anonymous December 13th, 2008 03:20PM  
This song has 2 meanings one being the one about god and one I have thought of. I think it is talking right from wrong and correcting the wrong that's in the world. It says "gonna wait it out" representing the people who see evil but don't do anything about it. It says "the tedious path I've chosen" and "no warming embrace to see me through" these talk about the one who tries to correct evil. It may be hard and there may be no "warming embrace" and everyone may be against him/her but they still have to do whats right.

thedanantenna February 3rd, 2009 09:22PM  
to me, this song seems to represent how maynard feels about still being in a band after so long. he has to keep reminding himself that it's worth it to wait out the bad parts where nobody seems to understand what he's trying to say. he's trying to heal those he has met along the tedious path of being a frontman in a successful band like tool. he knows there are listeners who will just let his words go in one ear and out the other, which i can imagine would be quite tedious to deal with day in and day out, but there are others that go a step further and try to gain something from what he has to say, and that is the reward that he gets by sticking it out.

anonymous April 2nd, 2009 12:40AM  
Well to me it relates to depression and the struggle of wanting to just curl up and die and using the strength of your close loved ones to see you through.Ultimately we all choose our own path in life and that the struggle is never really over.

anonymous June 23rd, 2009 11:50PM  
I like to think the meaning of this song is about the experience we have living in the physical reality we create. We choose to be here, and if there wasn't a reason, a contribution to something, we wouldn't continue existing in this materialistic reality. All matter is only an illusion, but we find ourselves here being tested by this existance. We need to be patient, we need to transmit and receive love before we can become more aware and move on to a higher consciousness. Thats the meaning I get out of it, even though other interpretations are pretty insightful and probably make more sense than mine. But thats how I like to think of it.

anonymous June 30th, 2009 10:14PM  
From my point of view this song is about keeping it together threw hard times waiting for things to get better that's what I think anyway

anonymous July 24th, 2009 01:04PM  
Uhh this songs seems to be about being patient.. That's about it!

anonymous February 1st, 2010 01:50PM  
this song is about spiritual acenssion if this life was seemingly a random occurance and there is nothing more after this temporary materialistic exsistance he would have walked a way. the tedious path is through meditation. life is so wonderful n confusing that he may just still go,

anonymous February 23rd, 2010 06:12AM  
im thinking there's something to do with his mothers sickness, and what she went through. perhaps mjk asking, through his mothers perspective, how this could happen to someone who was such a devote church goer. maybe?