"Lateralus" lyrics
"Lateralus"
Black then white are all I see
In my infancy.
Red and yellow then came to be,
Reaching out to me,
Lets me see.
As below, so above and beyond,
I imagine drawn beyond the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.
Over-thinking, over-analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.
Black then white are all I see
In my infancy.
Red and yellow then came to be,
Reaching out to me.
Lets me see
There is so much more
And beckons me
To look through to these
Infinite possibilities.
As below, so above and beyond,
I imagine drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.
Over-thinking, over-analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, leaving opportunities behind.
Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.
Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.
I embrace my desire to
I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected
Enough to step aside and weep like a widow
To feel inspired, to fathom the power,
To witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
To swing on the spiral, to swing on the spiral,
To swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.
With my feet upon the ground
I lose myself between the sounds
And open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out.
I'm reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me.
Whatever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind
We may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end
And may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out. Keep going. [4x]
Thanks to Travis Dinnen, Eric for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Adam Thomas Jones, Justin Gunner Chancellor, Daniel Edwin Carey, Maynard James Keenan
This song is the third single and title track of their third studio album.
The number of syllables in the verses arranged according to Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8.
The working title of this song was "987" because the time signatures of the chorus change from 9/8 to 8/8 to 7/8. Drummer Danny Carey said, "It was originally titled '9-8-7'. For the time signatures. Then it turned out that 987 was the 16th number of the Fibonacci sequence. So that was cool."
The first verse of this song begins at 97 seconds, which is approximately 1.618 minutes, The Golden Ratio.
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