Tool - Reflection Lyrics

this is their best album for sure

7:34 best part

Is Invincible the sequel to this? Or is there other songs you think might be? It also could be the beginning of Descending because you can hear that water coming in

Apparently Disposition, Reflection and Triad are all connected and "one song" in that order, so invincible and descending arent connected

Sittin out back listening to disposition and halfway through the trees start creaking along with the music; theyre still doing it 😲 watch the weather change

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

This is one of very few videos that I will comment on. You have to find what's worth living for in this life. Consider the path you follow. To you, is it a life worth living? Are you following a path that's worth a lifetime of exploration? Only time will tell.

I ve said it before they are all genius

This track performed live outdoors under a full moon in October 2001 ....
Magic I will never forget. Also, try holding a plank while listening all the way through if you want an inner body experience. Cheers Tool Army!

Which drug, LSD or shrooms?

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

It's still unbelievable how talented all 4 members are. Each guy shines their brightest here and that's why I think this is their best track. Only wings for marie is as emotional for me

Pink Floyd of our time.

Yes...perfect ...

⚡⚡⚡👁️⚡⚡⚡ ⚡(((((((👤)))))))⚡. 🔈-------👂🔊⚡. ⚡🤲⚡

*How to listen to Reflection by TOOL*

*Step 1* : Get stoned.

*Step 2* : Play the song.

*Step 3* : Enjoy the most relaxing 11 minutes of your life.

Fear inccoimn

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. 🙏

Holy atmosphere... I love that industrial synth droning in the background

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...

The fisherman is here. Thank God.

@chronic2001n lolwut

10:21
i could listen to this forever

TOOL 2001 this live in the whole arrangements how they played track 10 ,11,12 live on that tour was tools best lived performance period

This song has one of the most captivating guitar notes ever!

Quiero fumar crack y sentir la conexión con Pachamama

Very similar to fear inoculum

Me and my dad have a hypothesis that the lyrics were recorded backwards and then flipped to be forewards

And it fits with the name too
Reflections usually make something backwards or opposite


But also
This is such a fucking good song

Like sang backwards?

@Zara for universal lord yea

@Zara for universal lord not throughout the entire thing but like that first part where it doesnt really sound right

@Bryanna F That'd be an awesome tallent, I'll play it backwards in this software I have and see if the vocals sound more human.
Just did it, it's hard to separate the instrumentals from the vocals but the vocals didn't sound any less bizzare backwards, and some of the jumps seemed even more unnatural than when the playback isn't reversed.

@Zara for universal lord okay cool. Maybe he tried to make it sound like that because it really does aound like it at least in the first bit. It would also make sense with the title, Reflection. Reflections make things backwards. Idk its just a theory and might be totally wrong.

I’m in love a very minimal if you will
Deep philosophical thought provoking dark psychedelic medley❤️

Vicarious

Tool is partially responsible for my path on spiritual Awakening. Listening to them for years, made me question everything around me, the institution that we live in, the ills of society. Consciousness, questioning everything in religion, and everything In life in general. I've also had some pretty hard times where life was so fucking hard that i could barely keep going and then "tool" . My love letter to you tool!!! You changed my life.

Holy shit wtf sounds like Styx mr roboto like 30-40 seconds in when that synthesizer comes in

Even the fade out is a magnificent riff itself.

On repeat

strangely one of my favorite tool songs...just picture myself wandering through some dark desert...love the guitar rift..but hey that can be said of any tool song right?

agreed, note the paradox...

I get water in my eyes every time I hear Maynard's gentle sigh at 5:47. Is there something wrong with me?

Michał K. Honestly most of what he says sets me off lol

10:14 can one of you please be a saint and make a 10 hour version of this please

When he speaks of crucifyimg the ego it always makes me think of the words of Edgar Cayce.

Quién?

One of the greatest heart opening songs of all time. Thank you for this 💖🙇‍♂️🙏💞

I think one of the main reasons Tool is able to appear more spiritual and mystical than other bands that try is because Maynard actually is educated on spirituality. Rather than people just using it as a neat gimmick.

All you have to do is observe. Selfless and all encompassing. Individually, we are all very different from one another. Collectively, we are One and the same. This collective realization I believe is the catalyst for the next stage of human evolution.

the build up in this song is unreal.

This song deserves much more love!!

What madness conjured this magnum opus.ummo6o6omoomokmokmokmokommokmoomokmokmokmokmokmoomkmokmokm . hmm gd9r0m f2f . okmokmo6kkokmmokmookmkokmokmokmookk6 k mmokmokmoomoomokmokmokmokk6ok6omok6o ok 5om7mom7m.om.o6m.o6m.6om7m.7

Did DMT for the first time to this song and Triad. Fucking incredible

Did DMT for the first time to this song and Triad. Fucking incredible

I smoked DMT to this song.
Jealous??

Well u should be because it was fucking amazing

Yyyyeeessss IIII aaammmm!

Whatever beautiful woman I do end up marrying one day I pray she will enjoy Tool with me.

Must crucify the ego, before it’s far too late

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

Your opinion is true

I love Tool. I have to say this song is channeling NIN though. The whole beat for almost the whole song is strait up from the song "The Becoming" https://youtu.be/oKsqfT0IpLo

When you really want to hit that 10 min mark






jk I love this band

Funny..shoulda took a bike ride instead

@Bro Odom or listened to something else😂ppl need to understand humor

I'm kind of bummed because I just so badly want to smoke and listen to this on the floor but I will be kicked off the kidney transplant waiting list if I smoke.

Good news though, I can drink a little of whiskey if I want to!
No stigma there...

This would fit in perfectly with Fear Inoculum

Love this song soo much.

one of my all time favourite TOOL songs. never gets the credit it deserves.

This song never ceases to massage my soul in just the right way. Tool went into another realm and came back with the gift of this song for all of us. Thank You Tool.

What a song, so beautiful and haunting and hypnotic

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 :)

THIS IS PURE CRYSTAL ART

man, i fell in love with Fear Inoculum. But even Lateralus is a masterpiece....how can one chose?

You choose all of them brother

@MrDostoeyevsky sometimes i'm annoyed by the fact that i like them so much.
Guess that's the magic of art.

Never choose. Enjoy it all.

YOU DONT!

When you realize that your intro is already 3:44 minutes, so you decide to extend the song to 11:09 minutes

What is the name of the movie that used in the fan made video? (The video got removed)

I love de violin, I always thinks whas maynard voice but in the breakdown its obvious

Sincaplar gezer palamut okyanuslarının yanan cam yosunlarında

One of the most AMAZING songs. I remember listening to this song with my buddy's in our high school parking lot the day it was released. I remember it was the first time I heard them, I was 18, and I was immediately captured.

Sounds like this influenced the intro bass in fear innoculum

E's A gone air

I heard this music from a Metal Slug Flash game called, "Urban Slug."

They should have a suicide prevention hotline but when you call they just play this song on repeat

What happened to the video!!! What happened to all the videos!? Talk about a bad acid trip

I know I miss my videos,i should have saved them.The video for Pushit is gone.

I only recently bought Lateralus. I couldn't afford it until recently. I have all but one album now. I don't listen to them a song here and a song there. I've been going through the albums from beginning to end. I find that everything around me has become an annoying distraction from Tool, and that I wish I had a house so I could fill it with this wonderful music. I just can't bring myself to be "that" neighbor and blast my stereo in my apartment.

But I wish to extend my deep and most profound thanks to Maynard, Danny, Adam, and Justin for all the wonderful music. Thank you gentlemen. Thank you.

Do not use magic mushrooms they are not safe. I repeat, they are not safe. God speed.

Bad trip huh?

@Pyschonaut lol

@Pyschonaut shrooms aren't for everyone. My puny mind couldn't handle them.

@Pyschonaut i lost control of my body

@Vodkacannon its ok your ego was just trying fight back into reality and do what ego does, survive. Just let go(kill the ego) and ride the wave and embrace the randomness it provides because it actually teaches you a lesson and give you want you need, not want.

This song flicks your ass off a huge cliff and catches you all at once.

This song has helped me mentally so much...
"And as I pull my head out, I am without one doubt, don't wanna be down here..."

This song got me thinking about one word. Despair. We can't control the circumstances we find ourselves in. So we tend to wallow in self pity and hold on to our grudges rather than make a conscious effort to come out of the comforting facade we've placed around us.

You're wack

The outro riff tears at me.

Chancellor.

Lateralus will always be their Magnum Opus

I slightly prefer Ænima but Lateralus is still objectively perfect.

proof Maynard is better then freddie

Am I crazy or are the opening drums here different from the CD? (listens again) holy shit, they are. The first two bars. On my imported CD, the first melodic tom ascension is followed by a little light fill before repeating the pattern, and the second bar features the hard stop on the snare. In this video, however, that is reversed.

For real, is anyone else noticing this?

I haven't got the CD, but if I ever get a copy I'll check that out.

Can't shove my earphones any deeper into my ears goddamnnit

*unzips*

Ephemeral Memory wh-

!!! Goddamnit !!!

Before I pine away

@Ephemeral Memory please dont

Probably just me but this sounds like something that would fit very well in the original 2 Fallout games, particularly the first one. I can imagine it playing in the cathedral or when heading to battle The Master.

WEAR THE GRUDGE LIKE A CROWN OF NEGATIVITY

That’s the Best song by tool, but you got the wrong video lol

This helps me. Also it's fun to play on guitar

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

YUP 100%

To me personally, the greatest.

it's a great album, but lets not jerk off in a circle.

*THE GREATEST*

@shaking like tremolo It's an important album in music industry and history for sure man. It's a pivotal moment in music and art in general.

Sounds like the chorus on culling voices

1:36 wow........





damn

I now feel woke because of this song. Anyone else?
Smash like if you do.
👇

Lyrics

I have come curiously
Close to the end,
Now
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,
Feeble 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 resuscitates 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
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
And capable of all that's
Imagined and unconceivable
So
Let the light touch you,
So
Let the words spill through
And let the past break 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...

Thanks genius

Decending is the same beat as this. Decending is like if they redid this song but better. They're both beautiful peices of art that make my soul leak

@Julio Rodrigues OMG how did I not notice that!!!

Reflection, imo, is better than descending. Far more powerful, but I havent properly listened to Descending- maybe ill change my mind idk.

@nopleease Both in my top 10!

I think reflection is way better than descending

Descending is the best song I've ever heard

Hey it's a song about self actualization and in 8/8!

My favorite Tool song. Lateralus is a perfect album.

Take mushrooms & listen to Disposition Reflection Triad through the come up. Its fantastic but this part is the juiciest

Mushrooms are bad for you.

@Vodkacannon wrong

You cannot dislike this song, for its meaning and entire composition just can't. This must be one of their best, at least on my top without any doubt :)

El mejor tema de Tool

I am enjoying existence listening with you all.

Thank you!!!

Is a 4/4 tool song? Wtf

BUENARDOO

A shame that whoever played the sarangi on this track isn't credited anywhere afaik. I don't think it's a sample as it's really well performed and doesn't loop frequently enough, and I don't think it's a MIDI sound for the same reason. I'm sure whoever played it would've loved to have been acknowledged.

Adam played it...

@Sthaman Sinha Are you certain of that? If so that's pretty awesome!

My favorite from this album

Spiral Out!

Why is there an old phone ringing in the background starting at 9:52?

maynard's mom calling to tell him his little fishies are baked

I do not hear it

This will be the entire last album but I dont fall asleep in the middle of the tracklist and it last 11 minutes

I wish people would stop going on about Schism, Parabola, Lateralus (song) etc and pay more attention to this. It just seems people listen to the most popular songs (i.e singles and old chart songs) and don't pay attention to the real masterpieces. Not real Tool fans.