Having said all that, I really wanted to post something I just discovered the other day. Tool has their actual lyrics on their website, and it's pretty awesome when you read them, as they literally look like they're just journal entries in Maynard's diary or something.
I know I'm fanboying a bit here, but when you consider he's just writing down a paragraph and then turning it into the cadence that he sings it with, it just seems like even more genius...
https://toolband.com/releases