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The closing track on 'Ænima' opens with spoken-word samples from comedian Bill Hicks, whose voice frames the song's exploration of altered consciousness and personal awakening. The track runs over thirteen minutes, the first eight unfolding in patient, hypnotic cycles before the structure shifts into more recognisable rock territory, bridges and choruses emerging as Maynard James Keenan screams the refrain about forcing open the third eye. The lyrics move through dream imagery and fragmented memory, a child's rhyme about life as dream lodged in the narrator's head whilst he attempts to reassemble scattered pieces of identity. Tool credit the imagery of phosphorescent desert buttons and warm wild eyes, the song building towards a cathartic release that arrives only after extended, meditative build-up. The samples and the lyrical content align around the idea of psychedelic experience as a route to clarity, the track functioning as both tribute to Hicks and statement of intent about the value of altered states in breaking through to understanding.
"Third Eye" is a track by Tool, from the album Ænima, released 17th September 1996. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Tool.
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