Know Your Enemy

Tool's singer, Maynard James Keenan, sings the part at the 2:40 mark that goes: "I've got no patience now, so sick of complacence now, I've got no patience now, so sick of complacence now, sick of sick of sick of sick of you." Keenan almost became the lead singer of Rage Against The Machine. After his band Lock Up split in 1990 he jammed with Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk, but he decided to form Tool instead of fronting their new band, which recruited Zack de la Rocha as frontman and became RATM. When this song was released on Rage's self-titled debut album in 1992, Tool was just starting to build a following. Their first album wasn't released until 1993. Keenan has performed live with RATM, including an appearance at Coachella in 1999.

The lyrics stress how if we can identify those who are out to make us conform and follow blindly, we are more effective in creating change. Schools are notorious for this, and Zack De La Rocha identifies his teachers as his enemies because they told him to fight his own humanity.

That's a real photo on the album cover. It's Thich Quang Duc, an elderly Buddhist monk, immolating himself on a main intersection in Saigon, Vietnam on June 11, 1963 to protest the rule of Ngo Dinh Diem, the American-backed leader of Vietnam who was waging an anti-Buddhist campaign in southern Vietnam. This action was witnessed and filmed by many members of the American media and led to the end of the Diem rule in Vietnam. This photo won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize.