| | Lateralus Lyrics Artist(Band):Tool
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me. lets me see. as below, so above and beyond, I imagine drawn beyond the lines of reason. Push the envelope. Watch it bend. Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines. Black then white are all i see in my infancy. red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me. lets me see there is so much more and beckons me to look thru to these infinite possibilities. as below, so above and beyond, I imagine drawn outside the lines of reason. Push the envelope. Watch it bend. over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind. Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line. Reaching out to embrace the random. Reaching out to embrace whatever may come. I embrace my desire to I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow to feel inspired to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral to swing on the spiral to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human. With my feet upon the ground I move myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in. I feel it move across my skin. I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me. what ever will bewilder me. And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been. We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. If you find some error in Lateralus Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Review about Lateralus awesome song about a pervasive truth | Reviewer: Mo | 11/24/09 "Black then white are all I see in my infancy." In someway we humans think in very much black and white, as very many people in this world has proven we are still in our infancy. "red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me. lets me see." I do not know what the colors represent but, the world is unconsciously trying to reach out to us to see beyond the black and white. "as below, so above and beyond, I imagine drawn beyond the lines of reason. Push the envelope. Watch it bend." We are so restrained in our thinking, if we embrace what the world is trying to show us we can see that our imagination is above and beyond, unconstrained by reasons and we can finally push the envelop and watch our self bend. "Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines." We as humans we tend to over think and analyze collapsing what is real rather then what is in our mind, we think that is real. We are so not present to our intuition and the moment that we miss opportunities. The only escape is the will to pull our self from this self created trap and get outside the box. "Black then white are all i see in my infancy. red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me. lets me see there is so much more and beckons me to look thru to these infinite possibilities. as below, so above and beyond, I imagine drawn outside the lines of reason. Push the envelope. Watch it bend." Simply enlarging what said previously, when we pull our selves out of this infancy we can start seeing "infinite possibilities". "over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind. Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line. Reaching out to embrace the random. Reaching out to embrace whatever may come." Even scientists have proven that we are creature of survival, our brains only function is the take in the input and predict the future so we can survive, if your brain cannot predict 'if there is a lion outside your door' it will freak out (try it on... hehehe... it freaky, gets your heart pounding), but that is where enlightenment is, that is where nirvana is when you can be with the random and whatever may come. Ask your self if you are surviving... if so what are you surviving? something real or made up? "I embrace my desire to I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow to feel inspired to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral to swing on the spiral to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human." This is the experience the state of nirvana where you can feel the beauty of humanity and this universe we live in, and get for ourselves we are gods and we are human. "With my feet upon the ground I move myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in. I feel it move across my skin. I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me. what ever will bewilder me. And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been. We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going." This is the song writers way of urging him/her-self and us to go there, where you are afraid to go, where not many have been, let go of this control you must have and be free and keep going, cause there is no end to this beauty we call living. Relax | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/12/09 I love this song. Personally, I think it fits in well with my Pagan belief's, even if there is no written or verbal aknowledgement that it has anything to do with that. Also, isn't the point of music not to really make it about something, but for it to mean something to each individual even if it differs between individuals? Also, I read an interview or something and Maynard said something along the lines of "we are your tool, use us how you want/need". I guess I'm saying chill out- everyone has their opinion and I love that you have all shared what you think. note | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/30/09 people offended by walls of text and other people's innocent opinions: don't read them people desperate to share their opinions and thoughts with the faceless crowd known as the internet: go ahead, but it's kind of pathetic and implies that you have no friends (I do like some of the stuff you guys wrote though) Unworthy... | Reviewer: christian | 10/27/09 seriously, all of you need to shut up and enjoy the music that maynard has blessed us with. you arent worthy to criticize his music, its too far beyond any of your comprehentions to even try to understand what these music gods are saying. Nature of the Lateralus human | Reviewer: Epistemology | 10/26/09 Not trying to prove a point or impose my view on others. I'm just responding to the song's ingenuity. In my opinion, MJK wrote this song about the speaker overthinking and overanalyzing random things such as life by following a prescribed, logical pattern.Although the speaker of the song eventually tries to be more spontaneous, an element of hopelesness is conveyed when the plan of supposed randomness ("to spiral out") is eerily, a plan that is still systematic and prescribed. This could be related to the theory of human's wish for order. It has been psychologically proven that normal human beings usually strive to find logical order in events or phenomenon even when no order is intended. At the same time that MJK tries to prove this treatise in the song, the lyrics he chose causes a paradox because his lyrics that eventually promote the idea of spiraling out of control to become more spontaneous are arranged in a logical mathematical pattern (fibonacci). It's interesting how the speaker of the song tries to become more random, as if he had a choice. The speaker does not have the choice because even when he tries to be free-form, the pattern is still fibonacci, the systematic pattern that is found in most natural objects although many people consider nature to be random and without purpose or direction. I believe that the lines "black and white is all I see, in my infancy/ red and yellow came to be/" is a refercence to the Aboriginal creation archetypes because the birth of the human race is compared, in most cultures, to the birth of human infants. And infants, as most people know, have limited vision and perception of color, with more colors and magnification becoming more available with growth ("let's me see there is so much more/". any thoughts to this, anyone? | Reviewer: mike | 10/25/09 over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind. This is the only part for me that, I can't quite understand its meaning to Tool's full extent. It seems out of line, but i don't know. As of now, I'm guessing what they're trying to say is that, one can't quite witness what could be beautiful and thought provoking when, he/she is misguided from "overthinking" what is the truth, or like, a universally accepted idea? i'm not too sure, just wondering if anyone else would like to give an input about that. Jesus. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/28/09 Good song, but we need a character limit on these comments. You can argue about music until the sun goes down, but it won't solve anything. Ah, who the hell am I kidding. People are going to argue until humanity ceases to exist. navarone | Reviewer: rahul nair | 9/14/09 Stop screwing around with the Fibonacci sequence, the kundalini spiral, the educated the uneducated, the smart & the ass...This song is simply about opening your mind..so keep it open & appreciate the the essence of the song the way you feel it best. Stop ranting about others opinions..what matters is yours alone & for heavens sake stop imposing on others...think free that is what this song is all about for me final post, right here | Reviewer: Renz | 9/9/09 "Black then white are all i see in my infancy. red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me. lets me see." obviously him being born into a "world" that is in response reaching out for him to explore....almost as our sensory has the effect on us (not other ppl, sadly) "as below, so above and beyond, I imagine drawn beyond the lines of reason. Push the envelope. Watch it bend." He feels that he went 'below' the one side of our society as so far as he did above and beyond, but he could never be so sure as to where exactly he may be in this chaos, "infinite possibilities". And yes it is beyond any line imposed on us as children but he's says reason cuz sometimes what you/he may be thining about is off, its not right but my guess is it would still help/add to himself. He takes a chance by pushing his envolope of his thoughts off to be 'criticized' basically by himself, he witnesses it bend and takes notes. "Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines." You must "over"think and analyze everything you see to make progress. The body and mind start to separate when you focus too much into this world and not on this 'reality'. But he prob feels this reality is not enough, he tries to use what he's been learning to feed he's feelings/reactions and it leads him to draw outside the lines of his relationships (good and bad i would assume). And really all it does is make him want to cross that line again, but the problem is if he crosses it he is affraid he will lose himself in it for the time being..seems like he needs to meditate maybe, people! And i just noticed he then says to reach out for the random, whatever it may be, let it come to him.(the best way to do this is by intently focusing on the enviroment watching for it to lead you somewhere (try reading Henry David Thoreau "Walking"). And now he says he finds his rythm. (his profession?) .... "I embrace my desire to.. feel the rythm.. feel connected enough.. to feel inspired to fathom the power, to WITNESS the beauty" Then he's indulging us into a metaphor for him finding the wild/random rythm that is now the way for him to travel at ease, with peace with himself because he is the barrier for his peace between our reality and 'what he may feel to be more than ourselves'. I used single quotes cuz alot of heads would not agree with this whole idea of experiencing a different "world" in which we coinside with and add to. The spiral adds to the everlasting-ness of this 'imaginative' world. tl;dr the rest of this junk | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/30/09 I know that this doesn't exactly help, but seriously, quit posting walls of text to insult other people over the internet. You're being a bunch of tools, pun terribly intended. Personally, the song is about the growth of the human mind as one ages. As one becomes more wise and beings to grasp more complex concepts they expand their horizons and open new doors for themselves, I think this song vocalizes that. LOOK MA, WALL OF TEXT. Review By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Review the song Lateralus 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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