If you're going to convince me on the meaning, you're going to have to explain the lyrics in relation with your ideas. This song is definitely about drugs. I'm thinking heroin because of the lines "Two times in", meaning the 2nd time he took it, "twice as high as heaven, and twice as clear as reason" are the ways it made him feel. I think this because the "third time in", it was only "half as high" and "half as clear". No other drug is really like heroin in that way. Like someone else said earlier, you NEVER get a high like that 1st heroin high. Heroin is the only drug that sours so quickly. Also, to WHITEOUT, who says that TooL never did drugs and all of that mess... You've obviously NEVER did drugs, and you don't understand TooL the way that you think you do. I grew up with this band and progressed along the same lines and at the same time as the band. During Undertow, I was a teenager with a lot of angst and anger, and TooL was there to let me know that they were too. Then I started experimenting with LSD, and other types of drugs, and I changed. TooL changed as well, tripping out to some degree and cracked open the egg with Third Eye from Aenima. I would laugh at anyone who thinks that Maynard particularly has never used LSD. LSD will make you want to be a more enlightened person, and also will make you want to quit drugs to start a spiritual journey WITHOUT drugs. This is what spawned the idea for Lateralus. EVERY TOOL ALBUM HAS BEEN A PROGRESSION FROM THE LAST. One might even argue that 10,000 Days is a slight "regression" to embrace some of the former ideas, as not to completely lose yourself.
My point is that 1 or more members of TooL HAVE experimented with drugs in the past, and based on the fact that i KNOW what he is describing, this song is definitely about HEROIN, BUT ALSO... open to interpretation so that everyone can pull something different from it.
If you're going to convince me on the meaning, you're going to have to explain the lyrics in relation with your ideas. This song is definitely about drugs. I'm thinking heroin because of the lines "Two times in", meaning the 2nd time he took it, "twice as high as heaven, and twice as clear as reason" are the ways it made him feel. I think this because the "third time in", it was only "half as high" and "half as clear". No other drug is really like heroin in that way. Like someone else said earlier, you NEVER get a high like that 1st heroin high. Heroin is the only drug that sours so quickly. Also, to WHITEOUT, who says that TooL never did drugs and all of that mess... You've obviously NEVER did drugs, and you don't understand TooL the way that you think you do. I grew up with this band and progressed along the same lines and at the same time as the band. During Undertow, I was a teenager with a lot of angst and anger, and TooL was there to let me know that they were too. Then I started experimenting with LSD, and other types of drugs, and I changed. TooL changed as well, tripping out to some degree and cracked open the egg with Third Eye from Aenima. I would laugh at anyone who thinks that Maynard particularly has never used LSD. LSD will make you want to be a more enlightened person, and also will make you want to quit drugs to start a spiritual journey WITHOUT drugs. This is what spawned the idea for Lateralus. EVERY TOOL ALBUM HAS BEEN A PROGRESSION FROM THE LAST. One might even argue that 10,000 Days is a slight "regression" to embrace some of the former ideas, as not to completely lose yourself.
My point is that 1 or more members of TooL HAVE experimented with drugs in the past, and based on the fact that i KNOW what he is describing, this song is definitely about HEROIN, BUT ALSO... open to interpretation so that everyone can pull something different from it.