Lets me see there is so much more And beckons me to look through to these infinite possibilities. As below, so above and beyond, I imagine Drawn outside the lines of reason. Withering my intuition leaving all these 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.
Come embrace my desire to, come 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, swing on the spiral.
Of our divinity and still be a human. With my feet upon the ground I lose 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. 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, going Edit Lyrics. Lateralus song meanings. Add Your Thoughts Comments. General Comment Hey guys, awesome interpretations so far. I think it's great seein what other people think. Anyway, on to the interpretation.
To begin with, I wanna clear up an earlier post. Colsy said the title was pronounced "Lateral-Us" A mistake i made too for a long time but it's really pronounced "Ladder-alice" say it and it makes sense, i found this in the FAQ from toolshed. Instead of "Side of Us", i think the song deals with lateral parts the bigger picture, as maynard put it.
Anyway, it deals with the ability to have a physical life, as well as a spiritual one In whatever god you chose to believe in. Yet he retracts these statements by talking about "OVER thinking, and OVER analyzing" saying that there is a balance in spirit and body, don't push either ot the extreme, because you'll become separate humans, leading a LATERAL life Then he speaks about reaching out to embrace the random The next part seems to be my strongest point of backing.
Next he backs my statement again. He speaks of 'keeping his feet on the ground', yet he also talks about an enlightenment of somekind 'opening wide to suck it in and feeling it move across his skin'. He wants that connection of body and spirit, as everyone does. He'll continue to connect the 2 to push the boundaries and enlighten himself "Spiral out, keep going Anyway, continue writin posts, i love to read em, and again this is only my opinion. There was an error.
Mediumcore0Tool0Fan on March 28, Beyond that, I also came to many of the conclusions madson did. You both created a wonderful interpretation of this song. Great work Guys Just want u all to see this VId This song is Mathematically Related as well!!!! Dude, if people label you, then they're douchebags and they don't deserve you and you're time if you're a good person. People label me and look at me as a freak everyday, but I do my best at not letting it get to me.
It does, at times, but I know if I keep my eyes on the prize, Heaven or at least the utopia after death, it'll all make sense. I'm "Christian", but I have no denomination. All I know is what I need to know. I know that the whole "higher power" thing makes absolutely no sense at this point in my life, but I feel it's not supposed to.
It wouldn't be called Faith if there was proof. Basically keep who you are, who you aren't, and where you want to go in your mind and you'll get there. If some things about you need to change, change them. If life was easy it wouldn't be worth living. I love your interpretation madson.
I have a suggestion if it's not too presumptuous. Read "The Kybalion" then the "Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreunz" if you haven't already, and I bet you glean even more insight into what Maynard was talking about So as has been said, don't be 2 dimensional. Make your own decisions from within, not what other people tell you to believe, and to keep growing on what you've learned. If everyone believed the same thing, then we wouldn't be any different than robots, which is what the future could hold for us humans unless we can keep evolving.
Shadowx on January 11, Your interpretation is flawless in terms of everything, I just feel I need to mention something. The "Red and Yellow" may link to something. They mention something along the lines of "King in Yellow, Queen in Red. The Queen In Red was from Through the Looking Glass, her environment around her was always moving, and she had to run in order to keep up with it.
This represents the ideology of Evolution and keeping up with the proceeding times. In short, the Red represents ideologies of science and some religion in terms of logic; while the Yellow may represent society and religious influence on a person's personality. DarkWings on March 21, It is actually a symbol of growth without changing shape. So I figured the line "swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human" could pertain to growing as a person and becoming more than what you are but remaining a human being staying in the same form or appearance SomeDrummerGuy on February 09, I totally agree with your opinion!
And particularly with the part when you say that balance and evolution between body and mind makes you feel like a god but still be a human And I would something about this part : With my feet upon the ground I lose myself Between the sounds and open wide to suck it in I feel it move across my skin I think this part talks about the music itself not the song, but music in general I think it means that music is a good way to push you spiritual side, how powerful it can be if you open your mind and really enters into it.
All the emotions you can feel while listening music General Comment This is one of the most brilliant songs ever written. Like a complex novel, it operates on many levels, but the central theme of the song is evolution, both personal and on the grand scale. First we'll examine the music itself. As the song progresses, those rhythms become more tribal, then more mechanical, till near the end we hear what sounds like robots in a factory.
Thus, the music is about the evolution of the human species to the point where we are either replaced by machines or become machines ourselves. Now, the lyrics reinforce this theme on a few ways. The song starts out: "Black then white are all I see in my infancy, red and yellow then came to be reaching out to me, let's me see. Babies see in black and white, with their ability to distinguish colors arising as they age. But this is also true of the human species in a philosophical and spiritual sense.
Edward O. Wilson has written about how the most primitive tribes have words only for black and white; the next most advanced tribes have words for red and yellow, on up to the point where we recognize there is a near infinite color spectrum, which the most advanced cultures recognize. Thus, the most morally developed beings recognize that issues can never be easily divided into black and white; that's much too simplistic.
There are, of course, people who still see moral issues in black and white, but they are throwbacks to our primitive heritage. So as technology advances, if we do not evolve morally too, we lose our connection to nature more and more and become little more than machines. Computers too view things in simplistic black and white terms or bits and bytes if you prefer. Thus, in that context the song is about personal growth--spiritually, morally, and philosophically speaking.
True spiritual growth cannot come from without; it must come from within, and no one else can define what is right or wrong for you. In that sense this sing is kind of a companion piece to Hermann Hesse's novel 'Demian. Note how the pitch of Maynard's voice, moving up and down rhythmically, compliments the "spiral out" he's singing about.
He leaves the rest ambiguous. 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.
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine drawn outside the lines of reason. Withering my intuition leaving all these 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 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 of our divinity and still be a human. With my feet upon the ground I lose myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in, I feel it move across my skin.
I am demotivated. We all desire inspiration. Our desire to witness beauty, A heaven. Religion isn't a way set in stone. It is hope that the future contains paradise, equality, honour. Our desire to bathe in the fountain Maybe he is referring to the fact that it is weird. We all have weirdness in our hearts Some of us more than others, depending on your perspective on life. But our true desire is to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human. Become a god yet stay human.
Become perfect but accepted? Become knowledgeable yet not be feared? Were I to meet God, if there is one, there may be many, I would tell him to fistbump, as an equal.
I am no God. I just want to talk to a genius who can design the stuff he can Potentially everything But to be a child in the most serious of times is Refreshing, like a soak in a fountain. With my feet upon the ground, I lose 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 whatever will bewilder me, whatever will bewilder me.
I shall keep my ideals true and stick to them but lose myself and through music, divine or otherwise, I shall absorb all I can from it, the music is knowledge. I feel knowledge all around me, it is bursting out like a parasite after feeding. And yet, I shall reach for what is greater. I cannot be satisfied with knowing everything. I will search for anything, be it outside or inside the picture, that I don't understand.
We all want a challenge. To sum up that little bit I typed Not said, I am eating a Mars Bar and don't want to mess up my laptop I am trying to find as many personalities in this nexus of the stars as I can and understand as much as I can. But when I feel like I am almost done, to next step is to find more that is good. Our undying thirst for knowledge, power. We don't need war, the greatest weapons in life were planted before you were born.
The mind and the heart. And so, we will ride the spiral of divinity and try to become more than what has come before. Become a better. Become more than we could ever comprehend and so I urge you not to be linear. Not to think in a straight line but instead, to better ourselves and humanity as a whole: Spiral out and keep going. Thank you for reading. This is Tool. Maynard James Keenan himself once said that a circle is a reflection of an eternity, forever going along the same path.
Only where too circles overlap may it create something different. A spiral. Tool is a band with millions of interpretations. This is just one. Whatever spirituality I have resides in music and mathematics. Thankfully tool is brilliant enough to combine them. I believe that it can be interpreted in many ways, i'm sure when Maynard wrote it he was probable thinking about reachin a kind of wholeness withing everything But I also believe he could have been thinking about an lsd trip because just like parabola it perfectly describes many things you exerience when you are on lsd, from the visuals to the reflections that come to your mind, to the awareness, even ego death is described in the song, and of course is the same thing with the music, if u ever get a chance listen to the song on lsd and i'm sure you'll understand it much better My interpretation of this song is how society evolved and how at first people only saw things one way, now they are seeing many different ways to judge.
The spiral is based on a never ending sequence of evolution in the mind, twisting the way we all think. Push the envelope, watch it bend When you push the envelope take heavy psychedelic drugs you see it bend.
You realize the envelope that you thought was reality is an illusion. The truth lies beyond it and you start to spiral out toward the truth.
You will never get to the end of this spiral you will continue to ride it for all eternity. My interpretation of the song is that we should stop leaving opportunities behind, stop worrying about life and just ride the spiral.
When babies are first born they can only see balck and white, then later in their lives they can see red and yellow. The basic underlying message is to let go and just take a ride, because like Bill Hicks says, that's what life is.
The last verse of the song to me seems to describe the euphoric feeling of truly living unconditionaly. But the flaw in my explanation is that Tool is, as my buddy told me, a tool that you can use to derive any meaning you choose. Well, this song for instant is a dare I don't know but it seems to reflect my daily thoughts ,honestly. I believe that something happened to me ,to a lot of people , in one-two years time ,I started noticing the smallest things yet asking the biggest questions ,which made me doubt in everything I believe in , and in every question branches of other more complicated questions and like millions of unsatisfaying answers.
This is what this song is all about,I think we're all in a verge of an upcoming general awakening , atleast is what we all hope ,when you notic the great things it either HURTS or SHOCKS,so black and white are all I see in my infancy has two meanings the scientific obvious one ,then the one when not unlightened people , don't see the whole picture just two colours which isn't sufficient red and yellow came to be reaching out to me now little by little one starts growing and developing getting the point of existence ,and let me see craving for more ,curiosity as below so above and beyond I imagine human potential is limited in 3 demensions drawn beyond the lines of reason one realises that human potential is UNLIMITED, and he's powers as a sum is irrational,like this people with extreme powers we wintess or hear about like DaVinci or Einstein and Mozart.
Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind: this whole making sense of it kind of proces is human nature ,this explanatory behaviors lead one to believe that the human being isn't a living physical being with intelligence and spiritual demensions,but a spiritual intellectual creature with a specific morphological privileges.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must : science has proven that human mind doesn't work spontaneoulsy , actually it's like a recorder , it anticipates events and figure out how to deal with that one possibility ,and when it occurs ,the mind handles it so very naturally , and that is often called intuition , and then there's the fate as some might call,and we hear now the whole LAw of Attraction Phenomenon about attracting what one wishes and the reverse is avoiding what might prevents you from getting there.
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines this one I think it means that each one of us is existing by coordination in a repere of time nd space ,so by being outside the line you can defy the repere like in timetravel or the whole Quantum Jumping frenzie and the theory of parallel Universes.. Reaching out to embrace the random. Reaching out to embrace whatever may come. I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow as I mentioned earlier that realising this much incredible possiblities can be either shocking or hurtful and one is naturally overwhelmed by this cosmic and divine intelligence if you will,human is an atom next to such natural or not so natural intelligence Genuis miracle to feel inspired, to fathom the power, so psychologically human always needs a superior, tend to believe in a much higher presence a superior creature or Creater.
With my feet upon the ground I lose myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in :is and existencial Dilemma, you're existing in a way that is common known you're here but you're just sucked in by this ideas and impossibilties. I'm reaching up and reaching out the physical body and the astral body ,the soul the being, the mind and the core..
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. Keep going, going. Get over it trolls. I think I'm gonna suicide. Goodbye World PS hey let me know what you think about this : Misunderst0od live. All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners. All lyrics provided for educational purposes only. What does Lateralus mean? Login Create Account. Tool : Lateralus Meaning. Tagged: No tags, suggest one.
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine drawn beyond the lines of reason. Push the envelope. Watch it bend. Over thinking, Aditya Eaturu 1 2 3 4 5.
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