I conceive this to be one of the band's greatest songs. As most of their songs it's metaphoric. We all want to know what Maynard meant when he pulled them from the depths of his mind and wrote them into song, but thats not what he intended them for. He wants us to apply them to our own life related experiences. Hince the name TOOL. Music is a tool for most of us today, to slip into memory, or some form of spiritual healing, to find a comfortable center within. I relate songs to certain happenings in my life, good and bad. With this song you could apply it to a few different things, love, drugs, sex, self affliction, or maybe looking within one's self. Who knows what he truly meant? Apply it to something in your own life and you'll find the true meaning behind it. It's up to you.
I conceive this to be one of the band's greatest songs. As most of their songs it's metaphoric. We all want to know what Maynard meant when he pulled them from the depths of his mind and wrote them into song, but thats not what he intended them for. He wants us to apply them to our own life related experiences. Hince the name TOOL. Music is a tool for most of us today, to slip into memory, or some form of spiritual healing, to find a comfortable center within. I relate songs to certain happenings in my life, good and bad. With this song you could apply it to a few different things, love, drugs, sex, self affliction, or maybe looking within one's self. Who knows what he truly meant? Apply it to something in your own life and you'll find the true meaning behind it. It's up to you.
@chosen1 I agree. Maynard has said that tool's song meanings can whatever the listener wants it to be
@chosen1 I agree. Maynard has said that tool's song meanings can whatever the listener wants it to be