ThreeDeviations
11-26-2002, 09:25 AM
First off, Intermission is the segue to Jimmy.
The sound of a carnival or circus is what you associate with childhood... and just general happiness/innocence.
The sudden, alarming and erie break in Intermission represents the sudden, unexpected change that occured in the author's childhood at age 11.
So everything went from being happy, peaceful and general carefree bliss of being 11 years old... to having something happen very suddenly that changed his (their) world.
As for the song Jimmy. Most people know it's a reference to Maynard "James" Keenan. "Jimmy" representing the youth of Maynard.
The actual song was incredibly written. It's Maynard talking to Jimmy. So you have to perceive the song as if it's two totally different people, even though they're both MJK....
Maynard asking Jimmy....
Jimmy, what was it like to see
the face of your own stability
suddenly look away?
...leaving you with the dead and hopeless.
Eleven and "she" (jimmy) was gone...
eleven is when we waved good-bye.
Eleven is standing still,
you're waiting for ME to free you by coming home...
Jimmy, you move me with a sound.
Opening me within a gesture.
Drawing me down and in, you're showing me where it all began, jimmy.
Jimmy, it took so long for me to realize that you hold the light that's been leading me back home...
(Maynard finally accepts that in order to heal... he must reconnect with jimmy.)
Under a dead Ohio sky,
Jimmy has been and will be waiting,
defending his light and wondering...
"Where the hell have I been?"
Jimmy, I've been sleeping, lost and numb...
but I am so glad that I have finally found you...
Now I am wide awake and heading home.
Hold your light, Jimmy.
Lead me through each gentle step by step
by inch my loaded memory.
Jimmy, I'll move to heal
as soon as my pain allows
so we can both move on together...
so hold your light...
jimmy, lead me through each gentle step by step
by inch by loaded memory....
Until you and me, are ONE.
So glow jimmy, glow....
I'm heading back home.
The sound of a carnival or circus is what you associate with childhood... and just general happiness/innocence.
The sudden, alarming and erie break in Intermission represents the sudden, unexpected change that occured in the author's childhood at age 11.
So everything went from being happy, peaceful and general carefree bliss of being 11 years old... to having something happen very suddenly that changed his (their) world.
As for the song Jimmy. Most people know it's a reference to Maynard "James" Keenan. "Jimmy" representing the youth of Maynard.
The actual song was incredibly written. It's Maynard talking to Jimmy. So you have to perceive the song as if it's two totally different people, even though they're both MJK....
Maynard asking Jimmy....
Jimmy, what was it like to see
the face of your own stability
suddenly look away?
...leaving you with the dead and hopeless.
Eleven and "she" (jimmy) was gone...
eleven is when we waved good-bye.
Eleven is standing still,
you're waiting for ME to free you by coming home...
Jimmy, you move me with a sound.
Opening me within a gesture.
Drawing me down and in, you're showing me where it all began, jimmy.
Jimmy, it took so long for me to realize that you hold the light that's been leading me back home...
(Maynard finally accepts that in order to heal... he must reconnect with jimmy.)
Under a dead Ohio sky,
Jimmy has been and will be waiting,
defending his light and wondering...
"Where the hell have I been?"
Jimmy, I've been sleeping, lost and numb...
but I am so glad that I have finally found you...
Now I am wide awake and heading home.
Hold your light, Jimmy.
Lead me through each gentle step by step
by inch my loaded memory.
Jimmy, I'll move to heal
as soon as my pain allows
so we can both move on together...
so hold your light...
jimmy, lead me through each gentle step by step
by inch by loaded memory....
Until you and me, are ONE.
So glow jimmy, glow....
I'm heading back home.