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THIS is why so many people can say this Album saved their life...its no exaggeration my friends. This album marks an incredibly important moment in Music history. This is High Art.
Ill never forget that Christmas day i received this album, i was 12 and was so enamored with it that i listened to on repeat till about 2 am. This album really does heal.
My 4 month old son has been struggling with seizures and Infintile spasms for the last 2 months. Everything is so up on the air when it comes to his health, but recently we got some positive news in that his brain waves have balanced out, and he has been seizure and spasm free for more than a month now. He is struggling with his vision as a result of the brain trauma brought on by the seizures, but hes slowly getting better. I keep thinking about this song. So wide eyed and hopeful, we barely remember what came before this precious moment, we are choosing to he here right now, hold on stay inside... this body, holding me reminding me that I am not alone, this body makes me feel eternal all this pain is an illusion. It's so east to get wrapped up in what ifs and the pain that you feel in the moment, but everything is eventual. Over thinking and over analyzing separates my body from my mind. This album has legitimately saved me from myself on so many occasions.
I’m glad so many people can relate
TOOL Will change your life...all We have to do is listen...
It's true. This song changed my perspective on life and lifted me out of a weird & dark place I was in.
Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration-that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather. ~ Bill Hicks
At last someone who knows something about Tool roots, cheers friend. "Think for yourself, question authority"
This song sums acid up perfectly
I think you may have been referring to my son. Lol!
Curious of Tom's forecast.
@@chrisgriffin2579 learn to swim.....
When Maynard shouts Alive, I get Incredible chills and I feel all of his emotions
DragonFly3301 raising our vibrations 🌈
As you should my friend.
Pretty sure he says a lie not alive.
"In this hooollllllyyyy reality" is what gives me chills. I love how him and Justin harmonize on that.
@@rickymccarty7443 No, he screams: ALIVE!
This whole album is full of spiritual concepts. It's not all about Maynards Mum. The present moment, all we ever have. Past is gone, let it go. Don't transfix on the future. It's all about now, this precious moment. Embrace it, its the only time you are alive etc Choose to be here, right now. imo anyway. Comes back to the perception of time in a way Vin. Like you've been talking about recently. Edit: 26 mins in and now you're talking about it. I'll leave this comment up tho lol
I just want someone to look at me the way sori looks at vin when he expresses what’s on his mind and in his soul. What you two have is beautiful
Thank you !
I know right. Really pray that one day, I'll find my Sori 😔
Get a Husky or Labrador. They will look at you just like that! And they are some damn cute they will attract women... then you choose one and make her fall in love with you and look at you like that too!....see that...2 birds.... one rock!
alexfrank6534 this dog trick is very useful
Lol the Irony....Exactly why they enjoy 'TOOL' 🖒🖒
I would say you read too much into his mom (why Freud Vin, when you and MJK are Jungian?) The Mother is a universal symbol not site specific. Anyway, What I love so much about Tool is what so many people dislike...Complexity and challenge. Tool dares you to like them with their music and lyrics. They invite you to THINK where so many people use music as an escape from deep thinking. It is natural to read too much into the words. However, there is always meaning, so you have to THINK.
Good call !
where is schism? O.O
Jesse Herbert, they said there were some technical problems with that. It is coming, though.
I agree. I think that only a small handful of songs are directly related to Judith, but they're developing a tendency to look there first when searching for meaning. To speak more to your point, the song Ænima has a direct reference to a mom character that I believe to be Mother Earth.
He, MJK,in fact, prays and pleads to her...Mother Earth/Mother Universe (meteors and comets)
a 1000 listens further and they still give me goosebumps, that's where the great separates from the good.
If one listens with an artist ear to lateralus front to back and afterwards claim they are not a tool fan. They are either deaf or have no soul. This album is life changing.
I think a majority of this record, ‘Lateralus’, is about...quite simply...life, and how to expand one’s existence beyond just the ordinary. How to attack life,how to shed the anchors holding us back as individuals and as a collective. It’s easy to get sucked into seeing everything being about Maynard’s mom, but I really don’t get much of that on ‘Lateralus.’ But, that’s the beauty of Tool’s music, I guess...trying to figure out just what the fuck they’re talking about! Even Maynard doesn’t like to talk about the meaning behind their music because he wants us to THINK.
Anyway, awesome as always, guys. Once you get through ‘Lateralus’, I eagerly await your reaction to ‘FortySix & 2’...my favorite TOOL song, and the track that really sucked me into them.
Indeed. This song in particular is about embodiment and divinity, not about his mom.
This song really helped my friend deal with her SID situation. He was born a month before mothers day. He only blessed us with his presence for a month. I know this sounds to horrible to be true but vallahi. At the service she got the pastor to read the lyrics to parabol and parabola. It took years of support and love to help her get thru this tragedy. But I shutter to think where she would be without this wonderful insightful piece of music. See you on the other side Christopher. All this pain is just an illusion
Beautiful man!
Can I just tell you guys something ? I thoroughly enjoy watching you guys taking the personal tool experiencial journey into your own psyche and then sharing it between one another deepening the refinement process thus producing a high quality nugget...good shit, keep it up...much love to both of you...peace....
Thank you !
Lateralus is a spiritual experience and evolution of consciousness, and not about "physical" things
like Maynard mother's body....for me, the album is practically 80% spiritual
“Be my reminder here that I am not alone in,
This body,
This body holding me,
Feeling eternal,
All this pain is an illusion.”
For a moment I am not isolated in a body, I am a part of the universe with you, and the universe is eternal. We are the universe, we are eternal. My pain does not exist when I’m with you.
This song dragged me back from the edge of suicide 19 years ago and i cannot overstate just how profoundly it affects me even today. I can't foresee a day when i don't get emotional listening to it.
This is my favorite Tool song, couldn’t wait to hear you guys break it down. The wait was definitely worth it. I’m sure the rest of the Lateralus Album breakdown will be just as great.
Schism tonite... backwards !!
This song is about embracing life, your body mind and soul. Being thankful to be alive. We are eternal , all this pain is an illusion... Most motivating words ever spoke haha
Omg NOT EVERY SONG IS ABOUT MAYNARD’s MOM. The Lateralus album is about personal spirituality, maturity and growth, this is not an album about his mom...
These people are reacting accordingly to what they know , they are speculating like anyone would. Looking up shit to get a better idea and going around pretending you knew all along will fool nobody, see it from their perspective. Clearly the Lateralus album didn't help you grow into anything that would label you as spiritually/maturity grown.
When I listen to tool its more of an experience. Tool has that unique way that pulls me into its journey like no other band. great stuff!
to me these songs both represent the relationship between you and loved ones and also the one between the soul and the body. it always brings be back to remember that even in dark places and self doubt that "i chose me" and that even if i doubt and look down on myself it is still a beautiful to be alive and share life with not only those around me but to myself.
Not every Tool song is about Maynard's mom!! In fact the vast majority aren't.
yes most are about anal sex.
Well, you can make the argument that the very reason Maynard is focusing on the themes he is in this song stems from his painful life experiences, one of which would be his mother''s death and ill health.
"A smart man learns from his mistakes.. a wise man learns from the mistakes of others.."
So much energy! Loved it. Looking forward to more tool reacts. Specially 46 & 2, since it's my favorite
This is my second favorite song(s) from Tool. I can't ever listen to, say, just Parabola, I need them both together. I love this song so much.
Yep, I won't listen to this song unless both of them are together 😏
"Listen to some Tool and read your Bible". Wow! Vins head just turned into a wrench.
Not necessarily !!! 🧐🧐🧐🧐
VinAnd Sori its ok Vin, you can admit it.
Just Let Go, Vin! 😎
denial is a ugly thing
Reading the bible is the best way to become an atheist. I say, "go for it."
I never thought of Parabol/Parabola as being representative of MJK's mother. I knew that the songs are sheding light on the essential dynamic of human existence. I now personally think that the lyrics reference both MJK's mother and his realizations of the greater architecture of life. What always makes this band unique is the interconnected understanding of spirituality and the universe reflected in the music within every element. The feeling is overwhelming and invigorating, I think because of the transparency.
Tru story !
Great video guys. This album is life changing. Great interpretations of the songs. Can't wait for the rest.
The song is about existence in general.
The alternative is oblivion or non-existence.
The song obliquely references reincarnation (which is in line with Danny Carey's philosophies), that each time we reach awareness of existence it is a precious moment, a holy gift "a chance to be alive & breathing" and experiencing the world.
The trick is to remember that the pain we experience in the world is illusory. Pain is simply sensory input, just information, the way the body keeps itself out of danger.
A parable (parabol) is a story with a moral (like a fable).
The Old French word parole, meaning "release from imprisonment", comes from the Late Latin word parabola (speech), which is a doublet for the Greek word parabola (wave form). Parabola [ pronounced puh - RABB - oh - luh ] in Greek means "set side by side".
A parabola is a wave & a conic section (if you know how they simulate weightlessness on future astronauts, they put folks on a plane, fly nearly straight up, then nearly straight down over a long period of time, and the down wave makes you seem weightless, and you float around).
When folks were first experimenting with DMT, they described the hallucination as being suddenly lifted up, and then put back down hard, like flying a parabola.
Many hallucinations seen during a typical DMT trip are geometric forms (see Alex Grey, the artist for Tool's albums, the designer of the Parabola video's last two minutes, and a visionary artist in his own right).
So in the metaphysical sense, you are paroled (released from the imprisonment of non-existence), you enter existence, and you die, enter non-existence, and do it over and over again, riding up and down the parabola.
Death lifts you up and life brings you down; wash, rinse, repeat.
Very insightful comment.
I have never dived deeper into the lyrics for this song, but I really like your interpretation of it. DMT dropped into my awareness a couple of years ago, and the more I learn about the 'Spirit Molecule', the more I begin to contemplate whether this compound holds the key, not only to a deeper understanding of ourselves and our universe, but also to our salvation as a mankind. (I study religion and I believe that the awareness of DMT as a possible endogenous hallucinogenic, would completely revolutionize the field)
I wrote about mystical experiences induced by hallucinogenics in my bachelor project, and whether they are able to facilitate an authentic mystical experience. It is quite clear that they do facilitate it, but what fascinates me is the morality it incites in you. The individualistic paradigm that rules our economic and moralistic world-view withers, when touched by these mystical experiences. Unity of all becomes apparent and this epiphanic comprehension, direct your morale compass away from the egotistical morality that are all too prevalent in modern society.
I am very keen on trying DMT at some point, but I also don't think I'm ready for it yet. I hope I will be someday.
Reading the comments makes you realise that thoughtful lyrics and emotionally powerful music combined, touches people’s souls deeply and has the power to relate to themselves on a deeper plane!
Life throws curve balls at you that can knock you from your path but the truth is to stay ‘Alive and breathing’ regardless. Stay strong guys!
It’s going to be ok!
When he says ,this body holding me ,as a whole , as a the temple is the body and he's so thankful to be alive ..to be able to breathe ..this precious moment
Ahhh so excited! Parabola is very closely on level with 46&2 for me! Also don't forget the pinned comment with lyrics, guys!!
I'll update this w a comment on interpretation as I go along.
This one I don't think is about his mom at all, tbh. There was kind a lot of DMT-esque things talked about in regards to this album. The artist for the album art also did the art for "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" (which is a good read, btw). This one always struck me as being deeply personal within himself, perhaps sharing a personal philosophy on life.
You mentioned a lot about being in the moment, "choosing to be here", and that's a lot of what I get out of this song. Because an alternative is that we can distract ourselves forever, and maybe a lot of people choose to do that because it's a less painful experience. It's as you said, living is terrifying. But in this, Maynard attests that that's not really a way to live, at least for his own life.
Edit: Sidebit question in case you see this before I finish watching. Is there any way to connect w y'all and The Village that doesn't involve Facebook? I'm a bit distrustful of the platform itself and long since deactivated my account. If not, I'll go ahead and make a new account lol.
Parabola Lyrics:
[Verse]
We barely remember what came before this precious moment
Choosing to be here right now
Hold on, stay inside...
[Pre-Chorus]
This holy reality, this holy experience
Choosing to be here in...
[Chorus]
This body, this body holding me
Be my reminder here that I am not alone in...
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal
All this pain is an illusion
Alive!
[Pre-Chorus]
In this holy reality, in this holy experience
Choosing to be here in...
[Chorus]
This body, this body holding me
Be my reminder here that I am not alone in...
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal
All this pain is an illusion
[Bridge]
Twirling round with this familiar parable
Spinning, weaving round each new experience
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing
A chance to be alive and breathing
[Outro]
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality
Embrace this moment, remember, we are eternal
All this pain is an illusion
I preffer Parabol
This is one of my favorite tool songs. Life is a beautiful thing that should not be wasted, no matter what your religion is. Don't throw it away! Great breakdown guys keep it coming
Not sure this was about his mother but is an interesting angle! I always assumed it was about discovering/recognizing one’s own spirituality! This is why I love music and how it can be what you need it to be when you need it!
You guys read way to much into this, not every song is about his mother. I take this song to mean Maynard is expressing his love for being alive and able to experience this reality as a human body. Through deep deep meditation or other means one can reach a mystical state where you no longer have an ego and are one with the universe. Many people in these mystical states experience a sense of eternal consciousness connected to everything throughout the entire universe. A person can realize we are eternal consciousness having a temporary experience as a human inhabiting a warm familiar body. Parabol/a is expressing that experience.
I think these songs are about the mystery of life itself. It's about a soul coming alive inside the womb. It's the souls rejoicing at being alive. The sheer thrill of it. Trying not to get lost in being alive. To try to remember that we are eternal. That pain is just a part of the illusion of mortality.
Come on Vin sometimes is so simple. This song is about personal experience. Enjoy it. Being alive and breathing we takit for granted everyday. We as humans complicate life. I dont know what else to say but love,listening to individuals points of view.
Vin and Sori always have the best reaction vids. You guys are awesome. Maynard dropped a new album recently with APC. Do a reaction for Disillussioned, By and Down the River, or Feathers.
That hook thou. Makes you smile ear to ear every time they drop it. Musical magic
I've always interpreted this track through the lens of Taoism. The physical body the soul exists in right now is eternal. The life we lived before is a phantom memory, either through the scope of growing as a person or in the lens of reincarnation.
The phrase "We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion" is rather consistent with the idea of eastern philosophies.
Life affirming on a 10 level. Nothing grabs the emotional soul and demands your full attention like Tool. Seeing Sori close her eyes to take it all in is just the icing on the cake. We are right there with you.
Maynard does have a son. Devo! So wow...Parabol COULD perhaps be in some form of reference to his own child...either way I never made the Judith connection either. I always just took this song from his perspective, speaking about...life in general. No direct correlation to his life, just a solid lesson. But you guys are making me look at this first part, Parabol, in a different way...more than just an intro to Parabola...WOW.
love how Adam uses a wah to help shape his tone instead of just using it to wah wah, Dunlop Crybaby Q95
I always interpreted it as 'the spirit refering to its body'. But at some point, I started seeing it as a person still inside its mother's belly. Staying inside the familiar environment of the womb, and kind of "waking up" in a new life. As in the metempsychosis thories, where we just go from one body to the other, while our souls stay eternal. We all forget what came before, while at some point in development we gain consciousness. I feel like this is about this stage inside the belly, considering how Lateralus has a few elements of 'birth' in it (the colours we perceive as we gain vision and open our eyes, etc).
But, then again, I still maintain this ground of a person 'awaking' to his existence, at whatever point in his life, realising what he truly is (in whatever form he understands it).
Y'all NEED to check out the music video that goes in conjunction with this. The awakening is mind shattering!
I really love what you guys are doing so much! I’ve definitely learnt a lot more about the lyrics to this album watching your videos. And it’s so awesome to hear people go in depth with these songs and understand them. Thank you for doing what you’re doing!! You guys are awesome!
That drum part at 6:09 is so subtle and tasty. It kills me every time! Listen to the hi hat and splash work!!! Insane.
It's beautiful to see y'all discover and transcend, to spiral out...to see her feel and you think about it. See that this world and this vessel is just the beginning....
Alex grey is an integral part of tool for this album... just watch the official video of this song and see his artwork... Alex Grey is Godlike too like tool..!!
I love the way within the first minute your bodies accepted what they were hearing and you both adjusted to closer, contacted positions. Thats the spirit.
Pick the place, the place this album touched you to the point of nostalgia, I remember it as well as the death of my father when I was a child sadly, or beautifully, not since has there been an event in my life as touching, sad, yet joyous, fuck I hope everyone is is fortunate/unlucky to be able to feel this deep
A parabola is a type of curve or arc, a parabol is a story, stories have arcs, the music has it's arcs, as does the life journey. The arcs join end on end, coiling as we shed our skins, tracing an infinite spiral of incarnation..
I've seen the blades of grass cutting your feet imagery explored in C. S. Lewis' "The Great Divorce". Very good read
2 of my favorite songs. But...this entire album...i think is so beautiful, with the spirituality, growth...oh so much more...just sooooo much...
Then Ticks and Leeches follows... love the juxtaposition
To tell you that Tool saved me in my darkest times when dealing with the reality of being out in the real world without anyone to help me out is just 1 of thousands who have experienced the same. This song helped me see clarity when it came to my family demons and my past to help me see that its about the here and now. Thats what I got from this song. Love it
I've been a Tool fan since the mid ninties, and while I have a few different thoughts on some of the song meanings than you might, I still love the overwhelming passion you guys have for this stuff. Your reactions and personal breakdowns are phenomenal, and honestly, Tool is meant to be that way too. Love your channel, definitely subbed.
Duuuuuuude.....seeing Vin sing every word of Parabola.....just shows what fans they are. Obviously not a first time reaction, but I’ll take this every time.
thanks for you channel. By far the coolest reaction channel, love your discussions. You two got great chemistry. Vin is a badass, I love seeing you rock out.
this is about that we are just souls in these vessels and what ever pain we go through during this lifetime is only temporary. we are eternal beings and when we incarnate back into another body we will barely remember who or what came before this phase of your next lives. its about to recognize this life you chose to live before coming to earth as a holy gift and experience., these lives we have sole purpose is to grow as a consciousness.
A more valid interpretation, I think, is to understand what a parabola is. It’s a simple graph with a peak. Eternal parabolas give us multiple lows and multiples highs. It represents our experiences in life, where we go through things that shape us.
Well done Jeffery. I honestly don’t know what the song is literally about but you definitely opened my mind to a possibility.
WOW...I don't even know where to start...but this is by far my favorite review in Vin and Sori history! haha. This was absolutely perfect. I want to say so many things that I am rendered speechless. LOL but excellent stuff. You guys said what I was thinking like 17 times. 10/10
Thanks big guy!!
This song makes me think about a guiding principle in my life that I'm sure is not original, but I know no other source to cite that will have expressed it more gracefully than my feeble attempt: I remember being struck by the fact that I am one of 7.5 billion people alive today, out of an estimated 108 billion humans who have ever walked the earth. In a lifetime, a person might encounter 50-80 thousand others (estimates I've found online), of those a few hundred might be counted as meaningful acquaintances. The probability against any other given person being one that you get to know is staggering. Taken this way, every person you meet is a gift. No matter the nature of your interaction, every person you meet can have a positive impact on your life whether they be a person who inspires you to better yourself or if they serve as an example to be avoided in the future. The people you can love and share your life with are all the more precious. Tying back to the song, all we have is the present moment. As soon as the moment passes, it is lost forever. The future is not promised or certain. Embrace the experience of your life while it is now.
No mom here, this one is about the souls break in reality to be in a body, alive and breathing. The precious moments to be here and alive before leaving to go back where our eternal time is spent, the true reality. He has a few about mom but so many other things too.
Got to get to some Iced Earth, Dante's Inferno or A Question Of Heaven! Really enjoy your videos, you two are killing it! Have a blessed day.
Second Iced Earth - Dante's Inferno. I've been requesting every day for the past 25 days haha.
Chris Culp I'll join you everyday for the next 25 days requesting DANTE'S INFERNO 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Yeah been requesting it since May 11th. I will never stop until I see the thumb nail that they reacted to it haha
+1 for A question of heaven
Good job guys!! And side note: Sori, you are so pretty!
Best way to wake up for me thanks you two
The licks at the end are my fav part
Enjoyed that, one of my favorite songs of all times. You guys should listen to Puscifer - "Momma Sed", his mother is the subject matter of the lyrics as often, but this time she is giving him warnings about live and it´s challenges.
i luv seeing you two rocking out to this song....it fuckin rockkssss
It's weird how your "I exist" moment is some deeply spiritual thing. For me, it was the exact opposite. It meant that while I am here I have to do things, because if I don't it's a waste of existing. Finite existence doesn't have to be scary, it can be empowering. You have x amount of time, you have to act now to maximize it.
Carcass - A Congealed Clot Of Blood
Lateralus songs aren’t about his mother... You need to stop
The patient is
@@stone_mason5416 the patient is about motivation
@@chaos5840 i think you shoukd read it through, without music, with the context of his mothers plight in mind. Judith is definitely the patient and his giving blood was literal and keeping of faith was to honor her. It was showing the growth he developed toward her faith that he expressed in wings 1 and 2(which might even be her actual eulogy)
@@stone_mason5416 yeah i see your point. But i still think of it as a motivation song but i see how it is also about his mom
@@chaos5840 its probably got some of that involved too. Maybe thecfact tgat his mom was incapacitated made him feel guilty for not doing more. Around that time he kinda went all out. Apc, puscifer, winery, all of it. I see your point too. The patient is probably a double entendre
Parabol and Parabola are the songs that started me on my journey of spiritual conversion. I know this was not MJK’s intention, but this song aligns well with LDS (and others!) doctrine. (Pre-mortal spirit life, choosing to have a mortal experience-body, eternal life afterwards through the resurrection..) This is what I love about Tool, the lyrics can be interpreted in many ways. I would love to talk the ward choir into trying a gospel cover of this!
Oh my....a gospel cover of this pair of sons would, no doubt, be incredible. If this is something you could pursue, I would 100% back you up haha. Their music has evolved and changed over the years, but its all sincere and honest and powerful in its own right. They are true masters of the craft.
Amazing example of the subjectivity of art, because I see a lot of Buddhist spirituality (full disclaimer: not a practicing Buddhist).
Talking about things being "familiar," and "spinning" creates circular images, like the cycle of samsara, and the line "all this pain is an illusion" cuts at the core of Buddhist philosophy (existence is pain, and existence is illusion).
MJK's intention is for the individual to interpret the song on their own. That said this in response to what people were saying about stinkfist, said it could be about fisting if thats where your at, but their are multiple layers. I am paraphrasing, but yeah
George - If you’re LDS or a recent convert... please turn back while you can. Read the CES Letter and break the spell of indoctrination. This is coming from a lifelong LDS member, return missionary, Elders Quorum President, and temple worker. Trust me.
Changing and growing as a person is a major theme in this album, even towards the whole next evolution of humankind idea... Especially in lateralus, but if you analyze the album as a whole, it's like a guidebook to opening your eyes, "wide eyed" and or "wild eyed" opening everything to everything, constantly spiraling out, moving towards divinity
Yes, Maynard loved his mom, but he car write outside of that subject. IN fact, Lateralus doesn't ever refer to his mother.
The Way I See It..... It's about existence.... and the way we are born and the tactile experience of another life.
I believe that this is equally about his mother & about his son. I believe that he held his child("what's coming through is alive," when Devo's mother was giving birth) & it reminded him of his own mother holding him("what's holding up is a mirror"). From that he had even more respect for his mother, yet it made him worried a bit as he realized that just as he had to deal with his mother dying, Devo would have to deal with him, one day, dying. It reminds him of his own mortality in a strangely deeper meaning than what he felt when his mother passed. It added additional emphasis towards the situation, though, by thinking of his mother. Just brilliantly stated in the poetic way that Maynard sings it in.
"Recognize this as a gift," refers to the love for both & the fact that we are alive. That fact alone was why some angels fell, per the belief of some Christians.
Sori, for the reality regard of comparing heavenly existence to Earthly life, you don't question the basis of things in a dream when you are dreaming, do you? Dreams, for your time inside of them, is the reality that you know. Yet, when you wake up, you can remember most if not all that you dreamt. To that regard, it doesn't disqualifies the reality of what got dreamt, it just doesn't strenuously determine who you are, who you know or what you do. What if the same situation is placed with our existence in Heaven? You "wake up" in the heavenly realm, aware of your life, but seeing it in a synonymous way as you currently see a dream? Something to ponder on... or not. Yet, have you ever dreamt & know that you were dreaming while in that dream, but nervous about "what if it isn't a dream?"
Reign of darkness- Thy art is murder (music video)
Land of snow and sorrow- Wintersun
Carbon phrases- Alkaloid
Crushed- Parkway Drive
I'm gonna spam this on every video
This song has so much momentum it’s crazy.
The best song ever composed period!!
So many cycles of samsara, trying time and again to get yourself just a bit away from your body and mind (things that you gathered from very moment of your conception). But then when you finally realize the truth, irony is that staying in that gathered body and mind becomes a challenge, new chapter - Hold on stay inside! Vast majority of truth realization happen at the moment of dying, very few stay in the body, why? We can only guess, some say its because discriminatory part of the mind is shutdown, so you go only as per the tendencies. Sat Nam, spiral out🙏
If you are a being/spirit/soul that is contained inside a body, and you know you did not create this body, the body becomes the reminder that you are not alone...someone or something else created it.
Tool - Vicarious
Parabol is being in the womb (quite ,calm) parabola is being born (that's when it kicks in) body holding you is mother..then born and your body holding your soul
You guys are awesome. I enjoy watching your Tool reaction vids.
My favorite Tool song. I love every single thing about this song. The vocals, lyrics, bass, drum fills and tempo, distorted guitars and that wicked Eddie Van Halen style guitar solo.
This song is raw...i remember hearing it for the first time and my mind exploded with vivid colors and emotions
It's about the body literally being a vessel to experience this reality. We are more than a body. This life is not all there is. So the pain we experience isn't an illusion. We are travellers who jump in and out of realities. This is not all there is. Its soul journeys etc
Parabol and Parabola are, in a nutshell, what i felt on my first ever Shrooms Experience. A holy experience indeed
Guys, you need to hear Silent Planet. I mean it. Panic Room and Orphan especially. Love your channel, keep up the great work!
I'll say it - i don't even care about what their songs are about, what i love about Tool is how they evade all usual composition rules, but still make it work and sound so good. Brilliant people.
This was actually written years before his mother died. From everything that I've read, the whole thing is about a spirit about to born into a physical body
I’ve been watching first reactions to TooL for years, and to be honest you two have the best videos. Nothing is more annoying than stopping a TooL song to talk about anything. Just keep it zipped and share your thoughts after the song is over. Great job guys
As someone who's been mostly waiting for these reactions, I think its probably a good idea to mix a few other bands in to not annoy other people too much. I originally thought you were recording all these on the side and were going to dump them all in one video.
As for the reaction, I'm again surprised to hear the idea that it might be about his mom. I may have been looking at it very simply all this time as being about the connection you have with your body and respecting/cherishing it.
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You didn't understand what he wrote. At the beginning of his comment, Jeff Hopkins said: "As someone who's been mostly waiting for these reactions...". Meaning he is a big Tool fan.
He gave them a constructive advice regarding they way they put out these Toll reactions, in order to help them keep people who are looking for different genres.
I guss this time you're missing the point. The song isn't about his mom, like all songs on Lateralus are about a spiritual journey. My thinking is, because in the holy gift this is the start of the album, the begining is talking from the inside of the mothers body and than grows...
'Parabola' and 'Schism'... Those were the Guitar Hero days 😌
I loved the discussion about contemplating existence and what a mind fuck that can be. The one that used to do me when I was a kid (and still does) was trying to imagine what there would be if nothing was here, not the universe, not us, just nothing. All I could picture in my mind was black, empty space but I knew that if I could picture it, then it was something.
I guess, in adult/scientific terminology, I'd frame it as trying to imagine a pre-Big-Bang state.
This song was my introduction to Tool - I was absolutely awestruck that music like this could be made.
It’s us as spirits, inhabiting these physical bodies that die, but our spirits live on. That’s why we are eternal. The body is a temporary container of our souls. I would even go further and interpret some reincarnation here. That’s the reference to the form or body being familiar. The spirit has no recollection of the previous life it led when it is “reborn” into another body, but the spirit might have some vague memory of the former life. Pain is an illusion to the soul because pain is a product of the physical container (body), but pain shouldn’t affect the soul. It’s also like the soul is telling itself to embrace this moment, this life in this body, this ability to experience through it.
If you havent heard it listen to Maynard's interview with lars ulrich. Says a lot about his songwriting process and how he thinks about the narrative structure of lyrics. His interview with marc maron is fantastic too. Goes pretty deep on where his mind was at when starting Tool
These two songs remind me of a quote from Paul Bowles... “Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.” Life is short as far as the average human existence so we should cherish every moment and the connections we share with the people in our lives. Periodically I will go on to my FB account and thank someone that I know for sharing their existence with, even if it was just a short 5 minute conversation at work during a break... it means so much to me that allowed me to exist with them in that moment. We all matter and nothing is trivial.
I personally always thought this song was about birth and being held by his mother, his creator. but that's the beauty of Tool songs - interpretations vary.