This song always makes me think of my mother, who like Maynard's spent a great deal of time crippled and wheelchair-bound before death. I think in his mother's case it was due to a stroke, in my mother's it was the gradual decay of multiple sclerosis.
Also, this song makes me think of a woman named Josephine at the retirement center where I work. She's recently been moved to a nursing home, but she was once a very athletic individual who suffered a stroke and has spent her last several years confined to a wheelchair, drooling and mostly incoherent.
I tell you, it's damned frightening what can happen to the brain and nervous system, but somehow I'm losing the thread of my original thought here, which I guess is that I find this song to be beautiful because I am touched by its theme and the way it resonates in my own life.
Indeed, this song has brought tears to my eyes. I find this album to be incredibly insightful and TOOL's evolution and spirituality (if we can call that without invoking Maynard's wrath PBUH)seems to echo my own increased outlook of the world; from the opening song
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While this album won't be popular because it doesn't have nifty 4 minute radio play songs, I very much like it to Pink Floyd's Animals (which had 3 songs go over 10 minutes)album in its encompassing theme and musical direction
It won't be popular on radio perhaps, and it's received a lot of mixed reviews, but I think it'll endure.
Honestly I think it's amazing. I can't even listen to it without starting at the beginning and remaining until the end, it just carries me through from start to finish. When I hear Vicarious on the radio I actually feel a bit jarred. "Where's the rest?" I wonder.
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Also, this song makes me think of a woman named Josephine at the retirement center where I work. She's recently been moved to a nursing home, but she was once a very athletic individual who suffered a stroke and has spent her last several years confined to a wheelchair, drooling and mostly incoherent.
I tell you, it's damned frightening what can happen to the brain and nervous system, but somehow I'm losing the thread of my original thought here, which I guess is that I find this song to be beautiful because I am touched by its theme and the way it resonates in my own life.
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Honestly I think it's amazing. I can't even listen to it without starting at the beginning and remaining until the end, it just carries me through from start to finish. When I hear Vicarious on the radio I actually feel a bit jarred. "Where's the rest?" I wonder.
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The universe is hostile, so impersonal
Devour to survive, so it is
So it's always been.
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