“Descending” is a winding progressive rock piece, with passionate vocal passages and heavy guitar solos. The band had been teasing the song for almost a decade during live performances, and originally released the finished song live on the first show of their 2019 tour, along with “Invincible”
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[Verse 1]
Free fall through our midnight
This epilogue of our own fable
Heedless in our slumber
Floating nescient, we
[Verse 2]
Free fall through this boundlessness
This madness of our own making
Falling isn't flying
Floating isn't infinite
[Pre-Chorus]
Come, our end, suddenly
All hail our lethargy
Concede suddenly
[Interlude]
To the quickened dissolution
Pray we mitigate the ruin
Calling all to arms and order
[Verse 3]
Drifting through this boundlessness
This madness of our own making
[Pre-Chorus]
Sound our dire reveille
Rouse all from our apathy
Lest we
Cease to be
[Chorus]
Stir us from our
Wanton slumber
Mitigate our ruin
Call us all to arms and order
[Bridge]
Sound the dread alarm
Through the primal body
Sound the reveille
To be or not to be
Rise
Stay the grand finale
Stay the reading of our swan song and epilogue
One drive to stay alive
Elementary
Muster every fiber
Mobilize
Stay alive
[Chorus]
Stir us from our
Wanton slumber
Mitigate our ruin
Call us all to arms and order
Descending was written by Danny Carey & Justin Chancellor & Adam Jones & Maynard James Keenan.
Descending was produced by Tool & Mat Mitchell & Andrew Means & Tim Dawson.
Tool released Descending on Fri Aug 30 2019.