This song always meant to me being de-sensitized through too much sensation. Chasing pleasure for pleasure's sake soon becomes an addiction, like any drug. It takes more to get a sensation (finger, knuckle, elbow, shoulder) before you get the same feeling. The line that strikes me the most is the last one "There's something kind of sad about, the way this has come to be, desensitized to everything, what became of subtlety?" Given our current instant entertainment society, it just sounds more true now than ever.
And how one’s own desensitization can harm others. The song makes reference after reference to feeling something, anything, at someone else’s expense. “I’ll keep digging/till I feel something” All in association with an act inflicted on another.
@@captahar8818 Don't forget; any time Tool lyrics are about a relationship between *two* individuals, it also applies to the relationship between two aspects of *one* individual's psyche.
thank GOD! finally a reaction where the person has the sense to look past the obvious metaphor, and tries to understand what is really being said. So many youtubers just giggle and snicker their way through what is a absolute masterpiece of a song.
They;re just missing out on such an incredible experience.... this track (and the video) is quintessential Tool... Rezner's production alone is sublime on this!
I'm glad this is the only reaction I've watched about this song. I'd probably stroke out if I had to watch people take it at face value. I'm not THAT intolerant, but it would take me all of a few seconds to shut it off.
@@bpal7006 sounds pretty intolerant to me brother, try to understand not everyone is going to be the same. People can laugh at what's being said but still love the song and wither they understand the deeper meaning or not the first time they listen to it and upload a "reaction" is irrelevant since most people have different opinions and interpretations on almost every tool song anyways
@@Captain_Calcium fair enough. But realize my reply is just agreeing with with what is being said in here. Not crapping on anyone specific nor arguing. I still reserve to right to not watch things I don't like. To each their own.
Quantum Ashes I just saw them live a few weeks ago and they did the same thing! I’ve also seen a perfect circle live, Maynard is such an amazing artist!
I hope you feel better bro!! Tool is an amazing band to listen to! Another song to listen to if you to get your head in the right mind is band called Stickfigure. Check out Above the Storm.
Thanks for doing a Tool song today, I really needed it. Stuck in the hospital trying to figure out if I had a minor stroke or a heart attack. I'm 48 and in not bad shape, remember to tell your people that you care about that you love them. Glad I'm still here for your reviews.
You can only imagine how cool it was when this album came out, my brother, best friend and I took the day off from work, waited for the record store to open, and sat in the parking lot listening to the record twice through the listen through and pick up the lyrics, went to lunch, listened again. It was an event. Maybe I'm getting old but I can't think if music I'd be so excited about.
I only discovered Tool in 2002 and Aenima was the first album I heard. For 10000 days release my buddy surprised us at dinner a day early, and for Fear Inoculum we went far away from civilisation for a week to get to grips with it
Some say there is a much deeper meaning besides sexual abuse. Mental abuse of how we indoctrinate our children to believe as we do. Especially in the case of organized religion.
This is how I interpret this song: The analogy of him sodomizing someone with his fist is a metaphor as to how we always go to new extremes to gain more pleasure since we have become desensitized to standard things. We live in an age where we become desensitized due to copious amounts of instant gratification and we're forced to keep searching for something new and fresh to make us feel alive. The "borderline" is the anus (or metaphorically the boundary of the comfort zone), and his arm is getting deeper and deeper as the song progresses.
@@mr198221 Its creepy, but I wouldn't assume this if Maynard hadn't said this about about the song before one of its live performances: "Many people think that our songs have a deeper meaning... Here's a song about someone shoving their fist up someone's ass". Then the name "Stinkfist" made so much more sense to me...
In my opinion the meaning of the song is summed up in these lyrics: “there’s something kind of sad about the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything. What became of subtlety. Now how can this mean anything to me if I really don’t feel a thing at all?” We are inundated with so much negative information. Everyday the news tells you about people being killed or dying in accidents. If the cameras happen to be “lucky” enough to get footage they will play the carnage over and over and over again. We see and hear so much we’re becoming desensitized. We feel less and less and it requires more and more to shock us enough to feel anything for the suffering and pain of others. Loosing empathy is loosing what it means to be human so we crave more and more so we can feel that again. But the more we see the less we feel and the less human we are all becoming.
A lot of times the 'tragedies' we see on Tell-Lie-Vision are not even real. Sensationalized at best and downright Fake at worst. But whatever sells fear is the goal.
I think it’s pretty much a metaphor for the lengths people go to to feel something in a world of overstimulation where you become desensitized to things and become bored by hem, and the lengths you go to feel get deeper and deeper. It can be sexual. It can be drugs. It can be any vice.
he already did Aenima. he did Lateralus (studio version) recently... i'm hoping he does Break of Reality's cover of that song... holy shit... i've never heard an instrumental cover that sounded quite like that
The best art, is art that makes you think and contemplate what you're seeing or in this case, what you're hearing. There isn't anything right or wrong in doing that. I believe you've already accomplished that purpose while paying them the highest compliment simultaneously.
I love how after the solo when it started to build You stood up I could tell it blew your mind Tool is like the 90’s heavy Pink Floyd in a way Great video
And now, my friend, you are truly a tool fan! You’re taking things deeper than the surface and understanding that everything isn’t always face value! Bravo! Another tool win!
I’ve always loved tool, especially the early stuff like this, but Maynard is so intelligent, all 3 of his bands are amazing! I’ve seen both tool and a perfect circle live and both concerts were incredible!
On first listen: They fisting someone On 5000th listen: Man this is a great commentary on society being desensitized to life and love because of televised death and porno. Also insert a million more things.
I still love the way this song and the rest of the record was mixed, with big sound on the drums but the guitars kept in mono for most of the song and only expanding into stereo at key points. Makes it sound super tight.
The best mixed tool album imo, maybe not as clean as other releases but it's loud and gritty and just has these layers of sound design and textures that gel like gooey spicy yummy sauce all over
Track number one. I just watched all of your TOOL reactions. I love how you truly appreciate this music. I'm subscribing. You have a lot more of this amazing discography to get through. ✌
best TOOL album imo. Nothing dragged out too long but every song has it's own mood and tempo attached. Had that cover shirt back in 7th grade.. Gonna dig deep in my closest for it..
My primary weakness in understanding songs has always been in the lyrics. So I thank you for your ability in exploring that area and sharing it with us! Keep on with your bad self!
I've been following Jamal for over a year now. The brother can definitely dissect this type of music. Definitely has a grasp on what's up. Jamal, keep going brother. Keep doing you. Cuban American here wishing the best for all my peeps.
This song isn't just a song to me it pretty much emcompasses my life from 13-15. It was mine as well as my best friends favorite song at the time, he died of heroin overdose some years back. Whenever I hear this I always remember some great times I had.
I've always taken this song to be talking about the consuming hunger we face today. There are a lot of things we fill ourselves with, be it buying new and shinier things (phones, cars, fashion, things to fill your home) or porn or even drugs and sex. Just like an addict we need more to feel the good feelings. We shove our hand deeper and deeper past that borderline of pleasure to feel it. Think about hoarders, doing crazy things to pack more into their spaces to just feel something. Porn can be like that too, over stimulation makes the mind seek out harder and harder imagery.
Someone has already posted the lyric: "How could it mean anything to me, if I really don't feel anything at all," but, i wanted to share that i use this as a cautionary tale for others. I've met too many women in my life that went to great sexual lengths for someone they either deeply loved or wanted to be with only to find themselves left humiliated, heart broken, and discarded. The questions are always the same, why doesn't he love me, how could he have left, how could I have been so stupid... ? I always make sure these people know that they are loved, they're wonderful people, and they need to understand a little more about how this happens ...and more importantly, how to recognize these behaviors moving forward. Maynard is so honest with his own self appraisals, as objective of human nature as a human can be, and unabashed in his commentaries... the interpretations of this song are fantastic and I'm thankful to read each of them here, but, there's a crowbar across the jaw truth here ... and I'm glad its brought all of us here. And brother, your videos are just fantastic. I've been sharing you all over... keep sparking this dialogue ! You're doing great things :)... Ty
Thanks for uploading this. When I was a kid I used to wonder how everyone else felt about Beethoven or Mozart. By the time I had a family of my own, I wondered how 4 generations later would look back upon Tool. Left brain to Right brain, Tool hits everything. This right here is the "land of milk and honey" promised to the children of God. This is really stunning music. Thanks for absorbing and reacting on film. You made a fan!
Years before I knew what the title of this song even referred to, this was an important song to me and my own journey. I was a really confused kid when it came to a sexual identity, and this song was huge helping me accept who and what I am. I know now the double entendre of the lyrics but it still moves me back to that scared confused kid, trying to find myself and my place in this world. Prison Sex was another song by Tool that I needed to hear that helped me. Do I just accept what the world says I am or should be, or do I figure it out on my own, make my own decision? Who am I? Who should I be? Does what I want or need even matter or am I just stuck with the hand dealt to me? I still struggle, to this day, with those questions, but this song helps me feel better about my decisions.
You are 100% correct. Sex is just a metaphor in this song. The song is about how we as a society continuously need more and more to satisfy us. There is no subtlety anymore.. the more vulgar the better
This song needed a massive release because of the way it builds up this claustrophobic vibe that just crawls up on you as the song goes on. And they end up delivering like no other song. Goosebumps every time, man.
Jamal_AKA_Jamal I love how you read rhythm. I'm nodding on the 1, while you nod on the "and". I have begun practicing that to inform my songwriting. Feels so damn backwards! God I'm white. Great channel, man. Love it.
Good stuff. It's cool to be rocking out again. The beauty of music is to think what you want to! Try Soundgarden Searching With My Good Eye Closed. Power chords and unique lyrics
One of my favs. Your interpretation is spot on imo. Especially now when everyone expects instant gratification and when one receives it, it’s not enough they need more. Still relevant today. ❤️ tool
Jam... I love how much time you’re spending on tool. They are my favorite band in the modern era of music. Pink Floyd is my all time fave, but tools lyrics and themes, their overall concept is so much more substantive than Pink Floyd (and Pink Floyd is a pretty deep band in their own right). I’m really enjoying watching your reactions and your take on the themes. Keep it going, keep your journey into tool full speed ahead and I recommend also taking a few looks at perfect circle (the tool singer’s other band)
I've been waiting a long time for you to do this track! Yes, it's metaphorical lyrics (Maynard's words are pretty much always up for interpretation) . Look at it from the standpoint of someone who is addicted to drugs...there, does that help? "I don't want it, I just need it...to breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive", or further, "I can help you change tired moments into pleasure, say the word and we'll be well upon our way...", or "blend and balance, pain and comfort deep within you until you will not want me any other way" - all of this sounds very much like the plight of a drug addict, all done metaphorically as an analogy to anal fisting - brilliant! Always LOVED this tune, always will! Tool forever!
Man, took my wife to see TOOL this last Saturday night in New Orleans. Man what a GREAT SHOW!! if you get a chance to see them it’s worth the money!! Bring you some binoculars so you can catch everything that is going on! Unless you can get close up!🤘
You have to see the video for this song, it’s phenomenal. It’s like a mini horror film. I suppose most Tool videos can be described in that way, but this one is my favorite. It’s actually scary, do yourself a favor and play it at night with all the lights off, it’s awesome.
I just want to say I love Jamel because he usually reminds me of the way I used to *innocently* interpret EVERYTHING whether it was Tool, or Jay-Z or Classical music or anything really. My mind isn't as innocent, but It's cool to see people with influence trying to keep all those random younger influential minds responsible in their thinking.
Hey Jamel. Cheers from Germany 🤘.My two favorite reactions from you are: 1.RATM - Renegades of funk 2.All your other reaction videos. It's time you got to know the band Clutch from Maryland. I recommend the Song "Regulator" ✌
Oh yeah prison planet, I’m from Maryland and grew up this these guys. The bassist daughter goes to my kids school now. I saw them with Primus like a year or 2 ago for free because he hooked me up with backstage passes. Got to love it
This may be my favorite song from a guitarists standpoint by Tool. I love the way Adam changes it up from verse/chorus to verse/chorus. Small, subtle changes keeping the song fresh. Such a good song.
This song is STEEPED in metaphor. From what I've been able to gather the lines from the 3rd verse pretty well sum up the intent behind the song. 'Something kinda sad about The way that things have come to be Desensitized to everything What became of subtlety? How can it mean anything to me If I really don't feel anything at all? I'll keep digging till I feel something' Essentially just speaking to how everything about our society, western culture, perhaps even globally, has been over-saturated and overstimulated to the point now where even the idea of having a super powerful micro computer in our pockets doesn't really seem to wow us...we get bored in no time and just buy a new one...always searching for that feeling of being alive and excited. Novelty is lost. This general theme then can be applied to many different contexts, including what you were talking about, going out and meeting new people, stepping outside of their comfort zones and all that. :0) Great reaction as always man!
I love your metal reactions man! Try "Born of Osiris -XIV & Behold" as you seem to appreciate instrumental understanding as well as talent as singer that's something you'd probably like to hear :) Cheers from Finland!
Watching your videos is almost like hearing the song for the first time again man, i get goosebumps, love your breakdown of the lyrics and how diverse your selection of reviews are on your channel. Keep doing what you do 🤙
This is the best description of the song I have seen and it fits with how I see the song. "Every chorus of this song differ having at first "Finger deep" then "Knuckle deep" and then "Elbow deep... Shoulder deep". It represents the idea of how people tend to receive more and more pleasure until the extreme point because over-stimulation numbs their senses."
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This song always meant to me being de-sensitized through too much sensation. Chasing pleasure for pleasure's sake soon becomes an addiction, like any drug. It takes more to get a sensation (finger, knuckle, elbow, shoulder) before you get the same feeling. The line that strikes me the most is the last one "There's something kind of sad about, the way this has come to be, desensitized to everything, what became of subtlety?" Given our current instant entertainment society, it just sounds more true now than ever.
exactly
You are actually correct. Great explanation!
@@ArkaeaFCL3 thank you!
And how one’s own desensitization can harm others. The song makes reference after reference to feeling something, anything, at someone else’s expense.
“I’ll keep digging/till I feel something”
All in association with an act inflicted on another.
@@captahar8818 Don't forget; any time Tool lyrics are about a relationship between *two* individuals, it also applies to the relationship between two aspects of *one* individual's psyche.
This guy's interpretation is more accurate than the interpretation made by many Tool fans.
why do so many ppl use your profile pic?
bevrosity maximilian the youtuber
@@easyyyg yeah i finally discovered that shortly after making the comment lol
@@bevrosity people can't think for themselves
Very intelligent dude
thank GOD! finally a reaction where the person has the sense to look past the obvious metaphor, and tries to understand what is really being said. So many youtubers just giggle and snicker their way through what is a absolute masterpiece of a song.
Chyrnobyl66 agreed
They;re just missing out on such an incredible experience.... this track (and the video) is quintessential Tool... Rezner's production alone is sublime on this!
I'm glad this is the only reaction I've watched about this song. I'd probably stroke out if I had to watch people take it at face value. I'm not THAT intolerant, but it would take me all of a few seconds to shut it off.
@@bpal7006 sounds pretty intolerant to me brother, try to understand not everyone is going to be the same. People can laugh at what's being said but still love the song and wither they understand the deeper meaning or not the first time they listen to it and upload a "reaction" is irrelevant since most people have different opinions and interpretations on almost every tool song anyways
@@Captain_Calcium fair enough. But realize my reply is just agreeing with with what is being said in here. Not crapping on anyone specific nor arguing. I still reserve to right to not watch things I don't like. To each their own.
When I saw them live in Boston, they banned use of phones until the last song. This was the last song, which is about addiction. Never change, Tool.
Quantum Ashes I just saw them live a few weeks ago and they did the same thing! I’ve also seen a perfect circle live, Maynard is such an amazing artist!
@@wendydotson8891 they have been doing stuff like that for years nothing new really. no phones or cameras.
I hope you feel better bro!! Tool is an amazing band to listen to! Another song to listen to if you to get your head in the right mind is band called Stickfigure. Check out Above the Storm.
I took an inordinate amount of video with phone at my chest to share with friends who couldn’t get tickets. Same Boston show. Was amazing
Same thing in Austin
Thanks for doing a Tool song today, I really needed it. Stuck in the hospital trying to figure out if I had a minor stroke or a heart attack. I'm 48 and in not bad shape, remember to tell your people that you care about that you love them. Glad I'm still here for your reviews.
Hope everything works out, glad you're still here too. Thanks for the reminder, now I need to go call my mom. Take care of yourself.
Glad you are still here too.
Hope you're feeling better man..take it easy..
Damn dude, hope you feel better soon!
Get better, bro
You can only imagine how cool it was when this album came out, my brother, best friend and I took the day off from work, waited for the record store to open, and sat in the parking lot listening to the record twice through the listen through and pick up the lyrics, went to lunch, listened again. It was an event. Maybe I'm getting old but I can't think if music I'd be so excited about.
Me and my buddy skipped all our university classes for the day and drove listening to American Idiot Green Day all day. I know the feeling.
I only discovered Tool in 2002 and Aenima was the first album I heard. For 10000 days release my buddy surprised us at dinner a day early, and for Fear Inoculum we went far away from civilisation for a week to get to grips with it
That shit is real
i'd like to have been in the back seat for that.
Tool is above and beyond everyone else
I see what you did here
By leaps and bounds and planets and stars and galaxies.
Tool- “ THE GRUDGE” And “wings for Marie part 1 followed by 10,000 days part 2. Epic.
Why oh why hasn't our guy reacted to these masterpieces yet?????
I don’t know how you and others can listen to wings or 10,000 days. That shit is too damn heartbreaking
He did wings for Marie pt 1-2 28 minutes 😎
One of my all time favorite songs, period. The beat, the buildup, the lyrics and singing... just all around amazing.
couldnt agree more
This track turned my brain to oatmeal over twenty years ago and my heart still races when I here it. That's greatness!
TOOL, "Prison sex" It's an outstanding song... and deep. lol
The cycle of sexual abuse
Some say there is a much deeper meaning besides sexual abuse. Mental abuse of how we indoctrinate our children to believe as we do. Especially in the case of organized religion.
Yes! Great song!
Eye-roll on that pun... here have a thumbs up
4 degrees is deep too .
This is how I interpret this song: The analogy of him sodomizing someone with his fist is a metaphor as to how we always go to new extremes to gain more pleasure since we have become desensitized to standard things. We live in an age where we become desensitized due to copious amounts of instant gratification and we're forced to keep searching for something new and fresh to make us feel alive. The "borderline" is the anus (or metaphorically the boundary of the comfort zone), and his arm is getting deeper and deeper as the song progresses.
A bbn it creepy, but well said, man. You may be right.
@@mr198221 Its creepy, but I wouldn't assume this if Maynard hadn't said this about about the song before one of its live performances: "Many people think that our songs have a deeper meaning... Here's a song about someone shoving their fist up someone's ass". Then the name "Stinkfist" made so much more sense to me...
We are paralleling pre revolution France...we have a hugr part of our population are modern day Marquis de Sades
You just may be right
Yes!
If TOOL wrote a song about crossing the road I can guarantee he’s not talking about crossing the road. lol
No doubt.
…unless he’s literally walking from
NY/NS….and walking to Michigan. 🥰
But also would be talking about crossing the road
I've listened to Tool since Undertow was released in '93 and I'm still peeling back layers of their songs.
I wish I could listen to tool for the first time ever again.
In my opinion the meaning of the song is summed up in these lyrics: “there’s something kind of sad about the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything. What became of subtlety. Now how can this mean anything to me if I really don’t feel a thing at all?” We are inundated with so much negative information. Everyday the news tells you about people being killed or dying in accidents. If the cameras happen to be “lucky” enough to get footage they will play the carnage over and over and over again. We see and hear so much we’re becoming desensitized. We feel less and less and it requires more and more to shock us enough to feel anything for the suffering and pain of others. Loosing empathy is loosing what it means to be human so we crave more and more so we can feel that again. But the more we see the less we feel and the less human we are all becoming.
A lot of times the 'tragedies' we see on Tell-Lie-Vision are not even real. Sensationalized at best and downright Fake at worst. But whatever sells fear is the goal.
The first Tool song I ever heard. It was the lead single off Aenima. I immediately bought the album, and fell in love.
Solid analysis. It’s funny how you described yourself as going “deeper into the lyrics”. I think that’s the reaction they were going for.
“Deeper” 😏 into the lyrics. Every time he said deeper I was like 😏
God that build up in the bridge into the crescendo of the song gives me goosebumps every damn time. 100% my favorite Tool song
TOOL was a group of musicians that thought music to the next level!!!
“Relax, Turn around and take my hand”
Such a great, but disturbing metaphor 🤣🤜😳
stink hand
I think it’s pretty much a metaphor for the lengths people go to to feel something in a world of overstimulation where you become desensitized to things and become bored by hem, and the lengths you go to feel get deeper and deeper. It can be sexual. It can be drugs. It can be any vice.
A Perfect Circle - "Judith"
Such a perfect song..😎
So fucking good.
This is one of the best songs in existence.
If he does judith then I would say that he needs to do that whole off shoot. And in order with the appropriate research.
Play A Perfect Circle ORESTES (SAME LEAD SINGER FROM TOOL JAMES MAYNARD KEENAN
One of my favorite tool songs! You should do Aenima next!
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@@jamelakajamal oof I feel dumb, but look at all these videos I get to binge now! 😍
@@jamelakajamal you should definitely react to third eye!!! The lyrics are insane!!! I'd love to see your reaction!
he already did Aenima. he did Lateralus (studio version) recently... i'm hoping he does Break of Reality's cover of that song... holy shit... i've never heard an instrumental cover that sounded quite like that
@@jamelakajamal lost keys before Rosetta stoned! Please do it!
The opening track off Aenima. They've got riffs to spare, riffs for days.
This song was my introduction to Tool way back in '96. Blew my damn mind. Was cool to see someone discover it again.
We just saw Tool again in Atlanta last Tuesday...Amazing. This was the song they will let you pull out your phone and record at the end of the show.
It's crazy cause pretty much any tool song is reaction worthy!
Tool - the grudge (if you haven't gotten to it yet)
Tool, Rush, and Rage. The way to my heart right there.
The best art, is art that makes you think and contemplate what you're seeing or in this case, what you're hearing. There isn't anything right or wrong in doing that. I believe you've already accomplished that purpose while paying them the highest compliment simultaneously.
John Dorsey underrated comment.
I love that I’m rediscovering Tool through your discovery ❤️
These videos keep getting better and better. Keep it up, man. If you haven't, try to catch a live Tool show. It's incredible!
I love how after the solo when it started to build You stood up I could tell it blew your mind Tool is like the 90’s heavy Pink Floyd in a way Great video
And now, my friend, you are truly a tool fan! You’re taking things deeper than the surface and understanding that everything isn’t always face value! Bravo! Another tool win!
I’ve always loved tool, especially the early stuff like this, but Maynard is so intelligent, all 3 of his bands are amazing! I’ve seen both tool and a perfect circle live and both concerts were incredible!
On first listen: They fisting someone
On 5000th listen: Man this is a great commentary on society being desensitized to life and love because of televised death and porno. Also insert a million more things.
10,000th listen: OK it's probably a bit about fisting tbh
Maynard has said before that this song is about “choosing compassion over fear”.
I still love the way this song and the rest of the record was mixed, with big sound on the drums but the guitars kept in mono for most of the song and only expanding into stereo at key points. Makes it sound super tight.
The best mixed tool album imo, maybe not as clean as other releases but it's loud and gritty and just has these layers of sound design and textures that gel like gooey spicy yummy sauce all over
Love love how the sound comes together & love J’s reaction to the rhythm & beat!
That's the Brilliance of Tool they make you think and come up with your own interpretations
"We only got a couple of minutes left"
How I feel whenever I reach the end of any tool song.
Nailed it bro. your tool reactions are always dope. keep it rolling.
This is prime Tool. Back when they were young and angry.
Track number one. I just watched all of your TOOL reactions. I love how you truly appreciate this music. I'm subscribing. You have a lot more of this amazing discography to get through. ✌
One of my favorite Tool experiences. Love it!
You can almost see he’s becoming more of a tool fan as he spends more time with it. :)
best TOOL album imo. Nothing dragged out too long but every song has it's own mood and tempo attached. Had that cover shirt back in 7th grade.. Gonna dig deep in my closest for it..
man, that transition in the bridge gives me goosebumps every damn time. Also, your hoodie is dope
Bro you have to react to "The Patient" by TOOL!!!! such an amazing track
"There's something kind of sad about the way that things have come to be, desensitized to everything, what became of subtlety?"
My primary weakness in understanding songs has always been in the lyrics. So I thank you for your ability in exploring that area and sharing it with us! Keep on with your bad self!
Tool lyrics aren’t ecxatly easy to understand ! So i hear you
I've been following Jamal for over a year now. The brother can definitely dissect this type of music. Definitely has a grasp on what's up. Jamal, keep going brother. Keep doing you. Cuban American here wishing the best for all my peeps.
This song isn't just a song to me it pretty much emcompasses my life from 13-15. It was mine as well as my best friends favorite song at the time, he died of heroin overdose some years back. Whenever I hear this I always remember some great times I had.
I've always taken this song to be talking about the consuming hunger we face today. There are a lot of things we fill ourselves with, be it buying new and shinier things (phones, cars, fashion, things to fill your home) or porn or even drugs and sex. Just like an addict we need more to feel the good feelings. We shove our hand deeper and deeper past that borderline of pleasure to feel it. Think about hoarders, doing crazy things to pack more into their spaces to just feel something. Porn can be like that too, over stimulation makes the mind seek out harder and harder imagery.
Someone has already posted the lyric: "How could it mean anything to me, if I really don't feel anything at all," but, i wanted to share that i use this as a cautionary tale for others. I've met too many women in my life that went to great sexual lengths for someone they either deeply loved or wanted to be with only to find themselves left humiliated, heart broken, and discarded. The questions are always the same, why doesn't he love me, how could he have left, how could I have been so stupid... ? I always make sure these people know that they are loved, they're wonderful people, and they need to understand a little more about how this happens ...and more importantly, how to recognize these behaviors moving forward. Maynard is so honest with his own self appraisals, as objective of human nature as a human can be, and unabashed in his commentaries... the interpretations of this song are fantastic and I'm thankful to read each of them here, but, there's a crowbar across the jaw truth here ... and I'm glad its brought all of us here. And brother, your videos are just fantastic. I've been sharing you all over... keep sparking this dialogue ! You're doing great things :)... Ty
GuitarGear1 Exactly. I just left a 20 year abusive marriage and this song has a whole new meaning to me.
You look at this stuff better than most man, Tool got you thinking outside the box. Love Tool, and as always, love your reactions mate. Nice work
Thanks for uploading this. When I was a kid I used to wonder how everyone else felt about Beethoven or Mozart. By the time I had a family of my own, I wondered how 4 generations later would look back upon Tool. Left brain to Right brain, Tool hits everything. This right here is the "land of milk and honey" promised to the children of God. This is really stunning music. Thanks for absorbing and reacting on film. You made a fan!
REACT TO PARABOL+PARABOLA pleaaaaseeee
Yes the entire package of them both. The music video is just a very intense experience as well.
@@Knightmare-gz9ls i've never liked their art or music videos. just the music for me.
this is a must!
Please react to *PARABOLA* and actually play the music video
@@tonyyul703 Yes! The official video, not the/any fan made. Please, please!
"I'm just trying to dig a little deeper into these lyrics..." hahahaha
Seeping into the brain is where MJK took this! What an amazing song and lyricist.
Years before I knew what the title of this song even referred to, this was an important song to me and my own journey. I was a really confused kid when it came to a sexual identity, and this song was huge helping me accept who and what I am. I know now the double entendre of the lyrics but it still moves me back to that scared confused kid, trying to find myself and my place in this world. Prison Sex was another song by Tool that I needed to hear that helped me. Do I just accept what the world says I am or should be, or do I figure it out on my own, make my own decision? Who am I? Who should I be? Does what I want or need even matter or am I just stuck with the hand dealt to me? I still struggle, to this day, with those questions, but this song helps me feel better about my decisions.
I don't know that there is any "correct" interpretation of this song, but I really like yours a lot.
You are 100% correct. Sex is just a metaphor in this song. The song is about how we as a society continuously need more and more to satisfy us. There is no subtlety anymore.. the more vulgar the better
Track 6 Swamp Song from the 1993 debut Undertow is probably my favorite old Tool song.
This song needed a massive release because of the way it builds up this claustrophobic vibe that just crawls up on you as the song goes on. And they end up delivering like no other song. Goosebumps every time, man.
Jamal_AKA_Jamal I love how you read rhythm. I'm nodding on the 1, while you nod on the "and". I have begun practicing that to inform my songwriting. Feels so damn backwards! God I'm white. Great channel, man. Love it.
Good stuff. It's cool to be rocking out again. The beauty of music is to think what you want to! Try Soundgarden Searching With My Good Eye Closed. Power chords and unique lyrics
New to Tool and this song is definitely my favorite.
One of my favs. Your interpretation is spot on imo. Especially now when everyone expects instant gratification and when one receives it, it’s not enough they need more. Still relevant today. ❤️ tool
Jam... I love how much time you’re spending on tool. They are my favorite band in the modern era of music. Pink Floyd is my all time fave, but tools lyrics and themes, their overall concept is so much more substantive than Pink Floyd (and Pink Floyd is a pretty deep band in their own right). I’m really enjoying watching your reactions and your take on the themes. Keep it going, keep your journey into tool full speed ahead and I recommend also taking a few looks at perfect circle (the tool singer’s other band)
When it comes to Tool it's always a metaphor. Even when it's literal it's also a metaphor for a bare minimum of one other thing. 😏
man i remember when this song was all over the radio. good times.
The best of times!! I wanna go back!!
Tool is the best hands down my favorite 😜 they really put meaning into their music . Makes you think what are they trying to tell us .🤍🖤
I got to hear this live in New Orleans Saturday night.😍
haagatha Same here flew from Seattle to see them in Nola
@@user-mz7fo3gz5h That's awesome, I only had to drive from Houston. Was worth it wasn't it?
haagatha Definitely! Was my first concert and I feel they like set the standards for any future concerts I might go to a little high lol
I've been waiting a long time for you to do this track!
Yes, it's metaphorical lyrics (Maynard's words are pretty much always up for interpretation) . Look at it from the standpoint of someone who is addicted to drugs...there, does that help? "I don't want it, I just need it...to breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive", or further, "I can help you change tired moments into pleasure, say the word and we'll be well upon our way...", or "blend and balance, pain and comfort deep within you until you will not want me any other way" - all of this sounds very much like the plight of a drug addict, all done metaphorically as an analogy to anal fisting - brilliant!
Always LOVED this tune, always will! Tool forever!
Great song. Double meaning at its best.
My favorite album of theirs by far. Every song is a banger.
Man, took my wife to see TOOL this last Saturday night in New Orleans. Man what a GREAT SHOW!! if you get a chance to see them it’s worth the money!! Bring you some binoculars so you can catch everything that is going on! Unless you can get close up!🤘
Your vibes are stellar man. Allways exited to see a new upload from you. ^^
Every time Jamel/Jamal said “deeper” I was like 😏, deeper...
Do your research...it is about his time in prison and beomg raped
This song is from top to bottom about addiction. Addiction can be in many forms and I believe this song covers all aspects of it.
You have to see the video for this song, it’s phenomenal. It’s like a mini horror film. I suppose most Tool videos can be described in that way, but this one is my favorite. It’s actually scary, do yourself a favor and play it at night with all the lights off, it’s awesome.
One of fav songs from ÆNIMA album.
i'm gonna keep asking till ya do it.. Break of Reality's cover of Lateralus. You did Tool's studio version, now check out their cover!
My husband always listen Tool and Metallica music in the car!
I just want to say I love Jamel because he usually reminds me of the way I used to *innocently* interpret EVERYTHING whether it was Tool, or Jay-Z or Classical music or anything really. My mind isn't as innocent, but It's cool to see people with influence trying to keep all those random younger influential minds responsible in their thinking.
Hey Jamel. Cheers from Germany 🤘.My two favorite reactions from you are:
1.RATM - Renegades of funk
2.All your other reaction videos.
It's time you got to know the band Clutch from Maryland.
I recommend the Song "Regulator" ✌
I second this motion!
And spacegrass
Oh yeah prison planet, I’m from Maryland and grew up this these guys. The bassist daughter goes to my kids school now. I saw them with Primus like a year or 2 ago for free because he hooked me up with backstage passes. Got to love it
@@discgolfjunkie717 Yeah man, i went to five gigs here in Germany
and they blew my mind every damn time
all of the Clutch...:ghost" "regulator" "burning beard" and "swift death in texas" for the block of 4...doo eet!
The best concert ever!!!!
This may be my favorite song from a guitarists standpoint by Tool. I love the way Adam changes it up from verse/chorus to verse/chorus. Small, subtle changes keeping the song fresh. Such a good song.
This opened my eyes and mind when I first heard it as a kid...
This song is STEEPED in metaphor. From what I've been able to gather the lines from the 3rd verse pretty well sum up the intent behind the song.
'Something kinda sad about
The way that things have come to be
Desensitized to everything
What became of subtlety?
How can it mean anything to me
If I really don't feel anything at all?
I'll keep digging till
I feel something'
Essentially just speaking to how everything about our society, western culture, perhaps even globally, has been over-saturated and overstimulated to the point now where even the idea of having a super powerful micro computer in our pockets doesn't really seem to wow us...we get bored in no time and just buy a new one...always searching for that feeling of being alive and excited. Novelty is lost. This general theme then can be applied to many different contexts, including what you were talking about, going out and meeting new people, stepping outside of their comfort zones and all that. :0)
Great reaction as always man!
I love your metal reactions man!
Try "Born of Osiris -XIV & Behold" as you seem to appreciate instrumental understanding as well as talent as singer that's something you'd probably like to hear :)
Cheers from Finland!
Another excellent song by Tool, thanks for sharing.
I like the way you look at songs I've listened to dozens of times. You've given me new things to think about. Also GO NINERS!
DEATH GRIPS!!!!!!!!!!!
Deftones - 7 Words
I second this
Fuck yes
Ive suggested this one too...
I had a custom made Tool ring made when they were new. Wore it for 25+ years.
Watching your videos is almost like hearing the song for the first time again man, i get goosebumps, love your breakdown of the lyrics and how diverse your selection of reviews are on your channel. Keep doing what you do 🤙
Also, you're really good at seeing beyond the surface of a song and finding the deeper meanings. Good interpretation.
Oh he’s going deeper alright haha.
You should check out “Wings For Marie parts 1 & 2” it’s about Maynards mom.
Watched this reaction for years.... but still. "Lets see if he goes further ... "knuckle... elbow... shoulder " gets me ever time 😂😂
This is the best description of the song I have seen and it fits with how I see the song. "Every chorus of this song differ having at first "Finger deep" then "Knuckle deep" and then "Elbow deep... Shoulder deep". It represents the idea of how people tend to receive more and more pleasure until the extreme point because over-stimulation numbs their senses."