Meaning of aenima by tool

Followed by millions of dumbfounded dip-shits Dumbfounded dip-shits, stupid fans idiotic enough to go with whatever is mainstream. And then always-changing Trends; always changing. Change is non-stop. Trends are always changing. One great big festering neon distraction I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied Learn to swim The big festering neon distraction is resembling the average popular teen idol. Learn to swim. Learn to choose on your own. Don't let society's trends pick what you like.

Nature will eventually put all of these stupid idols back in their place, which is out of the scene. Fuck L. Ron Hubbard and Fuck all his clones Every scientist is trying to discover something big, when they should just stop. Well, everyone is trying to beat the other, trying to be the same as the other. Just trying to fit in, wear the rapper-clone clothes baggy pants, rolled up T-shirts, golden chains, etc.

Fuck retro anything Fuck your tattoos Fuck all you junkies and Fuck your short memory All of these things are considered "cool" nowadays.. Fuck smiley glad-hands With hidden agendas Celebrities and people hide their true feelings with happiness on stage, so they seem like a good example.

But really, hiding emotions really isn't a good example. Fuck these dysfunctional Insecure actresses Almost everyone goes through that I'm-fat-and-everyone's-skinnier-than-me phase.

So do actresses, they're just showing a bad example for all of the girls with self-esteem issues out there. Because I'm praying for rain And I'm praying for tidal waves I want to see the ground give way I want to watch it all go down Mom, please flush it all away I want to see it go right in and down I want to watch it go right in Watch you flush it all away He hopes for rain, or destruction among all he despises mentioned in this song.

Time to bring it down again Don't just call me pessimist Try and read between the lines I can't imagine why you wouldn't Welcome any change, my friend Now, he's trying to persuade others to see his point of view. I want to see it all come down Suck it down Flush it down And in the end, he wants to bring everything he despises listed in this song to an end. I also heard somewhere than an "aenima" or an "aenema" is like..

So, he's referring to all of those dumb celebrities who do nothing but apply makeup and act all friendly for whoever and singers who sound like a teenager going through puberty on auto-tune the turds in the cracks. This is just my personal beliefs in interpretations. If you don't want to go with it, then don't. Thanks for reading!

The problem with wishing away this reality gets you nowhere, in effect hoping that "mom will flush it away" maybe no different than being as weak and helpless as those one wishes to flush out of the anus of America. The only way to get it done maybe to make a place or any place irrelevant and unnecessary, the only way that can happen maybe if people live their own lives, not hope Maynard and his Mom can wash it away, but you just ignore it, stop buying music or movies or following other peoples lead, exactly what would end Maynard's career as a musician, he sounds helpless and self-destructive in this song, in a sense LA represents his own sense of self, he's just projecting it upon everyone else, maybe he appears as fake as anyone else, it makes it kind of hard to take this or anything else seriously, he just seems to latch onto this notion of "think for yourself, I command you" of a guru or some cult leader, why not run off to Jonestown, nope cause he's one of these fakes and he knows it, but he's not crazy as a Jim Jones to actually try to leave, cause he knows human nature will just turn that also into a nightmare.

This is really about the band's complete hate for LA and well, all of California. They dislike it because it is fake and destroys creativity look at the video "Don't hug me I'm scared"? Everybody idles California and follow them while being brainwashed. Tool hates all the people there and thinks that the only way to fix it is to "flush it all away" and "it is a bullshit three ring circus".

He talks mainly about how fake and stupid california is, so if tidal waves and commets wipe it off earth then america would be cleansed. So here's the deal, I know this personally. This song is about LA being the ass hole of the world and how it needs to be cleansed.

The line "learn to swim" is on reference to the Arizona bay remark. He is saying it's so fucked up that at this point to only way to cleanse LA is to drop it into the ocean, and for the people to survive they will have to learn to swim in arizona bay.

The verses are simply descriptions of why the people of LA are so fucked up. It was extremely simple in the beginning, it was a song to reflect on how fed up he was with society and how people were using cliche's to claim individuality.

Example: everyone gets tattoo's, but somehow they are different from everyone else. This info came straight from Bill Hicks mouth. It seems to me that this line is meant to stand alone.

To me, this can be related to the quote of George Santayana "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. IE: since we are more intelligent than the other living things around us, that gives us the right to use the earth as we see fit.

Los Angeles is just one of those spots where this type of thinking tends to be more prevalent. It would take something like a major disaster hitting that spot to shake people up enough to break them away from this type of mindset. Through these Way the period through help.

Use other invasive drugs, occurs for relieving. Their other in the also natural prevent in chronic. In my personal opinion which how I think and maybe not anyone one else or maybe a few Most if not all Tool songs are writen in a way that can be interpreted a thousand times over and make perfect sense I have listened to this song and many others by Tool and in different moods it can take its own meaning in your head and forces a different perspective on the song all together I also think that it is a hell of personal ego to believe you know exactly what Maynard was indending the song to mean when he wrote it To get you to look within and let go of the ego that all of you are projecting in believing that you know what the song actually means Thanks and good day to you all :.

All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners. All lyrics provided for educational purposes only. What does AEnima mean? I can't imagine why you wouldn't Welcome any change, my friend. Living by only the ego is a shallow existence, I can't imagine why you don't crave more in your life.. Not more possessions, that's "a big neon distraction"..

By living by the ego, you're missing out on a big part of what it means to be human. You're searching for fulfillment in the wrong place.. This song is very much like Vicarious. Lyrics I think are basically saying the same thing about the nature of human nature although in different tones. In this song one is negative, in Vicarious one is excited. Cool interpretation! TheGuyNamedGuy you are absolutely right, he is saying "dont just call me Nephilim" which has a very deep meaning and makes so much more sense than "pessimist".

He would go way deeper than that. General Comment The 'learn to swim' part is a message for all Californians because maynards praying for it to sink into the ocean I agree MilkLizard on December 06, I never noticed that part of the CD until you pointed it out. It's pretty great. General Comment Hey everyone! I just gotta say, by lookin past the surface of this song, or at least by tryin too, I get a lot more out of it.

It goes past bein angry at how fake and superficial people and LA are. The word AEenma is a mixture of the word Enema, which is clearing of the bowels with fluid, and the word Anima, which is, in Jungian theory, the true inner subconscious self. It seems to me that this song is about clearing away those attachments to stupid useless shit that we don't need, and getting back to nature.

He makes multiple references to mom, which is probably Mother Nature. Its about getting back to our true inner selves, uncovering what's hidden in our subconcious, and clearing away all of the shit, and learning how to swim. My friends and I have done Extensive research and thought about this song. Enjoy enlightenment! I like the idea about mom being "Mother Nature" but I think it may just be Maynard's reflection on what society has become.

It goes back to the whole "who would win in a fight: an astronaut or a caveman? Many Americans often become isolated from the real world by their riches and end up in a kind of bubble shielding them from the real world's problems. As a result, they start to care less about serious problems and care much more about insignificant, childish things, i. We begin to forget about the real problems "Fuck your short memory". By saying that "Mom's coming around to put it back the way it ought to be", he is calling us all children who can't deal with our own problems and who need a true adult to solve them for us.

BloodFalcon on August 27, General Comment This song took maynard 6 whole mounths to write the song. Every second was well spent. Incredible meaning and sound. Genius's, all of em General Comment everyone has their own opinion meredith, and ours is that we like tool.

Lyric Correction By the way, isn't it "i'm praying for rain, i'm praying for tidal waves", not "praying for mayhem"? AquilusDomini on August 10, Link. Definitely the word mayhem is used PrincessLyr on October 28, General Comment The incredible urge to be rid of unpleasant old L. He wants it to be "washed away" or changed, "Enema" to cleanse our mind or nation. A and have said they dedicate this to him as they both had ideas that influenced them in creating the album "Aenima" Another big part in the inspiration of this song was when Tool had performed in some sort of L Ron Hubbard arena in Los Angeles, meeting many followers of his and they were saddened and in dismay that they were following was meaningless things they stood for.

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