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fivenichols
01-05-2007, 03:58 AM
Here's my idea. To me it sounds like a relationship and how someone might be afriad to enter a relationship. The snake represents all your past regrets or mistakes and your blood represents your new feelings. With that said...

What's coming through is alive,
what's holding up is a mirror
but what's singing songs is a snake
looking to turn this piss to wine.

(You're feeling something new, it makes you feel alive
but you can't seem to move past yourself
and you constantly think of your past relationships and mistakes
but it doesn't seem all that bad yet.)

They're both totally void of hate,
but killing me just the same.

(The mirror and snake are totally void of hate, they don't seem bad
but they're killing you just the same.)

The snake behind me hisses
what my damage could have been.
My blood before me begs me
to open up my heart again.

(Your past relationships constantly tell you
what damage a new relationship could bring.
Your new feelings beg you
to open up and feel again.)

And I feel this coming over like a storm again.
Considerately.

(This has happened before, so you feel it coming over again.
Considerately.)

Venomous voice tempts me,
drains me, bleeds me,
leaves me cracked and empty.
Drags me down like some sweet gravity.

(Your regrets tempt you not to enter a relationship,
they drain you, bleed you,
leave you cracked and empty.
They make you depressed.)

The snake behind me hisses
what my damage could have been.
My blood before me begs me
to open up my heart again.

(Your past relationships constantly tell you
what damage a new relationship could bring.
Your new feelings beg you
to open up and feel again.)

And I feel this coming over like a storm again.

(This has happened before, so you feel it coming over again.)

I am too connected to you to
slip away, to fade away.
Days away I still feel you
touching me, changing me,
and considerately killing me.

(Self explanatory.)

Without the skin,
beneath the storm,
under these tears,
the walls came down.

(By yourself,
while you're not depressed,
when you feel alone,
the walls came down.)

And the snake is drowned and
as I look in his eyes,
my fear begins to fade
recalling all of those times...

(You think you've moved on and
as you think about it
your fear begins to fade
recalling all of those times...)

...I could have cried then.
...I should have cried then.

(Self explanatory.)

And as the walls come down and
as I look in your eyes
my fear begins to fade
recalling all of the times
I have died
and will die.
It's all right.
I don't mind.

(And as the walls come down and
as you look in my eyes
your fear begins to fade
recalling all of the times
you have died emotionally
and will die emotionally.
It's all right.
You don't mind. You've moved on.)

I am too connected to you to
slip away, to fade away.
Days away I still feel you
touching me, changing me...

(Self explanatory.)

...and considerately killing me.

(But you're still not sure.)



Just wanted to share... The only reason I can think (that ties with this idea) that the title is "H." is becuase this person might feel like they are going through emotional hell, H. stand for Hell. But of course this is just on my own whim.

toolrox19
01-05-2007, 07:43 PM
thats great thats just how i think of it but a little more love and my personal expericencs in there but, yeah great job man. i have always wanted to post or write my own interpretation but could never find the right words this is like how i would write mine

JAF
01-16-2007, 05:08 PM
I also agree.
I see the snake as the negative side of one's self. How it's always there and hissing what 'could' happen and all the 'what if' situations. Then, how it's not until the snake is drowned can a person truely unlock their full potential. The snake is also consideratly killing me because, on the outside, it would seem as though the snake (your negative side) is just looking out for you, it hisses 'what my damage could of been.' So basically, H is, to me, a song about rising above yourself, your greatest foe. This ties into a relationship because a relationship can't live up to what it can be with all the restraints of negativity.

hushypushy
01-16-2007, 10:00 PM
I like your interpretation, and I like how you phrased it ("what it means to me"). I just hate how people like to make comments on everyyyyy lyric.

ween69
01-17-2007, 10:25 AM
i always thought this song was about scag

amenorakumo
01-17-2007, 12:34 PM
yea my interpretation changes daily; here's one idea: what's coming through is alive (his words are living, changing ideas. Mirrors for humanity, for me.) but you can't pin it down, of course, it is alive. what a good phrase watch the weather change!

opiated
01-17-2007, 01:14 PM
I like your interpretation. Mostly because that's the same feeling and the same personal significance I've gathered from "H."

Gently
01-20-2007, 12:38 PM
this is a Great interpretation, it makes me sad- because of the reflection it somehow forces me to endure:

i cannot help but remember the pain that has brought me to this moment
and i am so scared to try again....i relate to this greatly..

H. is my fav. song from this cd, so many memories


its somewhat...sweetly macabre.

Mattywasaracecardriver
01-23-2007, 07:58 AM
This idea seems to be backed up by the song the whole way through, even though i think there are many more enterpretations of this song, this one is really good. Ive found that most of my favourite Tool songs are to do with relationships, or with me they are anyway.