| Tool – Parabola Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| i dont know if any of you have ever eaten shrooms. but if you do, and i mean a good bit, and you have one of those introspective trips...you're basically living in this songs. you just feel like you're existing in the time before you were born. just sitting there with your soul and the truth. eat some shrooms and you'll know what the hell im talking about, and what maynard's talking about too. and please dont yell at my post unless you've tried it. | |
| Tool – The Grudge Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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I think that this song is about holding onto a beleif that is a cornerstone of your life. Let's take Christianity for example, something we know that Maynard has strong opinions about (Opiate, Judith, Eulogy). Maynard is describing people who need to hold on to their beleifs despite all defying logicial or spiritual influences, in order to stabalize their lives. Holding a Grudge against all possible truths that could defy or disprove that beleif is the grudge that is described. "Calculate what we will or will not tolerate" speaks of weighing between what to accept and what not to, according to that central beleif, thereby attempting to "control all and everthing." He says "Clutch it like a cornerstone, otherwise is all comes down." Meaning that he can't let go of his beleif (religion, whatever) or else everything else will crash down with it, the mental structure that you've built for your life. He's willing to "Justify denials and Grip 'em to the lonesome end," placing himself in a virtual prison cell, created by this limitations that he's send for his mind. (what he will and will not tolerate, confining and defining factors). Then comes the references of Saturn ascending, and aspect of this song that you cannot ignore. As stated in previous posts, Saturn completes its orbit around the earth every 27 or 29 years, therefore beginning a new one. This is supposed to be a time of renewal, of the heart and mind. This may be a reference to a midlife crisis, someone going through this process and possibly coming to the epiphany that the beleifs in their life are false, challenged by new insights. "Hang on or be Humbled again" refers to the choice of remaing stalwart to a cause or releasing and accepting, a life changing choice. He is torn between his inevitable acceptance, and then the release of his grudge. "Lifts you up like a child Or drags you down like a stone to Consume you till you Choose to Let this go." This again illustrates the two possibilities of acceptance or continued denial, and their emotional impacts. Although here, he insinuates again that acceptance is inevitable. The end stanza refers to the release of the grudge, allowing this "cold and fated anchor" (the grudge/stone) to be "transmuted" (changed) into gold. ...and that...is the result of my heavy obsession with tool's lyrics. |
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| Tool – Eulogy Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| Does anyone know if Maynard was raised as a Christian against his will, something to create this spite for Christianity? Cause if he was raised strictly Christian against his will, then I have a killer interpretation for The Grudge, and then it'd also explain opiate, eulogy, and judith. | |
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