This song is a prelude to the song “Parabola” on Tool’s third studio album Lateralus. It is lyrically very similar to “Parabola” and serves as a more calm opener to the heavier sound of “Parabola”. The song describes human existence and our own spirit and bodies in an eternal sense. It illustrates t...
[Verse]
So familiar and overwhelmingly warm
This one, this form I hold now
Embracing you, this reality here
This one, this form I hold now, so
Wide eyed and hopeful
Wide eyed and hopefully wild
We barely remember what came before this precious moment
Choosing to be here right now
Hold on, stay inside
This body holding me
Reminding me that I am not alone in
This body makes me feel eternal
All this pain is an illusion
Parabol was written by Justin Chancellor & Danny Carey & Adam Jones & Maynard James Keenan.
Parabol was produced by Tool & David Bottrill.