Big Fat Matt’s Motherfucking Revalation
By
Big Fat Matt
-a.k.a.-
Rev. Maynard
-a.k.a.-
Flynnnyrd Skynyrd
-a.k.a.-
To Live is To Die
-a.k.a.-
Harvester Of Sorrow
-a.k.a.-
The Fatness
-a.k.a.-
Flynn
-a.k.a.-
The BFM Bomb
-a.k.a.-
The Bubbanaut
-a.k.a.-
Matt Flynn
CH 1: My Fucking Revalation Bitches!
I will start with how I made my genius revelation. I was taking a shit in my basement, reading an old Game Informer. Then it hit me. I remembered the Holy Gift Reorder of Tool’s “Lateralus” and wondered how a Revalation like that was achieved. Suddenly I remembered the schism video, how it told a story. A story of 2 people, ending a schism between each other, becoming one. Then the other songs bring a relevance of sorts into this. I realized that this album told a story. A story of 2 people, who go from Bitter hate, to everlasting unity in a ‘heaven’ like state. The Following chapters will describe this story, and will serve as a backdrop for some intellectual bullshit.
CH. 2: The Grudge
This song is not only an excellent introduction to the album, but it is where the story starts, The story is of 2 people, and at the beginning, they dislike each other, they hold a GRUDGE against one another if you will.
“Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.”
Not only do they dislike each other, but it becomes evident that one has done something to anger the other. They cannot tolerate each other. They hold nothing but negativity against each other. However, this will change
CH. 3: Eon Blue Apocalypse/The Patient/Mantra
Though “Eon Blue Apocalypse” and “Mantra” are nothing but filler, “Eon” Fades into “The Patient”, which describes how the 2 people grow to tolerate each other more.
“Wait It Out
Gonna wait it out
Be patient (wait it out).
If there were no rewards to reap,
No loving embrace to see me through
This tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now.
Gonna wait it out…
…And if there were no rewards to reap,
No loving embrace to see me through
This tedious path I've chosen here,
I certainly would've walked away by now.
And I still may.”
Though they dislike each other, they have come to realize there may be rewards in such a relationship like this. That Trying to Find Something god in each other may work out for the better.
“Be patient.
I must keep reminding myself of this.”
They realize that they MUST find good in one another for them to survive and to be happy and therefore they must end the…
CH. 4: Schism
If you don’t know what a Schism is, I suggest you get a dictionary, then watch the video for this song. It will make sense. The 2 people, who realize that they cannot survive as 2 begrudging individuals, decide to end the Schism, and become a happy ‘couple’ if you will. The Reward that was spoken of in the last song is now discovered, and they realize what importance it holds.
“I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them tumble down
No fault, none to blame it doesn't mean I don't desire to
Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over.
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication”
The temple symbolizes the ‘Leaden Grudge’ (see lyrics to 'The Grudge') that has been disassembled and ‘turned to gold’. For so long, they held such a grudge (point the finger, blame the other), but now they realize that through their communication, they have broken down such ignorance.
“Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any
Sense of compassion
Between supposed lovers/brothers”
During the schism, there was no compassion, no communication, between the soon to be ‘lovers’. This is even better portrayed trough the video for the song.
CH. 5: Parabol
Parabol Holds little value to this theory; partly because it is my belief that it is part of parabola. Nonetheless, it gets its own chapter cause Kicks so much ass.
CH. 6: Parabola
Parabola describes the Gift that the 2 people receive through each other (see Ch‘s 1-4). The gift is that there is an afterlife of sorts.
“This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal
All this pain is an illusion.”
That there is an eternal spirit trapped in all of us, and that through death, that sprit is released into eternal bliss. They are each a little reminder that they may not be happy here, ‘in this body’ but they will be eternally happy in the afterlife.
CH. 7: Ticks & Leeches
Many Tool fans feel that Ticks & Leeches is positioned horribly on the album. I however disagree. This song Plays an important part in the story. The 2 people have found solace in each other; I will go as far as to say they love each other. However, another enters the relationship. A parasite. He takes from the 2 until they have no more to give, and eventually die.
“Suck me dry.
My blood is bruised and borrowed. You thieving bastards.
You have turned my blood cold and bitter,
beat my compassion black and blue.
Hope this is what you wanted.
Hope this is what you had in mind.
Cuz this is what you're getting.
I hope you're choking. I hope you choke on this”
This song is obviously in anger towards whoever did this to them. But the culmination of the story comes in the next song.
CH. 8: Lateralus
Lateralus is the culmination of the story, the eventual passing of the spirit from the body to the afterlife.
“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.”
Though they may have not achieved all they desired in their physical lifetime, they are eternal now, they can do what they want, (draw outside the lines).
“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”
Death in this case is a reward, which may seem odd, why they’re being told to “embrace the random”. “Cross the line” refers to the line between physical life, and eternal life.
CH. 9: Disposition
Disposition holds no meaning to my theory, but I believe it is as Parabol is, that is merely a part of the next song.
[/b]Ch. 10: Reflection/Triad[/b]
Reflection describes what the 2 experience in the afterlife. They discover one of Late comedian Bill Hicks’ theories, of a collective unconscious, that we are all one mind. If we are all that is, there can be no opposite, and if there is no negative, there is only positive.
“And you will come to find that we are all one mind
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable.”
So in this everlasting communal consciousness, the 2 people become one with existance, essentially becoming part of god.
Triad has no lyrics, and is merely a sonic continuation of reflection.
CH. 11: Faaip De Oiad
This song (yeap you guessed it) hold no purpose, except in its name. One will find that Is Enoch For ‘Voice of god’. And I will leave you with that.
CREDITS:
COMIC RELEIF:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...aynard&pl=true
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...d+tool&pl=true
Mr. Dimmer
Bill hicks Theory Appears On: ‘Relentless’
All thoughts Copyrighted by Matthew James Flynn.
Except for theory of death in CH. 7 copyrighted by Vincenzo Barone
I am not Tool. Vincenzo Barone is not Tool. I am in no way associated with Tool, and neither is Vincenzo Barone. We just love the music.
comments welcome