| Tool – Aenema Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Again fellow Tool Fans, just KISS (Keep It Simple Silly)! This song is on the '96 album AEnima, a tribute to Bill Hicks, another dead hero, who passed in '94 (no doubt the song writing began soon after the 32 y/o died). The album title requires you ignore the "E" (so Anima translates "life force" or "soul"). Then with the album's title track, spelled AEnema, you are to ignore the "A," you know, to start the detoxing process. Brilliant word smithing by MJK and the band! Bill Hicks in the afterlife is loving it!The song is simply about the famous phrase "sink or swim." Or, to be more L.A. like, "detox or die!" If you... Read Between The Lines (by the lines I mean "Learn To Swim"), you'll see the "sink" parts (things we fret for, things that make us followers) and the "swim" parts (things to say f-you to, ways to go left when everyone else is going right). If this song were written today, I'm sure Tool would have mentioned another item to fret: The Mother-F-ing Cell Phone!!! I'm a math professor at a California college who recently went to open a classroom door at which my students were waiting. As I was walking toward the door, I noticed at least 80% of them with their heads down playing with their cell phones (themselves... metaphorically... if you consider F-Book). Sadly, behind them was one of the most spectacular sunsets I'd ever seen. I'm not sure any of my 40 students even noticed "MOM's" work. That says a lot if you think about it. And speaking of saying a lot, a certain magazine's person of the year is "The PROTESTOR." If you really want to protest something worthwhile, "Protest The Cell." If for no other reason, do it for the sake of humanity. We're going to reap what we sow in 20-30 years when we start realizing the long term effects of carrying cell phones with their ever-increasing (4G, 8G, 16G, ...) electropollution (EMFs) being emitted 24-7 so near our collective reproductive organs. "Learn To Swim" well enough to make it to the "Arizona Bay." Translations? Get the cells away from the bells! This goes for us ladies too. Got EMF-ed? Ignore the EMF, and what do you get? If you limp, you a wimp! If you sink, we can't link! Don't treat your "TOOL" that way and you'll make it to the Arizona Bay! Learn to swim! Oh, and don't forget about the little swimmers. I'm imagining headlines in 2030: All the franks are shooting blanks! No more eggs between the legs! For the sake of humanity, to hell with the cell. Learn to swim! |
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| Tool – Schism Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Where does anyone get something other than "falling in love, failing to communicate, and falling out of love" from this song? The song begins with "Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion" and ends with "... supposed lovers." What we've got in between is a failure to communicate. End of story! For those of you that took "two lovers" and tried to convert them to religion, take a break from, but certainly don't quit, what you're smoking and KISS (Keep It Simple Silly). |
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