you keep me

Time: 1:21
Under solar-system simulations
Your hesitations elegy
These are the last days

Time: 0:09
I'd like to be a good American and write an elegy to the automobile
No matter where it takes me I don't really feel any different
