LIPAN CONJURING LYRICS
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Lipan-Conjuring-lyrics-Tool/CB054EEF9063779A4825715F0023F6B8Heya heya heya ho
heya heya heya ho
hooooya hoooooya
heya heya heya ho
HOOOOOOOOOOYO
Heya hoya heya ho
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Tool
Formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California
http://www.songmeanings.net/artist.php?aid=249First off, these lyrics are totally wrong.
The Lipan Apache are a band of native americans in Texas that are still kicking, in spite of the fact that modern Anthropology tells us their culture has been lost.
As for "conjuring," dictionary.com gives us the definition: To summon (a devil or spirit) by magical or supernatural power.
In rosetta stoned, we are told that an ET (extra terrestrial) visits the speaker of that song as a result of 'blotter' which is typically how LSD is ingested; the ET delivers him a message ('I don't even know what it means').
Whether or not the Lipan Apache make use of psychoactive narcotics, I am unsure. However, it is commonplace in many tribal societies to take an alkaloid (like Mescaline, Psilosybin or Psilocin) in order to induce a trance-like state known to modern science as "ecstacy". Wikipedia's artical on Shamanism describes a shaman's initiation in the Americas as symbolic of the journey into the underworld, to gain the knowledge of the dead. It is a symbolic death and rebirth, such as is found in mythologies all over the world, including that of Christianity, Asatru, and others. The article also tells us that among a Shaman's tools are the "Use of "power" or "master" plants to induce altered states". These plants are alkaloids, including Peyote, Salvia Divinorum, and Cannibus, all of which are used recreationally by today's generation.
Now, if any of you are big on Tool, you might know that they frequently draw parallels between Fairy stories, or stories of spirits, and extra-terrestrial encounters. If you look through their Newsletters on their site (toolband.com), you'll see what I mean.
Also, if you listan to Fiaap de Oiad, the final track of Lateralus, you hear a clip from the Art Bell show, wherein a man declares that the US government is in league with aliens, but that they are not extra-terrestrial, rather that they are extra-demensional.
So, taking Dictionary.com's definition of Conjuring, in lieu of "Lipan Conjuring" and "Rosetta Stoned" we can begin to understand the story of a man who takes LSD (a "need-to-know potion") and as a result is visited by extra-demensional beings.
Does this sound like Conjuring to you? It does to me.
Anyhow, not that I have an authoritative definition but... Anyone who thinks this interlude is meaningless, or stupid is off their rocker. The members of Tool are very intelligent men, and they take a lot of time to make their albums for a reason.
Those of you who are interested simply in their grinding metal-like sound will probably be quickly disappointed/turned off by this album; while it does have a lot of rockin' riffs, there're some long, intellectual songs here that are designed to make you THINK. (I know it hurts, but you get used to it.)
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Tool - 10,000 Days (Wings Part 2)http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858590262Listen to the tales and romanticize,
How we follow the path of the hero.
Boast about the day when the rivers overrun.
How we rise to the height of our halo.
Listen to the tales as we all rationalize,
Our way into the arms of the savior.
Fading all the trials and the tribulations,
None of us have actually been there.
Not like you.
Ignorant fibbers in the congregation.
Gather around spewing sympathy.
Spare me...
None of them can even hold a candle up to you,
Blinded by choices hypocrites won't see.
But enough about the collective Judas
Who could deny you were the one who illuminated.
Your little piece of the divine.
This little light of mine,
The gift you passed onto me.
I'll let it shine,
To guide you safely on your way.
Your way home. Just for special people or the really irate!:
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