@belacy87 I love both new and old Tool. But they have evolved a lot since their Opiate/Undertow days. From my personal analysis, it seems like theyve evolved from playing angry and perhaps frustrated yet talented music to more of a psychedelic "art rock" type feel with about 10x the talent. These four guys must all be on the same wave-length or mind frequency to be able to make such amazingly beautiful, yet impossibly intricate music. Ive been listening for years and my mind is blown every time.
the lyrics aren't gonna mean anything spiritual if you aren't in touch with those aspect of possible experience. you draw the meaning from your own depth. be proud if you can see the alchemical spirit in this music, it's a gift from who knows where. Spiritual pride is just another step towards emerging out of our infancy. Nonetheless, it seems to be a step for many of us. Don't be ashamed, just keep it from becoming a habitual pathology of ignorance. Keep on keeping on.
Black and white = stereotyping words Yellow and red = are also stereotyping people, Chinese and communists (originally from Russia, as in the Red Army, but the term has blurred to encompass anyone who has even the slightest communist leaning) respectively. Yellow and Red appeared during the cold war. Over thinking and over analyzing separates the body from the mind. "Dont think, just feel" Justifying the stereotyping and hatred.
It goes on, Hell, you could write an essay on ONE of Tool's songs.
@pseudoboss11 i could be completely wrong here but what i thought he meant as in black and white in his infancy was meant that all you can see as a newborn is black and white then you gradually adapt to colours for example red and yellow and lets you see. your opinion of it is a good one though too and probably right.
@613Andyman The song is about how people keep "overthinking, overanalyzing" Tool's songs, instead of sitting back and enjoying them for what they are.
People...he's not god....and actually.... he can kind of be a stuck up dick too. He's a talented singer, in front of F'n amazing musicians, but seriously folks, it's not like it's The Madhyamakavatara or anything.....
I like how we all conjure up meanings for the lyrics that Maynard wrote. However he is the only one who truly knows the meanings of each lyric he places in a song !!
the first guy overcomplicated that, i'm afraid, "push the envelope", the expression meaning to push the limits- watch it bend. So, push the limits of, observe what happens.
@x53k5hun8x (1) Black, (1) then, (2) white are, (3) all I see, (5) in my in·fan·cy, (8) red and yel·low then came to be, (5) rea·ching out to me, (3) lets me see. (2) There is, (1) so, (1) much, (2) more and (3) beck·ons me, (5) to look through to these, (8) in·fi·nite pos·si·bil·i·ties. (13) As be·low so a·bove and be·yond I im·ag·ine, (8) drawn out·side the lines of rea·son. (5) Push the en·ve·lope. (3) Watch it bend. Vote up so everyone can see!
@FlashGameDev Why? Please enlighten us as to the reasons this particular piece of music is "Not really that good" You have every right in the world to not like it but you can't say it's not good.
I think "Red and white are what I see" means what we see now, not nessesarally what it actually is. "Red and Yellow then came to be, lets me see" Gives us more but not even close to all of an understanding on what life, death, and basically everything is.
@42threspwan I can pretty much guarantee your right, because lines like that definately use symbolism. When you look at the song as a whole the symbolism is very apparent. Of course in the end, it's up to each person how they interpret the songs once they "try and read between the lines".
@TheDrunkwraith I couldn't agree more. I think it is important and fun to try to interperate lyrics. It gives you an idea of what the song really means, but I think some people take it too far. Some people only pay attention to the lyrical part of the song. That is only part. Without instruments, music isn't music. Music is art, if you take everything but the lyrics, and throw it out, it would be like painting with one color. Incomplete.
@42threspwan Yeah very true. I never even got into tool until after I listened to aenima a few times through and got a feel for what each member was doing. At the point it sounded absolutely amazing, and I finally understood why everyone considers Danny to be one of the greatest drummers out there. When you look at how simple a song like Stinkfist is, and you listen to how everyone's doing their own thing regardless, it's unbelievable. Very rare for each member to be completely independent.
@HBProds you are wrong.The song could also be about the order of colors seen while under the influence of LSD. Alex Grey (the spiritualistic artist who did the album artwork for Lateralus) stated that when he closed his eyes on an LSD trip, he saw a black and white spiral, and when he tried it a few more times it became a red and yellow spiral.
@HBProds also Maynard James Keenan commented on the lyric mentioning black, white, red and yellow: "I use the archetype stories of North American aboriginals and the themes or colours which appear over and over again in the oral stories handed down through generations. Black, white, red, and yellow play very heavily in aboriginal stories of creation."
@HBProds An interesting side note, in alchemy "The Great Work" begins with the Nigredo (black), then moves to the Albedo (white), then the Citrinitas (yellow), then the Rubedo (Red).
in my opinion this songs lyrics are fairly simple.. dont just live your life according to what you see right in front of your face. keep your mind open and embrace your feelings and intuitions. there is so much spiriutal out there. feel it man
Okay so I just wanna say this song is fucking genius and figuring this thing out was a BITCH! But,they used something called the Fibonacci sequence and what I know is the song relates in face this entire album comes back to the theme of spirals.Maynard is saying. "Don't live life in a linear way. Live in the spiral. Grow, expand, reach for the unknown"
@FreedmFightr Neither. The ignorance or understanding of others is not something you should really be worried about unless you are trying to teach something.
i think hes talking in a spiritual context. "black then white are, all i see in my infancy" pretty much means (to me) that you see that things as black and white, cut and dry, etc. then when he says "red and yellow then became to be, lets me see" is when he develops spiritually and that he realizes that we are all connected and that there is an explanation for everything. the colors are everything inbetween white and black, and that he understands everything insightfully.
It's a song about writing music, and the "infinite possibilites" when doing so. When he first started (in my infancy) all he saw was black music notes on white paper, then he learned that there was so much more to the creativity of music than just the notes written on the page (red and yellow then came to me)... Tool is the apitimy of pushing the envelope... Maynard is the sickest musician alive.
ok seriously? i was trying to be funny but ffs, it's such a stupid thing to say. yes artists in general are known to have an affiliation with drugs but i wasn't being serious. why would people thumbs up something so stupid? is our society really so comedicly oriented that youths can't appreciat anything intellegent? honestly some people have said some very intellegent things, but the comment about drugs gets liked more. wtf?
@foopstab lol. Ur passion is nagging at u. either be good, or start embracing the feelings its provoking. thats the only way to make those painful feelings subside. Humanity is stupid as a whole, but, what is humanity? its just a bunch of souls (sic) trying to work out the truth(sic) So u could possibly understand how everyone is at varied levels/places(.... its not their fault, (sort of), but its certainly not helpful or healthy for you to negatively judge their position mentally unfortunately.
Funny how the two top comments are about the depth of the song and the intelligence needed to understanding them. Don't you listen? "Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."
this song better be plaid during the credits of the 2013 movie "The Giver." no other song would fit. this is my favorite song of all time and after reading the book The Giver, it somehow made me love this song EVEN MORE. which i didnt know was possible
The amount of syllables per line in Lateralus correspond to an arrangement of the Fibonacci number sequence in which each number is the sum of the previous two. Pretty amazing how much Keenan put's into his music. Love all his stuff.
@XShadowAssassin17X what's even more amazing is how he actually writes his lyrics. He says that instead of writing words to fit the music, he writes the words to describe the music.
I can interpret this song however i like, the lines can be quite ambiguous and hold meaning for us all. To me, I interpret this as representing the mysteries in life i have yet to explore.
I interpret this songs meaning to me through not just lyrics but the music as a whole and his beautiful melody over the music
I was reading a little of the flame-war that's going on in these responses... boredom. But I can hardly believe the kind of shit people are saying. If you can't understand what Tool is talking about, it's time for you to Evolve. Seriously. And to those who meditate to this "shit" - Good. They're called Tool for a good reason. Just like "The Doors" were called that because of Blake's poem where he talks about opening "the doors of perception", so Tool for us to grow psychically.
I'd love to know what images you used in making this video. Really fuckin' cool. There was one that looked like some kind of diagram. Even on full screen I couldn't see any of the writing. can you email it to me or post the full image so I can read it? I'd really appreciate it... Grazi.
@Gnawonit If you knew anything about this band, you'd know just how wrong you are. All their songs have a huge meaning behind them. You seem to be a good example of why drugs are bad. >.> 46&2 are all I have left to say..
The fibbinochi sequence is in the song or however you spell it haha 13,8,5,3 then 3,5,8,13 so its 1+2=3, 2+3=5,3+5=8,5+8=13..the beginning sillibols. listen to it.
@foopstab unfortunately its really really really deep. and if u knew wats its about i think it might scare you so i wont tell you. you wouldnt believe me anyway.
@foopstab its by maynard therefore it is really deep. the meaning is right there in the lyrics, it's about expanding your mind and constantly evolving to grow intellectually. Or its about black and white red and yellow lol it's about crayons lol
It's about the human creative process and its conflict with our other deep rooted natural tendancies, concluding that the only way to reconcile the two is to let go of our attempts to control either, and just let them spiral out together as nature intended. There's nothing mystical or any of that shit. Most of his lyrics are about human nature, and pretty straight foreward though sometimes presented in an obscure way.
dude wtf youve had too much flouridated water man. very simply put if you use logic and mathematically calculated ideologies etc. than you are inhibiting the nature of your being you are using your useless brain than was designed for fighting wolfs and finding acorns, for something that is wasnt used for. if you really want to know who you are abandon your brain and flow with nature(instinct)
that makes no sense whatsoever. how can you know who you are if you dont use your brain? youre a fucking retard. the nature of your being is your consciousness, which means your understanding of self, and awareness of things around you. how the fuck can you write anything youve just wrote without using your brain? honestly, it sounds like your a misguided transcendentalist.
@tbone81395 ive been were no one has been, have you? you better pray that you never do as long as your in this body. you need to disregard every thing you think you know, you know nothing until you know everything.
ok im done talking to you. whatever you want to believe dude. there are millions of possibilities, so you are just as right as i am. this argument is pointless. enoy life, love, and peace.
you can still find love in god without religion.. why wouldnt you be? just because religion focuses on god it shouldnt mean that you need to get rid of reasoning and logic. there is a reason, just a very convoluted one. very convoluted. infact at the same time its not (paradoxical). perception is reality. if you think gods real god is. if gods not, then gods not. i believe that we exist in a vast beautiful multi dimensional realm of infinite everything.
My question is now that ive understood that philosophers (?) is citated in the lyrics. Got any names? And is it some kind of tolking of the human "self-awareness" of excistence in mind..? Just wondering not trying to be smart. And whats with they eye thing, cant find any religious about the third eye. Enlight me please.
I believe this song is about all our vibrations being interconnected by all creatures in the world. That with that power nothing would be impossible. Our minds and spirits are conncected physically. We have the power to change many things, yet we dont. Solutions are simple acations are harder. Lets take of our people down here from starvation before we send a 27 BILLION DOLLAR SHUTTLE TO MARS. Anyone get what im saying, if you dont eat some p.cubensis and listen to LATERALUS(cd)
I believe the lyrics are about the creative process in general, our attempts to overcome our natural inability to think outside the box, as well as the downside to attempting to force the process by "over thinking, and over analizing". Also, the conclusion that sometimes you just have no control over such things, and the resulting release of the vain attempts to overcome human nature and just going with our own "will and wind" to see if it may just take us where no ones been.
both of you get the fuck out of here your both dipshits who masturbate to pics of your moms your obviously not intelligent enough to be commenting on a tool vid
@kimnjer1 Why dont you suck their dicks then FAGGOT. I hate people like you that think that someone shouldnt listen to music. You think Tool just pulled this shit out of their ass dipshit? They were influenced by bands like Zeppelin and King Crimson. MJKs lyrics arent that orginal he takes thing from authors such as Huxley,Descartes,Pluto, and other people who you havent even heard of much less read, but then agian your ignorant so i shouldnt be that crude. You fucking bitch
why is it that everyone is feeding the troll? so the fact that he talks like a crackhead and ends all his messages with "fem boy :P :P :P" and actually knows how to operate, or even own, a computer doesn't set off any alarms? leave him be. don't talk to him, he'll OD on meth or something.
@Psilocybong420 lol dude!!!!! u ain't dissin me at all haha!!!!!!! u think ur dissinz be real manly haha????? HELLLL NAWWWW haha!!!! u be usin 2 many big ass wordz 2 be dissin a real og balla, badass, dumbass guido like me haha!!!!!!! lol if i met u i'd whoop u up so bad u'd be havin black eyez n busted armz hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! femmmmmmmmmmmm bopyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! :P :P :P
@klaynexas3 lol dude!!!!!!! now u be denyin that i be the real deal 2 hahahahhahahahahah!!!!!! how many of u fuckin fem boyz can't handle the truth that i be real haha????? femmmmmm boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!
@mulholland1985 you fool, the whole meaning of the song is that "over thinking over analizing separates the body from the mind" means that logic and all that intelligence crap are there to slap limits on your mind. throw science out of the equation throw everything you consider knowledge out of your mind only then will life start to work properly. thats not all there is to it, read the seth books
@THErickuss so u are a tool fan eh???pretty sad..the way u address me tells it all..gud day..:)...and ya obviously everybody understands that part..but there is more to this song..
lol well... you can percieve the music however you like, but, that makes no sense. how could logic inhibit and/or limitate your mind? i think you might of misinterpreted what i think they were trying to imply. "over thinking over analyzing, separates the body from the mind" means that overthinking and over analyzing is something your mind does, whereas, your body doesnt, it just does. see what i mean?
@mulholland1985 well if you want to try, you're lucky, cause trying is under you're control. if you try, and you dont get it, you can just try more!!!
"Black then white" are the "shades" of the spiritual selves, i.e. the physical selves. The "red and yellow" are the colors of the spiritual selves. "As below so above" is a hermetic expression, it means that the physical self below is the same as the spiritual self above.
I think the Fibonacci sequence symbolizes the perfect expansion of the spiral. It's increasing at a perfectly increasing ratio: the golden ratio.
I've searched online and couldn't find a really good explanation, so here's mine: the song is about reaching the spiritual divine self (kind of like Plato's Allegory of the Cave). Similar to Plato's cave, the philosopher who over-thinks and over-analyzes is separated from his body to reach the spiritual self. The spiritual self and the body are on the same line, since the spiral is a single line. This is an unending line.
@Theunholyone2193 it means differnet things to many poeple but at the same time it says over thinking is not right go with what you feel and keep moveing forward that is the meaning of life ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,to live
lol holy fuckin shit this is fem boy music haha!!!!! lol damn some pussy ass fem boy fag sent me this song haha!!!!!! fuckin borrrrinnnnn as helll haha!!!!! can't dance 2 it, can't throw a bangin party with it, fukcin classical fagz like this shit haha!!!!! music ain't sposed 2 be borin like this haha!!!!!!! lol why do soulja boy got like 9000000000000000 people watchin his vid n this shit ain't got no1 cept fem boyz??? cause it's BORRRINNN haha!!!!!!! thumbz up if u ain't no fem boy haha!!!!
@jason91093 lol dude!!!! hell yeah i be wasted every nite haha!!!!! what bout u huh??? oh yeah u ain't never been to no party in ur life haha!!!!!! femmm boyyyyyy!!!!! :P :P :P
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@TheRiotengine lol dude!!!!! damn how many fem boyz deny that i be the real deal haha????? yeah ur so jeloz u ain't never gonna admit that i'm real, i'm paul, i kick ass, n i pparty every nite n get pussy til 5 haha!!!!!!!!!!! 2 bad 4 u that i be the real deal haha!!!!!! femmmm boyyyyyyy!!!!!! :P :P :P
I think the songs about DMT (a type of drug). Look it up and you'll see what I mean.
ellpana 4 hours ago
Maynard is a genius.
PoisionedCookie 2 days ago
Wen i firs herd this song live tears of joy coverd my face
codyandjustice 3 days ago
7:17 every damn time.
elrath 4 days ago
@elrath for real, I think that's what you hear on the verge of the event horizon, before being sucked into infinity, lol
LifeLibertyNow 4 days ago
Tool lights a fire under my lazy ass.
FunkBeatsandBass 6 days ago
23 douchebags...and counting
donjuan212000 1 week ago
My 14 year old son is teaching himself to play this on his bullet strat... sounds good so far. I'm a proud dad, he loves my music.
TheUnNerved 1 week ago 3
@TheUnNerved Good dad
MrBinet1976 1 week ago
I rode the spiral must do it again
natalieanne101 1 week ago
Im pretty sure that that picture is the mayan calendar. Pretty sketchy. :- /
TheGameRaido 1 week ago
Does anyone know what that pictures is at 7:17?? Please respond
chudancha 2 weeks ago
I am stoned and like new Tool better than old Tool, except from Opiate. Does that make me a bad person?
belacy87 2 weeks ago
@belacy87 I love both new and old Tool. But they have evolved a lot since their Opiate/Undertow days. From my personal analysis, it seems like theyve evolved from playing angry and perhaps frustrated yet talented music to more of a psychedelic "art rock" type feel with about 10x the talent. These four guys must all be on the same wave-length or mind frequency to be able to make such amazingly beautiful, yet impossibly intricate music. Ive been listening for years and my mind is blown every time.
toolheade33 2 weeks ago
the lyrics aren't gonna mean anything spiritual if you aren't in touch with those aspect of possible experience. you draw the meaning from your own depth. be proud if you can see the alchemical spirit in this music, it's a gift from who knows where. Spiritual pride is just another step towards emerging out of our infancy. Nonetheless, it seems to be a step for many of us. Don't be ashamed, just keep it from becoming a habitual pathology of ignorance. Keep on keeping on.
alliant 3 weeks ago
@alliant well said brother
LPHunter10 3 weeks ago
Anyone else think of Castaneda when you hear this?
MrBinet1976 3 weeks ago
Black and white = stereotyping words Yellow and red = are also stereotyping people, Chinese and communists (originally from Russia, as in the Red Army, but the term has blurred to encompass anyone who has even the slightest communist leaning) respectively. Yellow and Red appeared during the cold war. Over thinking and over analyzing separates the body from the mind. "Dont think, just feel" Justifying the stereotyping and hatred.
It goes on, Hell, you could write an essay on ONE of Tool's songs.
pseudoboss11 3 weeks ago
@pseudoboss11
You are listening to the words at face value. Both the was he sings the words and the drum beat are both Alchemy.
The song is just about thinking outside yourself. It is about exploring the outer reaches of the mind.
Hear the whole thing. It is not possible for you to be racist in your infancy, is it?
Hell the song's NAME means thinking outside conventional thought. Tool is all about people opening their minds and such.
SeanHiruki 3 weeks ago
@pseudoboss11 i could be completely wrong here but what i thought he meant as in black and white in his infancy was meant that all you can see as a newborn is black and white then you gradually adapt to colours for example red and yellow and lets you see. your opinion of it is a good one though too and probably right.
613Andyman 2 weeks ago
@613Andyman The song is about how people keep "overthinking, overanalyzing" Tool's songs, instead of sitting back and enjoying them for what they are.
GeneralMillss 1 week ago
spiraling out-step 9
step 10-godhead
HeuristicThought 3 weeks ago
People...he's not god....and actually.... he can kind of be a stuck up dick too. He's a talented singer, in front of F'n amazing musicians, but seriously folks, it's not like it's The Madhyamakavatara or anything.....
drenM1A1 4 weeks ago
I like how we all conjure up meanings for the lyrics that Maynard wrote. However he is the only one who truly knows the meanings of each lyric he places in a song !!
breakingbisley 1 month ago
Great song!
erb082580 1 month ago
i fell in love
Magicalpopsiclesxoxo 1 month ago
*watch it bend*, meaning watch the fabric of reality become molded into a new shape by your mind*...
00EmPhasiS00 1 month ago
Can any one tell me what mean " push the envelope, watch it blend"...???
alebazzan 1 month ago
@alebazzan
the first guy overcomplicated that, i'm afraid, "push the envelope", the expression meaning to push the limits- watch it bend. So, push the limits of, observe what happens.
iwishthiswouldwork1 1 month ago
@alebazzan "push the envelope" is an expression. it means to test the limits, to try and go further than before. and it's "watch it BEND"
tradingtiger 4 weeks ago
yay psychadelics =^_^=
WtFShTbOy 1 month ago
I wish I can witness the birth of a song like this from the lyrics to the music
GoCowboysMAustin 1 month ago 2
this was awesome live
Usicat1224ET 1 month ago
7:15 what its that ? please answer me i m a hot chick ;)
fenderbulletcaster 1 month ago
I love how any Tool song can be interperated by one person to mean one thing, then mean somthing compleatly diffrent to another. Tool is powerfull.
ChillTJ1 1 month ago
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 8 5 3 2 1 1=perfection
x53k5hun8x 1 month ago
96lazar 1 month ago 45
<3 <3 <3 Tool.
Hemistol1 1 month ago
Transcend
robdude66 1 month ago
Its like hes reading my thoughts.
onelovenah 1 month ago
One of the best creations I have ever listened :)
TheTere27 1 month ago
Not really that good.
FlashGameDev 1 month ago
@FlashGameDev Why? Please enlighten us as to the reasons this particular piece of music is "Not really that good" You have every right in the world to not like it but you can't say it's not good.
judgegixxer 1 month ago
EMBRACE LIFE AND EMBRACE TOOL :)
Mystikalmiguel86 1 month ago
I think "Red and white are what I see" means what we see now, not nessesarally what it actually is. "Red and Yellow then came to be, lets me see" Gives us more but not even close to all of an understanding on what life, death, and basically everything is.
Well, thats what I think
42threspwan 1 month ago
@42threspwan I can pretty much guarantee your right, because lines like that definately use symbolism. When you look at the song as a whole the symbolism is very apparent. Of course in the end, it's up to each person how they interpret the songs once they "try and read between the lines".
TheDrunkwraith 1 month ago
@TheDrunkwraith I couldn't agree more. I think it is important and fun to try to interperate lyrics. It gives you an idea of what the song really means, but I think some people take it too far. Some people only pay attention to the lyrical part of the song. That is only part. Without instruments, music isn't music. Music is art, if you take everything but the lyrics, and throw it out, it would be like painting with one color. Incomplete.
42threspwan 1 month ago 2
@42threspwan Yeah very true. I never even got into tool until after I listened to aenima a few times through and got a feel for what each member was doing. At the point it sounded absolutely amazing, and I finally understood why everyone considers Danny to be one of the greatest drummers out there. When you look at how simple a song like Stinkfist is, and you listen to how everyone's doing their own thing regardless, it's unbelievable. Very rare for each member to be completely independent.
TheDrunkwraith 1 month ago
@42threspwan Black, white, red and gold are something related to the colours that appears while creating a philosophal stone. ;-)
HBProds 1 month ago
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96lazar 1 month ago
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@HBProds you are wrong.The song could also be about the order of colors seen while under the influence of LSD. Alex Grey (the spiritualistic artist who did the album artwork for Lateralus) stated that when he closed his eyes on an LSD trip, he saw a black and white spiral, and when he tried it a few more times it became a red and yellow spiral.
96lazar 1 month ago
@HBProds also Maynard James Keenan commented on the lyric mentioning black, white, red and yellow: "I use the archetype stories of North American aboriginals and the themes or colours which appear over and over again in the oral stories handed down through generations. Black, white, red, and yellow play very heavily in aboriginal stories of creation."
96lazar 1 month ago
@HBProds An interesting side note, in alchemy "The Great Work" begins with the Nigredo (black), then moves to the Albedo (white), then the Citrinitas (yellow), then the Rubedo (Red).
96lazar 1 month ago
@96lazar Yup ! Differents meanings for one thing. That makes Tool awesome !
HBProds 1 month ago
It's about taking a fat shit and watching it "spiral" down the toilet...
SuttonSantiniPaulo 1 month ago
@SuttonSantiniPaulo you would fuck with lyrics that are too complex for you to understand
Krb303 1 month ago
@SuttonSantiniPaulo
lol troll
tbone81395 1 month ago
I just came to hear music....so.......you guys have fun with your theories or whatever....
Runecreator10 1 month ago
I thought it was about tacos?
colonelsanta 1 month ago
in my opinion this songs lyrics are fairly simple.. dont just live your life according to what you see right in front of your face. keep your mind open and embrace your feelings and intuitions. there is so much spiriutal out there. feel it man
NicholeSack17 1 month ago 4
Okay so I just wanna say this song is fucking genius and figuring this thing out was a BITCH! But,they used something called the Fibonacci sequence and what I know is the song relates in face this entire album comes back to the theme of spirals.Maynard is saying. "Don't live life in a linear way. Live in the spiral. Grow, expand, reach for the unknown"
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DrDarthAlucard 1 month ago
I don't know whether to be happy or disgusted that many do not get Maynards words.......
FreedmFightr 2 months ago 29
@FreedmFightr be neither. it makes no difference....all it takes is for his understanding of self to radiate, with or without words.
MysticMoonGoddess67 1 month ago
@FreedmFightr i feel the same
Mikekarrosdrum 1 month ago
@FreedmFightr be happy that YOU get it... be sad for the rest !!!
FOXYKAT6 1 month ago
@FreedmFightr Words can be interpreted in an infinite number of ways, there is no right or wrong. Clearly YOU don't get it.
metallic8 1 month ago
@FreedmFightr Neither. The ignorance or understanding of others is not something you should really be worried about unless you are trying to teach something.
theflyingsplat 3 weeks ago 4
@FreedmFightr I do think you shouldn't give a fuck about it.
sofoclebeat 2 weeks ago
the first lines about color could be about evolution since black and white vision came first than color vision
wearestarstuffsagan 2 months ago
@wearestarstuffsagan
i think hes talking in a spiritual context. "black then white are, all i see in my infancy" pretty much means (to me) that you see that things as black and white, cut and dry, etc. then when he says "red and yellow then became to be, lets me see" is when he develops spiritually and that he realizes that we are all connected and that there is an explanation for everything. the colors are everything inbetween white and black, and that he understands everything insightfully.
tbone81395 1 month ago
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Gnawonit 2 months ago
The bass solo for 4:50 is soo epic. xD
RamonLovesRockandPie 2 months ago
It's a song about writing music, and the "infinite possibilites" when doing so. When he first started (in my infancy) all he saw was black music notes on white paper, then he learned that there was so much more to the creativity of music than just the notes written on the page (red and yellow then came to me)... Tool is the apitimy of pushing the envelope... Maynard is the sickest musician alive.
Naternutts 2 months ago
@Naternutts It's not just about music, it's about your mind never being stuck in a circle, always spiraling out.
pimpc1125 2 months ago
"with my feet upon the ground i lose myself between the sounds
then open wide to suck it in, i feel it move across my skin,
im reaching up and reaching out, im reaching for the random, or
whatever will bewilder me, whatever will bewilder me.
and following our will and wind we may just go where no ones been,
we'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no ones been.
spiral out, keep going.spiral out keep going."
AMAZING
johnskel002 2 months ago
if TOOL formed a cult, i would join it
johnskel002 2 months ago 2
ok seriously? i was trying to be funny but ffs, it's such a stupid thing to say. yes artists in general are known to have an affiliation with drugs but i wasn't being serious. why would people thumbs up something so stupid? is our society really so comedicly oriented that youths can't appreciat anything intellegent? honestly some people have said some very intellegent things, but the comment about drugs gets liked more. wtf?
foopstab 2 months ago 3
@foopstab You answered your own question, people are stupid. It really is that simple... Sadly.
thejokersqueen 2 months ago
@foopstab lol. Ur passion is nagging at u. either be good, or start embracing the feelings its provoking. thats the only way to make those painful feelings subside. Humanity is stupid as a whole, but, what is humanity? its just a bunch of souls (sic) trying to work out the truth(sic) So u could possibly understand how everyone is at varied levels/places(.... its not their fault, (sort of), but its certainly not helpful or healthy for you to negatively judge their position mentally unfortunately.
residue102 2 months ago
Funny how the two top comments are about the depth of the song and the intelligence needed to understanding them. Don't you listen? "Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."
burnsy182 2 months ago 2
Playin that song on guitar is the shit.
TheGuanche88 2 months ago
awsome..all i can say is praise God:)
fearea 2 months ago
this song better be plaid during the credits of the 2013 movie "The Giver." no other song would fit. this is my favorite song of all time and after reading the book The Giver, it somehow made me love this song EVEN MORE. which i didnt know was possible
johnskel002 2 months ago 2
I work out to this song and pretty much ev=ry Tool song
Bard23ify 2 months ago
The amount of syllables per line in Lateralus correspond to an arrangement of the Fibonacci number sequence in which each number is the sum of the previous two. Pretty amazing how much Keenan put's into his music. Love all his stuff.
XShadowAssassin17X 2 months ago
@XShadowAssassin17X what's even more amazing is how he actually writes his lyrics. He says that instead of writing words to fit the music, he writes the words to describe the music.
OresnikStudios 2 months ago
@XShadowAssassin17X it also reflects on the actually content of the lyrics *swing on the spiral*
Sidepiece2 2 months ago
I can interpret this song however i like, the lines can be quite ambiguous and hold meaning for us all. To me, I interpret this as representing the mysteries in life i have yet to explore.
I interpret this songs meaning to me through not just lyrics but the music as a whole and his beautiful melody over the music
69Acolyte69 2 months ago
I was reading a little of the flame-war that's going on in these responses... boredom. But I can hardly believe the kind of shit people are saying. If you can't understand what Tool is talking about, it's time for you to Evolve. Seriously. And to those who meditate to this "shit" - Good. They're called Tool for a good reason. Just like "The Doors" were called that because of Blake's poem where he talks about opening "the doors of perception", so Tool for us to grow psychically.
Ravagedspirit 2 months ago
I'd love to know what images you used in making this video. Really fuckin' cool. There was one that looked like some kind of diagram. Even on full screen I couldn't see any of the writing. can you email it to me or post the full image so I can read it? I'd really appreciate it... Grazi.
Ravagedspirit 2 months ago
Finals today and tomorrow,this is my theme song right here^
TheMetallicDk 2 months ago 14
@TheMetallicDk fucking same here
AntiHeroKitty 2 months ago
yes I maditate to this u call shit
Mrpossy1 2 months ago
There are retards that meditate to this shit. It says nothing! It means nothing! It's shit I used to come up with while doing hits of acid.
Gnawonit 2 months ago
@Gnawonit If you knew anything about this band, you'd know just how wrong you are. All their songs have a huge meaning behind them. You seem to be a good example of why drugs are bad. >.> 46&2 are all I have left to say..
spiikespiegel89 2 months ago
I like the quote on the description,just makes you think about the song even more
TheMetallicDk 2 months ago
The fibbinochi sequence is in the song or however you spell it haha 13,8,5,3 then 3,5,8,13 so its 1+2=3, 2+3=5,3+5=8,5+8=13..the beginning sillibols. listen to it.
sadskatecrew 2 months ago
@sadskatecrew Syllables* and actually, it starts at 1. It goes 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,8,5,3,2,1,1. Example: 2:57-3:23
farcryguy1 2 months ago
this is either really, really deep or something someone wrote while high
foopstab 2 months ago 19
@foopstab why cant it be both?
idied2day1869 2 months ago
@foopstab its both ;)
666Ahil 2 months ago
@foopstab or both
DropTheGun234 2 months ago
@foopstab Possibly both! :)
PacisVictus 2 months ago
@foopstab its both.
SpreeFlex98 2 months ago
@foopstab unfortunately its really really really deep. and if u knew wats its about i think it might scare you so i wont tell you. you wouldnt believe me anyway.
residue102 2 months ago
@foopstab can't be both?
foreverisalie713 2 months ago
@foopstab Really deep, Maynard James Keenan is a freaking genius.
cld1472 2 months ago
@foopstab read about the third eye, universal manifestation. pantheism, beyond physical realization
k3llzor 2 months ago
@foopstab can't it be both? :P
LTMguitarist 1 month ago
@foopstab neither
rintrah81 1 month ago
@foopstab or both no?
Masonlee1234 1 month ago
@foopstab its by maynard therefore it is really deep. the meaning is right there in the lyrics, it's about expanding your mind and constantly evolving to grow intellectually. Or its about black and white red and yellow lol it's about crayons lol
ic3cold87 1 month ago
@foopstab Hey I think we're being a little narrow minded about this. It could easily be both!
XA55A55INX 1 month ago
@foopstab or both
mkarns7 1 month ago
Fuck all u guys and enjoy this jam
littleboeep 2 months ago
toooooooooooooooooooooooooool
severed321 2 months ago
It's about the human creative process and its conflict with our other deep rooted natural tendancies, concluding that the only way to reconcile the two is to let go of our attempts to control either, and just let them spiral out together as nature intended. There's nothing mystical or any of that shit. Most of his lyrics are about human nature, and pretty straight foreward though sometimes presented in an obscure way.
opiateofthemasses 2 months ago
dude wtf youve had too much flouridated water man. very simply put if you use logic and mathematically calculated ideologies etc. than you are inhibiting the nature of your being you are using your useless brain than was designed for fighting wolfs and finding acorns, for something that is wasnt used for. if you really want to know who you are abandon your brain and flow with nature(instinct)
THErickuss 2 months ago
@THErickuss
that makes no sense whatsoever. how can you know who you are if you dont use your brain? youre a fucking retard. the nature of your being is your consciousness, which means your understanding of self, and awareness of things around you. how the fuck can you write anything youve just wrote without using your brain? honestly, it sounds like your a misguided transcendentalist.
tbone81395 2 months ago
@tbone81395 congradulations dumbshit you failed to learn something, to learn how dumb you are is a virtue
THErickuss 2 months ago
@tbone81395 ive been were no one has been, have you? you better pray that you never do as long as your in this body. you need to disregard every thing you think you know, you know nothing until you know everything.
THErickuss 2 months ago
@THErickuss lets fuck the waitress
oftenlostinwhat 2 months ago
@THErickuss
ok im done talking to you. whatever you want to believe dude. there are millions of possibilities, so you are just as right as i am. this argument is pointless. enoy life, love, and peace.
tbone81395 2 months ago
i want to feel the "love" of god that comes with religion, but im having trouble with abandoning reason. - what i got from it :P
oftenlostinwhat 2 months ago
@oftenlostinwhat
you can still find love in god without religion.. why wouldnt you be? just because religion focuses on god it shouldnt mean that you need to get rid of reasoning and logic. there is a reason, just a very convoluted one. very convoluted. infact at the same time its not (paradoxical). perception is reality. if you think gods real god is. if gods not, then gods not. i believe that we exist in a vast beautiful multi dimensional realm of infinite everything.
tbone81395 2 months ago
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TheBgaddy 2 months ago
this song describes my first acid trip
leokovmol 2 months ago
My question is now that ive understood that philosophers (?) is citated in the lyrics. Got any names? And is it some kind of tolking of the human "self-awareness" of excistence in mind..? Just wondering not trying to be smart. And whats with they eye thing, cant find any religious about the third eye. Enlight me please.
IveGotAnthrax 3 months ago
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 <<<the chorus follows the Fibonacci Sequence
nate00000069 3 months ago
I believe this song is about all our vibrations being interconnected by all creatures in the world. That with that power nothing would be impossible. Our minds and spirits are conncected physically. We have the power to change many things, yet we dont. Solutions are simple acations are harder. Lets take of our people down here from starvation before we send a 27 BILLION DOLLAR SHUTTLE TO MARS. Anyone get what im saying, if you dont eat some p.cubensis and listen to LATERALUS(cd)
IamLincolnLand1 3 months ago
I believe the lyrics are about the creative process in general, our attempts to overcome our natural inability to think outside the box, as well as the downside to attempting to force the process by "over thinking, and over analizing". Also, the conclusion that sometimes you just have no control over such things, and the resulting release of the vain attempts to overcome human nature and just going with our own "will and wind" to see if it may just take us where no ones been.
opiateofthemasses 3 months ago
both of you get the fuck out of here your both dipshits who masturbate to pics of your moms your obviously not intelligent enough to be commenting on a tool vid
kimnjer1 3 months ago
@kimnjer1 Why dont you suck their dicks then FAGGOT. I hate people like you that think that someone shouldnt listen to music. You think Tool just pulled this shit out of their ass dipshit? They were influenced by bands like Zeppelin and King Crimson. MJKs lyrics arent that orginal he takes thing from authors such as Huxley,Descartes,Pluto, and other people who you havent even heard of much less read, but then agian your ignorant so i shouldnt be that crude. You fucking bitch
IamLincolnLand1 3 months ago
This song is mind blowing.... a Fav.
lllmillll 3 months ago
why is it that everyone is feeding the troll? so the fact that he talks like a crackhead and ends all his messages with "fem boy :P :P :P" and actually knows how to operate, or even own, a computer doesn't set off any alarms? leave him be. don't talk to him, he'll OD on meth or something.
klaynexas3 3 months ago
@klaynexas3 well it's kind of fun making fun of him...I know it's not nice to laugh at people with mental disabilities but I can't help myself lol
Psilocybong420 3 months ago
@Psilocybong420 lol dude!!!!! u ain't dissin me at all haha!!!!!!! u think ur dissinz be real manly haha????? HELLLL NAWWWW haha!!!! u be usin 2 many big ass wordz 2 be dissin a real og balla, badass, dumbass guido like me haha!!!!!!! lol if i met u i'd whoop u up so bad u'd be havin black eyez n busted armz hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! femmmmmmmmmmmm bopyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! :P :P :P
MegaBadBoi11 3 months ago
@klaynexas3 lol dude!!!!!!! now u be denyin that i be the real deal 2 hahahahhahahahahah!!!!!! how many of u fuckin fem boyz can't handle the truth that i be real haha????? femmmmmm boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!
MegaBadBoi11 3 months ago
so i come to the conclusion..it takes a lot of intelligence to understand tools musical expressions...m tryingggg...arrgghhhhh
mulholland1985 3 months ago 14
@mulholland1985 Not neccesarily. You just need a creative mind that knows how to think for itself. That's what Tool wants you to do with their music.
Drusus1840 3 months ago
@mulholland1985 you fool, the whole meaning of the song is that "over thinking over analizing separates the body from the mind" means that logic and all that intelligence crap are there to slap limits on your mind. throw science out of the equation throw everything you consider knowledge out of your mind only then will life start to work properly. thats not all there is to it, read the seth books
THErickuss 2 months ago
@THErickuss so u are a tool fan eh???pretty sad..the way u address me tells it all..gud day..:)...and ya obviously everybody understands that part..but there is more to this song..
mulholland1985 2 months ago
@THErickuss
lol well... you can percieve the music however you like, but, that makes no sense. how could logic inhibit and/or limitate your mind? i think you might of misinterpreted what i think they were trying to imply. "over thinking over analyzing, separates the body from the mind" means that overthinking and over analyzing is something your mind does, whereas, your body doesnt, it just does. see what i mean?
tbone81395 2 months ago
@mulholland1985 well if you want to try, you're lucky, cause trying is under you're control. if you try, and you dont get it, you can just try more!!!
residue102 2 months ago
I love this! Thanks for sharing!
thestarlajune 3 months ago
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"SEE ALL THE SPIRALS, WE ARE NOT HUMANS." Great song.
tickyul 3 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
"SEE ALL THE SPIRALS, WE ARE NOT HUMANS." Great song.
tickyul 3 months ago
fuck obama,fuck the GOP.maynard for president 2012.The man is a fucking genius.
Psilocybong420 3 months ago
"Black then white" are the "shades" of the spiritual selves, i.e. the physical selves. The "red and yellow" are the colors of the spiritual selves. "As below so above" is a hermetic expression, it means that the physical self below is the same as the spiritual self above.
I think the Fibonacci sequence symbolizes the perfect expansion of the spiral. It's increasing at a perfectly increasing ratio: the golden ratio.
alnajina 3 months ago
I've searched online and couldn't find a really good explanation, so here's mine: the song is about reaching the spiritual divine self (kind of like Plato's Allegory of the Cave). Similar to Plato's cave, the philosopher who over-thinks and over-analyzes is separated from his body to reach the spiritual self. The spiritual self and the body are on the same line, since the spiral is a single line. This is an unending line.
alnajina 3 months ago
@LeadGuardian Try not popping oxy and listening to tool.
creamsodaistasty 3 months ago
i didn´t know for a while that god has a band called tool :D
hallooo11111 3 months ago
i think its really cool musically how psychedelic tool can be.
metalfool4295 3 months ago
its tool the song has no meaning but means everything at the same time so shut up and enjoy the music
Theunholyone2193 3 months ago
@Theunholyone2193 It has a lot of meaning.
creamsodaistasty 3 months ago
@Theunholyone2193 it means differnet things to many poeple but at the same time it says over thinking is not right go with what you feel and keep moveing forward that is the meaning of life ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,to live
mikebmix 3 months ago
lol holy fuckin shit this is fem boy music haha!!!!! lol damn some pussy ass fem boy fag sent me this song haha!!!!!! fuckin borrrrinnnnn as helll haha!!!!! can't dance 2 it, can't throw a bangin party with it, fukcin classical fagz like this shit haha!!!!! music ain't sposed 2 be borin like this haha!!!!!!! lol why do soulja boy got like 9000000000000000 people watchin his vid n this shit ain't got no1 cept fem boyz??? cause it's BORRRINNN haha!!!!!!! thumbz up if u ain't no fem boy haha!!!!
MegaBadBoi11 3 months ago
@MegaBadBoi11 your a waste
jason91093 3 months ago
@jason91093 lol dude!!!! hell yeah i be wasted every nite haha!!!!! what bout u huh??? oh yeah u ain't never been to no party in ur life haha!!!!!! femmm boyyyyyy!!!!! :P :P :P
MegaBadBoi11 3 months ago
@MegaBadBoi11 your channel reeks of faggot. jersey shore? you should be disposed of.
jason91093 3 months ago
@MegaBadBoi11 thumbs down, megafagboi
albafro 3 months ago
@albafro lol dude!!!!! another fem boy haha!!!!! femmm boyyyy!!!!! :P :P :P
MegaBadBoi11 3 months ago
@MegaBadBoi11
I'm just joking bro. How can I become a guido, too?
albafro 3 months ago
@albafro lol dude!!! ur just tryin 2 play it cool with me 2 diss me again haha!!!!! u wanna be a guido???? stop sayin shit like a fem boy video game fag n start talkin like a real man haha!!!!!!! femmm boyyyyyyyy!!!! :P :P :P
MegaBadBoi11 3 months ago
@MegaBadBoi11 And by the way, "real men" know how to spell.
yuugur666 3 months ago
@yuugur666 who are you to define "real men" ?
a11mykn33gr0w5 3 months ago
@MegaBadBoi11 thumbs up if your not a troll like ^
TheRiotengine 3 months ago
@TheRiotengine lol dude!!!!! damn how many fem boyz deny that i be the real deal haha????? yeah ur so jeloz u ain't never gonna admit that i'm real, i'm paul, i kick ass, n i pparty every nite n get pussy til 5 haha!!!!!!!!!!! 2 bad 4 u that i be the real deal haha!!!!!! femmmm boyyyyyyy!!!!!! :P :P :P
MegaBadBoi11 3 months ago
@MegaBadBoi11 If you are the "real deal" i would be ashamed to claim sincerity in that...
TheRiotengine 3 months ago