Tool - Ticks and Leeches Meaning

Ticks and Leeches Lyrics

Suck and suck. Suckin up all you can suckin up all you can suck.
Workin up under my patience like a little tick.
Fat little parasite. Suck me dry.
My blood is bruised and borrowed. You thieving bastards.
You have turned my blood cold and...

1. anonymous

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   Jun 14th 2006 !⃝

   This song is about Hollywood. I have a bootlegged copy of a Tool concert in LA and Tool dedicated this song to all the Hollywood fans that were in attendence.
2. tool9386

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   Feb 27th 2006 !⃝

   because the lyrics are so vague its hard to tell who Maynard is talking about, the music industry, fans, or just some bitch. who knows, but that's the beauty of tool songs, they can normally have serveral interpretations!
3. AllenTehAwesome

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   Feb 21st 2006 !⃝

   Straight forward, actually. It's just about people that want to use you for their own personal gain. It's not very complex. You'll find this to be a pattern with most Tool songs. The slow, melodic ones tend to be the deep ones, while the heavy ones tend to be straight forward. This, of course, is not always that case, but in general.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
4. SensitiveSoul

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   Feb 10th 2006 !⃝

   Try to compare it with 'The Grudge'...Both songs deal with people hurting and taking advantage of other people, but the songs offer a different solution in the end. Forgive and move on, or take revenge.
   Your pick...
5. anonymous

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   Dec 21st 2005 !⃝

   Well this song is about the music industry of sorts. But that doesn't mean it can't be about someone else **coughthefanscough**. But the music industry does seem to suck your "life" away making you care about money and making albums instead of making music. But interpretation about the fans could mean how fans "suck up" all of the things Tool does, such as having every album and T-Shirt or something of that matter.