A Perfect Circle - So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish (Lyrics) [HQ]

[@nickcarroll3242]

Does anyone else get chills when he says “now Willy Wonka, major Tom, Ali and leia have moved on” or is it just me? I think that line is just beautiful.

[@krisg9848]

I think the song is a masterpiece myself. My opinion

[@philyates7670]

It's not supposed to be beautiful, it's referring to the fact that in modern times our focus is always on the wrong thing. Whilst Trump and Jong Il nearly brought the world to nuclear war, society was more bothered about which celebrity had just died, hence Willy Wonka, Major Tom, Ali and Leia. Referencing The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (hence the title), when the world ends only the dolphins will have paid attention and will have fucked off before it occurs whilst we remain to face our inevitable doom, because we were too distracted by unimportant shit to see it coming. It's a fucking genius song with amazingly intelligent lyrics. It's somewhat ironic that you find the line beautiful. Maynard is a fantastic lyricist. This, Delicious, Judith, The Pot, Right In Two and Aenima are absolutely amazing from this stand point.

[@PlayDoh72]

@@philyates7670 Doesn't make it any less beautiful.

[@DerSnoeziewoezie]

Ticker tape parade... our hair and skin.. like Marilyn monroe... in an afterwind

[@jeffreyswanson2937]

@Phil Yates I agree with your assessment but still think every line is beautiful, and tragic...

[@TheAjusmc]

I love how he uses the term "afterwind" which describes the wind drawn inwards towards the blast center of a nuclear explosion.

[@jeffcooper7258]

I had to explain that one to several people. Nukes are fascinating devices. The only safe place in a nuclear war is ground zero.

[@jonmandelbaum5395]

Reminds me of the Rage against the machine lyric about the Priests of Hiroshima

[@norfolkn.waypal4658]

Its a double meaning, actually. Marilyn Monroe in an afterwind also refers to the famous picture of her standing on a grate over a subway while the wind from the subway passing blows her skirt up. And the nuclear blast thingy too.

[@jeaniehat]

@@norfolkn.waypal4658 Maynard is famous for these double meanings.

[@danielleperruquet1451]

Yes brilliantly applied to the icon and the famous photo insanely different scenarios living for these talents as usual

[@TheSnortles]

I’m sorry, but APC has outdone even themselves, hands down. Just mind-blowing. Bravissimo.

[@deepsolar169]

Bravissimo! Hip Hip Hooray! What a radiant crescendo!

[@velvetsky3451]

aha!

[@Brubabooy44]

Bravissimo hip hip horray for this fireworks display

[@tswtdt555]

No apology necessary

[@turquoisesnowflake4613]

I was looking for the opening to Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, but this is so much better!

[@jeffreybulliner2721]

Could you imagine a remake, and the dolphins song this.

[@n.c.atlantic6305]

This song makes me feel like I'm sinking to the bottom, and watching a sea turtle swim beautifuly. As the sky lights up...people always think about themselves..it's sad.. the world isn't ending. It ended along time ago.

[@newworldman6432]

I want this song to be played at my funeral!

[@plfish77]

I love the “ding” noise at the beginning. Same sound as the door makes when you enter a convenience store. Consumerism.

[@barrywilliams1924]

Don’t sound like Perfect Circle or any off the rest of album but God dam I LOVE IT

[@Im_Schiz]

Barry Williams this is definitely my favorite song on the album besides Eat The Elephant.

[@superjoint57]

Barry Williams Me too man!!! BEAUTIFUL...and true!

[@jeffcooper7258]

It's a satirized celebration of extinction. He had to make the tone happy. It also works well with the comedic reference to Douglas Adams.

[@tanitos6037]

,, renegades

[@thegreenxeno9430]

Bravissimo, Hiphip hooray! What a glorious display. Mind and body blown away. What a radiant crescendo. Falling thunder, blaring horns. Was this all I could afford? One more thing, I won't be bored. Tongue out for mushroom cloud confetti.

[@WeirdGirl321]

I love A Perfect Circle so much and this song is so beautiful, wow. Gives me chills man.

[@daddydreet145]

this song is "MOSTLY HARMLESS"!!!!!

[@saxon0158]

Amazing song,amazing album,can't want for a New TOOL !

[@jeffcooper7258]

Keenan's lyrics just keep getting better. Imagine this level of genius with Tool behind him. Someone needs to put a boot in their asses.

[@BigDaddy-vr2ut]

Love this song!!!! I love this whole dang album!!😍

[@aldoparziale2631]

run from me I know lot of people don't really like it but I do, however there are probably two songs I'm not crazy about at all but aside from that I love just about every song

[@jeanicewatts315]

They are not end of the world songs like bands have been doing, but rather countdown songs, (my interpretation.) I appreciate that the songs are motivating in the sense of...1) get off your ass, don't be overwhelmed by all of it, 2) take action, 3) change is not necessarily a bad thing, 4) unite and work together, 5) be on the right side of history.

[@angelkz7427]

Chills upon chills listening to this. Brilliant!

[@jeffcooper7258]

Humans believe they are more intelligent than dolphins because of cities, digital watches and nuclear weapons. Dolphins think they are more intelligent than humans for the very same reasons.

[@ianmunz7021]

I am a fan of the first record solely other than a handful of tracks off of their other commercially polluted records but I'll tell you what,,,,, what an amazing breath of fresh air this song is to the mainstream! I love maynard!!! Fuck it the entire band man! Amazing song

[@incorrigiblerogue1193]

Douglas Adams was a genius

[@WolfsRain0617]

jean-claude Simonetti The title and the corresponding lyrics about the dolphins are in reference to a book called “ Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy” Where the dolphins along with mice are the 2 smartest things on our planet with “MAN” being 3rd all the while thinking we ate the 1st. In the books when the earth is about to be destroyed the dolphins do try to warn us, but we don’t get it. So they say so long and thanks for all the fish, and leave the planet. If you have never heard of it, give it a read. They are amazing books, very entertaining. You will understand once you’ve read a few, but I’ve tried with no luck to fall and miss. Maybe you will have better luck!! And never forget your towel!! LMAO I am kinda tipsy right now and just realized with your reference to digital watches that you do in fact know what the hell I was talking about. Lol sorry, just so many people really don’t know what the song is referencing it’s kind of amazing to me.

[@harryhotspur4142]

AHA!!!! GOOD!

[@jamielake-boyd3600]

I love your comment. Just when I needed it. Thanks for the reality check!!!

[@smacleod1973]

I didnt think it was them at first...but srsly, amazing.

[@josephineperkins8872]

I can't stop listening to this song

[@derekanderson706]

Don't Panic

[@Superhot320]

Absolutely spot on song for the degradation of the society we are watching destroy itself

[@povkilla]

What do you mean by "itself" man? Because we're all a part of the problem whether we acknowledge that fact or not.

[@fandomguy8025]

It's all part of the Civilization Cycle. Tribes - Stress - Growth of Civilization - Collapse - Tribes- Etc. We are going along it pretty well. We're already entering Fascism.

[@r_e_panzer4960]

The world is doing very well right now actually.

[@tommy_sparrow]

The world, perhaps, but the West - not so much. A civilisation going towards the cliff edge, too distracted and absorbed by it's own neons to even notice it.

[@Bushidojihi]

@@r_e_panzer4960 with the right medication maybe..

[@AirborneAnt]

Atomic Pageantry!!!!! Great Lyric!!!!!

[@2112Fade2Black]

I guess Gojira's Flying Whales taught the Dolphins how to fly...

[@tonywalker8421]

Every time I listen to this song, the hair on my neck stands up!

[@johnthehumanist2333]

A perfect song by a perfect circle.

[@PUBgPaladin]

No chills but I do agree. I have always enjoyed Maynard's use of metaphor to describe a beautiful expression. 🎉

[@grungefreak10]

Not all of the audience will get the title reference (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series) but they still enjoy it all the same.

[@SkaryGrrl]

great work! although it is....... like OUR Prince, and REENIE'S Mom (Carina Round from Puscifer) Maynard posted about this lyric on his Twitter.

[@florence_m_p]

AnneArkey Oops! Thanks for the correction 👍🏼

[@jean-claudesimonetti9361]

humans thought they were superior to dolphins for inventing the wheel, New York, and so many other things while dolphins spent their time enjoying themselves. The dolphins thought the opposite, for exactly the same reasons ...

[@WolfsRain0617]

jean-claude Simonetti The title and the corresponding lyrics about the dolphins are in reference to a book called “ Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy” Where the dolphins along with mice are the 2 smartest things on our planet with “MAN” being 3rd all the while thinking we ate the 1st. In the books when the earth is about to be destroyed the dolphins do try to warn us, but we don’t get it. So they say so long and thanks for all the fish, and leave the planet. If you have never heard of it, give it a read. They are amazing books, very entertaining. You will understand once you’ve read a few, but I’ve tried with no luck to fall and miss. Maybe you will have better luck!! And never forget your towel!!

[@Brubabooy44]

I love how music like this it has a meaning this

[@wardendjake3736]

Hello, future dolphin race? I would love that, Nice to meet you I'm probs dead ._. Oh well nice anyway ini xD

[@raffaelegabrieleemanuele9534]

Bravissimo, crescendo... Confetti

[@johnwalker3361]

Thanks for this!!!

[@_VoidlessNyx_]

I forgot the name of this song for a while and I am so happy that I found it again

[@whiterabbittalks4763]

FINAL CURTAIN CALL, HE'S TELLING US SOMETHING

[@scottfinch6037]

I love the pic of the moon being eclipsed by the planet.The question is is that suppose to be earth or something else?

[@durtintracey5858]

Thank you.

[@jonmandelbaum5395]

Suicide is painless. It brings on many changes

[@slowguy66]

I was hoping it was the same song from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

[@willisgls]

thank god its not! lol! kidn

[@smhassassin9285]

I thought it would be. I quickly got over my disappointment.

[@tarab5833]

That song from the soundtrack is a damn trip. Just heard it today, for the first time.

[@megkane3148]

I came across it while trying to find the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy version but now this is one of my favorite songs

[@jamielake-boyd3600]

I love this 🎵song. Just something about it.

[@superjoint57]

I like how all the people mentioned in the song it’s not their real name or a reference to them! Hmmm, maybe a way of expressing the “fakeness” of the world? Who knows? AWESOME song!!!

[@shred1]

Hmm. maybe Ali I think was his legal name

[@superjoint57]

I think it was. But he was Cassius Clay originally! :)

[@aldoparziale2631]

Did you mean but* a reference to them not or* cause for most part except Ali yes, it's not their names but they are referring (reference) to who he's talking about, who they are

[@superjoint57]

Aldo Parziale Ali was born Cassius Clay.

[@helenemcgreevy9556]

D.P.T. "Ali and Lia" 💞🗽🕊

[@entdifangor]

Wonderful music!!!

[@TheSoulJuror]

Capitalize Dolphins...I think he is referring to the undefeated championship team. As he refers to so many celebrities dying or forgot about. I completely agree this does not sound like APC...but is very addicting.

[@saturnalia3335]

I doubt you still care, but the title is from the book A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, in which the dolphins desert earth moments before the world ends and their final signal to us is “so long, and thanks for all the fish.” They had known about the destruction of earth long before we did and had been trying to signal us for years now but we only misinterpreted them as complex flips and tricks for entertainment. It’s a very cool connection you made to the team though, pretty clever if you!

[@balls104]

READ A BLOODY BOOK MATE! SPORTSBALL IS FOR TROGLODYTES!

[@jaggs7346]

This is good, as is the rest of the album.

[@amadiamarie8691]

This is an amazing song

[@comlitbeta7532]

"i learn to stop worrying and love the bomb"

[@elwandahudson730]

I love your songs

[@siddykay8434]

For those who don't understand the title's reference - Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[@Scripturechick.]

This isn't in the movie.

[@daddydreet145]

never before has mankind had such easy access to all the information we currently have. you can learn anything you want, and at your own speed. yet, we use it for facebook, and pornhub.

[@brandystokes8947]

Dumbing down of society.

[@morph536]

Awesome Song, as long as you're careful not to remember this one comes from the same person that depicted the end of the world in another song that makes this one pale in comparison.

[@darrengreen8000]

what is that song called?

[@aedanranson1092]

@@darrengreen8000 aenima

[@tarab5833]

Different band tho. This fits great with apc.

[@PlayDoh72]

"Descending" off Tool's new album carries on the message / warning.

[@Ladida555]

@@tarab5833 different band but both Maynard

[@seanmcgouran2591]

Great song I love the tune

[@babaeggue]

I luv this song so much

[@burnief9636]

Sounds like a "Goodbye" song to me.

[@AirborneAnt]

WOW!!!!! What A Kick Ass Song!!!!!

[@Cthulu_699]

Makes me think of being in a biohazard suit, watching a mushroom cloud and just chilling on a mound of trash-

[@BlondeThunderNinja]

Feel like this applies to the coronavirus

[@0oONewbieOo0]

The long version of original So Long So Long and thanks all the fish

[@jeaniehat]

It has to do with the threat of nuclear war with North Korea. This was released in 2017, Covid-19 wasn't around until 2019. Check out Pusifer's Apocalyptica, which is defiantly about the coronavirus.

[@iluvmyjill]

This song needs to be 15 minutes.

[@harryhotspur4142]

JUST FOUND THIS SONG ON A FORUM MENTION...I GOTTA GET OUT MORE....WHAT'S SCARY IS IT'S ALL OUR LIVED SET TO A NICE BEAT THAT'S EASY TO DANCE TO...THE OTHER THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH SONG IS KEWL....ZOEY DECHANEL IS HOT ...

[@shanehuff1177]

Bravissimo, hip hip hooray

[@davestone7940]

Bravassimo!

[@lovebirdsrockforever]

One of the most powerful lyric lines “ticker tape parade our hair and skin like Marilyn Monroe, in an afterwind”. That’s where we are as a species now.

[@DancesWithSloth]

The doomsday clock is currently closer to midnight than it has ever been before. We never listen.

[@jigdog2005]

Wait this is the same guy from Tool!!!

[@ravenlarue8744]

Yes it's the same singer

[@WolfsRain0617]

jigdog200 Yes it is and always has been.

[@Shedoeswhatshewants]

Now go listen to puscifer

[@selrockatnapaz3025]

An addictive song

[@kryptyk3]

Always carry your towel!!

[@jonmandelbaum5395]

Beautiful

[@jakedewyn8848]

The new Placebo album, "Never Let Me Go" has a similar style in many of its songs.

[@themalevolentone9238]

Man oh man.

[@jpagan5151]

my ELA class had an assignment on this. i had to figure out the meaning.

[@bloodofredmoon]

This is the anthem for when the nukes finally go off one day

[@SirDuoDai]

Dont quote me, because i have no idea, but it sounds more like "absent flags, and plastic surgery" instead of apps and flags. Food for thought

[@alcosmic]

soon...

[@lightning329]

Fuckkkinnng goood lyrics!

[@helenemcgreevy9556]

"Absolute power..."

[@jochanxwretch]

As a fish, bring on the water bearer

[@wakeshoots1]

Loving the Earth and Moon

[@jodyferguson8017]

Would you mind sharing where you got the picture of the moon and earth?

[@JohnnyMWright-cv5sj]

Wow really,. Not at all what I was expecting

[@moonrocks2591]

I always thought he said "Willy Wonka made your tongue." Like, they had a really sweet way with words.

[@damiondavis2037]

Awesome fuckin song

[@iancolman1411]

I seen this live and the whole stage was lit up in $$$ signs it was a beautiful light show and story I'll always remember it

[@lpswarriorfan1868]

I think he says "End all this atomic pageantry." Well done nonetheless.

[@kimenglish8889]

"Signal the final curtain call in all it's atomic pageantry"

[@Stevesndkayla218]

This songs even better on acid

[@wayneripper]

2018 Manchester warehouse, APC awesome gig

[@thetimofclubsgeaughan3032]

soooooooo spooky.

[@Fallout-mw3wk]

I thought it was absent flags?

[@SloopADoopy]

42!!!!!!

[@FluffyBunny9002]

This is not the dolphin song I was looking for lol

[@jordanwatts3519]

Intro music reminds me of Oh My God by Sixx AM

[@flaze2828]

Jordan Watts holy hell it does

[@pursuit3659]

Coulda thrown in hip hip hooray atleast a couple more times and it would amazing! Still a wicked song though.

[@jayfredman4385]

If you have watched A Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe, you would know that "So long & thanks for all the fish" was opening and closing song to the movie. The title to this song is misleading and has nothing to do with the movie.

[@chriswright8114]

of course, if you actually read the books, you'd know that the title is the fourth book in the series and has nothing to do with the movie

[@dothiussteele]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the...what?

[@mahmoud5461]

Mind song..

[@thelostcosmonaut5555]

Reminds me of the ending to The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

[@zackswanson7188]

Yall got your towels with you?

[@helenemcgreevy9556]

Diablo Canyon nuclear site is closing... middle class moving out...

[@nicolaszyx3120]

Money...

[@BoWeava]

🙏🏻🐡🙏🏻

[@matbaldwin7408]

This is about the most closest sarcastically like losing a bet that this all time killer band sounds almost blastemphous as this may be fucking pop rock!!! ❤from MBC of those damn anarchists lmmfao

[@treehugger7976]

Kali Yuga

[@goompo]

What does this have to do with fish?

[@ssaa6oo]

Grayson Tartt in hitchhikers guide to the galaxy before the dolphins leave the Earth because it's about to be destroyed they leave this message - "so long, and tanks for all the fish". It's also the title of one of the books in the series.

[@JoryStultz1234]

Lou Veneris Read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[@DaniiMarie333]

THE END OF THE AGE OF PICES. NOW ON TO AGE OF AQUARIUS.. AKA THE DARK AGE.

[@jeanicewatts315]

Also, we are over fishing the oceans, which is just yet another way in which we are killing the planet...

[@goji3755]

From the film adaptation: "It's an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, Man had always assumed that he was the most intelligent species occupying the planet, instead of the *third* most intelligent. The second most intelligent creatures were of course dolphins who, curiously enough, had long known of the impending destruction of the planet earth. They had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger, but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for titbits. So they eventually decided they would leave earth by their own means. The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double backward somersault through a hoop while whistling the star-spangled banner, but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish." Ever since Douglas Adams released Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy back in the 70s and 80s, the disappearance of dolphins has been used as a somewhat obscure pop-culture reference to signify some sort of imminent finality, usually the end of the world. Likewise, the phrase "So long and thanks for all the fish," is used as an obscure sort of final farewell between friends in the wake of unfortunate partings.

[@TheSlipknot79]

HIP HIP HORRAY!!!!! for our demise.😔

[@kingryan3640]

time is money and money is time we wasted every second dime on diets, lawyers, shrinks and apps and flags and plastic surgery Now Willy Wonka, Major Tom, Ali and Leia have moved on Signal the final curtain call in all its atomic pageantry

[@christophersmith1954]

Absence flags( not apps and flags )absence flags on rich people's boats lets other know they are not on board to greet them