So familiar and overwhelmingly warm
This one, this form I hold now.
Embracing you, this reality here,
This one, this form I hold now, so
Wide eyed and hopeful.
Wide eyed and hopefully wild.
We barely remember what came before this precious moment,
Choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside...
This body holding me, reminding me that I am not alone in
This body makes me feel eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
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Review about Parabol Sacred geometry | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/21/09
This song is about sacred geometry. We actually have forgot who were before because we live in the third dimension, and our third eye "pineal gland" has vastly shrunk. You have to have control of your merkhaba in order to access different dimensions, to then know who we were before. This body is merely a temple holding your merkhaba, which makes you feel but pain is an illusion in your eternal ascended self.
I think that the way Maynard writes is that there is always more than one meaning and are never clear in meaning to anyone but himself.
If you like A Perfect Circle, his other band, 3 Libras is not just about 3 people who are Libras, but 9.
Ending | Reviewer: Ryan Kiman | 8/5/09
My favourite part of this tune is at the end where Maynard goes, "All this pain is an illuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusioooooooooooon." And then you hear the start of parabola coming in (if you own Lateralus :)) It's not that i hate this song and want it to end, it's just i ca not get enough of the ending, but i still love all the rest, especially the lyrics, because Maynard comes up with the most breathtaking lyrics i have ever heard.
You all see something spiritual in this... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/22/09
...but my view of every song as one part of a story makes me see a different interpretation.
"So familiar and overwhelmingly warm
This one, this form I hold now."
The person the song is about is feeling detached from reality. His experience seems new, but "familiar".
"Embracing you, this reality here,"
Reveals that the experience is embracing a lover. And perhaps more from the next lines.
"Wide eyed and hopeful.
Wide eyed and hopefully wild."
Wide eyed, excited, hopeful, looking forward to something... wild.
"We barely remember what came before this precious moment"
They don't remember what happened before, this moment is too important, all their energy is directed toward their love.
"Hold on, stay inside..."
This is a witty double meaning, if you understand the story. You can think of it as dialogue, but it is also part of the next line.
"This body holding me, reminding me that I am not alone in
This body makes me feel eternal. All this pain is an illusion."
Both of the lines "This body" could refer to either the lover's body before him or the body he resides in, feeling the ecstasy. The experience makes him feel powerful, and reminds him that he's not alone.
Reality | Reviewer: Quinton D | 6/13/09
The way I see this song is, the body is made up of a spiritual self, mortal self, and your soul, so therefore, your body is merely your mortal self. with your spiritual self, and your soul, you can make what you want,
with your eyes open you can see whats in front of you, with your eyes closed and at rest, you can see alot more, which comes to lead to what you see is an illusion, so would evrything else be?
This pain is an illusion
i discovered this song during a very hard time in my life, suicidal, psycotic and drug addict.
and these words hit me.
since then i've held on to this. they made it possible for me to begin to learn to live with my pain and taking back control.
it means so much for me.
yep | Reviewer: butterz | 3/17/09
This form, this body, what you've created of yourself. "we barely remember what came before this precious moment" like before life, if we remembered what was before, then we'd have more of a clue as to what is after.
"this body holding me, reminding me that i am not alone" because there being a body, lets us see each other, helping us know we're not enduring life by ourselfs
because if u were born alone and lived alone, this life would be much more confusing
At first, it was just melody for life about life, after "eternal feeling" has become more than eternal. we need to imagine our lives not only now, but also after we have done what we were supposed to. so just live and enjoy your self-created world that had been imagined long time ago.
Wide eyed and hopeful | Reviewer: Kale T. | 11/29/08
The meaning that I perceive in this song is that you have to choose to be right here and now, despite your inhibition whispering "Hold on, stay inside" (i added a bit of meaning to the song myself just from the way i try to live my life, im only gathering this meaning from two lines of the song =P)
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