| Tool – The Grudge Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| does anyone have any ideas what the 'saturn ascends, choose one or ten' and then later, 'saturn ascends, the one the ten' thing is referring to? any ideas most welcome | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet with Butterfly Wings Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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'i suppose i'll show all my cool and cold like old job' - what the hell does that mean? any help most welcome. |
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| Tool – Schism Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| does anyone have any ideas about the line 'choose one or ten'? | |
| Tool – Intolerance Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| i agree to some extent with disaster. it is all too easy to take up a pacifist position, without the realization that your very ability to question such institutions is a right that has been won for you through combat and violence. | |
| Tool – No Quarter (Led Zeppelin cover) Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| i agree, joshthack - a pretty different (but totally awesome) interpretation of led zep, again highlighting how tool are supremely talented technically as well as artistically | |
| Tool – Disposition Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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watch the weather change. mention this to me. i.e. even a banal talk about the weather is preferable to the silence between two people, as the weather changes around them (life goes on). mention anything. just start ANY form of communication. this song to me is more about conveying a mood, that of two people cut off from each other as their lives and the world continues. ties in with the theme of communication on Schism - 'cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion'. |
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| Tool – Pushit (Live) Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| what a perfectly crafted organization of sound. so good to see a band willing to extend themselves and produce ten minute epics that ebb and flow with different moods and sounds, instead of bullshit 3 minute verse/chorus/verse excuses that pass for music nowadays. | |
| Tool – Flood Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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i agree with hoomanha and captain obvious. the recognition of the failure of old myths,dogma, beliefs is presented as a baptism, a cleansing a rebirth. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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what's with all the fetus/people in jars/notches in spine stuff on the 'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea' album? any thoughts most welcome. |
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| Tool – Maynard's Dick Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| a great song which shows the sense of humour of the band - that they are not all deep, philosophical and metaphorical all of the time. | |
| Tool – H. Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| thank you Harry Manback. i have heard maynard give his 'think for yourself' speech at two concerts, but it was good to find out where the 'think for yourself' quote on the salival album came from. | |
| Tool – Lateralus Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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*thank you for your opinion, shaunjuan. naturally, i can't speak for anyone else, but in my opinion, i don't think your points are convincing. i do not 'idolize' maynard james keenan. i also personally think that many of the people here also do not revere him as any form of god. *there is also a difference between 'quoting from the book of Maynard' and offering our perspectives of his songs. idolization is blindly accepting what your are told. it is a one way street. but it seems to me, that many of the people here have put a lot of thought into what they say and why they say it. they attempt to take from maynards personal views, something that is important to them and their outlooks. this is a two way, free-thinking interaction, not simple idolization. *as for 'misinterpretations and perversions' - are you suggesting that there can only be ONE correct, valid, unifying interpretations of all of tool's songs? if anything, that seems a little like blind idolization and dogmatic belief. *but i do agree with you about the importance of being able to 'find out what it is you're all about'. i just think that one of the ways to do this is to analyze, test, weigh up, consider and appreciate what other people (be they jesus or maynard) say, and then make up your own mind. to me, that is interpretation, not idolization. |
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| Tool – H. Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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as much as i would like to 'suck your gun barrel' adamizer, i think that perhaps you might have missed the point. refer to BrokenSword's post. interpretations of songs are also to do with personal interpretation and the links you as an individual are able to draw from a work, not just what the author of that work intended. plus, you forget that tool (maynard in particular) are purposely vague on the meanings to their songs, for exactly this reason. therefore, pardon me for not blindly accepting what maynard said on your 'Third Leg' bootleg about this song, as the ONLY possible interpretation. a concrete example: on their recent tour, maynard sometimes said, before 4 Degrees was played that 'this song is not about anal sex'. at other shows, all he said was that 'the anal cavity is four degrees warmer than the vagina'. obviously, by remaining vague, he and the band allow for your own personal interpretation. also refer to all the stuff they say about lachrymology. how seriously do you take that? and as for all us 'pseudointellectuals' who are 'digging too deep' let me just give you two direct quotes from maynard himself, without any 'bullshit' interpretation: i.) 'think for yourself, question authority' - Third Eye, Salival album version. ii.) 'don't just call me pessimist. try and read between the lines' - Aenema, from the Aenima album. |
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| Tool – Reflection Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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the 'third eye' of the lateralus album. what an epic. |
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| Tool – Lateralus Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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hey there toolarmy. i love this song. there is so much to it, a lot of which has already been picked up, so i'll just give you some random thoughts: all the words inside quotation marks are tool lyrics. most of them are from this song, some are not. *this song was originally going to be called 987. this is a reference to certain mathematical phenomena that occurs in nature, such as the fibonaci series and the golden ratio, which occurs in spirals, from fern fronds to the spiral form of some galaxies (including our one, the milky way). this theme is also reflected technically in the music, the latter half of the song being played in repeating 9,8,7 time signatures, (if you are a guitar freak and that means anything to you). so what, you ask. well, if you listen to the lyrics of other songs on this album a recurring theme emerges of being 'one' with nature, by letting go of your 'grudges' and ego, by 'rediscovering communication', by 'embracing this holy reality' etc. *physiologically, the first colours infants are able to distinguish is black and white, then as the brain develops its visual processes, other colours, (e.g. red and yellow) -yes, and in that order, are able to be perceived. that's nice. what's it mean? my interpretation - we are born without judgements, grudges, ego - these are things that we aquire, and it is how we deal with this that will either lead to it destroying you i.e. it will 'consume you till you let it go' like on The Grudge or it 'lets me see'. for a great analysis of what these colours mean, see 'astro' and his/her comments above, which i fully agree with. *what about the 'drawing way outside the lines', 'reaching out to embrace the random' and the 'infinite possibilities' lyrics? again, tool go mathematical. if you think this is all a bit far fetched, keep in mind that danny carey (drummer) is a huge fan of this kind of stuff. anyway, these lyrics can be tied into a thing called Chaos Theory. basically, when scientists started analyzing atoms and molecules right down to their very smallest sub-particles, they discovered that they don't conform to ordered laws, but were in fact, totally random. an offshoot of this Chaos theory is the idea of Fractals, which i won't go into here, you can look it up yourselves but it has to do with 'lines' - see the connection? if not, read the lyrics. i.e. there is no stable, comfortable, rational order in this world, but we must not be afraid of it, but 'embrace the random.' still reaching way out into left field? well have a look at the end of the 'parabola' music video. the human being sprouts all sorts of lines from his body which merges with all these other lines, so you can no longer tell where the human ends and the universe begins. *by the way, the fractal thing i mentioned above, they 'bend' remind you of anything? 'push the envelope, watch it bend' *for the 'over-thinking, over-analyzing' lines, see the comments of 'hoomanhah' above,who has some great ideas. *the 'I embrace my Desire to...Feel the rhythm, to Feel connected Enough to step aside and Weep like a widow...' is another great moment in this song. truly attentive tool fans will have noticed that this bit is an answer to the problem posed in the song 'H' on the Aenima album. there, the person was 'too connected to slip away, fade away...' but here, due to all the above factors, he is now 'connected enough to step aside' i.e. he (or she) has reached another level of awareness, which lets them step aside from damaging relationships, which was what H was all about. *my favourit line - 'to swing on the spiral of our divinity, and still be a human' - i could write a whole book just on these 13 words, but relax, i won't. in brief - by opening ourselves to the (Chaotic) world around us, by being aware enough to glimpse these 'infinite possibilities' we realize that there is no one controlling god - we are all gods, linked together. am i reading too much into it? well just look at the transparent liner notes for the album. on the last page, if you look carefully, you will see the word 'god' written into the persons brain. i.e. we are our own gods, we determine our (and our surrounding peoples/loved ones') fate. we can swing on the spiral of our divinity, a line which refers to the spirals i talked about earlier, i.e. here it specifically refers to the cosmos/galaxy, i.e. we can be one with ALL of our surroundings if we are open to them, but 'still be a human' and to be human is to 'embrace my desire' to 'feel' to 'weep' to 'fathom' to 'witness' to 'open wide' and 'embrace the random' not just to over-think and over-analyze, and if we gods can do that, then 'we'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no-ones been'. -thank you for taking the time to read this, i welcome any thoughts or opinions. stay human. |
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| Tool – H. Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| some great ideas and interpretations guys. good to see that all you toolfans worldwide 'think for yourselves'. for a deeper understanding of the Snake in H, i suggest you read The Epic of Gilgamesh. | |
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