A Perfect Circle: The Noose Meaning

The Noose Lyrics

So glad to see you, well,
Overcome them, completely silent now
With heaven's help
You cast your demons out

And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're...

1. anonymous

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   Sep 21st 2008 !⃝

   Im going to agree with the person way above me. I believe this song is about a murderer on death row, the one I was specifically thinking of was a woman who brutally axe murdered some people, and her last words were that god had forgiven her, and that's all fine and dandy but god isn't the one she hurt, how is she gonna "make amends" with the dead? and that's it.
2. anonymous

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   Jun 18th 2008 !⃝

   It's about religion. Why are they "making amends to the dead"? They could have did something wrong to him that makes him feel 'dead inside' (and are now sorry). Which is what Maynard sings in Bottom off Tool's Undertow album.

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3. anonymous

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   Apr 14th 2008 !⃝

   "So glad to see you well
   Overcome and completely silent now
   With heaven's help
   You cast your demons out"
   
   
   So glad you're well and you got saved
   
   
   "And not to pull your halo down
   Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
   But I'm more than just a little curious
   How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends
   To the dead
   To the dead"
   
   
   Not to pull you off your self righteous pedestal, but you are just saved. What are you going to do for Jesus?
   
   
   "Recall the deeds as if they're all
   Someone else's
   Atrocious stories
   Now you stand reborn
   Before us all
   So glad to see you well"
   
   
   I'm glad you got saved
   
   
   With your halo slippin' down
   
   
   Turning back away from Jesus
4. anonymous

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   Feb 20th 2008 !⃝

   Why is everyone with the murder and drug interpretations?
   
   Obviously the song is about someone who "found God", someone who was plagued with troubles that caused them to hurt people a lot before they "washed their hands of it." But there are some things you can't take back, and just getting rid of the behavior doesn't fix what you did, it doesn't make it right.
   
   The issue is not that the people died by someone's fault NECESSARILY, though it's possible there's no direct evidence of that in the song. The people who died could have just died before the person was supposedly "saved." The person who fixed themselves might have just taken too long to make it up to the people who deserved it the most. This revelation made by Maynard in the song is what chokes them, unable to be prideful in their "halo", which chokes them symbolically for their failure to live up to its angelic image.
5. anonymous

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   Dec 13th 2007 !⃝

   I am pretty sure this song is about Christ and his false promises : )

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6. anonymous

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   Dec 8th 2007 !⃝

   Someone, say who killed someone (4 children in a microwave, etc)or a druggy Who goes through psychiatric help/ rehab. They feel better and clean, but (and not to destroy their new found peace with themself) how will they make ammends to the people they injured with their crimes?
   
   They think about them like it wasn't their fault, their doing. And they come back into society (He sarcastically states, I'm glad to see YOU well)
   
   This doesn't even need to be about that. Just humans in general. We forgive ourselves for the harm we cause for others merely to make it easier for our selves, but we do nothing to make peace with the people we hurt in the first place.
7. Riktor

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   Jun 7th 2007 !⃝

   This is what I love about music. This song means something completely different to me than what you all are saying, and everyone is right. Music means whatever it means to you. Anyway, I'll just pick out a few lines in particular, as most of it is self-explanatory I think.
   
   When I heard the lyrics for the first time I took it as a critique of Christianity.
   
   So glad to see you well. (in it's current, "healthier" form)
   Cast your demons out. (all the bloodletting and violence in it's past)
   
   How you're planning to go about making your amends to the dead. (All of the countless people murdered in the name of Christianity)
   
   Recall the deeds as if they're all someone else's atrocious stories. (How modern Christians talk so easily and thoughtlessly about The Crusades, Witchhunts, etc.)
   
   Anyway, that's how I've always interpreted this song, probably due to my own atheism.
8. anonymous

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   Nov 6th 2006 !⃝

   I'm not sure that this song is specifically about someone recovering from drug addiction; it could be about any undesirable trait. Based on songs such as "judith" and tool's "eulogy," I believe Maynard has a big problem with religion in general, and specifically with christianity. I have always interpreted this song as pertaining to someone who has "found god." everyone knows hypocrites, and even though we have all been guilty of being one ourselves, we certainly hate it. What some of you said about drug addiction is exactly right, except I think it applies more to any kind of sin, not only addiction or murder, as others suggested. The person (or type of person) the song is for most likely puts up the holier-than-thou facade, but Maynard seems to know there is more lurking beneath the halo and white gown. The line: "recall the deeds as if they're all someone else's" solidifies my belief that the song is about someone who is claiming to be godly but does not recognize or admit their faults.

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9. Kornelius

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   Oct 8th 2006 !⃝

   I think ih8u2ho is close, I believe the song is about a person who used god to help him recover from an addiction and the song is sarcasticly mocking this person and anyone else who uses god to ovecome his problems
   
   i think the last two stanzas explain this, Maynard is saying please explain to me how you are going to make up for what you have done by turning to god, how are you going to recover when your halo is choking you.
   
   "But I'm more than just a little curious
   how you're planning to go about
   making your amends to the dead
   to the dead
   
   with your halo slipping down
   
   your halo slipping down to choke you now"

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10. anonymous

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    Jul 21st 2006 !⃝

    The noose has been one of my favorite songs since the first time I heard it because it of course sounds incredible but also because of the duality of the lyrics. While I don't doubt that the song is about someone who recovered, I think that it also fits someone, like a military leader, who has made decisions that got people killed, and is being judged at the time of his death.
11. diezop

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    Apr 25th 2006 !⃝

    This song is about someone that would be the most unlikly person that commited a murder an assumed nice person(your halo slipping down) so he/she denied the murder as if it were someone else(Recall the deeds as if They're all someone else's)then like a narrator Maynard says to him/her(So glad to see you well Overcome and completely silent now With heaven's help You cast your demons out)The person thinks that God will just let it slip and that he will be fine but that not true....like a narrator again Maynard askes the person how is he/she going to fix things now that they are deceased(But I'm more than just a little curious How you're planning to go about Making your amends to the dead)and in the end the death of whoever will catch up to him/her.(Your halo slipping down to choke you now)

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12. 3Libras

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    Feb 26th 2006 !⃝

    This song is about those people who have gone through a recovery program and are now holding themselves up on a pedastal as if they were never low. They give themselves a halo but it isn't very deserved. They seem to forget how horrible they were and how many people they hurt.

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