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Lateralus song review

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Hi everyone! this is my first ever song review on my planet minecraft page, my song reviews are basically going to be me sharing my thoughts on a song and analyzing it abit. The song im reviewing today is Lateralus by the band Tool, a song that recently was brought to my attention by a good friend of mine, the song and the band in general are of the genre progressive metal, the song is from the album Lateralus and it is tools third album released.
Lyrics from a-z lyrics
"Lateralus"

Black then white are all I see
In my infancy.
Red and yellow then came to be,
Reaching out to me,
Lets me see.

As below, so above and beyond,
I imagine drawn beyond the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

Over-thinking, over-analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.

Black then white are all I see
In my infancy.
Red and yellow then came to be,
Reaching out to me.
Lets me see

There is so much more
And beckons me
To look through to these
Infinite possibilities.

As below, so above and beyond,
I imagine drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

Over-thinking, over-analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, leaving opportunities behind.

Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.
Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.

I embrace my desire to
I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected
Enough to step aside and weep like a widow
To feel inspired, to fathom the power,
To witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
To swing on the spiral, to swing on the spiral,

To swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.

With my feet upon the ground
I lose myself between the sounds
And open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.

I'm reaching up and reaching out.
I'm reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me.
Whatever will bewilder me.

And following our will and wind
We may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end
And may just go where no one's been.

Spiral out. Keep going. [4x]
I Personally really enjoy listening to this song, i think it has a really good sound to it and the lyrics have a deeper meaning if you think abit about them, the whole song is actually a prety outstanding piece of art, the song is based on the fibonacci sequence and also suggests that we should live our lives like the fibonacci sequence, if you dont know yet, the next number in a fibbonaci sequence is the last 2 numbers added together, just like 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 ->>
if we look at the first 2 verses, the sentences when broken up represents a number from the fibonacci sequence, going up from 1 to 8, then from 8 to 1, then from 1 to 13 and then from 13 to 3, I have made a list to illustrate it abit better under here.

(1) Black,
(1) then,
(2) white are,
(3) all I see,
(5) in my in•fan•cy,
(8) red and yel•low then came to be,
(5) rea•ching out to me,
(3) lets me see.
(2) There is,
(1) so,
(1) much,
(2) more and
(3) beck•ons me,
(5) to look through to these,
(8) in•fi•nite pos•si•bil•i•ties.
(13) As be•low so a•bove and be•yond I im•ag•ine,
(8) drawn be-yond the lines of rea•son.
(5) Push the en•ve•lope.
(3) Watch it bend.

The chorus suggests that we are over thinking and over analyzing too much in our lives, (just like if you need to find all of this in a song lol) and that we miss so many oppertunities if we just follow the line like everyone else and dont draw outside of the lines.

Later in the song he sings "To feel inspired, to fathom the power, To witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,To swing on the spiral, to swing on the spiral" which again is a reference to the fibbonaci sequence as if you map out all the points in a fibbonaci sequence it makes a spiral that keeps going further and further out exponentially, all going back to the idea of not living like everyone else and keep expanding your horizon, reaching further and further out.
Fibonacci spiral
Fibonacci
In the final verse he sings about riding the spiral to the end and ending up where no one has been, you may question yourself why this song is a whole 9 minutes and 30 seconds long, but thats the point of it all is it not? to not do everything like everyone else would.

I hope you enjoyed my first ever song review! if you did so then make sure to leave a comment with some feedback and maybe a diamond or favorite :)
my stream: https://www.twitch.tv/micknb
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02/08/2018 10:52 pm
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I never thought I'd see anyone post anything about tool on PMC. I love tool.
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02/20/2018 5:23 am
Level 43 : Master Engineer
mick_the_mine
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me 2, hope you liked it ^-^
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