| Tool – Part of Me Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Okay, this is one hell of a long-shot but this is what I've got from it. Forewarning, I'm a bit of a nerd. This strikes me as a letter to his unconscious mind from his conscious mind. Or if you prefer, to his id from his ego. "I know you well, you are a part of me. I know you better than I know myself." He sees his desires and their tactics/trends (id) consciously but does not understand the processes they take to reach conscious actions. But he also knows consciously that they are a part of him, and as a result his. In that sense, this song is simply a threat to himself that he's moving inward and making progress in converting subconscious (id) to conscious (ego). "You don't judge. You can't speak. You can't leave. You can't hurt me." Judgment and speech are in the ego, or conscious mind. The unconscious can't be eliminated or even really excavated, but it controls via fear and other emotions and in knowing that it can't really hurt you, it can't really control you. "It's time for you, to make a sacrifice. It's time to die a little, give it up. A part of me." Seems to describe personal growth by means of ego death. All prior lines containing "you are a part of me" or similar notions are sung with the tone of someone non-chalantly writing the fact off, trying desperately to dismiss the fact, or angrily trying to suppress the fact. They are sung to the tune of a 'defense mechanism.' This last instance, however, is different. It's acknowledgement, and acceptance. Finality through sacrifice of ego. |
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| Tool – Triad Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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the song is played in the 3:4 time signature. it *seems to be* composed primarily of triadic chords any individual notes are played in sequences of 3, or sequences evenly divisible by 3 which leads me to suspect that they're arpeggios of triadic chords |
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