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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.
It took so long to realize that
You hold the light that's been leading 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
'Til one and one are one, eleven,
So glow, child, glow.
I'm heading back home.
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.
It took so long to realize that
You hold the light that's been leading 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
'Til one and one are one, eleven,
So glow, child, glow.
I'm heading back home.
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For whatever reason, Maynard needed to go home to "reunite" with that lost part of him. Perhaps it is the part of him that looked to his mother as his "stability" or just as someone to share mutual care and love for. Eleven may be the part of him thats capable of loving his mother unconditionally: of idolizing and adoring her the way young children tend to; but that post age eleven, he moved on with the realization of his mother's mortality and may have been angered by it. It does seem that he's grown more compassionate and understanding towards her throughout his songs about her over the years. He might be seeking the balance between loving her as a young child does, but accepting her mortality and that what happened was beyond her control. Going home seems like a good place to do so if thats where his mother was.
Just a guess though, as I'll never know exactly how he felt towards his mother before, during or after this song (or any of them for that matter).
You are all right, and yet at the same time you are all wrong my friends.
Maynard's lyrics, much like life itself, carry a duality.
There's your opinion, and then there's his opinion.
BUT that's not even the end of it. guess what else there is? The connections between those opinions intertwining.
Over the years, Maynard has expressed coming back to his songs he written all those years ago, and seen them in new light.
This is due to the reception the external to himself, has given him.
Maynard has a fundamental understanding of the universe itself: EVERYTHING IS PERCEPTION.Everything is ever changing and nothing stays what it is.
This song changes. His view on the song changes. your view on the song changes.
So IF you want to take anything out of this TOOL you have been given ladies and gentlemen, take this:
Whatever you perceive from this, at least understand it is whatever you perceive it to be, as long as you are true to your higher self.
..... and i'm not bloody well getting into that on a public forum
.....I will however tell you how Maynard has gotten there to some extent.
We are dealing with someone who has based his life dealing mainly in one fundamental form of energy for quite some time: Sound.
If we are to take the notion of sound from a number of different ideologies tool have incorporated into their music over the years, we come to understand this chap has been focussing on a certain 'branch' of the tree of life, if you will, or to put it in Hindu terms (usually the easiest to digest) the sound chakra, or the 5th chakra:
"Chakra five (throat chakra) is the doorway to consciousness and the energy center of sound, rhythm, vibration, and communication. The meaning of its Sanskrit name is “purification”.
This is the chakra that is the energy center that is connected to communication through sound, vibration, creativity, and self expression.
The fifth chakra is responsible for the
translation of symbols and other forms into coherent information and it is also our centre of creativity. "
His purification was to get the bullshit on pen and paper, yell it out, then be done with it.
If i had to guess, he's easily past the 6th chakra and is most likely at 7th.
But once again brothers and sisters, Tis merely a humble souls perception ;)
Peace and blessed be.
Also, yes he moved in with his father, per his mother's request.
One and one are one? One present, One past, are one/together/11. He's simply making peace with a loss and the past that has shaped him and presented him with many of his personal troubles that were absent before he cognitively lost his mother.
- The more thought and research you put into it, the more meaning and fulfillment you'll get out of it. Of course, if the song means more to you when interpreted in a different light then stick with it. Whatever works!
"til one and one are one, eleven.." means 1 and 1 together make 11. In numerology and spirituality 11 is a 'master' number. this means that someone who's life is lead by the number 11 has the opportunity to achieve spiritual mastery and move on from this plane of existence upon death. Maynard is talking about gaining insight into the pain of his past, his childhood. "glow child glow" means that his childhood will lead him back home. Home being the place beyond, the great light.
It's also worth knowing that individuals whose lives are governed by 11 are believed to be spiritual 'messengers'. In many cases they are artists and spiritual leaders.
The general content of the album deals with spiritual growth, for example the song "third eye". Look into what third eye means if you are interested.