10 Songs That Were Painful To Make

10. 10,000 Days - Tool

Even for a band as adventurous as Tool, not many people were quite ready for something like 10,000 Days when it first came out. Though Lateralus already showed these metal juggernauts reaching into psychedelic songs and trippy as hell musical landscapes, the more mature themes taking place on here were not really customary from the same guys who wrote Hooker With a Penis. What made it even more heartwrenching is when we got to the title track.

Written after the loss of his mother, this entire track shows Maynard James Keenan pouring his heart out to the woman who made him who is today, both commending her determination through life while also displaying the struggles they had with each other along the way.

The very tone of Maynard pretty much says it all across this song, with a shakiness that isn't so much mournful but accepting of what happened. You can really tell that he's is using this song as much as therapy for himself as for actually writing a song.

It's at this point that I remind you that these are the same people who were behind songs like Stinkfist. While there have been a lot of bands who have gone the sappy ballad route, this is the kind of epic song that stomps on your heart from the minute it starts playing.