| Tool – Ticks and Leeches Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I thought Ticks and Leeches was a basic people suck and will drag you down kind of song for a while. It seemed out of place in the album.. Stuck between Parabola (realizing the gift that is life) and Lateralus (evolving to a higher conscience). Then, I read Bob Frissell’s book ‘Nothing In This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are’. I had just listened to this song when I got to Frissell’s concept of “victim consciousness”. It resonated. “In victim consciousness, the ultimate victim is one who doesn’t know that he or she is creating reality, and believes that things just happen”. (pg. 224) “If you buy into the illusion of separation and “good vs. evil,” you are stepping into victim consciousness. You will then be confronted by a very powerful universal principle, one that works unerringly. It is: Resistance leads to persistence. This means that you will keep re-creating what (on a conscious level) you don’t want; and it will only increase in intensity.” (pg. 227) Ticks & Leeches could be a representation of the reality you create holding you back. Anger, self loathing, depression, despondency, tribulation, pain... You GET out of life what you GIVE out. What you give is a manifestation of your sub(un)conscious that is projected outward and onto others; but you don’t perceive reality in that way. It’s just how things are, after all... You create what you don’t want and it will intensify with time. We endure the cycle to move to the next step. Is that what YOU want? Is it what YOU have in mind? Well, that is what you are getting. The only way out of the cycle is to acknowledge that you are actually creating it. You can’t go from Parabola to Lateralus without Ticks & Leeches. Stop choking and move on… |
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