One of my personal favorite Tool songs. The intensity emitted at the finale of this song puts shivers through my spine as Keenan stretches the word "euphoria" out over what seems to be eons of time, symbolizing the pull of the undertow as it brings you down into oblivion.
Of course as with all of Tool's songs, the lyrics are not very user friendly, and are quite open to metaphoric interperetation. My current thought, and probably the most obvious would be that the undertow represents the numbing pull of addiction. Addiction to anything really, something that someone becomes attatched to, sucking them into a mindless typhoon of bliss where they don't need to think, and where they can't feel. Something all too common in todays world of sitcoms and QVC, this complex world has a man-made veil of simplicity masking it from the things we fear, and instead of living life we get sucked into the mindless euphoria represented by the undertow in this song.
That is my current thought on it, always changing, always thinking.
Please, I would like to hear others opinions as well.
Well I know you might not expect a reply 10 years later but I feel as though the undertow represents the waves of depression. In real if the undertow sucks you down, you're supposed to just swim with it until it comes up on the other side. Fighting it will be useless and will only make it harder to come out alive on the other side. Like depression and other life problems, you have to just go with it until you reach the end of it's cycle. Fighting it will only do you harm.
Well I know you might not expect a reply 10 years later but I feel as though the undertow represents the waves of depression. In real if the undertow sucks you down, you're supposed to just swim with it until it comes up on the other side. Fighting it will be useless and will only make it harder to come out alive on the other side. Like depression and other life problems, you have to just go with it until you reach the end of it's cycle. Fighting it will only do you harm.
One of my personal favorite Tool songs. The intensity emitted at the finale of this song puts shivers through my spine as Keenan stretches the word "euphoria" out over what seems to be eons of time, symbolizing the pull of the undertow as it brings you down into oblivion.
Of course as with all of Tool's songs, the lyrics are not very user friendly, and are quite open to metaphoric interperetation. My current thought, and probably the most obvious would be that the undertow represents the numbing pull of addiction. Addiction to anything really, something that someone becomes attatched to, sucking them into a mindless typhoon of bliss where they don't need to think, and where they can't feel. Something all too common in todays world of sitcoms and QVC, this complex world has a man-made veil of simplicity masking it from the things we fear, and instead of living life we get sucked into the mindless euphoria represented by the undertow in this song.
That is my current thought on it, always changing, always thinking.
Please, I would like to hear others opinions as well.
Well I know you might not expect a reply 10 years later but I feel as though the undertow represents the waves of depression. In real if the undertow sucks you down, you're supposed to just swim with it until it comes up on the other side. Fighting it will be useless and will only make it harder to come out alive on the other side. Like depression and other life problems, you have to just go with it until you reach the end of it's cycle. Fighting it will only do you harm.
Well I know you might not expect a reply 10 years later but I feel as though the undertow represents the waves of depression. In real if the undertow sucks you down, you're supposed to just swim with it until it comes up on the other side. Fighting it will be useless and will only make it harder to come out alive on the other side. Like depression and other life problems, you have to just go with it until you reach the end of it's cycle. Fighting it will only do you harm.