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Music - Tool
Song - Jambi
Album - 10,000 Days
Video excerpts - The Separation
Directed by - Robert Morgan
Redirected by - Morgan Routt
"The Separation" Can be found on the Small
Gauge Trauma DVD.
-Jambi
I absolutely love this song, and I think I
understand the meaning pretty well. The first
verse is basically just saying that he's had
a good life. King's mountain view, wild dream
come true, treasures of flesh never few. He's
saying he lives a good life, at least with
respect to material possesions. Then he says
he'd give it all up to stay with "you". The
next verse says "the devil and his had me
down". This is trying to say that he got tied
up in the "dark side", or that his life had
gotten on a track that he wasn't proud of. He
says that "you" changed that all for him.
Saying that this "you" got him back on the
right track, meaning his mother? The third
verse seems to be about him "praying" and
"begging" to get out of the mess he was in.
"Tempted the devil with my song, and got what
I wanted all along." It seems like he's
saying he found a way out, or maybe that he
found happiness (what he wanted all along,
though in different forms?), Then he says
what I think is the most important line in
the whole song, "Dim my eyes if they should
compromise or fulcrum want and need. If I
need this I might as well be gone." With the
first sentence, he's saying he wants to "dim
his eyes" if they cause him to "compromise or
fulcrum want and need". Basically, he's
saying that there's a balance between want
and need, and if his eyes (greed) unbalance
them, he wants to ignore them to help him
stay on track. Then he says "If I need this I
might as well be gone." I think he means that
if the material possesions become what he
needs (instead of "you") then there's no
point in living anymore. "Silence legion,
save your poison. Silence legion, stay out of
my way." Basically, I think he's speaking to
the devil and demons saying that he doesn't
need them anymore because he's found what's
really important to him. The whole song seems
to be about being willing to give up all
possessions to keep what's really important
near you. In this case, I think it's his
mother, though that's really up for
interpretation as it doesn't seem to be
clearly stated.
-The Separation
This is the haunting story of two people who
had a very close relationship, as in they
were conjoined twins. In the beginning you
see how content the two are almost complete.
Then the operation seperates the two,
crippling one of them in more than one way.
The two feel so empty inside. They make toy
dolls and on accident one of the twins sews
two of them together and recalls a familiar
scene, and disturbingly get's an idea to fix
what haunts the two for good, to feel whole
again. They create the machine and the
machine does nothing but destroy further what
they had lost. Now left in a mangled mess the
two seem to await the day that they can
return to one.
I thought that the video told a symbolic
story version of the song Jambi and
interpreted what I believe to be the meaning
behind the songs lyric's
I think they went together rather
beautifly...
-Morgasmo
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