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They embraced the artsy, bohemian preoccupations of Janes Addiction while they. Although Metallica wrote their multi-sectioned, layered songs as if they were composers, they kept their musical attack ferociously at street level. He wants it to be "washed away" or changed, "Enema" to cleanse our mind or nation. Tools greatest breakthrough was to meld dark underground metal with the ambition of art rock. This album is probably my all time favorite - so many hits / from H to aenima to pushit- if you like to jog or workout - this is an amazing album because it you can just keep going and going.- each and every trip to the gym - it's Maynard and tool and watch your body and mind grow exponentially. This song is about the cleansing of the inner-self of the superficial, of egotism, Mynard (Singer) trying to imply that people have become fake or society has become fake and its time to "wash away" all of the fakes and repeats the line "learn to swim" as a metaphor to become better, to ridden yourself with vanity, "he's praying for tidal waves" meaning hoping for change, seeming to point to where the centre of corruption is he mentions Los Angeles but uses this as a conceptual song.