This song is the prerequisite for the Lateralus album, I believe. You can refference lyrics in this song in many of the songs of Lateralus, including the title track and Parabol and Parabola.
I believe that Lateralus is the acceptance and full circle understanding of the wonder and angst in Sweat.
Parabol - "so familiar, embracing you, this reality" (reality, as apose to the anti-reality of a dream. Which is what "this reality" felt like before the understanding.)
Parabola - "celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing." "we barely remember what came before this precious moment"
Lateralus- "over thinking over analyzing sepparates the body from the mind"
In Parabola it emphasizes "this body" which I think can be a duel meaning as in your own body, your own shell or it could be some one elses body who is helping you through your life journey-i.e. your partner/significant other (and in that aspect you can see it as a very sexual song, like some people have said they see "Sweat." The other way you can look at Lateralus is very spiritual and esoteric, also another aspect you can see in "Sweat"). The "dream" in sweat I think is the song that represents the mind, and parabol and parabola represent "the body" and lateralus is the explanation of why the two combined are so important.
Sweat is the example of the body and mind sepparated, thus the confusion and dellusion of being in a dream within a dream. Sweat is the searching before finding the answer, that awkward limbo-like state that you find yourself in extensive meditation, looking for the answer that has not made itself known to you, yet.
Also the reason why this might sound like a drug/trip song is because in extensive meditation and soul searching it is not unlikely to have hallucinogens aide you in your spiritual journey, such as peyote or mushrooms.
This song is the prerequisite for the Lateralus album, I believe. You can refference lyrics in this song in many of the songs of Lateralus, including the title track and Parabol and Parabola. I believe that Lateralus is the acceptance and full circle understanding of the wonder and angst in Sweat.
Parabol - "so familiar, embracing you, this reality" (reality, as apose to the anti-reality of a dream. Which is what "this reality" felt like before the understanding.) Parabola - "celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing." "we barely remember what came before this precious moment" Lateralus- "over thinking over analyzing sepparates the body from the mind"
In Parabola it emphasizes "this body" which I think can be a duel meaning as in your own body, your own shell or it could be some one elses body who is helping you through your life journey-i.e. your partner/significant other (and in that aspect you can see it as a very sexual song, like some people have said they see "Sweat." The other way you can look at Lateralus is very spiritual and esoteric, also another aspect you can see in "Sweat"). The "dream" in sweat I think is the song that represents the mind, and parabol and parabola represent "the body" and lateralus is the explanation of why the two combined are so important. Sweat is the example of the body and mind sepparated, thus the confusion and dellusion of being in a dream within a dream. Sweat is the searching before finding the answer, that awkward limbo-like state that you find yourself in extensive meditation, looking for the answer that has not made itself known to you, yet. Also the reason why this might sound like a drug/trip song is because in extensive meditation and soul searching it is not unlikely to have hallucinogens aide you in your spiritual journey, such as peyote or mushrooms.