TOOL - Reflection (Audio)

[@acmm3844]

I love every last TOOL song but, this was playing constantly through my earbuds while going through chemo. This song means more to me than anyone will ever know.

[@bloodswan]

I know the feeling, not with this song as much as I love it but I understand that thing that gets you through it.

[@lisasloey302]

@@bloodswan Listen to a band called lamb

[@unpopularopinion1776]

I'm not going thru chemo but I am trying to live sober after 20 years of being an alcoholic. Today is day 101 and everyday feels like such a struggle. But this song speaks to me now more than it did when this album came out.

[@tails324]

@@lisasloey302 what should I listen to? That name strikes me as something I should try

[@tommurphy7611]

Good luck on your fight, remove sugar from your diet, try "End of the silence" by Rollins Band too,

[@Parabola001]

I am from germany and I discovered tool when I was about 15 years old. Back then I barely spoke english and Tool CDs never came with lyrics. So I never knew what maynard was singing about, but the musical soundscape itself was so mesmerizing to me that tool instantly became my favourite band, and everything else seemed boring in comparison. Now I am older, and not only able to understand the lyrics literally, but also resonate with them in a deep, spiritual way. And even after all these years, and listening to these songs hundreds of times, they are still able to surprise and move me in ways that nothing else can. we are eternal. all this pain is an illusion.

[@6MetalHead66]

Die eier von satan

[@beauwille2294]

Check out King Crimson, Larks Tongues in Aspic and Discipline (albums, special mention to Easy Money as a particular song that has my attention right now).

[@jessemcdonald5124]

Well said. ❤ fron the States

[@MARGATEorcMAULER]

@@Parabola001 Wow ,my man ,that was an epic testament to the worldwide appeal of Maynard's message. In my not so humble opinion. Wake Up Humanity,we are all in this together!

[@Degreez33]

Spiral out 🌀

[@Ojinia84]

HOW MANY TOOL FANS ARE RANDOMLY REMINDED OF HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO LIVE IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD AS THIS GREATNESS.... ????

[@bonjo6566]

A pure art of thought... But life has its different course but maybe they listen to this song in 2050 and reacts to our comments....

[@elarquitectogamer8367]

Siiii, tienes la razon; eso debieron sentir en los 70's con Sabbath and Priest.

[@nipple9133]

@My name is August West why doesn't he just save us, why make people suffer. he is god and can do anything so it doesn't make sense why he wants suffering. allowing evil or what you call the devil to have free reign is kinda evil by association or refusing to act

[@haku301.]

@My name is August West why are you injecting your beliefs into this space, your not helping anyone your just killing our mood, specialy since you dont know our beliefs for all you know your literally preaching to the quire

[@redherronrecords]

@My name is August West me and the big man got our own thang going on homie, she knows what's up.

[@andreluizfv2011]

Lyrics: I have come curiously close to the end, down Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole Defeated, I concede and Move closer I may find comfort here I may find peace within the emptiness How pitiful It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping The moon tells me a secret, my confidant As full and bright as I am This light is not my own and A million light reflections pass over me Its source is bright and endless She resuscitates the hopeless Without her, we are lifeless satellites drifting And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt Don't want to be down here soothing my narcissism I must crucify the ego before it's far too late I pray the light lifts me out Before I pine away Before I pine away Before I pine away Before I pine away So crucify the ego, before it's far too late To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical And you will come to find that we are all one mind Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable Just let the light touch you And let the words spill through And let them pass right through Bringing out our hope and reason Before we pine away (pine away) Before we pine away (pine away) Before we pine away (pine away) Before we pine away

[@patrickconnelly9767]

Thank you!

[@sisaroo2837]

Thanku

[@kodiakbibiloni8338]

~ H E R O ~

[@alvarocastro9426]

Best lyrics ever!

[@dorothysalemiamovaghar2766]

Love to see the lyrics in the comments!

[@brodieyake7735]

This is literally one of the greatest albums of all time.

[@veritasman]

I AGREE.

[@hansjuker8296]

lol....smh

[@jorgedebracamonte6350]

Every Tool album

[@Monsterclip101]

Yess

[@DKong1026]

YUP 100%

[@Caedo12]

TOOL is humanity's band. Tribal. Melodic. Thoughtful. One of our best offerings to the universe.

[@codybertram6122]

“If you want to know the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy and vibration.” Nikola Tesla

[@q.bandit9612]

I understand and appreciate your sentiment but tribal is inconsistent with humanism.

[@codybertram6122]

@@q.bandit9612 how so? Do you not have hair on your knuckles? Or are you still dragging them and haven’t evolved from the tribe?

[@connivingkhajiit]

@q.bandit9612 silence, technophile.

[@adamhenry3928]

@@q.bandit9612 Original comment said "humanity's", not humanistic. If it helps I read the original comment as such that Tool is bow down to human history, highlighting tribal simplicity of our past contrasting with complexity of our thought, trying to battle our confusion, insignificant specks of dust among the stars.

[@robertriggs3818]

Still one of their most underrated masterpieces, in my opinion.

[@serhat6181]

Your opinion is true

[@YOLO_GGY]

Without a doubt

[@ericphilen3433]

i concur. the drums are almost tribal. The build up... the lyrics... absolute 🔥🔥🔥

[@timbibin1301]

#FACTS

[@jahrojasexqsys5238]

Not so much underrated as it is beyond the mainstreams ability to connect with...all the heads know what's what

[@chrisholloway4724]

Only Tool makes me cry and headbang at the same time.

[@Zionswasd]

YUP

[@chrisholloway4724]

Bringing out our HOPE AND REASON 🤘😢

[@jorgearanda8129]

Me too Chris

[@rubengastelum7212]

👁️😢👂🔧🎤🎶⚰️👋

[@orso35]

your comment is hilarious and sad at the same time. but true!

[@robertcastillo9723]

I did 12yrs in prison and discovered TooL. Tool help me grow and gave me a spiritual sense of self.

[@pogankvs]

for what have you been in prison for so long. hope life is not totally ruined for you for this...

[@paranoidandroid6691]

tool made a nice song about prison you should check out

[@Heliosphan33]

@@paranoidandroid6691lol

[@rickfrenzy9556]

Lol. Nice

[@siggifreud812]

what did you do time for?

[@vv-fr3wl]

This is not a song. This is a musical experience.

[@ilovepanerabread]

I agree

[@MrSharesky]

I swear I was in a trance listening to this live @ The Hershey PA show. It was amazing. I was stone sober but I felt like I was dreaming. Never had that happen before or since watching a live performance.

[@tom2374]

I agree

[@MrSharesky]

@Zara for universal lord it was an amazing personal experience for sure. Hard to explain, and somewhat disappointing of the uncertainty of others experiencing a similar effect.

[@nw6231]

Hi @lazy lox

[@hihello-sx1sx]

This is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard

[@MichaelSartore]

It indeed is.

[@lizahasbeenhere.836]

Oh yeah😊

[@chronic2001n]

Welcome to TooL :)

[@cristianramos5947]

Spiritual awakening is what I'm taking about

[@Adam-pl9om]

so......no head?

[@joeshmoe3895]

There isn’t a stereo loud enough to play this! 🔥

[@gnarlydewd]

You get it... it MUST BE CONCERT LEVEL LOUD!!!

[@modera.torrent_]

Sir I disagree, my stereo was just able to play it. Try making sure its plugged in, and if needed you might wanna check your breaker box. Glad I could help 👍

[@josephdygas8513]

Marty McFly's OVERDRIVE

[@Oamiano]

When you’ve come curiously close to the end, and were on the verge of trying to find comfort and peace in the emptiness of drug addiction (opioids/benzos for me) this song just hits differently. 2 years clean 2 days ago 🙂

[@juanvalero7653]

This is not a song, its a meditation.

[@DjangoBones]

I've had many friends come over and find a comfortable spot and close their eyes while I play this and everyone feels better afterwards...lol I don't know but it was some hippy shit but it felt so right

[@vealslab7757]

I created this album by saying so in 1997 including the lyrics of most of the songs and I did it all with an improvisational speech no planning no writing anything down. Just like I created the band tool when I was in 6th grade in the '80s including all the band members and their lives. You're welcome Universe. After all it was the universe who gave me the power. Actually it was all the powers that be not just the universe but that's for me to have and everybody else to figure out on their own which they can't because they're not as intelligent as I am

[@N8TheGr8M8]

It is a meditiation! I found it warming even before I knew what meditation is

[@chronicsmith1115]

This is close to Ma'at

[@MarcZeroOne]

like the name just suggests.

[@thegrimrapper2642]

I had never heard from the band TOOL before. This is the most beautiful song I've ever heard.

[@kasperrieberg3495]

Welcome bro 👍

[@tiff-skirocksonville49]

I’m glad you found them. Check out this entire album my friend- you will appreciate more songs- I promise

[@TheLovelyMsHope]

It is so beautiful it takes my breath. Words cannot explain

[@13thAllieCat]

Truly

[@jessemcdonald5124]

Welcome

[@lazyGreenMonster]

Tool blends perfectly the classical indian music and western metal sound.. brings out the divine combination. Such an experience Tool music is.

[@markmeri4247]

I have to say that the credit behind that indian vibe goes to Danny, he's really into polyrythms and the Tabla. it's really fascinating how he can apply foreign influences into the genre he's playing.

[@lazyGreenMonster]

Mark Meri i agree! Although all four are great on their own.. Danny is truly the glue of the team.. his percussion ties all of them so well together..

[@Keep_Crying_Son]

Sounds more Egyptian to me but yeah man I know what you mean 🤙

[@davidbeddoe6670]

@@markmeri4247 The credit really belongs to the Terrys of the world, who distribute this vibe-ology

[@Nirmal614]

@@Keep_Crying_Son Instrument used is Sarangi , This is 3000 years old instrument used in ancient India... Yes... Reflection 🤘

[@jamesmccann9025]

If this song isn't played at my funeral I'm not dying.

[@purplehaze7033]

just wondering , how would u want to die? from a purely poetic point of view im not a psycho or something xD

[@jamesmccann9025]

@@purplehaze7033 Hypothetically I'd want to fall from space into the ocean. But that's me what about you? lol

[@purplehaze7033]

@@jamesmccann9025 ooo free fall xD uhh id probably want to go out on a cliff by the ocean during sunset. and i just want to slowly fade out , fade out along with a perfectly fitting song xD

[@jamesmccann9025]

@@purplehaze7033 right nothing like a little free fall and a sunset XD

[@purplehaze7033]

@@jamesmccann9025 haha yupp xD

[@devinammerman8397]

I hope that they just know how much they have let me heal as a human being and how much they touched my life and how I coped with so much trauma through their music. This song I hold so dear.

[@merminpules4209]

There’s something about the song that sets your path straight again. Well said.

[@devinammerman8397]

@@merminpules4209this is true. It really does set you on the straight and narrow. ❤

[@devincrocker8496]

I so ,so agree

[@devincrocker8496]

I meant the so ,so in a great way .

[@FreakishPreacher]

Hold on loosely but dont let it go

[@jhyentr]

Lateralus is just perfect

[@vincentartaud1095]

You’re right, lateralus is the other word for perfection....

[@jjkapelar7952]

Joel Angeles not much more you can say my brother. 💯🙏

[@HasanFaraz93]

This music has style of indian music

[@segueoyuri]

almost too perfect

[@ericphilen3433]

it really is

[@davieduckett]

I spent my whole life looking for my soulmate, who would have thought it would turn out to be a song

[@calahme3979]

Your smart!

[@patrickconnelly9767]

@@calahme3979 *You're

[@theurbread]

@@patrickconnelly9767 your'e'r'er'er'e're'r'e're'r'rererere

[@Daniel-xu6kd]

A child’s rhyme stuck in my head...

[@BillySidness]

Sad but true

[@bella-qz3rz]

Wish more people around me listened to Tool. This music has helped me through some rough times.

[@davidrikersisland8657]

It makes me happy that young generations like you listen to TOOL and appreciate their music and what they have to offer. I've been listening to TOOL since day one and I have uncle to thank for that because it's been a journey and experience ever since 🤘🙌🙏👁️

[@corbisloan6958]

Im 20, its better if no one around you listens to it. Tool is too spiritual

[@bella-qz3rz]

​ @Corbis Loan True. I tried to introduce Tool to a friend of mine and he'd always complain about how long some of the songs are. Never really let the music take him anywhere. I guess I meant I wish I had someone around me understand and connect to their music. I want to experience it with someone like-minded.

[@corbisloan6958]

@@bella-qz3rz i completely understand that. Tool songs have a strange timing duration that matches with real life occurrences especially when you're around someone who loves Tool just as much as you, and for them to see and understand the same life occurrences is some of the best moments in life. But they're very rare cause most would rather not try to dig through tools discography. Let alone emotionally accept the truths that their discography has to offer.

[@davidrikersisland8657]

@@bella-qz3rz I'm very open minded to anything that's out there and what you would call a freedom thinker and like to think for myself and not let anyone get in the way of that 🙏😎🤘

[@ShroomRPG]

This song used to scare me. At 15 I had never heard any other rock or metal songs like this, the hypnotic drumming, the constant drone, the way Maynard's vocals sound distant and haunted, like they're being fed through a tube, the oblique, philosophical lyrics. Now I love it of course, and its nowhere near the weirdest thing I've ever heard, but it had a profound effect on me nonetheless.

[@coopergoss350]

Your description is so accurate. I had always felt indifferent, kindof zoned out by the song. Not scared, just felt like i was in a place I couldn't understand and that was greater than me, but was me, if that makes any sense.

[@SEEKJustice1234]

I felt that way about prodigy, firestarter. Plus the video was mad aswell

[@jennifer9047]

Lost Keys/ Rosetta Stoned was the one that scared the bejesus out of me. It's the "Peeeeeeea sooooooouup!!!" of 10,000 Days.

[@Nocsucal-BeatGod]

It’s trancing. Journey time. That’s awesome. Now I want to do some peyote in the desert

[@endingworlds]

It sounds like someone talking from the distant past.

[@PositiveLastAction]

Tool’s music feels so ancient- the soothing symmetrical essence of bygone eras restored anew.

[@tannerkey1121]

Love the primal sound and feeling

[@rubaidaallen2764]

It really does. What a beautiful observation. Their music feels like it's from a time so long ago but yet so present and so now. Theres also a futuristic feel to it too. I don't know how these 4 humans do that, but wow. Just wow.

[@positivelastaction3957]

@@rubaidaallen2764 Thanks man. You are correct...a trichotomy of past, present and future. Timeless.

[@jailcatjones3250]

Tool is a very primal, I love when they experiment with exotic instruments.

[@aidacailar1126]

Was just thinking exactly the same...it feels ancient and new, alien and familiar at the same time.

[@enoch4499]

I listen to this watching a full super blue moon pass over me approaching midnight. What a beautiful life

[@LoafusCramswell]

I love the way Maynard's voice becomes clearer halfway through, it's some great symbolism created with a subtle tone change

[@Brand00d]

Amazing how every time I listen or look into this song I find something new

[@jaredallred4347]

you get it, well done

[@calahme3979]

stay away ohnomics

[@masterroshi5573]

its because he crucified the ego before it was too late

[@kroh7742]

Maybe like looking into a mirror, the first part being the mirror image and the second being himself

[@adumbratio9171]

The final ''Before we pine away'' almost makes me cry. There is something emotional in this phrase. The whole lyrics talk about how we should forget about our differences before it's not too late and understand that we are one. One of our kind, one inner soul, one destination. Tool is truly something more than a music, as fans say it's an experience and I agree with that.

[@Eric-tj3tg]

That mirrors my feelings about just about every Tool song that I've come across....that'd be all of them. To me, the messages are both about the difficulty of the journey, and the hope for 46 & 2's. Such incredible music and lyrics; moves me-as you said, an experience.

[@martyushov]

Pine away.. Refers to the pineal gland.. This gland is one of few places in our bodies where we find dmt.... I smoked it......... Oh God!!! Once u go thru the psychedelic experience, all of a sudden it all makes sense :)

[@adumbratio9171]

@@martyushov never tried DMT, but read and heard about the experience. Do you really have the feeling that you are close to death or not? And how does it feel like at all?

[@jacobsabata2232]

Well the word pine can also be used to mean deteriorate

[@chipperjipper]

interesting! i thought it was, “before we hide away!”

[@kaisersozaay]

A dark room, headphones and this song on repeat.... ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIFE EXPERIENCES POSSIBLE 🥰

[@ScottWhartonComedian]

Studio reference headphones

[@quentinrings3573]

Our state of mind is on or in of a higher vibration when we hear this on repeat just to meditate on the sound frequency. Tool the messengers have been vibrational beings for a while, a state of mind!

[@putyograsseson]

reflection + nfb 11 + m1060 planar = bliss

[@elijahallen2755]

Try driving through the desert at night by Area 51 listening to this.

[@christopherboxford9556]

13 minutes of that bass line wasn't enough?

[@aliaksandrhn1]

Band: TOOL Genre: TOOL

[@thiagotcc]

comentary fabulousss

[@goatmanindustries7182]

Often failed to be duplicated and never successfully replicated

[@gub4941]

Alexander Nenartovich genre: progressive metal

[@aliaksandrhn1]

Are you sure?

[@gub4941]

Alexander Nenartovich yes

[@heliosilva5513]

This song should've been called "Perfection", because that is what it is.

[@p.p.4042]

indeed!!!!

[@cindylou3524]

I agree but I'm not gonna like your comment because you're at 111 likes and I think that's perfection

[@zuvoyah]

This song is a masterpiece!!!!!!

[@mephiston001]

all of them are 😀

[@chokovok7231]

I have come curiously close to the end, down Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole Defeated, I Concede and move closer I may find comfort here I may find peace within the emptiness How pitiful And it’s calling me (Calling me) It's calling me (Calling me) It's calling me (Calling me) It's calling me And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping The moon tells me a secret, a confidant As full and bright as I am This light is not my own and A million light reflections pass over me The source is bright and endless She resuscitates the hopeless Without her, we are lifeless satellites drifting And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt Don't want to be down here Soothing my narcissism, I Must crucify the ego Before it's far too late I pray the light lifts me out Before I pine away (Pine away) Before I pine away (Pine away) Before I pine away (Pine away) Before I pine away So crucify the ego Before it's far too late And leave behind this place so Negative and blind and cynical And you will come to find That we are all one mind Capable of all that's Imagined and all conceivable And let the light touch you To let the words spill through And let them past right through Bringing out our hope and reason Before we pine away (Pine away) Before we pine away (Pine away) Before we pine away (Pine away) Before we pine away

[@Stormkez]

ty for the lyrics Okabe It was actually by the time Steins Gate released that i was the most obsessed with tool Every tool album is a masterpiece, but none of them, other than lateralus and 10,000 days, feel closer to what i consider to be a higher state of consciousness.

[@thebroskis6364]

As a bass player, i can't get over how fantastic it sounds in this song.

[@dag681]

Justin's effects are numerous. And he knows how to use them.

[@sloper013]

this is figuratively one of the greatest albums of all time

[@TSotP]

Since this is the Official Tool KZbin channel, I would like to say here that this song is the one that changed my life. It was this song that cemented my love for this band. I had heard other tracks before on MTV and Kerrang! (in the UK) but it was sitting in a dingy flat (apparement) hearing this song while out of my mind on drugs that stuck with me for days. I finally found out what it was, who it was and my love for Tool was born. It altered my group of friends and my tastes in music. Without this song I would be a (perhaps not radically) different person. Thank you Tool.

[@PEGGLORE]

Exact same here. After getting into this and immediately shunning the other boring rock bands I liked before, I then got into King Crimson, prog rock, then CAN who could be the best band , then This Heat, Residents, Cardiacs and things. Now I'm stuck for new interesting music to listen to as I discovered all the good stuff. Thankfully the new Tool album comes out in a couple of weeks so all should be OK. Check out these other bands if you've not.

[@cameronroot]

@@PEGGLORE Here's a few to throw on the list in the name of great music! The Devin Towsend Project, Opeth, Gojira, Mastodon, Haken, Leprous, Vola, Porcupine Tree :)

[@vishalvp998]

Same

[@iandocherty5278]

boat same

[@funtycase2043]

Funny how music can change what u see in people that have nothing to do with the song. Maybe its just another way u see it change in you

[@hockeylvr42]

Danny and Justin’s groove on this track is fuckin incredible. It’s simply hypnotic.

[@brianbresson2237]

Most underrated album. Like I just woke up with this song in My head for no reason.

[@reginasamilpa44]

I raised both my daughters on Tool, they're 28 and 23 now. If I did anything right in this world..😊 Well one of the things I will never regret anyway.

[@Coryiodine]

I kinda miss when I would talk about tool and people just looked at me like "what's that". The modern era of the internet leaves no stone unturned in turning everything sacred into the mainstream. Why does that matter? Many reasons, but one is that you can never share new things with others. Everyone already knows everything which eliminates a crucial part of bonding and friendships.. Now whenever you try to share things, you're usually met with "oh I already saw them" "I already know it". There's not much need for you or anything new you can bring to their lives. In the past, your friends would show you new things or you'd show them stuff and it made everyone closer because it wasn't so easy to find cool things. Like my friend who showed me Korn in middle school, that was awesome. Now some playlist will just show you alone.

[@PEGGLORE]

Can - Tago Mago and This Heat - Deceit are probably the most musically advanced albums, and about 50 years old. Hardly anybody knows about them. Tool probably do though.

[@cindylou3524]

Hey man listen we can still bond even if we're familiar with stuff

[@sidy718]

Still individual interpretation!

[@travispalma6554]

i believe; this is, hands down, the greatest song ever created. period thee end

[@hourglasseyesflipping]

Schism would like to have a word with you lol

[@r3b3lvegan89]

Once you listen to all of Tool, you’ll be saying that after every song lol. Masters.

[@drudemasterio]

@@r3b3lvegan89 Truth

[@glowingmountain1273]

I literally love and deeply appreciate every song that TOOL has ever created

[@krisp2000]

Same

[@michaelgallimore3707]

As do I 😁🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@davidrikersisland8657]

Absolutely and Tool is starting to become one of the only band I listen to these days and pretty much over listening to anything else 🤘😎

[@zackliedke2210]

They are all different and that's what I love about them. People say they sound the same but I just feel that they are looking for similarities instead of just being in the now and listening. They truly are a enigma of greatness!! Aloha

[@leahreminimashups]

*c h o c o l a t e c h i p t r i p*

[@tristen4142]

I really like how Disposition flows so nicley into this song.

[@fonsecorona]

That's the beauty of listening to Tool on cd....Not only are you buying their albums, the old school way, like they obviously always preferred, but you're also guarantying yourself uninterrupted flow between pieces like these two, or Lost Keys and Rosetta Stoned, and Parabol /Parabola, for example....

[@el0j]

@@fonsecorona I think that one reason they proposed for not putting the songs online, they said people shouldn't listen to random songs but in sequence in which they were supposed to. like cd or vinyls

[@fonsecorona]

@@el0j Yep....Just like listening to most Pink Floyd albums...

[@reasonedalibis2071]

@@fonsecorona for me the only exception is Schism, because it have a start and an ending.

[@Qliphirot]

It was just one whole song along with Triad

[@vijayanand9710]

I get extreme chills and feel like crying whenever I hear this

[@zackearl3200]

join the club, pal

[@aalbert78]

Even the fade out is a magnificent riff itself.

[@youngchap4941]

at that point it got me

[@gmmarti94]

This song is so beautiful, I always feel like I'm going on a journey when I'm listening to Tool. Maynards voice is breathtaking

[@gmmarti94]

@Maynard james Keenan who are you lol

[@gabenvlogs1377]

I’m crying cause of how incredible this is

[@NoxNoctisUmbra]

My all time fav song. This is it.

[@TSotP]

Same

[@daryno4267]

@@TSotP me too

[@TheAskald]

so what do you think it's about?

[@NoxNoctisUmbra]

@@TheAskald It means that life is internal, infinite, even after death.

[@cristianramos5947]

@@daryno4267 good for the three of you

[@radiantnoir]

😭I remember hearing this for the first time with two friends who are gone now. It was such an incredible moment. We couldn’t wait to get out of school and listen to the new Tool album. Wow. Great memories.

[@James-3000]

that's the real gift of music, how it can connect us on this basic, elemental level. good music like this always speaks directly from and to the heart.

[@itsberzerk9279]

I was an baby when that was happening to you

[@steveprzybylowski2467]

My friend that gave me my first tool CD passed. This song makes me think of my best friend.

[@Id0ntca7e]

What happen to your friends? It seems they had not reach the average end of a human beeing

[@endingworlds]

I was in prison for a little while, hearing this song now hits differently. All I did in there was sit down and reflect. Seeing my reflection of the man I’d become. I love this song/experience.

[@siggifreud812]

what did u get busted for...?

[@gionasser]

The outro riff tears at me.

[@sicboi80]

The outro guitar is so haunting and beautiful.

[@CommanderSp00ky]

Couldn't have stressed it any more, that outro gives me a feeling i can't really describe..

[@AdrianJimenez70]

The build up makes it perfect.

[@SunShine-kd6td]

Tears....tears....same thing. 🖤

[@Shake69ification]

The proper way to listen to this is to first listen to _Disposition_ and then follow this with _Triad_ just as on the album. The outro then becomes the intro for _Triad_

[@genevievewilliams4452]

65 in February and Tool rocks my world almost every day . Can’t be still when I listen to Reflection or Triad. Thinking about taking drum lessons. Cannot get enough

[@michaelgallimore3707]

Finally, a true metalhead! Tool rule dude! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@marisaenglish8089]

56 last week and still love Tool.

[@Rudderify]

Must add Disposition to make it the Tool Trinity, my friend. Disposition, Reflection then Triad...

[@vaughnblaylock6069]

So did you take drum lessons? It's been a year, Gen. I hope you did.

[@endingworlds]

There is something ancient and futuristic about this song, almost like time repeating itself.

[@mclbru89]

MK: "If you look at the cycles of the moon, it starts as a thin crescent and then gradually waxes until it becomes full; then it gradually wanes back into another crescent and then it is gone. The moon reflects sunlight like humans reflect information. We wax and wane and when we become full moons, our egos are full. We think we have this knowledge when in fact, the information we have is pure. And how it reflects or shines off of us, is something we take credit for as though the moon could take credit for its brightness when, in fact, it is only reflecting light from the sun. We have to understand that we are ego-less just as the moon is without light. It and we are simply reflectors. The ego is not responsible for the information. It can reflect the information in creative ways, but the information itself is pure".

[@marcostrujillo2617]

Maynard is definitely a full-blown poet. Exactly my interpretation of the lyrics

[@Britton_Thompson]

*It's like this:* Maynard is an amazing singer and lyricist. One of the best to ever do it..... but he's also annoyingly pretentious and thinks he's smarter than he really is. Look, I love the guy and will never leave him, but don't fall into that same trap too many other Tool fans have before of considering him some sort of profound philosopher or leading mind of our age or anything like that the way too many others have before, and will continue to do in the future. Most of the things he rants about aren't even founded in indisputable truth as much as they are suspicion and conspiracy hypotheses. Maynard's a great artist and winemaker, but he isn't someone we should be turning to for answers, knowledge, or discovery. Love his music. Buy his wine. Hell, watch his MMA training sessions and his encouragement of hard work- but never assume he's an expert or modern day icon of human enlightenment.

[@HollowHeoden90]

love u

[@drhank33y]

This song is essentially about slipping into the pits of nihilistic despair, devoid of all meaning and appreciation for being, only to be rescued by the discovery of some deep and fundamental religious truth that we are all one and that we can make the world a better place if we allow the most beautiful parts of our nature to hold sway over the evil, bitter, and resentful parts.

[@yipyipyup]

That’s a great analogy. 🤙🏻

[@SDL3932]

bani bani ju ju my friends!

[@aliaksandrhn1]

@@yipyipyup I don't think that's an analogy. This is what this song is literally about, I believe.

[@manuteboler]

This is where I am now, just got clean again, had 5 years and went on a year run, away from my home and my love, but we will be together again. We can’t let the negative energy of this world bring us down, there are few of us who see the evil selfish greedy narcissistic world and it’s painful to accept and I think I’ve numbed myself with drugs because it is overwhelming, but I choose to no longer embrace and feed those energies, only focus on the few good people and the beauty that can still exist in this world, be well.

[@insightcornerandrewcardena752]

Well worded comment congratulations you took the words right out of my mouth

[@barbaracastilleja1714]

This is one of our chosen songs as for disposition for his funeral. My oldest Son Jesse passed on Nov 15 ,24 .He loved Tool I'm happy I got to go see Tool with him twice .May he RIP

[@smitchu4877]

Sorry for your loss

[@frankmullholand5122]

This song resonates with my soul.

[@UnnecessaryEyeViewingGarbage]

This has been the first TOOL song to make me shed a tear. Truly a beautiful song and an amazing band.

[@artwizardsam3238]

For those wondering, the violin-like instrument in the first half of the song is called 'Sarangi', also known as the 'instrument of a hundred colours'. I've noticed that Tool sure loves to make good use of Indian folk & ancient instruments in alot of their songs.

[@Djdbot24]

Tool doesn't have a sarangi player. They do have a very talented guitar player who likes using an ebow.

[@Gorillaverde]

Thank you for your comment , seriously

[@Djdbot24]

@BoundingOverwatch Just passing on knowledge. Take it easy chief .

[@ethanburgess3475]

@@Djdbot24 it’s actually Maynard on his steinberg guitar

[@Djdbot24]

@Ethan Burgess he does play a steinberg, but that's not him playing that it's Adam.

[@acidalien9153]

Man, TOOL has this way of allowing you to disconnect from the depressing truth of the world and have this inner peace and understanding with oneself...it’s so incredible. Bless these guys for giving us this escape ❤️ Keep it up guys! You’re appreciated :)

[@sealessnlv]

Your comment needs a thousand more likes :)

[@sisaroo2837]

I like your name!!! Bawahaha BLESSED DAYS

[@monikafl2267]

it is incredible... this men has incredible insight of human nature

[@moonbeamrider306]

You get it. ❤

[@matthewcotterill7155]

You have perfectly articulated my feeling for this song.

[@ryancormack6117]

I used to clean in a youth hostel when i was 17, so about 15 years ago, and i literally listened to this album 3-4 times a day on a loop. And i still think it is the greatest album ever made. Period.

[@michaelburman2108]

Me too. By far the greatest album ever made.

[@windozxpert]

It's amazing how this song is completely timeless. From the first 2001 CD in my Honda Civic to the burned copy I have in my Jeep Cherokee today, I have always kept Lateralus close to my heart. As I age, this song especially, has a completely different meaning than when I heard it the first 500 times.

[@Airbag1010674]

Lateralus will always be their Magnum Opus

[@sunterry]

I slightly prefer Ænima but Lateralus is still objectively perfect.

[@ebobsmith9596]

If it were possible to have Magnum Opi, Tool would have them.

[@richardroberts957]

I concur. All their albums are great. This is just a seamless masterpiece. Flow of it is amazing

[@aidacailar1126]

I agree, ann immortal masterpiece

[@alexsandereastmond7036]

mad max would approve this message

[@Vix_21]

The 'before I pine away' part always send chills down my spine ❤

[@shanethoroughgood]

Songs like this are only a reminder that we as humans are limited by time and space. When we leave this dimension all belief and systems that we have come to justify ourselves are nothing but a configuration of our meak ideas. Temporary as it may feel, we are eternal.

[@aaronkling8670]

This song has helped me through so many difficult times in my life. It's inspired me to achieve even when the floor is falling out from underneath me. I sincerely thank TOOL for making all this great music that has enhanced my life throughout the years.

[@jessicabeaver1358]

If you let yourself into a complete state of vulnerability and let their music take you, it will save you. It sounds absolutely insane but it’s true. I’ve been at the bottom and TOOL makes me feel safe

[@missmew3499]

​@@jessicabeaver1358 omg, I believe you. I'm currently in the depths of depression and grief. I sit on my couch all day every day and cry. Tool is helping me.

[@ayushmanshukla3304]

I keep coming here. This song keeps calling me.

[@ayushmanshukla3304]

6:48 specifically

[@ayushmanshukla3304]

nah the whole song sorry

[@charleswright2442]

yeah it does...

[@JH-fb3mp]

"As full and bright as I am, this light is not my own"

[@gavin4848]

Reflection.

[@bobsnittle3793]

thats called finding god.

[@hasanzaibkhan686]

Dannys drums are so crisp, especially on headphones, wow what a hidden masterpiece!

[@X2ThaV8174]

I love Tool’s catalogue with a passion. But this song is always going to be the most special and personal to me. This song has helped ease me through a lot of my most difficult mental struggles.

[@joejenkins1517]

Melodic Rock at its best! If you found your way here you are a true Tool fan! Not mainstream but shows the greatness of Tool. Symphonic music that would impress the likes of Mozart and Beethoven. Anyone else my age played Diablo 2 to this album. Perfect soundtrack!

[@ramyedits948]

This is the most emotional song I've ever listened to

[@TheRealNickZ]

In my early twenties this song meant so much and helped me recognize how much being cynical was affecting my mind

[@CruxalYT]

I'm in my early twenties right now and slowly understanding more about myself and the habits keeping me down... Feel like I'm on the same journey as you were. I agree this song is super important and opened my eyes when I understood what the lyrics meant to me.

[@packing999]

Release

[@packing999]

I'm no longer in my early twenties (26) but yeh, I no longer care tbh. I'm also not sure I want to work my job. But I'm happy about it, there's no purpose to our life and that's very liberating. This song, or the three, have helped me a lot tbh

[@elijahbrink4596]

@@packing999 What do you mean by "no purpose"?

[@JonathanRLight]

And as I pull my head out, I am without one doubt Don't want to be down here soothing my narcissism I must crucify the ego before it's far too late I pray the light lifts me out

[@soyescarlata]

This song deserves much more love!!

[@kasperrieberg3495]

Every Tool song does

[@spooniisyourpal1545]

This song, through headphones in a beautiful place, indoors or outdoors, will change your life

[@benjohnson4404]

D/R/T is the most underrated masterpiece of musical genius ever created.

[@LukeNeumann]

This song is everything. This is it. Find the answer and you're done. No more searching required.

[@AwesomeLemur]

Someone might think your comment makes no sense but I feel it so much.

[@neiljohnson9686]

I hear you, but the search is never over nor should it be in my opinion.

[@marcostrujillo2617]

Once seen it cannot be unseen... Hope & Reason

[@marcostrujillo2617]

@@neiljohnson9686 The search may well be infinite

[@nitrofura9991]

Disposition and reflection, I've listened to these for so long and I'm still mesmerized

[@williamharper1071]

Rarely do I find a song that I can put on repeat and listen to for hours. This is one of those songs. Bravo tool

[@NationalistCoalition]

Tool is the only band I know of that changes my experience of things I look at in real time while listening to their music

[@jesseb1677]

This isn't a song. It's an immersive experience in an alternate universe!

[@PrOpCiRcLeS]

This song changed my life many years ago. Id meditate with it and have out of body experiences. It connected me to a life more real than reality, i met my higher-self. Wouldn't be who I am today without Tool. Thank you

[@GioTube.]

Hands down Tool's best track. HANDS DOWN.

[@mindslayer8252]

This is definitely one of the most complex songs for tool. As if there is an easy one 😆 but this one... I fully appreciate the time it took to record and release this album.

[@SnerMerNer]

I'd say Maynard's Dick is their easy one lol

[@gtg99]

The source is bright and endless, she resuscitates the hopeless. Without her we are lifeless satellites driiiifting Hits me! Peace and love brothers and sisters!

[@kineticwaves532]

This song is like a mystical experience. Great tribal rhythms going on.

[@billydeese1103]

Everybody always talks about the transittion from parabol to parabola, but the transition from disposition to reflection maybe one, if not my favorite transitions of all time.

[@robertsroberts1688]

And the one into triad gets me every time

[@SteenEGuttman79]

💀And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping 🌓The moon tells me a secret, her confidant ☀As full and bright as I am ✴This light is not my own and 🌟A million light reflections pass over me 💖The source is bright and endless 🙏She rescusitates the hopeless 🌕Without her we are lifeless satellites drifting 🎯And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt 🎯Don't wanna be down here serving my narcissism 🎯I must crucify the ego before it's far too late 🎯I pray the light lifts me out

[@pinkyswear1714]

Such beautiful music. An experience all should have. We all would be better people if we listened and lived by these lyrics. I will forever keep Tool as my religion.

[@SoundingSix]

Masters of their craft like no other. Such a satisfying ending that I've always loved

[@trafficking2596]

This track is the Third Eye of Lateralus.

[@Snyde91]

All uploaded on my birthday. Best present I got. Well, the only one but still..

[@ericemmeluth2295]

Is so it is

[@ericemmeluth2295]

Evade ceretrubum

[@TheBrunarr]

They released fear inoculum on my birthday!

[@ebobsmith9596]

Big B The upload was announced on my birthday, 4 weeks earlier; the best (and only, other than a T-shirt) present I received.

[@xinitomusic]

So 5 months after, Happy TOOL birthday! this was the best gift ever!!

[@arte.reaccion6080]

Classic. This is in my personal soundtrack. I love you, señor Maynard. Peace from Chile 🇨🇱

[@norseca542]

he sings partially in Spanish in Stranglehold

[@makoto5851]

Wena cabros yo tambien soy de chile

[@TheDarksoulx10000]

@@makoto5851 Wena compa yo igual

[@flyzeyefab]

When humanity breathes its last breath, TOOL's "Reflection" will be playing during and after the credits - how many humans on the planet are listening to this song right NOW... I loop this MASTERPIECE for weeks on end regularly. Absolute TOP of the list audio. Imagine a complementary video... Adam Jones, I know you have a vision!!!

[@AFel-pp1hp]

Every time i revisit this band I am immersed in a different way. I feel the songs differently with every stage of life: sometimes they're dark and gloomy, other times they're uplifting and awakening. Maybe the way these songs make me feel is a "reflection" ... with that being said, only tool can accomplish this versatility in sound. They have been touched from another dimension. 🙏

[@ethanflippinarnold6935]

You know a song is good when it makes 11 minutes sound like only 4.

[@PongGod]

Tool is really good at that. I can say the same about quite a few of their songs.

[@quentinbringthenumetalchil5125]

Oh, for sure!

[@Nooc210]

I've had this experience with Fear Inoculum (the whole album not just the song) it feels like one continuous piece and is over way too soon it seems. Truly epic and within and without the parameters of our perception(s) of time.

[@justinsimpson7461]

Well said man💯 they do, it's like oh no it's over lol never gets tedious or anything like that just spiritual

[@JohnSmith-is4uu]

@@Nooc210 upon release FI didnt hit me, now its all i play.

[@aaronfranke3251]

TOOL has helped me through some difficult times. It’s weird, but this band has had a hand in making me more spiritual. I see things differently after a long period of suffering. It’s beautiful and I want more.

[@aliaksandrhn1]

That solo starting at 7:35 is just breathtaking.

[@bussyhaver]

dont you love coming across a comment referencing a part of the song / video right at the moment you also arrive at that part?? 🤣 a deja vu like feeling !

[@6reen6uy]

I can not top the feeling I had the first time I heard them jam at 7:36 it’s too powerful a frequency for me. It’s like the entire song played at .5 speed.

[@tanyamorgan5362]

I feel like Tool were given the keys to the infinite, they went in, cherry picked some amazing shit and casually gifted it to us.

[@shevyman6430]

I've fall in and I can't get up the extreme sound of tool keeps burying me deeper in the music

[@aderral3196]

Its called LSD-25 😂

[@tanyamorgan5362]

@@aderral3196 Yeah most likely.

[@munkeeBraynStoo]

Or, they made a deal with the devil to make them the most talented rock stars. FI was ready and packaged up in 09. Maynard says he wasn't sure it was all it should be, so they didn't release it for 10 more years. I believe it was being headed and cursed constantly for those 10 years, so the prince of the power of the air allowed Tool to accomplish all Top 10 spots in one day.

[@tanyamorgan5362]

@@munkeeBraynStoo they are now that Rush have stopped doing it ;)

[@michaelmyers7425]

The guitar outro solo is like all of subjects' emotions pouring out and then a final purge with the last bend. It brings tears to my eyes no matter how many times I hear it.

[@Daggerfall40]

My favorite Tool song. Lateralus is a perfect album.