| | Forty-Six & 2 Lyrics Artist(Band):Tool
Shedding skin and I've been picking Scabs again. I'm down Digging through My old muscles Looking for a clue. I've been crawling on my belly Clearing out what could've been. I've been wallowing in my own confused And insecure delusions For a piece to cross me over Or a word to guide me in. I wanna feel the changes coming down. I wanna know what I've been hiding in My shadow. My shadow. Change is coming through my shadow. My shadow's Shedding skin I've been picking My scabs again. I've been crawling on my belly Clearing out what could've been. I've been wallowing in my own chaotic And insecure delusions. I wanna feel the change consume me, Feel the outside turning in. I wanna feel the metamorphosis and Cleansing I've endured within My shadow. My shadow. Change is coming. Now is my time. Listen to my muscle memory. Contemplate what I've been clinging to. Forty-six and two ahead of me. I choose to live and to Grow, take and give and to Move, learn and love and to Cry, kill and die and to Be paranoid and to Lie, hate and fear and to Do what it takes to move through. I choose to live and to Lie, kill and give and to Die, learn and love and to Do what it takes to step through. See my shadow changing, Stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way By stepping through my shadow, Coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me. If you find some error in Forty-Six & 2 Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Review about Forty-Six & 2 Funny how human is. | Reviewer: CogitoErgoSum | 8/15/09 Uhm to those people who think their ideas are the one maynard is talking about, hmmm, thank you for making me laugh... For those who says that MjK is talking about or at least related to the shadow concept or Carl Jung's psychoanalysis theory, kudos. People should start doing research before posting..lol.. anyway...thank you very much for the Pseudos. How to evolve | Reviewer: Simbiat | 7/19/09 I can agree with the last "speaker". But, if you don't mind, I'd like to something like sum it up for all of you. To say things that you don't want to accept, and explain why humans are destined to their destruction. Evolution is not only discovering your Shadow and accepting it. We cand find our "humanity's" Shadow everywhere around us, we just need to look around a bit. Accepting is also is not that kind of a problem: people tend to "get along" with those drastic things happening around them: femine, death, hypocrecy. The ONLY way to evolve is to accept ALL the parts of your current persona (no matter how many of them you have) and all the parts of all your PAST personas (yup, they DO exist, I'm living proof of that: I remmber things that I just physically CAN'T know). But it will be only the first step still. The second (and theoretically final step) is to merge them ALL into ONE persona, that WILL BE YOU. The new you. The one you're supposed to be. The one that will make spiral become spiral (instead of a circle that it is now) and even change into a family of straight lines striving upwards into infinity. Fortunatly, there come to live more and more people who at least subconciencly undesrtand what they need to do. But they are agraid of change, they afraid of loneliness and death. They supress themselves. And they hypocritically call themselves "humans" neglecting the fact, they are simple animals and nothing more. Neglecting the fact that they are dgrading rapidly, making the spiral go DOWNwards. A lot of such people who have a feeling of THE WAY but afraid of doing anything 'bout it can be helped by a great deal of a stress, bringing them to the verge of life and death. Their own life and death. Unfortunatly, there's no time to make all (or at least half) of population of our pity planet: it's dieing. We are dieing. Slowly as a snail crawling the stony desert. We are sure we've ot enough time to just live as we are. Enough time to LIE and supress and to "play a game". There is none. I doubt that we'll die out in next 10 years or even a century... Maybe we'll stay around for another milenia... But what is that time against INFINITY? Nothing. To break this cycle we need to stop being players, hypocrites. We need to open ourselves to us and to others. Hell, you know that Jesus was trying to break people's psychology that time? Do you think he was asking to open up to some god? Do you think he wanted to be an idol? Nope, nope and nope. His message should be something like that: "Embrace yourself as you are: sinner, animal, a primitive being. Emrace your limits, your cage. And make it infinite: evolve to fill the cage with your "soul" to become one with it and then really break it." If you still don't understand what I'm, bloody, talking 'bout - then it's not your time to understand, but, please, try. The point is, that to evolve we need to embrace what we are and what we have. We need to adapt to our limits (physical, mental or any other kind) and by ignoring and suppressing them. We need to "keep an open mind" for EVERYTHING. Everything is possible for us if we believe in it. If you think that all that bull above is pure noncence with no connection between its letters - fine. Ignore the message and go silently die. If not and if you wanna talk about (criticise or discuss) - write to my e-mail ( simbiat "doggy-dog" bk.ru ). And yeah - I'm Russian and I don't give a damn 'bout what you think 'bout that fact - it's your choice anyway. Australian aborigines? What!? | Reviewer: Atheist | 5/6/09 I would not normally criticize a poster like this but one of the previous posts is so egregious it warrants a response. Australian aborigines, who are Homo sapiens like the rest of us, have 46 (44+2) autosomes and chromosomes. This is because they only began their migration to Australia, from Africa, about 70,000 years ago. The song seems to me to be suggesting that the “collective unconsciousness” that Carl Jung theorized is stored in a pair of chromosomes and in “muscle memory” and that once all humans have discovered and accepted there Shadow self (and anima/animus) (another Carl Jung theory) they could evolve another pair of chromosomes that would allow a higher, evolved consciousness and therefore a new species with 46+2 chromosomes (Drunvalo Melchizedek’s theory). How a new “collective unconsciousness” gets into two new chromosomes must be just semantics to Maynard. Lolol | Reviewer: Vicodin36 | 4/16/09 Heya, guys! Basically, it's believed that there are three levels of human evolution and each has it's form of conciousness. There's the 1st level with 44 chromosomes. These are primitive peoples like the ancient aborigines in Australia who did not PERCOLATE anything outside of themselves. They only saw one large conciousness with no distinguishment between organisms. Then there's the second level with 46 chromosomes. That is us. We are a chaotic disharmonic conciousness that is basically used as a stepping stone between the first and third levels. The third level is 48 chromosomes. (Or 46 & 2, with 2 being the sex chromosomes x & y). This is the higher level of conciousness. Our destination. But this is where the Jungian theory comes in. It is believed that you can not reach this third level of evolution without first delving into yourself and basically cleansing your conciousness for the next jump. That's where the Shadow comes in. The shadow is basically everything about that is unseen that you are uncomfortable with or hate. This is also known as the Anima (hence the name of the CD). The last part of the song sums all of this up... "See my shadow changing, Stretching up and over me Soften this old armor Hoping I can clear the way By stepping through my shadow, Coming out the other side Step into the shadow Forty six and two are just ahead of me .." shadow | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/6/09 Basically, it's believed that there are three levels of human evolution and each has it's form of conciousness. There's the 1st level with 44 chromosones. These are primitve people's like the aboriginies in Australia who do not percieve anything outside of themselves. They only see one large conciousness with no distinguishment between organisms. Then there's the second level with 46 chromosones. That is us. We are a chaotic disharmonic conciousness that is basically used as a stepping stone between the first and third levels. The third level is 48 chromosones. (Or 46 & 2, with 2 being the sex chromosones x & y). This is the higher level of conciousness. Our destination. But this is where the Jungian theory comes in. It is believed that you can not reach this third level of evolution without first delving into yourself and basically cleansing your conciousness for the next jump. That's where the Shadow comes in. The shadow is basically everything about that is unseen that you are uncomfortable with or hate. This is also known as the Anima (hence the name of the CD). the shadow | Reviewer: Elias | 11/10/08 Okay for people that don't know the Shadow is one of the 5 parts of the human conscious, The shadow is the part of the mind were repressed beliefs and thoughts are, these influence every action in a persons life and unless you can find a way to break into your shadow you will never be able to apply those memories or ideas effectively, and since they can be negative or positive you can never truly understand why you do what you do unless you go through your shadow. just a thought... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/9/08 i think 46 and 2 might be a reference to evolution, taking the previous post a step further and in a slightly different direction. it fits in slightly with the talk of 46 chromosomes and adding 2 to the genome and thus the metamorphosis so to speak. but like i said, its just a thought... Just Curious | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/19/08 Just curious. Is forty six a reference to the human chromosomes (there are 23 pairs or forty six of them). I was thinking since this song is about change, maybe the "and 2" means something along the lines of a pair of chromosomes that we need to tap into in order to change ourselves (perhaps a metaphor for our spirit/ soul). I don't know if this is where Maynard was going with the title of the song, but its something to think about. Maynard's Brilliance | Reviewer: Big Pert | 2/19/08 This song just adds to how smart I think Maynard is. Throughout the song he is making repeated references to C.G. Jung's theory of archetypes and specifically the archetypes of the Shadow and Anima. The shadow is the part of our personality that we don't wish to share with the outside world and we struggle to come to terms with. The Anima is the feminine side of a man's personality that often a man will go his whole life without recognized and consequently won't reach Self-Realization. Therefore, when he refers to "stepping out the other side" he is referring to stepping out of the darkness and incompletion of his psyche and into the brilliance of self realization. To me this song is lyrically better than Schism which also is a great indicator of how smart Maynard really is. Reincarnation | Reviewer: Tool4Ever | 12/15/07 humbly i submit that fortysix & 2 is in reference to reincarnation, in that maynard sings about his "choice" to "live" in order to "move through" the veil of illusion that is this world. as he says: "I choose to live and to Grow, take and give and to Move, learn and love and to Cry, kill and die and to Be paranoid and to Lie, hate and fear and to Do what it takes to move through." this song is about change, and maynard and tool in general seem always open to occult ideas such as are embodied in this song. change through the human drama of life, progress through pain, a soul's choice to be reborn into this low, painful and hard existence in order to grow, or change, in the process. Maynard is in touch with the deeper reality that is all around us and is the reason for the cruel realities of the world, and through this song he may be seeking to understand his spirit's choice to descend from the Holy Father and submit himself to the harsh painful existence of material reality, in order that he may enlighten his mind and that his spirit may grow. Review By Pages: 1 2 Review the song Forty-Six & 2 The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "Tool" Music | |
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