Tool: 10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2) Meaning
10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2) Lyrics
How we'd follow the path of the hero.
Boast about the day when the rivers overrun.
How we rise to the height of our halo.
Listen to the tales as we all rationalize
Our way into the arms of the...
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I enjoy after reading all these interpretations of Tool's songs, the song 10,000 days is actually a unusual one, after we read these lyrics we will probably understand why Maynard wrote this song, first off let's break it down, 10,000 days is the length his mother Judith Marie lived from when she was paralyzed 27.5 years, also we are forgetting an unusual fact about 10,000 days. The Vietnam war also did last for 10,000 days (27.5 years), now this raises many questions, what is the actual answer to this song? personally if you have gone to Tool's semi-official website (toolshed.down.net) click on 'opinions' and read what Maynard said in 1997, now after you read what is said, now we will have only our opinions of Tool's songs, and debate who is right and wrong, WE ARE NEITHER, we will never know what the real meaning is, but only what the song means to you, that is the true meaning.
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i think that was an awesome description of the song ...i just had to say that ...it was like you were reading my mind
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O.K. Tool is by far my favorite band. And when I first heard this song, I could tell how much emotion he felt with every word he sang. It is one of their best. When I heard this song live it completed me, it struck me on such a level that cannot be put into words. Yes, the song is about his mother. But the way it is written it can be interpreted in any way. You can apply it metaphriclly to your own life. It is different for everyone. That is what makes them such a good band. They tell the story and the listener can take it where ever he/she wants. Tool lets you preceve a whole new reality and out look on life. This song and new album was everthing I hoped and thought it would be.
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It's really interesting, now I have heard these songs it puts real perspective on a lot of Maynards other work, Tool and APC. After gaining a little bit of understanding about his mothers death and her partial paralysis during most of Maynards life, I listen to songs with a different form of understanding sometimes. I know, it would be foolish to assume all or many songs were influenced by what Maynard experienced from a young child growing up with what seems to be a painful situation, but it seems to radiate lyrically from a few songs in particular apart from the obvious. This is obviously deeply personal, and I thank Maynard for sharing this with his fans. It would take some courage I think, and as for me, I feel it has brought me closer emotionally to the music.
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Hi. I'm drew. I think, not positive, that the entire song is about maynard's mom. as I understand it, she died after a 27-year paralysis, which is the reason they named the album 10,000 days (27x365=~10,000). "wings for marie" and "10,000 days" are strictly about the death of his mother. listin to they lyrics, it makes a lot of sense.
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Alright...for a while now I've been wanting to write down what the lyrics mean to me...so...here's what I think...
"Listen to the tales and romanticize,
How we follow the path of the hero"
(self-explanatory...we follow god)
"Boast about the day when the rivers overrun,
How we rise to the height of our halo."
(when we feel like the world is coming to destruction, we finally begin to pray and suddenly believe in god so we can go to a good place)
"Listen to the tales as we all rationalize
Our way into the arms of the savior
Fading all the trials and the tribulations"
(we throw away our distress by producing a self-satisfying, but incorrect, idea that your savior will be there for you...no matter the sins...)
"None of us have actually been there,
Not like you..."
"Ignorant flippants in the congregation
Gather around spewing sympathy,
Spare me..."
(congregation-A group of people gathered for religious worship. flippant-Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness. fable believers)
"None of them can even hold a candle up to you
Blinded by choices,
hypocrites won't see"
"But enough about the collective Judas
Who could deny you were the one who illuminated
your little piece of the divine"
(judas-One who betrays another under the guise of friendship divine-Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred)
"This little light of mine it gives your past unto me,
I'm gonna let it shine,
to guide you safely on your way
Your way home..."
(his mother's faith is passed on to him...hoping she goes into a place which she believed in)
"Ohh, what are they gonna do when the lights go down
without you to guide them all to Zion?
What are they gonna do when the rivers overrun
other than tremble incessantly"
(people think that they know the works...but when something comes up that they wouldn't imagine, they aren't prepared to concieve the weight Zion-A place or religious community regarded as sacredly devoted to God)
"High is the way
but our eyes are upon the ground.
You are the light and the way
They'll only read about
I only pray Heaven knows
When to lift you out"
(we don't look to our god)
"10000 days in the fire is long enough.
You're going home..."
(27 years is how long Maynards mother was paralyzed, which is 10,000 days...)
"You're the only one who can hold your head up high,
Shake your fist at the gates saying,
'I have come home now!'"
(his mother deserves to go to heaven)
"Fetch me the spirit, the son and the father,
Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended."
(his mother)
"'It's time now!
My time now!
Give me my
Give me my wings!'...
Give me my (x5)
'Give me my own wings'"
"You are the light, the way, that they will only read about"
"Set as I am in my ways and my arrogance
Burden of proof tossed upon non-believers.
You were my witness, my eyes, my evidence,
Judith Marie, unconditional one."
"Daylight dims leaving cool fluorescence.
Difficult to see you in this light."
"Please forgive this bold suggestion:
Should you see your maker's face tonight
Look him in the eye
Look him in the eye and tell him
I never lived a lie, never took a life,
But surely saved one"
(saved Maynard's life through the passage of faith)
"Hallelujah,
It's time for you to bring me home."
blah...i'm still working on it...the more I read it...the more things come to me...but yeh...thats just in my eyes...
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