ParanoidMartyr
05-15-2003, 11:00 PM
i find quite difficult to comment in a song like this, that has no direct refferent to hang on (unlike third eye where everybody is talking about buddhism and chakras) and stays in the very abstract plane.
anyway, what i wanted to share is that Bottom could be the first song that takes the adaptation motive that eventually resurrects in aenema as stinkfist (more oriented to the consumism) and in lateralus almost in every song as verses or elements (from "hang on or bu humbled again" to "watch the weather change").
what really moves me about the song is the duality of it. consider that it is composed mainly by two parts: the 'feeling ugly' one and the reaction to it. ironically, the rhythm and the melody itself draw the first part as a more violent, anguish one, and the secong as a slow, reflective one.
this part, the spoken one, kinda reminds me to the bill hicks abstracts in other songs. it certainly sounds like the total opposite of a selfsteem speech.
that would turn Bottom into almost two separate songs in terms of intensity of music and way of facing the same issue.
what i see at the end is that recognizing himself as dead is a progression -believe it or not-: it may be a spiritual death, or resignation to his constitution as a falible human; yet he is strong enough to fight for it, for the vulnerability, "by making weapons out of his imperfections". wouldn't this be the most perfect way of adaption at a difficult situation? this turns him probably into the strongest one because neither the negative side nor the positive side hurts -he's dead inside!-, thus making him able to live from the hatred and the rest of the things as said at the end. it is the bottom of life, yes, but at least he won't fall again as said in Sober -"I will work to elevate you just enough to bring you down"-.
anyway, what i wanted to share is that Bottom could be the first song that takes the adaptation motive that eventually resurrects in aenema as stinkfist (more oriented to the consumism) and in lateralus almost in every song as verses or elements (from "hang on or bu humbled again" to "watch the weather change").
what really moves me about the song is the duality of it. consider that it is composed mainly by two parts: the 'feeling ugly' one and the reaction to it. ironically, the rhythm and the melody itself draw the first part as a more violent, anguish one, and the secong as a slow, reflective one.
this part, the spoken one, kinda reminds me to the bill hicks abstracts in other songs. it certainly sounds like the total opposite of a selfsteem speech.
that would turn Bottom into almost two separate songs in terms of intensity of music and way of facing the same issue.
what i see at the end is that recognizing himself as dead is a progression -believe it or not-: it may be a spiritual death, or resignation to his constitution as a falible human; yet he is strong enough to fight for it, for the vulnerability, "by making weapons out of his imperfections". wouldn't this be the most perfect way of adaption at a difficult situation? this turns him probably into the strongest one because neither the negative side nor the positive side hurts -he's dead inside!-, thus making him able to live from the hatred and the rest of the things as said at the end. it is the bottom of life, yes, but at least he won't fall again as said in Sober -"I will work to elevate you just enough to bring you down"-.