| Tool – Pushit Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this song is about drugs, or addiction to anything in general. If you listen to Weak and Powerless by APC, you'll get the references. Talking about the hole, being pushed down the hole, that's representing the addiction. Just imagine yourself in a relationship, where the two of you are addicted to something, heroin, alcohol, cutting, whatever. The two of you are hopelessly addicted. One of you, the one whose perspective is sung through this song, wants out. Not necessarily out of the relationship, but from the addiction. But you can't get away, the other person keeps pushing it on you. "I will choke until I swallow Choke this infant here before me. What is this but my reflection? Who am I to judge and strike you down?" "This infant" he's referring to is the other person, his partner, or maybe this other person in his mind, as you are your own worst enemy when you have an addiction, the infant is someone that he created. The other person, the other voice inside of his mind, the addict that he's created, his "child". "What is this but my reflection? Who am I to judge and strike you down?" He feels responsible for the outcome, so feels guilty for judging the other entity. "But you're Pushing and shoving me. You still love me and you push it on me. Rest your trigger on my finger, Bang my head upon the fault line. Take care not to make me enter. Cause if I do we both may disappear." Rest your trigger on my finger, easy. Pushing the addiction back onto the person. "Take care not to make me enter, cause if I do, we both may disappear." The addiction will destroy them if they "enter the hole" again. "There's no love in fear. Staring down the hole again. Hands upon my back again. Survival is my only friend. Terrified of what may come. Just remember I will always love you, Even as I tear your fucking throat away. But it will end no other way." He decides the only thing to do is to destroy this other entity or person or voice that he's created that he loves. He feels he loves this other person, but he realizes there's no love in fear, if he feels afraid for his own safety, then how can that be love? This is a beautiful song from the mind of someone who has obviously felt the clutch of addiction or somebody very close to him. As with quite a few "Maynard" songs, about addiction. 'Stinkfist', 'Weak and Powerless', 'The Package', 'Pushit'. Beautiful. |
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| Tool – Message to Harry Manback Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| That's the one. That's the story I've heard before. | |
| Tool – Message to Harry Manback Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| What I've heard is that this guy that they used to flat with suddenly disappeared one day, and this is the message that was left on their answer machine. Pretty strange. | |
| Tool – Jimmy Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Maynard is a nick name he got later in life. This song is about his childhood. He was born James H Keenan. Jimmy/James. Eleven and she was gone. Eleven is when we waved good-bye." This is when his mother first became sick, with the cancer that would paralyze her and stay with her for 27 years (10000 days). "Eleven is standing still, waiting for me to free him by coming home." "Til one and one are one, eleven" One and one are one, he and his mother are one person, 1 + 1 = 11. The age that it happened. | |
| Tool – Third Eye Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The message I get from Tool's music, in particular 'Third Eye' and 'Lost Keys (Blame Hofman)' and 'Rosetta Stoned' is that drugs (or meditation for those of us who shy away from drugs) are the key to opening our mind, they lead us to epiphanies of salvation and the key to existence, enlightenment, but because of the nature of these psychedelic drugs, memory impairment, we can't remember these epiphanies. Maybe that's the curse of humanity, that through drugs or meditation we can discover the key to our existence and all of life, but we're still not allowed to know. "Don't know, won't know, don't know, won't know, don't know, won't know." | |
| A Perfect Circle – Brena Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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You're right. This song, like a few APC songs links up with H. by Tool. H. is about his son, Devo H. Keenan. Brena is about the mother of Devo, his then partner |
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| A Perfect Circle – Brena Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| He has used middle names quite a bit. Wings for Marie pt 1 and 10,000 Days (Wings for Marie pt 2) from Tool, Marie is the middle name of his mother. These two songs are about his mother, Judith Marie Keenan. 'Judith' (APC) is also about his mother. H. by Tool, H is either the middle initial of his son or Maynard's original middle initial. He uses middle names or obscure things like that to conceal identities. Which is also why he uses the wigs for his three bands. | |
| Opeth – Hessian Peel Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is a song about a woman who is a mother and a widow, her husband, who she dearly loved has died. "Her longing for me coming down like hail" - coming from her dead husband. "Why did you leave me?" - coming from her. The reversed part sounds as though it says "I see you", so I think it's about seeing her husband's ghost, real or not. "Come back" she says. It seems as though the children are very cut off, due to the death of their father, maybe the mother has shut herself off from them, to everything except the memory of her dead husband. - "Lock the children away harm, they're no longer the reason why." She then, in her desperation, "seeks 'tenderness' with a dagger", she intends to commit suicide. The title of the song, "Hessian Peel", seems to me as though it refers to thick, impenetrable skin, symbolic to the fact that she cannot commit suicide, she can't die, although her life has left her scars, symbolic and literally I think. The last verse I think is one of either two things; She waits for night and listens to her desire to kill herself, and leaves the world. Or, my more preferred theory and I think more 'Opeth-y' haha; she feels alone and abandoned, even though she is surrounded by people and friends who love her. The moon represents insanity, lunacy, and recedes into her own head, where she stays for the rest of her days, seemingly alone with her memories of her dead lover. Almost like Romeo and Juliet, except rather than both dying, one of them goes insane. Similar to The Wall, by Pink Floyd, where the main character 'builds' a symbolic wall inside his head, seperating himself from the rest of the world. Very awesome song, it starts out sounding so happy, then the first few lines just set the scene so well; "Will the children cry, when their mother dies?" Brilliant. |
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| Tool – Jambi Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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You've got it mate. Jambi is the genie that grants wishes. It was a children's programme, and it's about his losing his mother and his regret from being elsewhere all the time. Being occupied, consumed by the devil, his music career. It's all about his regret and just wanting to be able to take it back, wish it all away. This album is probably the easiest, most face-value album out of all others. Namely Lateralus and AEnima. There are some deep hidden double things in those songs. These songs are all very heart felt, about the loss of his mum, his coming to terms with and accepting some level of spirituality. Before she died, he hated religion, namely Christianity, because of his mum and her hypocritical, two-faced 'friends'. His mum was the only person that he ever felt a connection with, the only person he ever trusted. "The Devil and his had me down. In love with the dark side I'd found. Dabbling all the way down. Up to my neck, soon to drown. But you changed that all for me. Lifted me up. Turned me round." This explains how his mum was the one who changed him, changed his view on life, humans and the world in general. He felt he was drowning in his and everyone else's hatred, but she saved him from himself and the world. But too late. It was too late, and now, he's finally come to terms with everything, his mother's gone. And he just wants to take her back, he realizes his mistake. "So if I could I'd wish it all away, if I thought tomorrow would take you away You're my peace of mind, my home, my center I'm just trying to hold on one more day Damn my eyes... Damn my eyes... Damn my eyes if they should compromise our fulcrum if wants and needs divide me then I might as well be gone" Pretty self explanatory really. Beautiful song. To really understand any one song, you have to listen to evry word on every song on 10000 days, and Judith, APC. Wings For Marie, Right In Two. Brilliant band. Can't get enough of them |
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| Opeth – Ghost of Perdition Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think are three key words in this song. Ghost, perdition and phantasm. I might be way off the mark here, I like and understand all of your opinions and ideas, but this is my interpretation; I think that Ghost of Perdition means just that. A ghost, a phantasm itself, something that doesn't exist. Something that's haunting her, staying her. Perdition is complete ruin of the soul. I think it's about a woman who truly believes or feels she is possessed, something has ruined her soul, or maybe it's just that she's done bad things that she regrets, I don't know, and this sends her into madness. Her son has to sit by and witness, because he loves her. He tries to help, tries to remind her of her better days, the "ordinary days", but to no avail. I think that "the incoherrent talk of ordinary days Why would we need to live?" is him talking to her, trying to console her, saying that if it were possible for a good person such as his mother could be taken over and ruined by the devil, then what would be the point of living? "Devil cracked the earthly shell Foretold she was the one Blew hope into the room and said: "You have to live before you die young"" could possibly be a premonition or something she had when she was younger, the idea of the devil, god and all, the idea of immortality. Heaven. But she found she would have to lead good life beforehand, she'd have live her life before becoming eternally young in heaven. But then she looks back on her life and feels she's ruined herself, and begins to go insane. The last part is about the whole idea of possession and what it has done to her. If he could possibly take it away, it wouldn't change anything, "the phantasm of your mind, might be calling you to go" represents the idea of the devil and hell being real, taking over logic and sense and sanity itself, leaving behind her loved ones, her family, "defying forgotten mortals". "Where the victim is the prey", I think is her 'looking back into sanity, humanity, mortality' and just seeing herself and others as the victims who are predated upon by the devil. She sees no point. |
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