| Tool – Aenema Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hahaha, some of you people's interpretations are halariously stupid. This song is based on Bill Hicks rant about L.A., about how horrible L.A. is and how everyone there is a dipshit. In the song, when he says L.A. he doesn't just mean L.A. he means all dipshits and fools that do nothing to help society, he's speaking metaphorically. This is not about the end of the world, he just talks about the end of the world in the song and states that he hopes it is soon because he wants a vacation from all this stupid shit. The "fret for your" section is pretty obvious, it's about how people fret over silly unimportant things when there are bigger things to worry about. He calls L.A. "one great big festering neon distraction" and tells the people that live there to "learn to swim". He doesn't accually want everyone to learn to swim of course, by that he means people should learn to open their eyes and start thinking for themselves. Stop being one of the parasites that frequent L.A. As for the "mom's gonna fix it all soon" part, i'm not sure what that means. I think the guy a few posts above me is onto something, maybe it's about how Maynard feels helpless, like a child perhaps, because he sees no way to fix the problem. That seems the best explanation for that. "Don't just call me pessimist Try and read between the lines " Those lines could mean not to call him a pessimist because he thinks everyone in L.A. is a dipshit, and to read between the lines and realize that when he says L.A. he was being metaphorical. But i don't think so, it seems to simple an explanation. I'm not really sure what these lines mean. As for the "i cannot imagine why you would not welcome any change", maybe that means Maynard cannot imagine why the residents of L.A. would not welcome any change, because of how bad it is right now. He cannot imagine why they do not "learn to swim", or support flushing it all away. Something like that. So, basically this song is about all the stupid human parasites that clog up our society, and how Maynard wants to flush them all away. |
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