| Tool – Right in Two Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I know this is obnoxiously long...but I just copied my english project which was that I had to analyze a song. so here. There could be many different interpretations of this song. In my opinion, this song is about war, hatred and selfishness in general. I believe the over-all message of this song is that there is a lot of pointless fighting and hatred going on for no reason. Possessions such as land could much more easily be shared rather than taking lives over them. Whatever can’t be shared, there is enough of for everybody. The line: “Angels on the sidelines baffled and confused. Father blessed them all with reason, and this is what they choose?” is saying that, as humans, we have the ability to reason and use logic, and should be using those abilities for good. But instead of coming up with solutions, we choose unnecessary fighting and hatred. This is also why I believe Maynard refers to humans as monkeys; we don’t tend to think about what we’re doing or look for easier, more peaceful solutions to our problems. Also, as humans, we tend to take what we need, if not more, and whatever we want, usually without giving any regard to who we may be taking from. It is for this reason that I believe the line: “Don't these talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around? Plenty in this holy garden, silly monkeys, where there's one you're bound to divide it right in two” is used. Some of the words used in the rhyme scheme of this song are: confused, choose, ground and down. Maynard also uses personification in this song when he says: “Angels on the sideline again, benched along with patience and reason” Repetition is also often used in lines such as: “monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground” and “Fight till they die over sun, over sky, They fight till they die over sea, over air, they fight till they die over blood, over love, they fight till they die over words, polarizing” Sickimage from songmeanings.net states that the Angels are interpreting what they see in humans. We’re just humans, but we were given all these things (thumbs) that are supposed to make us "better" than other animals, yet, we still act like animals…we kill each other and there’s no need for it…we fight for land, yet, there’s enough for everyone to live in peacefully. Pwnage...I wonder how many people will actually read this...or comment it. | |
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