Looking at the song from the perspective of rediscovering communitcation, I interpret the song to be about the band overcoming it's previous strife to be the great band they are.
I think this is a great song because it is open to so many interpretations. Anything that was whole, seperated, and came back together, could be the subject of this song. That's what I love about it. It's about Maynard's break-up with his fiance. Mildewed and smouldering. Fundemental differing. They fit together perfectly if you've ever been there, you know what I mean.
The pieces "fell away" when things started going wrong. When certain fundemental differences came up. Disintegrating as it goes Testing our communication. But it disintegrated as time went on, and tested their communication.
Crippling our communication. They can't see how it can work now, and this causes their communication to fail. It's no one's fault, but he still wants to blame her, which would destroy their relationship the temple.
Then he could put all the pieces back together, and rediscover their lost communication. He finds beauty in the lack of harmony. He's thought about it enough to know that them second guessing their love is what caaused this rift.
And he also knows that it will be irreparable soon if they don't grow and fix the problem. Between supposed lovers. I just wanna say something about the line "and the poetry that comes from the squaring off between and the circling is worth it, finding beauty in the dissonance.
Also linking 'the squaring of the circle' a thing many ancient cultures did, I think to symbolize the comming together of the male and female. Square being male, circle being female. There clearly is a dissonance between the two, but he says, the poetry that comes from strugles of coming together is beautiful and worth it.
I think this is the most realistic and insightfull and profound portreal of the meaning of relationships and love I know, all in one sentence. Thank you Maynard. I couldn't have explained it any better myself. I really enjoy that 2 is the most accurate and yet the guy trying so hard to be deep and right instead of just understanding is 1.
A great educational song by TOOL on Schisim that can deviate us from the truth like most ''isims'' have done for a long time in breaking us apart in pieces on the personal level from families into relationships with each other and on society level through the ''isims''of the divisions from the old phylosophies and religion that divided us further along with a different name of phycology and phyciatry.
Now there is always hope by this song that the pieces of the puzzle can be put back together in putting the stop on the runaway train with a lot of work to know ourselves that needs to backtrack and to go back in time even further before the temple fell in pieces, to use that wisdom that we had to once accept to learn from that past in educating all for the good and not by deviating us from that once known truth by making the same mistake in the future to build by division of dividing.
It has to do with something ending or breaking due to lack of comunication. I know the pieces fit cause I watched the fall away. Thats saying that he knows that everything could workout because he witnessed it end. If you read or listen to the lyrics you will hear a lot about comunication.
Anyway thats just what I think. He was in a relationship with my friend Mary the entire ten years he was with her. He did write apc's Magdalena for Mary. I am going to agree that schism is definitely a well thought out absolutely stunning analogy for the separation that occurred due to organized religion separating God and the sciences. They are in fact one in the same.
Every electron particle is a tiny miracle and truly magic. We're very lucky to be aware of the awesome power of the universe from the mighty giant gas planets down to the sub atomic life of a quark.
I agree with the most popular post, Though, one thing has been left out and is the most easily overlooked, Watch the video and look at the wall in the background and the fact that the people in the video form a triangle. This is of great importance to understand how the pieces fit because two pieces coming together form the third, a trinity if you will. Now if you take a piece of paper and wright out three lines of dots of three then connect each dot to the other dot forming a square with a cross in the middle then connect the diagonal lines, you will find a man in the middle of it.
Let him who hath understanding calculate the number of the beast for it is the number of "A" man. Each part, three on top and three on bottom. This is the key to unlimited energy and anti-gravity and possibly time travel. Everything is triangles. Then a dot within the circle. I'm not crazy, again just watch the video.
My interpretation of this song is about the fall of the tower of babel. I think it was a punishment from God or something like that. I believe this song generally described the act of losing ones ego to the point of ultimate clarity of consciousness and understanding pure consciousness understands that it is easily fooled and most thoughts are not taken fully literally - there is no truth except for the subjective and objective 'truth' in combination, which is not the abstract kind of 'truth' that we hear about most of the time.
Anyway, Meditation, spirituality and the use of chemical tools or these tools that the band Tool has created - arts and music can open your mind up to the reality of 'one-ness'. This realisation is where "the pieces fit" you have access to thinking and a way of being that is free of confusion and deceit that humans are normally plagued with. Schism is the breaking from this state of consciousness back to the Ego-driven consciousness which is inferior and useless. Humans can come to great realisations through the discarding of all levels of our ego.
Pure knowledge is the spearhead of the evolution of Life itself. For a human being to be able to keep higher consciousness while also returning to their daily life is very difficult - it may even be impossible for pure consciousness and the ego co-exist in daily life because they are mutually exclusive forms of consciousness, perception, knowing.
Okay, to wrap this all up I'll refer to the video one more time I mean notice what happens to the 2 separated people [who represent "denominations"] I mean one even stands on his head during the song. Yet in the end, the 2 come together, reforming the one true body Thanks for reading my entirely too long interpretation I know a lot of what I've said isn't right, but I like to believe that my belief is pretty close. However, once again, Tool's music is meant for you to make your OWN interpretation, so you can apply it to your own life Once again, sorry this is so long as are all of my other interpretations.
Continue to keep posting, and keep open that third eye It is used to describe when the pope of the Roman Catholic Church and the Patriach of the Eastern Orthodox Church excommunicated each other. I will even quote my history book,"In , Pope Leo IX and the patriarch Michael Cerularius, head of the Byzantine Church, formally excommunicated each other-each took away the other's right of church membership.
If this is about religion, then why all the references to "lovers" and - most importantly - to the number 2? If this indeed was about religion separating from an original unified source then we are discussing many much more than two religions that currently exists.
This could easily be done lyrically and in the music video clip. Anyway I gave a vote up due to the "relationship" interpretation, which so far I feel is correct : kek on November 07, General Comment I dont think this really has anything to do with religion at all, but its all in your take of it.
Personally i look more at the relationship meaning. The pieces he is talking about, are pieces of the relationship, that he watched fall apart in front of his eyes.
The strongest evidence is "cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion" He is saying that leaving things broken, and with hard feelings, will destroy any bond that was between two people. Toolkid on January 21, Link. Randomidentity on October 08, Randomidentity: While it is true that the word schism is usually used in connection with religion, it can be a split or division between any two parties.
If you want to go with the religious sense, the lyrics can be interpreted thus: when two people become committed lovers, they join together spiritually to create one unit or at least, that's what some people believe.
In this case, the schism would be the division of the spiritual entity--a couple--into two separate people again. Also, schism is a very heavy world, with a stronger connotation that mere "separating"; two units which used to be one have become irrevocably opposed.
A separation from a serious relationship would indeed be a schism for most people. MaidOMetal on August 28, General Comment Tool is amazing and so is this song. I don't look so much at the religion aspect, but more at the relationship part. Either way you look at it, it's great.
JulieMarlene on January 08, Link. Our religion teacher also says that there was only one way to sin and that is if you break a relationsship to god. In that sense maybe it still can be religiously themed because, paraphrasing what has been posted above, the "holy gift" or whatever is compromised by man's attraction to a religious meritocracy of heaven and hell. It could be like why depend on god when man has the ability to do the work he deems necessary by himself, despite concidering it to be a matter of faith?
JulieMarlene Schism is about observing the dual nature of our minds, a cognitive dissonance and being aware of this afflictions various resultant forms of manifestation in our lives. My Interpretation This is a pretty strait forward piece If you have ever been in the situation before. When you can't seem to come to any sort of agreement with a loved one and it tears you apart. You can see the series of events that lead up to the situation at hand, but you can't change them. You watch yourself fit into the puzzle and start pointing the finger and blaming the other.
You watch your communication start to "mildew and smolder" as you have lost touch with how to be open and honest with each other. You resent each other as well as yourslefs because you see you are doing the same.
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy sense of compassion Growing cold and bitter. This is when you begin to establish a rot in the foundation of your relationship. From here on out we are "Doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication" psillypsymun on March 24, Link. No Replies Log in to reply. General Comment Within any relationship there is a breakdown. I don't focus on the literal meaning of this song, but rather the meaning it has in myself.
My breakdown of religious beliefs started with a tragedy in my life and has continued to grow as a deep void in my life. I resort to this song for entertainment and to let me know that there is nothing wrong with the fact that I am anti-religious.
Tool incorporates several meanings into one song, but that is my personal view of his many talents. Listen and Feel. I battled a similar situation, and found a void-filler if you will in the form of a religion that over-compensates for any type of self-loathing and inner-emptiness. Check out the url: lds. Morethanwords21 on August 01, Schism is about observing the dual nature of our minds, a cognitive dissonance and being aware of this afflictions various resultant forms of manifestation in our lives.
General Comment This song is about the tower of babel. They decided to build a tower so tall that they could reach up to God. God was angry and he punished the people by giving them different languages and spreading them all over the planet, so that they could not cooperate to finish the building of the tower.
Tool is singing about rebuilding the tower, probably not in a litteral way, but in a figurative way, they're talking about how mankind should "rediscover communication" and finding a way to reach God. At least, that makes perfect sense to me! It says they were trying to make a name for themselves just like people do today - Trump Tower for instance God wanted people to worship Him - not themselves. However, people always want to worship themselves and live with their own ideas of what is right and wrong instead of by what God says.
This is why He destroyed the world with a flood in the first place. People are the same way again today. That is why we are close to getting destroyed the second time this time will be by fire instead of water.
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