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Reflection by TOOL

TRACK

TOOL

Reflection

Release date: 14th May 2001

From LateralusTrack 1111:08
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About This Track

Tool's 'Reflection' arrives as the closing statement of a cyclical journey. The track fades in gradually, building through waves of intensity that crest and recede, only to rise again. Its architecture mirrors the emotional arc of the album itself, a slow accumulation of weight and release that leaves the listener suspended in contemplation. The song confronts ego and narcissism head-on, moving from a place of despair toward acceptance. The narrator begins in darkness, self-aware enough to recognise his own pitiful state, before invoking an external light as salvation. Tool frames this not as weakness but as necessary surrender: the ego must be crucified before it consumes entirely. The final verses expand outward, suggesting that this personal reckoning is universal, that all consciousness shares the same capacity for both delusion and redemption. The repeated refrain about pining away becomes both warning and prayer, a plea to transcend the self before it withers entirely.

"Reflection" is a track by TOOL, from the album Lateralus, released 14th May 2001. The track is 11:08 long. It's filed under Metal. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about TOOL.

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Lyrics

Reflection

I have come curiously close to the end, though
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
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, fetal and weeping
The moon tells me a secret, a 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 want to be down here serving 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
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
So let the light touch you, so that 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

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Track details

From Lateralus

11:082001
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Album
Lateralus
Lateralus
TOOL
15th May 2001
Track number
11
Release year
2001
  1. 1The Grudge
    8:37
  2. 2Eon Blue Apocalypse
    1:04
  3. 3The Patient
    7:14
  4. 4Mantra
    1:13

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Adam Jones, Danny Carey, Justin Chancellor, Maynard James Keenan
    Producer
    David Bottrill, Tool
    Bass
    Justin Chancellor
    Drums
    Danny Carey
    Guitar
    Adam Jones
    Vocals
    Maynard James Keenan
    Assistant Engineer
    Vince DeFranco
    Mastering Engineer
    Bob Ludwig
    Mixing Engineer
    David Bottrill
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    David Bottrill
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