Because Third Eye originally appeared on Aenima, I should have probably posted this there, but because I like the live version better, I decided to post it here.
Go live.
During "Shrouding all the ground around me....is this holy crow above me...." vocals (by far my favorite part of any tool song, and perhaps the most powerful statement of any song), what is Maynard really trying to say?
When you leave your body, the first thing you notice is that there is no ground.
The second bit is wordplay, methinky, like ''holy crow!'' , or the wonders of your inner perspective and how it relates to the outer world you just left.
But crow could also symbolise a birds-eye view of this, deeper reality (i.e. God: all-transcending, all-present), but i doubt it.
Funny, i completely disagree with everything you just wrote, but i know you're right.
Until i met my wife, i was basically a 22 year veteran of being the grumpiest motherfucker on the block.
Without saying a word about it, she affected something in me: the grow the fuck up codon.
I never though about it until just now, but you're right. She is helping me get rid of the cold logic, because love makes you emotion-drunk.
Shrouding all the ground around me Is this holy crow above me.
A crow is usually like, an omen of death. Holy crow is a referance to God and how it probably was casting, not exactly a shadow, but cramped anxiety that he can't get away from. He wants answers. It's like, all these questions about God are kind of getting to his head. He can't stop thinking about them . . .
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Originally Posted by lllvllledusa
I think the Third Eye is about people who constantly use psychedelics to open their third eye. They are so happy to see the third eye, but when the psychedelic starts to wear off their third eye closes and people figure that the only way that they can open it again is to keep taking psychedelics (pry open their third eye). I believe the point of the song was to point out that you should only have to use a psychedelic once responsibly to get a glimpse of the third eye chakra so that you can understand that there is more to life then only hanging around the will/ego chakra and that you should try to open your third eye without drugs. If you just constantly pry open your third eye then youre never really going to move from the will/ego chakra that the psychedelic brings you back to. If you find a way or go down specific paths to open your third eye without drugs then the third eye isnt going to be running away from you this time.