I really like it too. I'm just sad my brother never got a chance to listen to the new album. He would always want to borrow all my tool cds. He died almost a year to the day before the album release.
Descending slowly became my favorite song on this album. The more listens, the better it gets. It's a grower, for sure. I think on first listen, Invincible and Culling Voice were my favorites.
In my mind, this song has two separate but connected meanings. It is about extinction of the human race through our ignorance and apathy. Sort of a societal suicide perpetrated by our laziness. The second meaning takes on a much more personal tone. For me it is a call to action. To pull yourself out of the habit of just coasting thru life. To realize that existence is finite and precious and that you have the ability to change your trajectory. The sound of the ocean seems to represent the emptiness before birth and the emptiness after death. Just my two cents
I interpret it the same. Our collective laziness in the face of climate change/polluting. And, the ocean is like the earth outlasting the human infection.
This song is a perfect continuation, or new chapter following "Invincible". The previous track had to do with losing one's purpose in life as one grows older and coming to grips with that loss of one's identity and the futility of fighting time. This one is about living, fighting, and surviving the complacency we've found ourselves in: "Free fall through our midnight This epilogue of our own fable Heedless in our slumber Floating nescient we Free fall through this boundlessness This madness Of our own making" - all about living day to day in a fog, just moving forward but not really moving, living without any real purpose and without motivation. Just living... but that can only go on for so long before we come to a crossroads. When something dire happens, do we "Come, our end, suddenly, All hail our lethargy Concede suddenly" ? ...or do we "Sound our dire reveille Rouse all from our apathy Lest we Cease to be Stir us from our Wanton slumber Mitigate our ruin Call us all to arms and order" ? It's about choice... the choice to just lay down and die when things get tough, we become so apathetic that we don't care anymore about fighting... the other option is to get back into the fight and keep going: "Sound the dread alarm Through our primal body Sound the reveille To be or not to be Rise Stay the grand finale Stay the reading of our swan song and epilogue One drive to stay alive It's elementary Muster every fiber Mobilize Stay alive" This entire album has the most incredible lyrics, and the way the music pairs with the lyrics, definitely one of my favorite Tool albums.
Living in the mirror (the fact, truth) of impermanence, death - stasis.. Edit: ...death, stasis if we can't recognise the truth that everything is subject to impermanent and our mortality; life and eternity if we can recognise, reflect and form the intension to go beyond our confining habit and conceptuality was what i actually meant.
And, waking up to this truth, though liberating in essence, on the phenomenological, appearance level is totally uncomforting, disconcerting - descending in ascending.. Great channel this, getting into the message with the music too, thanks to Initum
Falling isn't flying: it takes conscious effort to fly...to fight to stay aloft, to expel energy to have control. But it takes no effort to fall... you can be asleep, be complacent and apathetic. Final thought: just coasting through life is different than striving to better one's self, showing effort to improve, or literally fighting for ones life against hardship...
@@medhead964 In order to change, first we have to recognise our precarious falling, fallen state and mentality before learning to fly - knowing and coming to embody our true natures; our divine spark returning to its source... Whether we truly live or stay in stasis hinges on this recognition, the reflection of our present state and glimpsing our authentic divinity through the mirror of our minds. For the most part the mirror is covered with dust, but occasionally, like in times of upheaval, personal crisis, or in transcendent psychedelic or meditative experience we can get a clear glimpse of our reflections and recognise our authentic natures and take our first steps to go beyond the illusory appearances, which are the product of confining conceptuality and habitual patterns, psychopathy even, the obscuring dust... Just my take..! Peace
I always felt that the waves at the beginning and end of the song stood for us as humans coming out of the primordial soup and then returning to it after we ruined ourselves. Adam Jones use of distortion is Godlike.
Always appreciate your effort and willingness to be open and thoughtful. I always took this song as a commentary on the devolution of modern societies around the world. All of us biting the hand that feeds us. Sleepwalking through life. The song is asking us to wake up. To find meaning and purpose in life. To reverse the lost, purposeless stumbling of our species. To work together and remember why life is beautiful - because it will end.
I love the bass solo/sound at 13:46. Thanks for making these great reaction videos. My cell phone will cause noise interference if it is sitting near the wires to my amplified stereo speakers. Cell phones put out a lot of electro-magnetic energy.
This always felt to me like how Jaybles interpreted it for himself. It felt to me that the intro was very whom like or if nothing else our rapid growth to "crawling out of the water as a species" and ultimately the death of our society and the personal death of "self". There is nothing quite like coming to the middle of life and realizing you had not lived (ála Henry David Thoreau) - this is where the sound the dread alarm into the primal body - is in a way the death knell of self or ones realization that our pettiness and self centeredness have pulled us down both as people and a soceity. I stumbled on this channel today after being reinvigorated by this album. Great work guys - you earned a sub!
I love your reactions! It's amazing to see how much you enjoy the beauty in Tool's music. Hopefully when you finish your journey you'll go down the entire MJK rabbit hole and go through APC and Puscifer's catalogues as well.
I think of it as a battle cry for those dealing with depression. I think the lyrics speak to motivating someone losing hope into rallying themselves to live and hold on. "Sound the reveille, to be or not to be (line from Hamlet in which Hamlet contemplates suicide)." "Stay the grand finale, stay the reading of our swan song and epilogue." (Don't end the story just yet.) "Mobilize. Stay alive." (Self explanatory.)
I have enjoyed the way you both dig into the meaning of their music. One thing I will say is I consider them the besst band of all times because of this right here... after listening to a Tool song you are always left interpreting yourself and the world around you in deep ways and from different angles. Why the somewhat hidden meanings are so incredible. Nobody else effects me this way and I feel the same way after every song and listening to them since 1993.
The part starting at 14:51 (in this video) is where this song really takes off. Spectacular guitar work from Adam integrating with the usual excellence from Danny and Justin. Just an amazing piece of musical art.
I think this is about our avoiding the damages of our own doings. Mindlessly going through life without heeding the ramifications of our actions, or lack thereof. It is a call for us to not be apathetic anymore, to pay attention, rise up and fight to not descend further into selfish and self-centered existence. To me the latter part of the song is symbolic of us awakening...
To not admit that we are selfish and self centered as all things in life and existence is a failing of humanity. The Universe is hostile, so impersonal... Life devours life. Life feeds on Life feeds on life feeds on life. Perhaps this song is more of a reminder that just like all civilizations and creatures, we too must end no matter how hard we fight it.
Initum you have two whole discographies of MAYNARD'S lyrics to look forward to. I can't wait for A Perfect Circle then Puscifer. After that I'd jump into Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.
I think you have that order backwards.... FLoyd and Zep should be listened to before any APC or Puscifer.... I mean come on... You are talking a second and third band compared to true masters of the art.....
It is incredible how 4 guys can make such music. Adam shreds, Justin grinds that bass, Danny and his never ending drum kit & percussion setup, then Maynard with his soothing yet hard vocals spitting lyrics we all analyze for years after. Absolutely my fav Tool song & I have so many.
@@whitejosh444 yeah, the final leg of the tour got wasted unfortunately. I missed out on 10th row in Miami myself. Hopefully they pick up where they left off! That was a great tour, having new material was a treat.
I thought the song was about living. Especially through the harsh times we live in and discovering the basic instinct of mental and physical survival. If anyone here doesn’t think Danny doesn’t beat the hell out of those drums they need to listen again. Better than pneuma.
Spot on on both points. I'd add that the drumming on 7empest and Chocolate Chip Trip - the whole of the album really - demonstrates the whole creative capacity and technical abilities of Danny - awesome. Same goes for all the perfectly complementary lyrical content - interconnected, interdependent aspects of the truth of the whole, imo. Tool's genius seems to be this resonance and synergy of the musicality and lyrical content in conveying their message of the urgency for tranformation, transmutation of consciousness individually and collectively. Just some thoughts, lol
Hi. The band has always explained how their belief sits in the idea that the spirit survives in some kind of way to the death of the body, so death in itself has always been seen to them as a transition, something that may be painful but not really that big of a deal in essence. Consequently the song is probably more about the end of a paradigm as a whole, the current crumbling and falling of our civilization. The 7empest about to wipe us all closes the album, mockingbird following just behind may be seen as the resurrection of nature once the human plague has mostly disappeared. It's a really beautiful, sad and depressing song, the call to arm and struggling to survive allow us to see some light piercing through the cracks of this tragedy though.
Welcome to TOOL'S rabbit hole, that's exactly how to listen to a TOOL song in its entirity, experiencing the music without pausing with the lyrics perfectly displayed...I think the song is about suicide "falling isn't flying" "floating isn't infinate" and a rally cry to the world to address mental health, please do pneuma, rosetta stoned, wings for Marie part 1 and 2 but research that one 1st and u will be rewarded
Suspect it could be connected to humanity sleep walking towards it's end, almost the counterpart to Aenima. Maynard's mentioned before about people 'not paying attention'. Falling isn't flying. Wake us from our wanton slumber. ie. Wake up before it's too late. ie. Apathy isn't an option. Change will happen regardless of whether we're ready or not ....so get ready.
It’s all about time. This album is 29 years after the first, Saturn returned. The planets aligned within Virgo when this released, Cronus devoured the stone..., it will be 29.5 years before human beings will experience this again. This goes beyond music, it’s Aristotle, it’s Goya, it’s beautiful. Pure genius.
sound the dread alarm, through the primal body ... !!!!!!!! i think its a call for humanity to wake the fuck up. and every reaction to this song and any other is valid.
I interpreted “falling isn’t flying” as ‘sure we can just have fun and not give a shit about anything around us because we don’t last forever’; which leads to hitting the ground eventually because there’s no control. Flying; you can raise or lower, or come down at a gentle angle so as not to crash, and later rise again.
Its both personal and individual and also on a species level. Its is up to all us how our fate will unfold, it is not up to one person. We are interconnected. Death isnt our ruin in this case, our ruin is all our failure to do the right thing...
This song to me is about a call to arms through our collective consciousness to the primal "body" of all of humanity to rise up now and act before it's too late. Not just to rise up off our couches and do something but to rise, ascend in our vibration/energy/spirit; for us to change now and ascend to the next density as our world shifts consciousness and shifts its actual position in the galaxy to one of higher electrical energy; the shifting between the age of Pisces and age of Aquarius. The saying goes "we are on this rock flying through space", or floating even. But floating isn't infinite as the movement of our planet is caused by gravity and electrical fields. The gravity of our sun, nearby planets, and each other star on to the center of our galaxy is pulling us as we fall through this space. Falling isn't flying, we will not float forever. If we want to fly and reach the infinite consciousness then we must wake from this slumber, wake from this lower vibrational matrix this world has us in and rise to stay alive, lest this be our swan song and epilogue. This reflects on not only the cosmic transition our planet is going through now, but the associated vibrational and spiritual change, to the current socio and political climate changing as globalism/communism/luciferianism tries to take over and the world's collective consciousness is beginning to push back and not consent! We may just be in earth's and humanities swan song, "to be or not to be". Will we rise, or descend?
I think you also have to think more simply, like most if not all of Maynard's lyrics, he puts meanings within meanings and leaves all up to interpretation. Perhaps this is a musing on the band itself, TOOL have been mute for so long and songs like Invincible and Descending could be a call to arms of the band itself, they are not young anymore and perhaps this could have been a last hurrah as they call it a day or.... as this song could imply, are the fans there for them, is there still enough enthusiasm from the fans for the band to continue. They are all in their 50's, Danny older than all of them... who knows.... but isn't that part pf the point of TOOL. I do so enjoy my Saturday night with you, always a pleasure to see a new listen to a worthy band putting their own way out into the world and see how they are perceived.
TOOL often uses Adams guitar as a vocal in their work. The main riff Adam plays in the second half I interpret as "the world's we still be so beautiful". Maynard stops signing halfway because mankind is dead.
Maynard is a veteran of the armed services. If you’re not incorporating the lens through which this type of experience forces you to look through, you’re missing a good portion of Maynard’s insight. Jmo.
I feel like the song is about living as a human, a human that realizes that banks arent on your side, a human that realizes the darkness that goes on in the world and still chooses to be a human and make the best of it
Her reaction, physically, is the perfect Tool reaction. You are in multiple groves depending on whos more prominent in the song or who you are paying attention to.
one could argue that Descending is about global warming. A call to arms to pay attention, stay our grand finale, mobilize to stay alive. The use of the ocean is almost a literal hint to this.
Fantastic. This is the most complex song of our simple time. But it's complexity isn't indicative of our time. Our time is over but we will survive. Remember to go a couple feet under stone to prevent the issues of most of the life ending problems of humanity.
I have many interpretations of this song. One of them being about climate change and the human species current negative effect on the earth. Particularly “falling isn’t flying, floating isn’t infinite” means we need to stop talking about saving the earth and actually start doing. Like we think we are so green and helping the earth but in reality we aren’t even close. Like “wake up, let’s get serious about this. The earth is going down a bad path, let’s help it while we still can.”
Maybe “falling isn’t flying “ means the speed of falling can imitate the feeling of flying. Flying conjures images of forward progressive movement. And falling is the obvious opposite. Not in just physical movements but thoughts and behaviors
The song is about climate change in my opinion. That’s why it begins and ends with the sounds of the ocean waves (the sea levels rising and destroying the earth). When I listen, i imagine maynard’s singing as the calm before the storm and the warning to take action before it’s too late. And then the instrumentals come in with Adam’s sliding guitar and it’s all the beautiful, chaotic destruction of everything around us.
Yeah that was my thought too. The lyrics fit the concept very well. At first there is the ignorance of the floating where we are unable to realize that our way of living is not sustainable. After that we have to come to terms with the new reality that we are in fact falling towards the "mess of our own making". Now we must come together to overcome the challenge before us. Because if we don´t there is no more us.
The line falling is not flying, with the title Descending and the song still going, if you are falling and you don't know where the bottom is the "stay alive" to me is a cheer me up.
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Every song on this album should have won an Emmy.
WTF! Hahahahahahaha
agreed
Them shits should have EGOTed!
😂
u mean a Grammy? :D
My absolute most favorite song in the album. And my favorite channel. Much love.
I really like it too. I'm just sad my brother never got a chance to listen to the new album. He would always want to borrow all my tool cds. He died almost a year to the day before the album release.
@@Syzygy77 I’m so sorry. I understand this.
Mine too
Descending slowly became my favorite song on this album. The more listens, the better it gets. It's a grower, for sure.
I think on first listen, Invincible and Culling Voice were my favorites.
Ha ! I had the same progression through the songs.
This may be my favorite Tool song....always so hard to say.
In my mind, this song has two separate but connected meanings. It is about extinction of the human race through our ignorance and apathy. Sort of a societal suicide perpetrated by our laziness. The second meaning takes on a much more personal tone. For me it is a call to action. To pull yourself out of the habit of just coasting thru life. To realize that existence is finite and precious and that you have the ability to change your trajectory.
The sound of the ocean seems to represent the emptiness before birth and the emptiness after death. Just my two cents
👆🏼this...absolutely my take on this song as well!
I interpret it the same. Our collective laziness in the face of climate change/polluting. And, the ocean is like the earth outlasting the human infection.
Perfect take 👌
The message is whatever speaks to you
There is no right or wrong
It is intended to be a “tool”
You’re both great!
Thank you 🙏
Crazy how many people don't understand this simple concept. Use as you see fit.
This song is a perfect continuation, or new chapter following "Invincible". The previous track had to do with losing one's purpose in life as one grows older and coming to grips with that loss of one's identity and the futility of fighting time. This one is about living, fighting, and surviving the complacency we've found ourselves in:
"Free fall through our midnight
This epilogue of our own fable
Heedless in our slumber
Floating nescient we
Free fall through this boundlessness
This madness
Of our own making"
- all about living day to day in a fog, just moving forward but not really moving, living without any real purpose and without motivation. Just living... but that can only go on for so long before we come to a crossroads. When something dire happens, do we "Come, our end, suddenly, All hail our lethargy
Concede suddenly" ? ...or do we
"Sound our dire reveille
Rouse all from our apathy
Lest we
Cease to be
Stir us from our
Wanton slumber
Mitigate our ruin
Call us all to arms and order" ?
It's about choice... the choice to just lay down and die when things get tough, we become so apathetic that we don't care anymore about fighting... the other option is to get back into the fight and keep going:
"Sound the dread alarm
Through our primal body
Sound the reveille
To be or not to be
Rise
Stay the grand finale
Stay the reading of our swan song and epilogue
One drive to stay alive
It's elementary
Muster every fiber
Mobilize
Stay alive"
This entire album has the most incredible lyrics, and the way the music pairs with the lyrics, definitely one of my favorite Tool albums.
Well put. Thank you
Living in the mirror (the fact, truth) of impermanence, death - stasis..
Edit: ...death, stasis if we can't recognise the truth that everything is subject to impermanent and our mortality; life and eternity if we can recognise, reflect and form the intension to go beyond our confining habit and conceptuality was what i actually meant.
And, waking up to this truth, though liberating in essence, on the phenomenological, appearance level is totally uncomforting, disconcerting - descending in ascending.. Great channel this, getting into the message with the music too, thanks to Initum
Falling isn't flying: it takes conscious effort to fly...to fight to stay aloft, to expel energy to have control. But it takes no effort to fall... you can be asleep, be complacent and apathetic. Final thought: just coasting through life is different than striving to better one's self, showing effort to improve, or literally fighting for ones life against hardship...
@@medhead964 In order to change, first we have to recognise our precarious falling, fallen state and mentality before learning to fly - knowing and coming to embody our true natures; our divine spark returning to its source...
Whether we truly live or stay in stasis hinges on this recognition, the reflection of our present state and glimpsing our authentic divinity through the mirror of our minds. For the most part the mirror is covered with dust, but occasionally, like in times of upheaval, personal crisis, or in transcendent psychedelic or meditative experience we can get a clear glimpse of our reflections and recognise our authentic natures and take our first steps to go beyond the illusory appearances, which are the product of confining conceptuality and habitual patterns, psychopathy even, the obscuring dust... Just my take..! Peace
"Falling isn't flying,
Floating isn't infinite"
Personally, one of the best tool phrases
I always felt that the waves at the beginning and end of the song stood for us as humans coming out of the primordial soup and then returning to it after we ruined ourselves.
Adam Jones use of distortion is Godlike.
I appreciate both of your interpretations very much. "Right" or "wrong" doesn't enter into my head at all. Love your channel.
Always appreciate your effort and willingness to be open and thoughtful. I always took this song as a commentary on the devolution of modern societies around the world. All of us biting the hand that feeds us. Sleepwalking through life. The song is asking us to wake up. To find meaning and purpose in life. To reverse the lost, purposeless stumbling of our species. To work together and remember why life is beautiful - because it will end.
Thank you
YES !
Initum you just have to love it every time Danny hits that GONG.
It’s electrifying!!
I bought this album the night it came out and when that gong hit I almost crashed my car on the way home it was so epic lmao
I love the bass solo/sound at 13:46. Thanks for making these great reaction videos. My cell phone will cause noise interference if it is sitting near the wires to my amplified stereo speakers. Cell phones put out a lot of electro-magnetic energy.
I watched this video twice in a row cuz this song makes me feel so better and I close my eyes. lol
This always felt to me like how Jaybles interpreted it for himself. It felt to me that the intro was very whom like or if nothing else our rapid growth to "crawling out of the water as a species" and ultimately the death of our society and the personal death of "self". There is nothing quite like coming to the middle of life and realizing you had not lived (ála Henry David Thoreau) - this is where the sound the dread alarm into the primal body - is in a way the death knell of self or ones realization that our pettiness and self centeredness have pulled us down both as people and a soceity. I stumbled on this channel today after being reinvigorated by this album. Great work guys - you earned a sub!
Adam Jones said this was his favorite song off the album.
I really enjoyed your reaction the wait was worth It , Descending has become the song of my life
I absolutely love this channel! Tool is my favorite band. If you ever get the chance I highly recommend seeing them in concert.
I love your reactions! It's amazing to see how much you enjoy the beauty in Tool's music. Hopefully when you finish your journey you'll go down the entire MJK rabbit hole and go through APC and Puscifer's catalogues as well.
I think of it as a battle cry for those dealing with depression. I think the lyrics speak to motivating someone losing hope into rallying themselves to live and hold on.
"Sound the reveille, to be or not to be (line from Hamlet in which Hamlet contemplates suicide)."
"Stay the grand finale, stay the reading of our swan song and epilogue." (Don't end the story just yet.)
"Mobilize. Stay alive." (Self explanatory.)
Yay! I love my Saturday's with you two! Last week was great! I can't wait for you to get into Descending
I always feel this song is a call to do something with your time "RISE" and "sound the dread alarm through our primal body" my favourite part
This song is so amazing to listen to on headphones .. Whole album is really but this an invincible to me are just out of control how amazing they are
I have enjoyed the way you both dig into the meaning of their music. One thing I will say is I consider them the besst band of all times because of this right here... after listening to a Tool song you are always left interpreting yourself and the world around you in deep ways and from different angles. Why the somewhat hidden meanings are so incredible. Nobody else effects me this way and I feel the same way after every song and listening to them since 1993.
I can't wait for TOOL to finally release all their albums on vinyl. One day, 13 years from now...
The part starting at 14:51 (in this video) is where this song really takes off. Spectacular guitar work from Adam integrating with the usual excellence from Danny and Justin. Just an amazing piece of musical art.
Initum you'll be blown away watching Danny. It's truly mesmerizing.
I think this is about our avoiding the damages of our own doings. Mindlessly going through life without heeding the ramifications of our actions, or lack thereof. It is a call for us to not be apathetic anymore, to pay attention, rise up and fight to not descend further into selfish and self-centered existence. To me the latter part of the song is symbolic of us awakening...
To not admit that we are selfish and self centered as all things in life and existence is a failing of humanity. The Universe is hostile, so impersonal... Life devours life. Life feeds on Life feeds on life feeds on life. Perhaps this song is more of a reminder that just like all civilizations and creatures, we too must end no matter how hard we fight it.
Masterpiece. Best song on the album.
One of the very rare reactors I give a like before even listening to the video. :)
Initum you have two whole discographies of MAYNARD'S lyrics to look forward to. I can't wait for A Perfect Circle then Puscifer. After that I'd jump into Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.
I think you have that order backwards.... FLoyd and Zep should be listened to before any APC or Puscifer.... I mean come on... You are talking a second and third band compared to true masters of the art.....
The noise is an interference from your cell phones.... just put them far from your equipment and that shall fix it. You’re welcome 😉.
Throw in at least a pinch of Rush.
OH YES THE TIME HAS COME! I'm grabbing my popcorn
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yessssss!!!! My favorite Tool song of them all!!!!!!
How many Saturday's has it been!?! & still I can't wait for next Saturday 😂 love the channel, thanks for sharing 🤙
Y'all are gonna be listening to culling voices on my birthday! Can't wait for it 🙃
It is incredible how 4 guys can make such music. Adam shreds, Justin grinds that bass, Danny and his never ending drum kit & percussion setup, then Maynard with his soothing yet hard vocals spitting lyrics we all analyze for years after. Absolutely my fav Tool song & I have so many.
I was lucky to catch this song twice live in 2019. Now I can Descend content.
I was supposed to see them love for a third time on March but was cancelled :(
@@whitejosh444 yeah, the final leg of the tour got wasted unfortunately. I missed out on 10th row in Miami myself. Hopefully they pick up where they left off! That was a great tour, having new material was a treat.
Same Philly and Atlantic City ! One of the best weeks
@@sammedina970 Lexington and Cincy, what a show!
"Stir us from our wanton slumber" the theme for the 2020s.
I thought the song was about living. Especially through the harsh times we live in and discovering the basic instinct of mental and physical survival. If anyone here doesn’t think Danny doesn’t beat the hell out of those drums they need to listen again. Better than pneuma.
Danny is on fire in this song. Love it when he uses his Gong.
That Gong hit give me goose flesh every damn time
Spot on on both points. I'd add that the drumming on 7empest and Chocolate Chip Trip - the whole of the album really - demonstrates the whole creative capacity and technical abilities of Danny - awesome. Same goes for all the perfectly complementary lyrical content - interconnected, interdependent aspects of the truth of the whole, imo. Tool's genius seems to be this resonance and synergy of the musicality and lyrical content in conveying their message of the urgency for tranformation, transmutation of consciousness individually and collectively. Just some thoughts, lol
This was my interpretation. This song is a warning. Wake up and take action or perish.
I saw them at the O2 in London later year and during this song, Adam and justin's use of the pedal boards was really something.
Falling isn't flying is kind of self-explanatory, flying is controlled whilst falling is not
"That's not flying....it's falling with style!" - Woody to Buzz Lightyear
I go back and forth with my favorite on this album. This song and Invincible lol
One of the best pieces of music ever written.
Hi. The band has always explained how their belief sits in the idea that the spirit survives in some kind of way to the death of the body, so death in itself has always been seen to them as a transition, something that may be painful but not really that big of a deal in essence. Consequently the song is probably more about the end of a paradigm as a whole, the current crumbling and falling of our civilization. The 7empest about to wipe us all closes the album, mockingbird following just behind may be seen as the resurrection of nature once the human plague has mostly disappeared. It's a really beautiful, sad and depressing song, the call to arm and struggling to survive allow us to see some light piercing through the cracks of this tragedy though.
Last Year of last Decade brought the finest Piece of Music of the 10s, It will echos like the Ocean
OMG this song is moved into my top five.
Sure love that serious look when the music hits you
Welcome to TOOL'S rabbit hole, that's exactly how to listen to a TOOL song in its entirity, experiencing the music without pausing with the lyrics perfectly displayed...I think the song is about suicide "falling isn't flying" "floating isn't infinate" and a rally cry to the world to address mental health, please do pneuma, rosetta stoned, wings for Marie part 1 and 2 but research that one 1st and u will be rewarded
Suspect it could be connected to humanity sleep walking towards it's end, almost the counterpart to Aenima. Maynard's mentioned before about people 'not paying attention'. Falling isn't flying. Wake us from our wanton slumber. ie. Wake up before it's too late. ie. Apathy isn't an option. Change will happen regardless of whether we're ready or not ....so get ready.
Reads TooL on the title: Like first, watch later...
I get so lost into this song every time. Almost swimming through space 😍
I 100% agree with HIS interpretation of the song. Dead on, bro.
My favourite song. For me, this song makes me feel like I am going into battle, the struggle going into battle.
This is definitely one of my favorites... great video!
great reaction, amazing contemplation. Subbed!
Easily my favorite track on this album
It’s all about time. This album is 29 years after the first, Saturn returned. The planets aligned within Virgo when this released, Cronus devoured the stone..., it will be 29.5 years before human beings will experience this again. This goes beyond music, it’s Aristotle, it’s Goya, it’s beautiful. Pure genius.
Zep, Floyd, Rush, eat your heart out
Opiate came out in 92...
@@sacredcow024 tool formed in 1990 And what became opiate was first recorded and "released" in 1991. Major record label debut was 92 tho.
The. Best. Tool. Song. Ever.
sound the dread alarm, through the primal body ... !!!!!!!! i think its a call for humanity to wake the fuck up. and every reaction to this song and any other is valid.
My take: Humans need to get their collective acts together regarding climate change, racism, wealth inequality, etc, or we are doomed as a species
I got about the same interpretation as him, in that it's referring to us as a group.
Ode to Jimi Hendrix at the end. Well done Adam.
I interpreted “falling isn’t flying” as ‘sure we can just have fun and not give a shit about anything around us because we don’t last forever’; which leads to hitting the ground eventually because there’s no control. Flying; you can raise or lower, or come down at a gentle angle so as not to crash, and later rise again.
My interpretation of album is,there is pandemic,live with your spirit ,fight,we will fall,and rise again
Its both personal and individual and also on a species level. Its is up to all us how our fate will unfold, it is not up to one person. We are interconnected. Death isnt our ruin in this case, our ruin is all our failure to do the right thing...
This is Tool's Stairway to heaven......
This song to me is about a call to arms through our collective consciousness to the primal "body" of all of humanity to rise up now and act before it's too late. Not just to rise up off our couches and do something but to rise, ascend in our vibration/energy/spirit; for us to change now and ascend to the next density as our world shifts consciousness and shifts its actual position in the galaxy to one of higher electrical energy; the shifting between the age of Pisces and age of Aquarius. The saying goes "we are on this rock flying through space", or floating even. But floating isn't infinite as the movement of our planet is caused by gravity and electrical fields. The gravity of our sun, nearby planets, and each other star on to the center of our galaxy is pulling us as we fall through this space. Falling isn't flying, we will not float forever. If we want to fly and reach the infinite consciousness then we must wake from this slumber, wake from this lower vibrational matrix this world has us in and rise to stay alive, lest this be our swan song and epilogue. This reflects on not only the cosmic transition our planet is going through now, but the associated vibrational and spiritual change, to the current socio and political climate changing as globalism/communism/luciferianism tries to take over and the world's collective consciousness is beginning to push back and not consent! We may just be in earth's and humanities swan song, "to be or not to be". Will we rise, or descend?
So many WOW in one song? With TOOL it is not problem 😊 And the ocean? Life itselfs began in the ocean.
I think you also have to think more simply, like most if not all of Maynard's lyrics, he puts meanings within meanings and leaves all up to interpretation. Perhaps this is a musing on the band itself, TOOL have been mute for so long and songs like Invincible and Descending could be a call to arms of the band itself, they are not young anymore and perhaps this could have been a last hurrah as they call it a day or.... as this song could imply, are the fans there for them, is there still enough enthusiasm from the fans for the band to continue. They are all in their 50's, Danny older than all of them... who knows.... but isn't that part pf the point of TOOL. I do so enjoy my Saturday night with you, always a pleasure to see a new listen to a worthy band putting their own way out into the world and see how they are perceived.
TOOL often uses Adams guitar as a vocal in their work. The main riff Adam plays in the second half I interpret as "the world's we still be so beautiful". Maynard stops signing halfway because mankind is dead.
Maynard is a veteran of the armed services. If you’re not incorporating the lens through which this type of experience forces you to look through, you’re missing a good portion of Maynard’s insight. Jmo.
Your right! Life born in the sea and ends there.
At the start of the short intro song there was hints of the main theme from Descending.....
I feel like the song is about living as a human, a human that realizes that banks arent on your side, a human that realizes the darkness that goes on in the world and still chooses to be a human and make the best of it
Her reaction, physically, is the perfect Tool reaction. You are in multiple groves depending on whos more prominent in the song or who you are paying attention to.
one could argue that Descending is about global warming. A call to arms to pay attention, stay our grand finale, mobilize to stay alive. The use of the ocean is almost a literal hint to this.
maynard channeling thesaurus energy on this one
Fantastic. This is the most complex song of our simple time. But it's complexity isn't indicative of our time. Our time is over but we will survive. Remember to go a couple feet under stone to prevent the issues of most of the life ending problems of humanity.
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These lyrics really get me too. I am hearing a song about the next American civil war. Cheers.
Damn Falling isn't flying... Lot's of meaning behind this simple statement.
My interpretation of the whole album is about life and death.
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In my opinion. This song is as epic as lateralus
I have many interpretations of this song. One of them being about climate change and the human species current negative effect on the earth. Particularly “falling isn’t flying, floating isn’t infinite” means we need to stop talking about saving the earth and actually start doing. Like we think we are so green and helping the earth but in reality we aren’t even close. Like “wake up, let’s get serious about this. The earth is going down a bad path, let’s help it while we still can.”
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Maybe “falling isn’t flying “ means the speed of falling can imitate the feeling of flying. Flying conjures images of forward progressive movement. And falling is the obvious opposite. Not in just physical movements but thoughts and behaviors
Gotta do "7empest" next
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The song is about climate change in my opinion. That’s why it begins and ends with the sounds of the ocean waves (the sea levels rising and destroying the earth). When I listen, i imagine maynard’s singing as the calm before the storm and the warning to take action before it’s too late. And then the instrumentals come in with Adam’s sliding guitar and it’s all the beautiful, chaotic destruction of everything around us.
I feel like this song is literally what Jonah's conclusions were when the whale spat him out :)
Yeah that was my thought too. The lyrics fit the concept very well. At first there is the ignorance of the floating where we are unable to realize that our way of living is not sustainable. After that we have to come to terms with the new reality that we are in fact falling towards the "mess of our own making". Now we must come together to overcome the challenge before us. Because if we don´t there is no more us.
That riff
If you want to look into the background of this song, check out this video: th-cam.com/video/AbnrDbbfyxE/w-d-xo.html
Think of spirit descending into matter.
It's about growing old and losing your place in life
The line falling is not flying, with the title Descending and the song still going, if you are falling and you don't know where the bottom is the "stay alive" to me is a cheer me up.
I think it is about humans destroying themselves
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