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It's some kind of psychedelic experience
Our body is light, we are immortal
Our body is love, we are eternal
Eternal
Omniscient
Omnipotent
Omnipresent
Without judgment
Our body is light, we are immortal
Our body is love, we are eternal
Eternal
Omniscient
Omnipotent
Omnipresent
Without judgment
Lyrics submitted by tricky_dick
"Merkaba [Live]" as written by Justin Chancellor, Maynard James Keenan, Adam Jones, Daniel Carey
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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Make of that what you will, but I will put out there that the Biblical Merkaba is the chariot of God.
Tool is into the occult, but so are the powers that be, which is why it's not in the mainstream - not because "they're too closed minded".
The occult can offer much power to a mortal on this Earth, but at the cost of your salvation, because the power is derived from satan.
If you don't believe me, check out this link, which uses occult numerology to prove that it is satanic. Hell, Tool even thanked satan on national tv on one occaison.
defconmen.com/vault/…
MOST UNDERRATED SONG IN THE HISTORY OF ALL MANKIND. This song is the answer to everything.
LIGHT being the ONE TRUE FORM of physical matter
in ALLLL THA UNIVERSE ...
LOVE being the HIGHEST EVOLVED & ACHIEVABLE EMOTION conceivable in all existing lifeforms ...
THis is what Merkaba teaches you.
THat we are ALL ONE. Light & Love.
We are God and God is us.
go read members' opinions on drugs. till you do stop blabbering about how stupid it is to use drugs to open your mind. go read any article which mentions the band members' opinions on drugs. especially danny carey, he has stated many times that drugs have opened his mind to new ideas, which are very clearly heard on any tool track. maynard has stated (in so many words) that it people who can enhance their minds / perspectives with drugs should attempt to do so *if they can do it right*. maybe drugs don't work for you, but for me and many others, drugs can give you totally new perspectives and open your mind to other ideas. don't come back on here, not read any interviews / articles, and just tell me i'm wrong, dumb, a stoner,...go do some research and come back when you've realized your error
A Merkaba is a spiritual vehicle used by the enlightened. That pretty basically quotes every one-sentence definition ever.
My own interpretation of this song is that it's a bit of a story book about life hidden in the lyrics. The repetetive three-beats of the drum (which are modified by The Drummer -- i dare not use his name -- to perfection) throughout the song (with occasional exceptions) to me represent the beating of our hearts. I think the first set of lyrics is just about how amazing life is (this is my interpretation) and how all the things people attribute to drugs can just be attributed to that-which-is-contained-in-life. I think the progressing and changing and cycling sections of the song represent different periods in life, their riffs and beats reflecting different levels of beautiful turmoil which we ultimately win out on.
I think the wonderfully awesome lines "Our body is light, we are immortal, our body is light, we are immortal, our body is love, we are eternal" and all other variations on it are about love and bonds made in love. I then think that the bass line that kicks in around the time where [someone i can only assume to be MJK sings] the lines "life, love, love, life, [etc][sic] ... eternal" is a bit of an audio commentary on how life seems to work out. Sort of: Highest - High - Low - Average - Really Low - repeat (with twists and turns and great composition) that represents how luck seems to play out, maybe some kind of luckily stumbled upon ratio of "whoa!" that dictates karma or something, haha. I love this song.
"Omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, without judgement", to me, captures how ideal humans, maybe humans who have attained a third eye [or whatever] and "risen" blah blah (MJK says they don't like this kind of spiritual crap) are supposed to be. Maybe the Lord (i personally speak of the one in Christian religion) is a man, woman, boy or girl on some level that rose above our plane of understanding -- by listening to this song?! I hope I become immortal, eternal...
I say this every time: People who listen to tool when high because it's 'trippy' are in dire need of some rough jail sodomy (see "Prison Sex")