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Tool - Disposition Song Meanings

I think this words are related to the fact that all is connected in a systemic way, I mean that weather is a systematic process that works in cicles, like the other things in nature it has a pattern, and by watching it change we can change to, perceiving that we change to by watching our weather inside or our homeostasis in order to achieve an higher sense of self.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-11-30 20:15:05     Rating:

I have always seen this as Tool's version of a love song. The weather is symbolic of your mood (or disposition). Rainy is sadness, sunny is happiness etc. Just the mere mention presence of this person has the ability to alter his mood. He is admitting this persons affect on him. This is similar to APC's "Stranger" where he is formulating denials of your affect on me.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2005-12-16 14:49:01     Rating:

I agree with the first comment. I definitely think it is about the interconnectedness and power of perception; weather, people, the entire physical realm are all reflections of our soul. If you're feeling sunny, so will your environment.

Submitted by: infinitepaths
Added: 2006-01-21 23:47:59     Rating:

I honestly have listened to this song so many times that I have felt as if he were expressing experience through his journey of searching for any real answers. He speaks of the weather changing symboling "TIME". Time passes...still no answer...more time passes...nothing yet...etc. If you listen to him, he emphasizes more impatiance and despaire towards the middle end. You also can take into consideration the guitar, the music itself defines so much. Let the guitar touch you internally. Relax and feel his emotion through his words, DO NOT only read them, FEEL them, they sometimes define his meaning more accuratley. If it is too sappy for you, then goodluck with your own views, you seem to be doing...ummm...just fine. :)--KATE

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-04-11 18:07:35     Rating:

Umm.. I kind of agree with kate here, there is a strong feeling of 'time passing by' in the way he interprets the lyrics.
i also have a parallel view; I always pictured this as an expressed desire to hear something from the person you love, something so desperately needed that it could ultimately 'change weather', emphasizing the great effect those few words might have on you.
great song, great mood.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2006-06-09 00:47:32     Rating:

I think the song is about the chaos that will unfold in the future, he says "metion this to me" "watch the weather change" as in don't say I didn't warn you, watch the weather change and remind me that I told you that it would. Its really sad and scary at the same time because he sings it in a way that's not really getting the whole "haha I told you so" feeling out of him, that's not the point he's trying to get across. He's going to be dissapointed when "it" happens as well

Submitted by: keepgoingspiralout
Added: 2006-07-31 21:18:23     Rating:

Just a mellow song about how a persons mood can quickly change.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-01-21 23:20:16     Rating:

Kate is almost right

I think that this is about how Maynard and people like him that are bored....

this song directly follows Lateralus which is about pushing the limits, going to the edge....and Maynard is saying that he is bored that nobody is doing that,(pushing the edge) hence "mention this to me, mention something, mention ANYTHING" and "watch the weather change" (which doesn't happen very fast) so therefore he is bored with lackadaisical people that stay within the boundaries

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-03-14 20:09:22     Rating:

I noticed (after reading a few previous entries) that the words "mention something, mention anything" aren't addressed. I could see this portion of the song (when coupled with the longing emotion in Maynard's voice) as his pleading for something to change in this world. For something to affect him and make him feel alive. Mention it to him, let him feel alive.

Submitted by: justgiver
Added: 2007-03-27 02:26:49     Rating:

I don't think its complicated, just more of the fact that someone's feelings can change and it can be unpredictable just like the weather is and you don't control it.

Submitted by: keliev
Added: 2007-05-01 21:47:23     Rating:

well disposition is defined as a 'habit'. Like people before I also believe he is bored..but I think he is comparing living life as boring as watching the weather change...yeah pretty simple! btw I love this song!!

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-08-24 20:02:48     Rating:

I think that the weather changing might be a reference of this song linking directly into reflection (the next track on the album)
but once again I think Maynard has written a song that is interpreted however the person feels

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2008-02-05 19:45:38     Rating:

I think everyone is looking way too far into this. A disposition is just a common state of self for some individual. Some people's dispositions include angry, sad, happy, giddy, etc.

I think all Maynard is saying is that he really doesn't have a disposition. That is to say that he doesn't have a consistent mood, and that it's always changing.

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