Heard it 10,000 times and still cry EVERY time 😢💜

My mother passed away in 2020 after suffering a stroke and being paralyzed and mute for 18 years. We read the lyrics "Shake your fist at the gate...give me my wings" at her funeral. Probably not too many 72 year olds have TOOL lyrics read at their funeral 😪

These two songs are a tribute (eulogy) to his mother, Judith Marie, who spent over 27 years in a wheelchair, but never lost her faith in the lord… something Maynard struggled to accept. In this album he reconciles those feelings.

The greatest love song ever written in my opinion!

Arguably one of the most hauntingly beautiful, masterful pieces of music ever composed. This song, lyrically and musically, allows you to feel every emotion associated with loss… the anguish, the fear, the rage… both individually and all at once. Absolutely spectacular and wrenching

Aside from being a tribute to his mother, the way I interpret it is also, holding god accountable. The " give me my wings" to me is, I held my faith in you, you owe me my place in heaven.

Maynards vocal delivery really swims in the ocean of sound created by Justin, Danny, and Adam.

My mom passed away a few years ago after suffering for years, I can't listen to these songs without thinking of her and tearing up. Such a beautiful tribute to his mother.

i AM A 66 YR OLD MAN WHO JUST LOST MY MOM...This makes me CRY every timE!!!

This song should bring you to tears

The sounds at the beginning and end are wings flapping.

Wings&10,000 are part 3&4 of Maynard coming to terms with his mothers condition and death. #1 Jimmy (tool-Aenima) #2 Judith (A Perfect Circle) In Jimmy, his reference to 11 is about his mother being paralyzed by an aneurysm (for 27 years/10,000 days until her death) when he was 11 years old.

If this song if listened to and not just heard it hits one right in the feels

I’ve seen a lot of bands and I’ve seen tool 8 times. But there was no other experience like seeing these two songs played live. I was 100% lost in the music. It was at night, outdoors, the crowd, the band, the music, and myself were like one thing. It was wild.

27.4 years = 10,000 days. Judith served her time in that chair and never lost her faith.

his mother was bed ridden many years but her faith never waivered. 10000 days of suffering then the glorious crowning of her conviction.

Knowing the story....changes everything brother.....do the research then listen again, for yourself, the appreciation for your family and the way he worder the confusion of sadness and death......he's a visual lyricist, I see images and colors when I listen to him

Wow. I didn't think anyone could love this song as much as I do.

Amazing! I just requested you review this! Now I see the video!!! Thank you! This one is usually missed. Got my popcorn!!

It's unbelieveable that you figured out that much on first freaking listen. This reaction was FANTASTIC, quickly moving into top tier reviewer status. Bigger things to come for you. Cheers!

Definitely need to read the lyrics to these. And try not to cry. Edit: oh, never mind, you did.

Maynards most personal song he wrote. It's incredible to say the least.

24:00 ish - almost every Tool song is in some mode of D minor. It's amazing how much variety they can get playing in that key all the damn time.

orange is the new black

Gotta check out A Perfect Circle "Orestes" live at red rocks.....AMAZING performance of a beautiful song...MJK kills that one too, along with Billy and the rest of APC...well worth a reaction!

To add to what others have said, 10,000 days works out to just over 27 years. The amount of time his mother spent in a wheelchair, suffering with her condition.

Man, I tear up every time I hear this song (just one amazing song to me)

Woot love this song

Got some tissues is correct....every single time 😭

Tool rules! I saw them last month and going again in January. They sound better live! Tool is the best band ever, period!

These two songs make this album a masterpiece.

Now that you heard these, check out how they put Viginti Tres and Wings together to be played simultaneously with 10,000 Days and have your mind blown. Enjoy!

Heard not so many times but cried at least thrice.

🤘🏻🌀

Maynard loved his Mamma✨🧡🙏

Ohhh baby, this gonna be a good one

I am so late to react, but in the s cond part, wings for Marie, -Marie was his mom and she suffered in pain and non-functioning for 10,000 days. She was very religious. Maynard loves his mom beyond belief and pretty much thought she was a saint. And all the stuff about "you're going home" (to heaven) and Maynard wonders why he was given her "torch/light" but he uses it in respect to his mom's beliefs to use his light to guide her path to heaven. And the line "give me my, give me my wings"- he believes that his mother truly deserves wings to fly on to heaven.

My best friend passed away and he was so very sick and took his own life by shotgun because his pain from his fluid in his lungs and shear pain was just too much. Doctor's told him he should live to about 16, but at 21 he was still wonderful. But he just couldn't take the physical pain, nor the "waiting "of his parents to watch him die from his disease, so he chose his own death. It ruined me. And though I am angry with him, I am so very happy he is at peace. R I P. Jim.😅

Great reaction…… your on the right track with the breakdown ! Well done sir 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

Best reaction channel ever, no doubts about it

Time pink floyd is a great listen love to see your reaction

Just close your eyes and let tool take you on a journey

Thanks man

Dude if you like Tool you should listen to A Perfect Circle it's another project that Maynard does the vocals

Greatest band ever. Check out the sky is red by leprous

This was a good react, and thank you for taking the time! Please forgive this bold suggestion, but you should give these tracks a second pass on your own time, when you're not working your charms for the audience. Really let yourself marinate in the love and vindication woven throughout the song. I'm confident you won't regret it.

Love this song, has a special meaning to me with the similarities with my mom. Really wish you would check out the band Wheel and the song Dissipating, they have a tool vibe as well with their music

Yes, it's about his mom.

Bless me Lord for a have sinned

👍👍👍👍👍

I have a question I hope you see. I wonder from your perspective if there is another band that has the same fanatical (in a good way) and loyal fan base as tool? I’m for sure a Tooligan.

I always heard it as "Ignorant flippants in the congregation", using flippant as a noun to denigrate his mothers' church congregation further as if they do not understand and do not care and are just not truly serious about God and faith as his mother truly was. Lyrics online are often wrong and are rarely posted by the music creators themselves. Another example of bad lyrics you have there is with the line you read as "so who could deny you were the one who eliminated your little piece of the divine" (maybe you did say illuminated, hard to tell), but I always heard that lyric as "...the one who illuminated MY little piece of the divine". It ties in better with the preceding lines about the little light of mine a gift she passed onto him and ties in well with Maynards disillusion with, and downright hatred of early on, the church. She though was the one divine thing illuminated in this whole dark congregation of misguided "faithful" in that church. She was the light who gave him the light, a little piece of true faith and it helped him come back around on God or at least on understanding his mother and her steadfastness in adversity.

Awesome as always my friend….. I think you need to do a deeper dive on System of a Down… also a band to keep the lyrics handy and just do the lyric videos

He called Maynard “James” 😝

Give me my wings.

I'd add MJK was mad at his Mom's congregation because in this moment of his mom's passing. Their takeaway was that if she was a better Christian, God wouldn't have punished her in this way. But as she followed the path seemingly better than any of them, it was a Judas betrayal of Judith and their faith at once.

can you react to the music videos next?

I don’t know where you pulled lyrics from, but they are quite off. Examples: “ignorant siblings” is “ignorant fibbers” - in context it is members of the congregation that lie about how devout they are, because devoutness is a measure of status among the congregation in the church. I see others saying flippants instead of fibbers here in the comment section, but don’t think that fits in context. He wrote another song called Flippant and I think people are retroactively hearing it here too. Plus “flippants” is not a word. “Eliminated .. little piece of the divine” is actually “illuminated”. Soon after he quotes “this little light of mine” which follows from the illuminated lyric.

Her debilitating condition was attributed to her sins by her church congregation . Thats what really pissed James off .

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the Pot?@!!? and i wish you wouldnt reseach the song before listening to..too fake