Reviews for Parabola Lyrics

I think none of you have a clue of what it is your saying, just mere speculation. The vast galaxy holds more truth than you know. To travel at the speed of sound and light is to slow, we must move at the speed of thought ! Can you picture your body in a glorified state? Repent, for the Kingdom of God will soon be established on this earth. You have been warned, your blood is now off of my hands.

"Twirling 'round with this familiar parable.
Spinning, weaving 'round each new experience.
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this
chance to be alive and breathing,
a chance to be alive and breathing."

this song was a favorite of mine throughout my pregnancy... and believe it or not, the exact song playing while giving birth... it is a great mantra. see, they let you bring cd into the hospital, and even provide the cd player, and i told my husband the crank it... and just rocked back and forth for a few hours to this whole album.. and when all was said and done i asked what song was playing, and one of my friends who was lucky enought to be in the room told me it was this one.
"This body. This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion."

this song is about ascention...evolution of the soul. the soul is your life essence not your mind and the body is a vessel with the mind embedded..like how we use a computer our soul is useing a vessel to comunicate and react with the world we chose to be in.

we barely remember who or what came before this precious moment.| we (our souls) came to this earth a long time ago and entered a vessel (body)and have done so many times repeated (reincarnation) entering a body ..one may imagine would be a traumatic experience and we forget our lives before earth...the lives we had in pure form. the precious moment is the lives we are living on earth.

I think it's about being "friends with benefits" after a breakup. He remembers all the pain the she causes him, yet there he is, lying next to her as she holds him and he remembers again all the problems that instilled upon them... yet finds comfort in her embrace. He's thankful that she's around so that he can forget about the problems in the world and between them, but is aware they still exist.

I'm pretty sure the lines are "this HOLE in reality. this HOLE in experience"
My point being, it changes the meaning of the song entirely. "recognize this as a HOLE and you can celebrate this chance to be"
It means to me that the present is a hole in reality. reality is large, made up of our past experiences and our future choices. most people tend to live in the moment, not considering the past nor the future. they take the moment too seriously "all this pain is an illusion"
when we die, we will be nothing but memories to people. that's how we are eternal. this moment, "hole in reality" is almost like a trap. What's important is using the moment appropriately to lead a rich life as a whole.

I think its about sex. The body holding him is a women and hes telling how sex comforts him, maynard is a very sexually charged person. The egyptions looked at sex as a holy happening and really its the only time in life wen nothing really matters.

The thing i like about tool is u can shape the meaning of the songs to relate them to any situation. Spiral Out

This simply means that whoever or whatever caused us to be here in this life (precious moment)must be thanked...

Recognize this (LIFE) as a holy gift..and celebrate the chance to be alive and breathing..

This is about being thankful to be alive...errrrr

This song seems to be about how man is a dweller in both worlds, the mortal and immortal. We have the immortality of the gods, yet the mortality of an animal. The highest form of knowledge is experiental, the holy experience. The body is in a sense a prison, but we must turn that around and use all senses as tools to live, not as an end in itself. We are only individuals in the lowest sense, that of the physical manifestation, and in the spiritual world we are one and all and not alone.

If you look at the part of the video with the ribbon like chakra things going through his torso, this reminds me of this forty some page supposed "where humans came from" theory thing (wingmakers.com I think this is it.. If not search on google) and the picture on this website looks a lot like this image in the Tool video) it's interesting. I think it's worth looking into. Whatever the songs about, it's obviously concerning to the soul and the body. Very good song!

I think that these lyrics are trying to tell us that while the human spirit and soul are eternal, we choose to live in mortal bounds and we should try to savor our mortality as much as possible, like "celebrate this
chance to be alive and breathing." It's like it's trying to define the separation between life and afterlife, comparing and weighing here to hereafter.
I don't think it's about drugs although I'm not a fan of their melodic sound. I think it's about mortality versus immortality.
Before looking at the lyrics, I thought that based on the name of the song, it might've had something to do with math (because a parabola is an algebraic curve); apparently I was wrong.

lies in how many ways they can be interpreted, so listen to them all if you love these songs and count each interpretation as equal.
No need to quarrel about who is right as it is just wasted energy, but of course you can if you really want to, each chooses his or her experience.

MJK was so right about his own fans.

From Kundalini chakras to Plato's mumblings, give MJK a break. Religious iconography is 'art for art's sake' which is a general theme in Alex's work, whoever brings the video into discussion.

He's left out so many hints throughout, we're still mortal, but the entire point is it doesn't matter, none of it counts, there will be a time when we just won't be there to bother with it all.
Don't tell others to give up pot before you give up your own opiate. Lateralus, we overthink, overanalyze only to come back to the nascent. We just are, but we have an opportunity to, so ride on the spiral.

P.S.: You don't need weed to enjoy them, a state of mind can be achieved through enough ways, but I like enjoying them both, personal taste, really. :P

Hello there metal people!
First of all: prydopenmy3rdeye -> if you can't enjoy music without any narcotics than I think you should think about you life. I just don't understand why do anybody need to use those shit?
Second: everybody who has an opinion about this great song and the video clip has right. It's like analizing a poem: it has different meaning for everybody! I don't think that even the author can describe the real meaning of his work.
I think it's great that there are lyrics like this - it helps to use your own imagination in this world (full with non interactive games and movies, where nobody reads books anymore).
Thank you for reading this.

I think this song could be about somewhat familiar philosofy with buddhism, example when thinking about lines "Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this
chance to be alive and breathing,
a chance to be alive and breathing." As buddhists tend to think, it's a huge oppourtunity to be born as a human being, and we should not waste this tiny perioid of time when we have chance to understand this universum. We should be searching, I think. Anyways this is awesome song. Very intellectual.

I think this song is about realizing all the shit and pain we put up with on this planet is jus a mere test n that we don't really become ALIVE until we die and that all of our suffering is jus an illusion and ther is light at the other end of the tunnel I jus love tool so much they have got me through somwe pretty bad experiences