| Tool – Third Eye Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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for sure dude. Bill Hicks was incredible. they oughta include those excerpts from him in this set of lyrics, I think they're pretty pertinent, at least in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way, to the song: "see, I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes and all your cds and burn em. cuz you know what, the musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years? real fucking high on drugs." "today, young men on acid realize that all matter is merely energy condensed into 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 an imagination of ourselves. here's Tom with the weather." "it's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom, is what it is, okay, keep that in mind at all times." |
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| Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Wow. Cheers to your deep knowledge of syntax, lexis, and song structure. That's a very cool analysis. But I personally like it a little more if you keep it simple. This song doesn't need meaning; it defies meaning. | |
| Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I like this idea. This is such a dreaming kind of song, and these guys seem to sing about such peculiar, fanciful things... so something as whimsical as loose heads kind of makes sense. And if you put it all down to being a fairy tale, it doesn't seem so macabre anymore. | |
| Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Hee. you guys have very similar usernames. :D the smallest things can be worth a laugh. | |
| Tool – Flood Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I definitely dig the "this changes everything" dropkick back into the song. And with the gift of hindsight--having seen Tool release three more incredible albums after this song came out, each with an increasingly positive spiritual and metaphysical message--it seems like joshthack's take on this is very accurate. Undertow has always been the darkest, sickest Tool album, and there was a lot more anger and resentment in Maynard's lyrical imagery back then. But it had to have a source, and I think that source is clear. Think about it. The primary thing that drives most people (especially people as intelligent as Mr. Keenan must be) to evidence their personal struggles in their work ("I scramble to reach higher ground, some order and sanity, or something to comfort me") is some sort of failure. Failure, especially in the minds of people who feel they are expected to succeed, can be debilitating. And what's driving you mad in the personal, real world could very well end up in your lyrics, because if you're trying to argue that Tool's lyrics didn't start to be personal until Maynard wrote about his mom in Wings, you're full of shit. Anyway, I think it's possible that the failure that drove Maynard's keen sense for writing dark material might have been a spiritual failure. Now I venture into ground based even more purely on speculation, so I'll make it quick, but... if this song was written out of the disappointment surrounding failure to achieve spiritual goals ("Thought I was high and free; thought I was there, divine destiny. I was wrong"), then the achievement of spiritual goals in later albums (lacrymology, self-acceptance, deeper occult spirituality, whatever) suggests that the first thing Maynard tried was the cheap and easy way. Getting high to get enlightened. Haha. I think all it comes down to is Maynard used drugs. But isn't that what it's all about anyway? Yes! Whatever, everyone knows this song's all about the crazy 4 and a half minute intro. |
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