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Sometimes I have a way with words, but most of the time, I can't put what I feel into words. This next paragraph was written by "Angel" about a song by Tool called "Jimmy" off of the ÆNIMA album.

Written by: angel (closetdweller@thevortex.com)Posted on: 08/09/99 21:51:54 this song gives me goosebumps and shivers. maynard's voice is so...i dunno...serene in this song...so calm and collected...reserved and soemwhat innocent, but not in a pure sense...more like...someone who's found something new and they lose it and....that's never happened before..i don't know...it's probably just the personal effect jimmy has on me...this song reminds me of the things that went on when my dad was sick and dying of cancer...when i was 11, nonetheless. I would expand on how and why...but it would take a lot of time....and probably bore you all to death in the process...it's uncomfortable to hear/read about anyways. i doubt any of you want to hear about the horrible death of a man you didn't even know.... however..if by some odd chance you wanna know you can email me and i might talk about it.... anyways....i see a few things the song could possible mean...for me, it'd be the death of a loved one, and the journey the person left alive has to take (a mental journey) to be with the person (NOT suicide...unless the person has given up all hope and want for life...but i don't think that's a way out of anything). Every day i wish i could be with my dad...or he could be alive.... but to me, this song is about losing this person...this priceless soul...and not just by means of death, by giving up all hope, being left "with the dead and hopelessness" i know i just said that above, but i'm going deeper into this topic. this person feels and actually thinks that nothing will ever be okay again...their loved one is lost forever. the narrator of the song actually says that their loved one is waiting for them....but they're still lost in grief...until the next part comes "Moving me with a sound.Opening me within a gesture.Drawing me down and in, Showing me where it all began, Eleven. " something happens...dreams maybe...memories...and then they realize this light, voice, loved one is not gone forever. physically maybe...but not mentally, emotionally, spiritually. This is what happened to me. Dreams showed me that my dad still watches out for me....i feel his presence...i can remember the good times we had, even if there wasn't a lot...the walks through the park, swimming, movies...playing together, those were the things that opened up my mind again, brought back hope. "it took so long to realize that you were the voice that's been leading me home" it did take me a while....even cost me some nightmares...to realize that even through death, he's still here....and this person in the song, well something like that happened...some time went by and they realized one day...that all wasn't lost and hopeless. and now they're thinking to themself...what the hell was i doing, "where the hell have i been?" all this time has passed that i could have been remembering good moments, when instead i was dwelling on the moment he was gone, or whoever this person is in the song...me too...I was angry at myself for not using the time wisely. time heals wounds...true....scars will be left though, sometimes. and this person is saying that it'll just take them some time till they can be comfortable thinking again, instead of being "sleeping lost and numb" for a while i thought it was a love song....like him and her and they're not together anymore boohoo...but it's not that simple...that's too everyday...this has deeper meanings...maybe death....maybe TRUE love.....not just you know...young lust...maybe some married couple is trying to find a way through their differences, separating for a while, then realizing that it isn't the end of the world after all, and with time and comfort they can heal and grow together again.who knows but i must say that this song brings upon me emotions that no other song has ever made me feel....i love jimmy for it.....the music...the lyrics especially...and the tone of his voice...it's magic

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The lyrics for the song "Jimmy" are located here if you want to take a look at them to get a better "understanding" of what you feel the song's about.