Tool – The Pot (Lyrics and Meaning)

The idea of this song is not marijuana. Anyone could figure that out if they looked even an inch past the title. This song is about hypocrisy, specifically in Kangaroo Courts. Also the government and lawmakers in general. Kangaroo Courts are just referred to in the song specifically. Kangaroo Courts were much more popular in older times, but we still have them today. It’s a court case in which the accused is considered guilty before he really gets a fair trial. Now, who is the government and the court system to say that person is guilty of a crime while they are committing a crime themselves (Who are you to wave your finger)? Hypocrites. Kangaroo courts in the older days typically dealt with pot dealers and smokers. All the references to eyes (“Eyehole deep in muddy waters”, “Got lemon juice up in your eye”, “Weeping shades of indigo”) all refer to the hypocrite being blinded by something or another and not being able to see the obvious: he’s a “fuckin’ hypocrite”. Lemon juice makes you shut your eyes Indigo is known to represent intuition and spiritual knowledge. The hypocrite is weeping away their intuition and knowledge, until they don’t even realize their own hypocrisy. “When you pissed all over my black kettle, you must’ve been high” You’re the pot calling the kettle black and putting him down for it, or “pissing” on him. And it’s obviously not with straight thinking or intuition that you did this. The lyrics here could either mean literally high, or maybe “you must …
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