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Lyrics:
So glad to see you, well,
Overcome them, completely silent now
With heaven's help
You cast your demons out
And not to pull your h...
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ih8u2ho
April 10th, 2006 12:37PM
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What the guy above said is true for the most post. Just he was not as in depth as I'll be. The song is basically Maynard talking to either someone in real life directly or just about a recovering drug addict in general.
" So glad to see you well
Overcome and completely silent "
This is the beggining of the song it is Maynard saying he's glad to see the person doing well and the person overcame the drug addiction but the person isn't talking back.
Possibly because the person is ignoring him.
"Now with heaven's help
You cast your demons out "
These lyrics are basically saying with religion's help the person overcame his or her drug addiction. (The 12 step drug/alcohol program says to use God's help to cure yourself)
"And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends
To the dead "
This is Maynard saying sarcastically that he's not trying to take him off his new found spiritual ego trip or anything (which he really is) but a recovering alcoholic has to make amends with those he hurt (step 9) and he's curious how he can do that to those that aren't alive anymore.
Then he tells him:
"Recall the deeds as if they're all
Someone else's
Atrocious stories "
Which is Maynard saying the person did many atrocious things yet the guy doesn't seem to realize he was the one who did those bad things, he thinks of it as someone else doing the damaging things he in fact did.
"Now you stand reborn
Before us all
So glad to see you well "
But the guy is now reborn thanks to god so the past deeds don't matter to the guy apparently so Maynard sarcastically says so glad to see you well.
Then he goes back sarcastically saying yet again:
"And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you to the ground"
Which one can figure out.
"But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends
To the dead
With your halo slippin' down
Your halo slippin'
Your halo slippin' down
Your halo slippin' down
Your halo slippin' down
(I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends)
[repeated]
Your halo slippin' down
Your halo slippin' down to choke you now "
This is Maynard saying the guy is slipping as far as recovery. He's turning back to drugs and he's curious how he can go about making his amends in general now instead of his earlier saying just to the dead since one can't advance in the addiction program if they are doing drugs. And the last line saying his halo's slipping down to choke him is basically Maynard saying the guy has relapsed and his new found morality is gone.
3Libras
February 26th, 2006 04:54PM
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This song is about those people who have gone through a recovery program and are now holding themselves up on a pedastal as if they were never low. They give themselves a halo but it isn't very deserved. They seem to forget how horrible they were and how many people they hurt.
anonymous
July 21st, 2006 11:26AM
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The noose has been one of my favorite songs since the first time I heard it because it of course sounds incredible but also because of the duality of the lyrics. While I don't doubt that the song is about someone who recovered, I think that it also fits someone, like a military leader, who has made decisions that got people killed, and is being judged at the time of his death.
anonymous
August 22nd, 2006 11:29PM
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Of course no one can really know the true meaning behind the song, but I would like to throw my 2 cents in the hat:
i think it is about someone on death row who has committed countless murders and hurt many people. Now that this person is on death row he finds God and religion as so many often do. Maynard is using this song to convey the message that hiding behind religion does not forgive any of your past deeds (especially ones that hurt others).
I love the lyric "but I'm more than just a little curious how your planning to go about making amense to the dead?" its like Maynard is trying to force the fact that this person hurt someone and that there really is no salvation (god or otherwise) for the crimes they have committed.
I totally relate to this song in a big way. I find born-again's very very hard to believe. It's such a cop out to just say you believe in god. Just because god forgave you doesn't mean you aren't scum.
TheBrock
December 8th, 2007 01:44AM
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Someone, say who killed someone (4 children in a microwave, etc)or a druggy Who goes through psychiatric help/ rehab. They feel better and clean, but (and not to destroy their new found peace with themself) how will they make ammends to the people they injured with their crimes?
They think about them like it wasn't their fault, their doing. And they come back into society (He sarcastically states, I'm glad to see YOU well)
This doesn't even need to be about that. Just humans in general. We forgive ourselves for the harm we cause for others merely to make it easier for our selves, but we do nothing to make peace with the people we hurt in the first place.
anonymous
April 14th, 2008 07:58PM
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"So glad to see you well
Overcome and completely silent now
With heaven's help
You cast your demons out"
So glad you're well and you got saved
"And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends
To the dead
To the dead"
Not to pull you off your self righteous pedestal, but you are just saved. What are you going to do for Jesus?
"Recall the deeds as if they're all
Someone else's
Atrocious stories
Now you stand reborn
Before us all
So glad to see you well"
I'm glad you got saved
With your halo slippin' down
Turning back away from Jesus
anonymous
June 18th, 2008 10:35PM
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It's about religion. Why are they "making amends to the dead"? They could have did something wrong to him that makes him feel 'dead inside' (and are now sorry). Which is what Maynard sings in Bottom off Tool's Undertow album.
anonymous
September 21st, 2008 08:13PM
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Im going to agree with the person way above me. I believe this song is about a murderer on death row, the one I was specifically thinking of was a woman who brutally axe murdered some people, and her last words were that god had forgiven her, and that's all fine and dandy but god isn't the one she hurt, how is she gonna "make amends" with the dead? and that's it.
anonymous
October 23rd, 2008 09:03AM
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I am an atheist so don't think that my interpretation is biased in any way, I don't believe in Jesus or anything like that. But my interpretation of the song is that Maynard is seeing the second coming of Jesus Christ. He is saying that he is "glad to see him well....etc." The chorus is him telling Jesus that he's not trying to speak down to him or be anti-god but he wants to know how he's going to "make his amends" to the people who died and realized there is no heaven. I could be wrong and so could you...Maynard only knows.
anonymous
November 6th, 2008 09:11AM
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I believe all of them are very close to the point. But I see a certain vindictive side to the song also. Maybe not necessarily he's "glad to see the person is doing well" but more of a vindictive, sarcastic expression of they're failing attempt at turning around their ways or at least masking them. Also in the sense that "so glad to se you doing well, after you hurt so many" and also "I'm more than just a little curious at ow your planning to go about making your ammense to the dead" more so "After what you've done, it's beyond me how you will ever repent for your actions."
Picture someone that's gone through anger management. You look at the person so calm and cool looking, but you notice their eye twitch out of the rage built up - it's just a guise - "Your halo slipping down". A representation of the falsification of their "new" self.
anonymous
November 6th, 2008 09:16AM
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With regards to my previous post (the one direrctly above this). My guess is:
A murderer, or tyrannical leader (non in particular, or so it seems, although there seems to be a personal touch to the emotion in the vocals).
"Supposedly found God" but he can see through the facade.
A song of animosity and spite towards the person,
basically slapping the person in the face with words.
anonymous
December 25th, 2008 11:01PM
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Maynard says that this is about what he heard at a speech. The speaker said something to the effect of "Don't let your halo choke you to death when it's hanging there around your neck". He said this is about when people feel high and mighty because they beat their addiction. He is trying to let them know that even though they beat the addiction, they still can't forget all of the hardships they put themselves and other through. Beautiful song and one of Maynard's favorites.
anonymous
January 14th, 2009 11:30PM
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my interpretation: he is speaking to someone who "supposedly" turned their life around with the help of god or some form of deity (reborn before us all). now they are self righteous (on a cloud) so they may be judgemental of non-believers for not turning their life over to god which in turn makes them a hypocrite (halo slipping). how are you going to make your amends with the dead (a non-believer is considered to be "dead" in christ) when you are a fake? i think he pretty much told the person to go hang themselves with their "halo".
SpiralOut
April 27th, 2009 06:05PM
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I see hear and feel 'The NOose" as a general slam against those that turn to religion to overcome addictions, and then act like they are better than everyone else with the same problems. A person in recovery struggles daily, therefore, how can they possibly act they are better than anyone else. I think its the hypocrisy of it all that he is talking about.
Just like Oscar Wilde so eloquently put it: “The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity”
D.
pete1986
July 13th, 2009 12:46AM
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Surely this song is about people on a death sentence who turn to god? if you think about the lyrics with that in the back of your mind it is a totally damning song, and is so powerful and unanswerable. people that have killed or inflicted such an amount of pain on a person to be awarded the death penalty cannot suddenly turn to god and appear angelic and re-born. The line "...make your amends to the dead" clearly shows that no its all very well that these people turn to god and are "re-born" but there is no making up for what you have done, to take the life of another is unforgiveable and cannot be remedied by a suddenly dumb-founding realisation in god. I love the line "recall the deeds..." where you can imagine someone talking about what happened and being totally free from guilt as they whole heartedly believe that it was not them who caused all this pain, that it was their former self. Its so intelligently written to paint this picture of someone on death row falsly forgiving themselves for what they have done. "so glad to see you well..." shows MJKs view on the subject, in a blatantly sarcastic way. I'm not sure if there is a personal experience that he is drawing from, but regardless of this he should be commended on his ability to rouse such strong feelings towards a subject, he has done that so many times and has applied it to so many situations, love (3 libras) god and his mother (judith) classical stories (orestes) and even to the loss of self esteem and dignity over strippers (magdelena). I think the man is amazing, his grasp of language and emotion is only something that can come from self experience and his intelligence, and will be something that I don't think will ever be replicated.
as for the noose, it has to be about the death penalty and the prisoners finding of god, there is no other explanation I can see, unless I am very very blind.
t2klilt
August 7th, 2009 04:28PM
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this song is maynards interpretation of an optimist seminar that he attended. the modo was don't let your halo choke you. as in don't let your pride bite you in the ass
paulmicheal20
November 10th, 2009 03:48PM
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I have no idea but to me the song represents a sarcastic look at Jesus Christ. I get the recovering drug addict interp, but when he says that he says he's more than just a little curious how your plannin to go about making your amends...to the dead. He is saying that the people who have followed and believed in his "false" words are now dead and gone. Therefore not really sitting along side him in heaven or reaping any of those so-called benefits......MAYBE?
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