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The accuracy of these lyrics is up for debate.

"Jambi" by Tool wrote:

"Jambi"

Here from the king's mountain view
Here where the wild dream come true
Feast like a sultan I do
On treasures and flesh, never few.

But I, I would wish it all away.
If I thought I'd lose you just one day.

The devil and his had me down,
in love with the dark side I'd found.
Dabble in all the way down
up to my neck soon to drown.

But you changed that all for me.
Lifted me up, turned me round.
So I...
I...
I...
I...
I would
I would
I would
Wish this all away

Prayed like a father dusk to dawn.
Beg like a hooker all night long.
Tempted the devil with my song.
And got what I wanted all along.

But I,
And I would,
If I could,
And I would,
Wish it away,
Wish it away,
Wish it all away,
Wanna wish it all away,
No prize that could hold sway,
Or justify my giving away,
my center.

So if I could I'd wish it all away.
If I thought tomorrow would take you away.
You're my peace of mind, my all, I said
I'm just trying to hold on,
One more day.

Dim my eyes...
Dim my eyes...

Dim my eyes if they should compromise
our fulcrum what you need divides me then
I might as well be gone.

Shine on forever.
Shine on benevolent son.

Shine upon the broken.
Shine until the two become one.

Shine on forever.
Shine on benevolent son.

Shine on upon the severed.
Shine until the two become one.

Divided I'm withering away.

Divide and I'm withering away.

Shine on upon the many, light our way
Benevolent son.

Breathe in union.
Breathe in union.
Breathe in union.
Breathe in union.
Breathe in union.
So as one survive.
Another day and season.

Silent legions, save your poison.
Silent legions, stay out of my way.

I naturally translated the 'benevolent sun' to be the many pure beings of light who willfully incarnate bringing a higher frequency in order to help those who have temporarily forgotten 'the way'.

. . . people say I read too far into things.

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live k-os performance with guitar and tabla (?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_hiJc9f … earch=k-os

i diggit

... checking out the mirror of relationship ...

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Re: The Music Thread

Xenopope wrote:
Tool wrote:

Dim my eyes if they should compromise
our fulcrum what you need divides me then
I might as well be gone.

Shine on forever.
Shine on benevolent son.

Shine upon the broken.
Shine until the two become one.

Shine on forever.
Shine on benevolent son.

Shine on upon the severed.
Shine until the two become one.

Divided I'm withering away.

Divide and I'm withering away.

Shine on upon the many, light our way
Benevolent son.

Breathe in union.
Breathe in union.
Breathe in union.
Breathe in union.
Breathe in union.
So as one survive.
Another day and season.

Silent legions, save your poison.
Silent legions, stay out of my way.

I naturally translated the 'benevolent sun' to be the many pure beings of light who willfully incarnate bringing a higher frequency in order to help those who have temporarily forgotten 'the way'.

. . . people say I read too far into things.

Hello Xenopope. 

This is a great song, and the part quoted above is my favorite part of the song. 

From my viewpoint, this CD revolves around duality (Where there is one you're bound to divide it Right In Two) and in this song he says " Divide and I'm withering away" meaning that when we look at our environment as separate things(objects) - we are creating an illusion which creates pain and dis-comfort. 

I like your translation on the benevolent sun part.  I've actually felt that way towards it, and you've expressed it nicely.  I've also felt that it represents the 'benevolent sun' (higher self) within my being and the process of growth and change within.

Xenopope, I am wondering what you think about their new CD, and also about their last three CD's - Aenima, Lateralus and 10000 Days?  To me it's like one long story of personal evolution and a persons reflection of him/herself in relation to peers and society.  Any thoughts?

"Beyond the stars a new world awaits me now" - Wintersun

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Natural Mystic wrote:

Xenopope, I am wondering what you think about their new CD, and also about their last three CD's - Aenima, Lateralus and 10000 Days?  To me it's like one long story of personal evolution and a persons reflection of him/herself in relation to peers and society.  Any thoughts?

I was actually slightly disappointed with 10,000 days at first. Each of their albums had 'outdone' the previous except for that one (IMO). Vicarious came across as slightly commercialized from my point of view. Don't get me wrong I love the song, I actually feel very in touch with their sound and message in general, I can play virtually any of their songs and can even play and sing some of them at the same time - I pride myself on the ability to perform The Patient from beginning to end. But I guess 10,000 Days was just a bit more of an aquired taste for me than the others were. I frowned apon the 'filler' tracks - the ones that weren't quite songs by their own right. My favorites were, respectively, Jambi, Right In Two, Rosetta Stoned, The Pot, Vicarious, and 10,000 Days or Wings for Marie.

Now, Aenima I have been listening to since it came out about ten years ago. That one really launched their career. And helped point me in the right direction as far as themes to which I was completely oblivious at that point in my life. (Third Eye) But it was that album that really let me know there was something very special about them as a band (when compared to the rest of the crap we were being fed during that time period) and that I identify myself with something that parallels either their sound, or message, or mentality even. Third Eye will have to be my fave from Aenima and see what you've done, now I've got to go and post the lyrics to it here.  smile

This is a live version off of Salival.

Third Eye wrote:

Think for yourself. Question authority. Throughout human history as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality.
To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

Dreaming of that face again
It's bright and blue and shimmering
Grinning wide
And comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes

On my back and tumbling
Down that hole and back again
Rising up
And wiping the webs and the dew from my withered eye

In...out...in...out

A child's rhyme stuck in my head
It said that life is but a dream
I've spent so many years in question
To find I've known this all along

So good to see you
I've missed you so much
So glad it's over
I've missed you so much
Came out to watch you play
Why are you running away?

Shrouding all the ground around me
Is this holy crow above me
Black as holes within a memory
And blue as our new second sun
I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand
Which I attempt to reassemble
To see just who I might have been
I do not recognize the vessel
But the eyes seem so familiar
Like phosphorescent desert buttons
Singing an old familiar song...

So good to see you
I've missed you so much
So glad it's over
I've missed you so much
Came out to watch you play
Why are you running away?

Prying open my third eye
So good to see you once again
I thought that you were hiding
And you thought that I had run away
Chasing the tail of dogma
I opened my eye and there we were

So good to see you once again
I thought that you were hiding from me
And you thought that I had run away
Chasing a trail of smoke and reason

Prying open my third eye

I don't know but I would have to say it is a song about remembering and reuniting.

Now Lateralus was released in 2001 and was quite the synch for me since it was right around the time I first began to read spiritual material and practice meditation regularly. I was researching an insane ammount of info online during that time and to hear Tool sing about things like Saturn ascending and 'spiraling out' and crucifying the ego was quite the mind-blowing synchronicity for me. I saw them perform twice that September and had even decided that those would be the last concerts I would ever attend as a spectator.

I've heard Lateralus described as their 'healing album'. It is definitely my favorite of all their CDs.

I am as is Void.
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Cool.  It's nice to hear someone else's thoughts on Tool.  I've visited Tool forums, but it's always good to hear someone's personal experience with the band. 

Whats amazing for me is that I've come in contact with all three albums in the span of 2-3 weeks.  At first I began listening to Lateralus, which helped me keep faith really, and gave me hope that what I was doing (spirituality) was indeed "real".  I also listened to Aenima, and at first the only song that struck me Aenima, especially this part...

Aenima wrote:

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.

It's a
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

...

Cuz I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna watch it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

This struck me because as much as people would disregard what I was talking about (how the world was a little messed up and something needs to change) this song came along to tell me "Hey! You're on the right path".

Then I soon found out that 10,000 was coming out, and after being amazed by Lateralus, I thought this was going to be the greatest CD ever made.  smile  Then I heard it, and didn't make the connection right away, took about 1-3 full listenings.  But then I realized that this is the next step from Lateralus (but I agree, it doesn't out-do Lateralus).  But 10,000 is great, I love Rosetta Stoned, especially the "Overwhelmed as one would be... but I forgot my pen" part.  Favorite part of the whole album.

Right now though, somehow, I've been attracted to Aenima.  It's all I've been listening to.  The songs that really hit me are Forty-Six and Two and Jimmy.

I just saw the Parabol/a video and wow!  I enjoy the illumination of that guys body, and the spirals/DNA helix's that flow all throughout his body showing what seemed like the chakras until it reached the third eye.  Talk about a visual, lyrical and musical representation of enlightenment!

But to sum up, Tool really covers most of the subjects at hand and through their art they have influenced many.

Under a dead ohio sky,
Eleven has been and will be waiting,
Defending his light,
And wondering...
Where the hell have I been?
Sleeping, lost, and numb.
So glad that I have found you.
I am wide awake and heading home.

Hold your light,
Eleven.
Lead me through each gentle step by step
by inch by loaded memory.

I'll move to heal
As soon as pain allows so we can
Reunite and both move on together.

Hold your light,
Eleven. Lead me through each gentle step by step
By inch by loaded memory
'till one and one are one, eleven,
So glow, child, glow.

I'm heading back home.

"Beyond the stars a new world awaits me now" - Wintersun

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Fourty-Six & 2 wrote:

I choose to live and to
Grow, take and give and to
Move, learn and love and to
Cry, kill and die and to
Be paranoid and to
Lie, hate and fear and to
Do what it takes to move through.

I choose to live and to
Lie, kill and give and to
Die, learn and love and to
Do what it takes to step through.

See my shadow changing,
Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor.
Hoping I can clear the way
By stepping through my shadow,
Coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow.
Forty six and two are just ahead of me.

Shadow Self integration all the way.

I am as is Void.
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On the topic of 10,000 days - Tool, Wings for Marie parts 1 & 2 are quite nice tributes by maynard to his mother.

"...But Nothing is Lost:" "Nothing lasts... nothing lasts. Everything is changing into something else. Nothing's wrong. Nothing is wrong. Everything is on track. William Blake said nothing is lost and I believe that we all move on." - Terrence McKenna - Shpongle - But Nothing Is Lost

158 Reply by Xenopope (edited by Xenopope 2006-06-23 13:43:18)

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Risen wrote:

Well I'm not sure how many of you are into Drum-n-Bass but here is my most recent DnB mix, "Recluse".

Listen and/or Download (I recommend download) at:

Recluse mixed by Risen 04-2006 192k stereo, approx 52 mins long.

I finally downloaded this and it is very impressive! I am just now listening to it but the first two 'hits' at the beginning were great. And after the first 'hit', one of the samples sounds like the sound from that Pink Floyd song uhmm 'On the Run' or whatever is the one after 'Speak to Me/Breathe in the Air' - the electronic one.

Nice job!

I am as is Void.

159 Reply by montalk (edited by montalk 2006-06-22 21:40:06)

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Download the Vespers of 1610 by Monteverdi if you are interested in sacred medieval/baroque music. This is a recording by Savall, which sounds pretty good. It has that heavenly transcendental element. One of my favorite classical albums when I want that element expressed in something other than metal.

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160 Reply by Pictus (edited by Pictus 2006-06-24 12:45:12)

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WoW!
Monteverdi is very good, thanks!! http://xthost.info/soarte/pictus/thmbup.gif

Some tips for MP3...

To achieve a better quality when ripping or converting to MP3, make
sure the software uses LAME CODEC, also using VBR(variable bit rate)
is a good idea.

Software which supports or uses LAME
http://lame.sourceforge.net/links.html
LAME all you need to know
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php … ME#History

To RIP CDs the good way:

For Windows, Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
http://www.exactaudiocopy.org/
Quickstart Manual
http://users.pandora.be/satcp/eac-qs-en.htm

For MAC, MAX
http://sbooth.org/Max/
Also LAME CODEC for iTunes(default CODEC sucks)
http://blacktree.com/apps/iTunes-LAME/


List of recommended LAME compiles ver3.97 beta 2
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php … e_Compiles

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161 Reply by Xenopope (edited by Xenopope 2006-06-24 14:14:23)

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Re: The Music Thread

Common Bonds is off of Against by Sepultera . . it's the only song on the album I liked and even the only song by that band I ever got into. I was never into the whole Chaos A.D. era . . .

Common Bonds by Sepultera wrote:

Before we're born
Before we walk
Before we talk and hate
Yet to come the perfect rule

After we win
After we loose
After the dawn is late
Do it now or shut your mouth

No lack of trust, just trust myself
No more perhaps, no more false step
Changes in sight
Common bonds

Fear the fate that's not the shape of the soul
Trust the heart and share to ease the pain
No mistake is big enough to bring you down
The wrinkles on your face is strength in your mind

No lack of trust, just trust myself
Changes in sight
Common bonds

The urge to win
A time to strike
Follow no one

Strength in mind

I am as is Void.
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I think I've struck gold with 'Rise Against'. Punk rock political, similar to Rage Against the Machine. I Love it.

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Sounds good. Catching up...

164 Reply by Xenopope (edited by Xenopope 2006-07-02 20:22:21)

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The main focus of the lyrics of American Head Charge is not the type of thing I usually get into, but this song off of The War of Art really struck me as melodically beautiful and powerful. Something about the song structure and the chorus mainly - Just So You Know

Just So You Know by American Head Charge wrote:

the surface is so cold and worthless
all the things that I have still come from there
so paint the windows in front of my face
when you know damn well there's no one behind them

I wish your body was not so warm to me

just so you know

and all it was was something beautiful
when tides and dreams don't seem so tall at all

it's me against the world and I'm losing ground
and I'd kill to taste what it must be like
'cause it's every one of my empty parts
that you fill now

I wish your body was not so warm to me

just so you know

yea, and maybe it's all for the better now
yea, well maybe it's gonna make sense

and all it was was something beautiful
when tides and dreams don't seem so tall at all

pause silence
another moment dropped off
left behind and
hanging still
you won't see me
I can't see you

and all it was was something beautiful
when tides and dreams don't seem so tall at all

I am as is Void.
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Devious Methods is off of Hive's second album which was popularized by Ultrasonic Sound appearing on the soundtrack to the Matrix movie. I highly recommend this disc to anyone who is into drum and bass.

sample -

"the methods have become unbelievably devious . . . and these are the seeds which may sow the destruction of the human race"

http://www.exegesis.nu/pic/DeviousMethods.jpg

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