A Perfect Circle

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Song score

Rhythm	9.8
Melody	9.7
Instruments	9.8
Lyrics	9.7
Vocal	9.8
This song has been reviewed 40 times. Overall score for this song, 9.8.

Song video: video submitted by Michael Fankhauser on 23-04-2007

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A Perfect Circle - Passive Lyrics

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Song details
Title	Passive
Artist	A Perfect Circle
Album	eMOTIVe (2004) , Track 5
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Song lyrics

Send "Passive" ringtones to your cell

Dead as dead can be, my doctor tells me
But I just can’t believe him, ever the optimistic one
I’m sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me, don’t play dead 'cause maybe
Someday I will walk away and say, You disappoint me,
Maybe you’re better off this way

Leaning over you here, cold and catatonic
I catch a brief reflection of what you could and might have been
It's your right and your ability
To become… my perfect enemy…

Wake up and face me, don’t play dead 'cause maybe
Someday I will walk away and say, You disappoint me,
Maybe you’re better off this way

Maybe you’re better off this way
Maybe you’re better off this way
Maybe you’re better off this way
You’re better of this… you’re better off this…
Maybe you’re better off!

Wake up and face me, don’t play dead, 'cause maybe
Someday I will walk away and say, You fucking disappoint me!
Maybe you’re better off this way

Go ahead and play dead
I know that you can hear this
Go ahead and play dead
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
You fucking disappoint me!

Passive agressive bullshit x 12

Send "Passive" ringtones to your cell

lyrics submitted on 01-11-2004

lyrics corrected by meine_chil on 11-05-2008

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04-11-2004 07:51 KingThomasIV
149 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal I like this song as well. Passive is a great work, and the piano that is in it is definitely Reznor (though it was played by Paz.) The only thing it lacks is the intensity of the live version that surfaced in 2001 (I heard it a long time before the album was released,) consequently this sounds dulled-down to me when I compare the two versions.
07-11-2004 16:40 Suffocated
19 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Definitely one of APC's best! Lyrically powerful and deep.
08-11-2004 02:08 kevmanz28
37 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Amzing, one of the best APC songs, and definately the best on eMOTIVe.
13-11-2004 19:58 bulls_on_parade
113 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal really good song.
21-11-2004 08:12 teeny_bopper
32 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal emotive is saved by this track, otherwise its dibble dabble in unexciting covers
21-11-2004 08:13 the_BurnInAtOR
3,204 posts	You f*ing dissapoint me. Oh so good... that line.. at the end... ssdsmdsadmda.....
22-11-2004 23:17 AperfectTool3
22 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal This song is fing awesome!!!!! WAKE UP AND FACE ME DONT PLAY DEAD CUZ MAYBE SOMEDAY I'LL WALKAWAY AND SAY [b]YOU FING DISAPOINT ME MAYBE YOURE BETTER OF THIS WAY!!!!!!!!!!!! to scream that in his face woukld just say it all love you maynard
07-12-2004 04:48 shellmine
5 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal It does lacks the intensity of the live version ('Vacant') but is definitely the best track on eMOTIVE.
27-12-2004 01:10 scooby_2004
4 posts	Hey!! I think this song is really awesome!! But I am having a bit of a hard time understanding exactly what the song is saying...if anyone can tell me, I would grately appreciate it!! Thanks! ~scooby_2004~
28-12-2004 01:43 DelmetorJunkie
14 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Absolutely love this song. I always get really annoyed when it comes on though, because there is nothing that can possibly follow it up without destroying the mood and feeling from it, so I have to listen to it like 30 times in a row. The lyrics... everyone's wanted to say something like that at one point in their life...
06-02-2005 22:39 oXLaceratedXo
38 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal this song is one of my favorites!
17-02-2005 00:47 geckodragon
6 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal I see pople talking about the best song on eMOTIVe and its the only good song on eMOTIVe and it's the song that saved eMOTIVe......bull forkin shirt. True its a really great song but i've heard other songs on the album and there all really great like imagine I mean John Lennon had a great thing goin but that 80's beat was a serious drag to our generation but apc steped in and spiced up a great song making it even greater.I'm not bad talking the song bur i doh have to say it lacks in a climax moment to it but aside from that i have to say another masterpiece of a song
17-02-2005 00:54 mikey_boy
20,510 posts	pfff, this is one of many good songs on Emotive. this song rocks so bad. me likey it a lot.
17-02-2005 04:09 bRiTnEy_MaNsOn
5 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal hey you guys! i wish i could hear the one with reznor (he's my all time fave singer) ahhh well this is a good song but i wish a perfect circle would let maynard scream as much as he did in TOOL no one has probably noticed that he didnt but damnit i want to just ahhhh scream...cause ugh they arent letting him scream!!! GGRRR anyways regardless haha he still rocks......great song!!
22-02-2005 04:33 HaPpYkNaPpYwIfE
7 posts	I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG im so addicted to it i listen to it all the time i love it so much its a great song! KUDOS TO YOU A PERFECT CIRCLE you have yet agian managed to make another amazing song
22-02-2005 04:34 indie_brain
2,312 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal One of their best
22-02-2005 17:48 Pual
1 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal This song is absalootly brill and i cant w8 2 c the movie cos of it. Maynard is a god .
27-02-2005 19:21 meine_chil
2 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Great song. I think APC don't let Maynard scream, 'cause he had done "Ticks and Leeches" once live, and he had a sore throat for about 3 weeks (he said in a interview).
05-03-2005 06:46 ReyDeMuerte
6 posts	This song is awsome!!! Isn't this song on the movie Constantine?
05-03-2005 06:47 ReyDeMuerte
6 posts	Passive
05-03-2005 13:40 Libra_
4 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal I have to ask, In the video to passive you can se at A Perfect Circles homepage they are a lot of clips form the new movie Constantine with Keanu Reeves. And on the cover to eMOTION the background looks like hell in Constantine. Have A Perfect Circle done the soundtrack to the movie or something.. and if they have.. isn't it possible that the lyric has something to do with god and the devil?
06-03-2005 04:02 dewyeyed
18 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal this song creeps me out! is it just me or does the voice sound a bit weird? like it's been digitally enhanced or something.
06-03-2005 12:11 Libra_
4 posts	WHAT???? Maynard has the best voice in world
12-03-2005 03:33 dont_fake_this
18 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal holy crap.. three words... holy shit man!! this song rules a perfect circle
12-03-2005 03:49 darkoblivion
738 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal cool song. hehe