Lyrics for Jimmy as interpreted by implode

Jimmy Lyrics
What was it like to see
The face of your own stability
Suddenly look away
Leaving you with the dead and hopeless?

Eleven and she was gone
Eleven is when we waved good-bye
Eleven is standing still,
Waiting for me to free him
By coming home

Moving me with a sound
Opening me within a gesture
Drawing me down and in,
Showing me where it all began,
Eleven

He was too strong to realize that
You you were the voice that was calling me back home

Under a dead ohio sky,
Eleven has been and will be waiting,
Defending his light,
And wondering...
Where the hell have I been?
Sleeping, lost, and numb
So glad that I have found you
I am wide awake and heading home

Hold your light,
Eleven
Lead me through each gentle step by step
By inch by loaded memory

I'll move to heal
As soon as pain allows so we can
Reunite and both move on together

Hold your light,
Eleven
Lead me through each gentle step by step
By inch by loaded memory
'till one and one are one, eleven,
So glow, child, glow

I'm heading back home

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Kenshin
11-25-2001

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Great song!

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reverand_chris
12-13-2001

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i believe this song is about maynards inner child. His real name is James as we all know and Jimmy is sometimes used as a nickname of sorts for james. Think of it as a name people used to call him when he was a kid. anyway something happened when he was 1, either a family member died or moved away (most likely female), and it tormented him. So in the song he talks about coming home to make peace and free his inner child.

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namrepus
02-02-2002

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no offence Kenshin, but i hate it when people just write shit like "i love this song" that's not something we want to hear, no offence but i don't give a shit what song you like. the site is called SongMeanings, not WhatSongsILike :drool:

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DownedSystem
02-05-2002

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Yeah, the fact that confirms reverand chris' meaning is that maynard was born in Ohio. So there. Maynard mentions ohio in the song if you didnt notice

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uppity_cracker
02-10-2002

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i read a story, written by a tool fan, on his website. it seemed to fit well to the song. i think you should read it. http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~gavlees/jimmy.txt


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DatheR
03-09-2002

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This song is about a young Maynard. Here's the proof, he is Maynard James Keenan; James = Jimmy what little kid wants to go through life being called Maynard? Second the title is lowercase jimmy not Jimmy to show that it's a child. Thirdly Maynard grew up in Ohio, which goes with the lie "under a dead Ohio sky". and lastly eleven is when his mother married his stepfather whom he hates so much as was stated in earlier interviews.

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Galactic Cactus
04-17-2002

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We all know that it's about his inner child. But even more, it's about reuniting with it and dealing with an experience he had when he was 11. Something happened (read datheR's post) at that age that was very difficult and it's one of those repressed occurances that psychiatrists spend years with patients trying to bring out and get them to accept. He talks about "coming home" maybe not in a literal sense but meaning that he is coming to grasp with the events of eleven. The event left him torn and it almost seems like he's describing a therapy session.

"Moving me with a sound
Opening me within a gesture
Drawing me down and in,
Showing me where it all began,
Eleven " -Hypnosis? if so, then the rest of the song is about what he saw in that state of hypnosis. It makes sense. Read through and listen to the song with that in mind...

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futureairborne
05-06-2002

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does any body know if the story uppity cracker talked about is true? did he really kill his dad?


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adamizer
05-14-2002

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Who fucking cares his real name is James Keenan. He added Maynard later as one of his ultra tongue in cheek jokes that only he and his bandmates really get. Once again I hate you all.

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Parabola898
05-18-2002

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what does the light represent? ive done some thinking on it and i would like to know.

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duke724
05-18-2002

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fuck shit fuck u all ur gay....yea well parabola....u math beast.....i would like to know what the fuck ur talkin about u dumbass fuck

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Parabola898
05-18-2002

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aight nvm i figured it out. the light is his hope and longing to connect with himself and to accept his past. we wants to heal and free himself of the pain in his life and the light represents his hope for peace.

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idiotic
05-18-2002

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Duke... Parabola is a tool song... and insulting people randomly is not cool.
Maybe he added the maynard B/c of Brother Maynard from Monty Python and the holy grail?

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adamizer
05-23-2002

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Wait...let me check...yup, yup, it's confirmed. Random insults RULE, so piss of poopy dick.

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Ozzy460
06-10-2002

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Somewhere I read that Maynard's mom died when he was eleven. This fits pretty well with the song "Eleven and she was gone. Eleven is when we wave goodbye."

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AmishNinja
06-10-2002

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Great story, Uppity, moving and brings the entire song full circle. The alternate personalities of Eleven and Jimmy make quite a lot of sense, and bring together one of the lines I hadn't thought much of in the past: "Until one and one are one." Thanks for the enlightenment.

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Ar3s
06-16-2002

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uppity ...... that story is .... wow...

Breath taking, shocking and very moving :o

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Vampyre_Prince706
06-28-2002

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first off, you people have very valid points here. I admit i knew nothing of his issue with his stepfather and things of his childhood. But I took a different take on this song. I think eleven symbolizes him being forced apart from someone he loves. "what was it like to see the face of your own stability suddenly look away, leaving you with the dead and hopeless?" that could be when he was forced to leave the one he loved. "eleven and she was gone, eleven is when we waved goodbye, eleven is standing still, waiting for me to free him by coming home" coming home is being able to return to the one he loves.......at the end he says until 1 and 1 are 1......1 and 1 are him and the one he loves....2 people......when they become one they are together again....also if you notice the number 11 is two one's (two people) separated......oh well, its just an opinion i came up with on my own, take it for what its worth.

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idiotic
06-29-2002

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I see that too, But
I see the person he was separated from as his mother when she remarried. he didn't really LOSE her, but she changed and became some new person, probably totally submissive to his new step father

also, i think the 1 and 1 are him and jimmy.

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Vampyre_Prince706
06-29-2002

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yeah, i can definitely see the thing with his mother and stepfather, the main reason i took it the way i did was that i can relate to it that way.....my girlfriend and i live like 900 miles apart, we talk constantly on the computer and phone but we rarely get to see each other, and so when we do its just hard to leave.....thats why the song meant what it did to me

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EnragedGoober
06-30-2002

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I know what it's about...it's about that time i had diarrhea and how it shot out of the window onto some guy. My pants are orange.

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REDRUM158
07-01-2002

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Its about September 11th you dumb fucks!!! "under a dead Ohio sky"...HELLO!!!! Ohio is the polar oposite of New York,... Dumb ass's!!! Maynard is a prophet, DUMB SONS OF BITCHES!,He put it in code so that people in N.Y. wouldnt freak out...HELLO!!!!!! Could you be any stupider?!?!?!? He knew that they had to die...so he put it in code! (jack ass's!) Not even the rest of tool knew about it!!(dumb shits!!!(ASS HOLES)!!!)!!! I have a very educated (unlike you sick shits!!)source...thaT I CAN'T TELL YOU ABOUT!!!!


Hugs and Kisses
REDRUM158

P.S. YOU ARE ALL INBREAD

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EnragedGoober
07-03-2002

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i'm not bread...

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NailBunny
07-19-2002

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While the story concerning the death of Maynard's mother is convincing when listening to this song, it doesn't ring true. This mistake was that of Rolling Stone Magazine (the staff of which later printed a retraction of the article) ; Maynard's mother is actually still among the living. Rather, I tend to agree with idiotic in that she remarried someone Maynard strongly disliked when he was 11, and that the song is about reuniting with his 11-yr-old self in order to come to terms with this stressful period in his past ; coming home, so to speak.

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Harry Manback
07-25-2002

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the story from that link above is absolutely fantastic! I was left open-mouthed after the ending. It may not be the true meaning to the song, but it does fit well with the song lyrics


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