The respect coming from this crowd is insane. The silence speaks.

How he can manage to make it through this song is beyond me

There is definitely a special beauty in Maynard’s anguish. No loving son has ever penned a more sensitive or magnificent eulogy for his mother.

My drug counselor who helped me get clean died right at the end of my rehab stint a couple months ago. He was a massive Tool fan as well and this was his favorite song. The man was 52 and seemingly in great health but his doing cocaine for years on end ended up finally killing his heart, even after over a decade sober. They played this song at his funeral and I’m not gonna lie it brings me to tears now. You’re going home, David.

It's powerful to hear him holding back tears on this.

I never thought Maynard would decide to play this song live. I always had the impression he wanted to keep this song private, because it is obviously his most personal and emotional one

"You are the light that they will only read about."

You can hear him choking back tears the entire song. undoubtedly the finest piece of musical art in the 21st century

When people ask why Maynard is always in the dark... This. This is why

I’m 16, my mom passed away when I was a baby, this song always brings tears to my eyes, so emotional and definitely one of my favourite songs of all time

This is why I love Adam Jones, the way he holds notes in his solos and just lets them sing and breathe is incredible. He doesn’t have to be flashy.

This song hits my soul directly...

*try not to cry* *cry a lot*

This was very hard to get through without shedding a few tears. I can't imagine being there live with all that energy.

This is probably the only high quality version of this song live.

5:08 the way how Maynard change his style of singing from this part is incredible. His anger and frustration comes out like an explosion. For this reason this song live has another level of intensity compared to the studio version.

This is by far the best song on the album.

I love the sound of the bass

"I sing in the dark so that no one sees me crying" -maynard, probably

Around 3:55 mark you can see Adam's concern for Maynard when he walks close to him and looks up at him. I know that is somewhat a rare thing when tool performs for the most part. They typically all somewhat stay in their own little world of the stage. He was trying his best to provide some sort of emotional support from afar.

I have always starting singing this song for my mother who passed away 5 years ago. This is my song to her, she deserves her wings.

dont hear this song with headphone, it will tear your soul

One of my favorite Tool songs. Love how Maynard released the pain at 7:58.

Seeing Wings for Marie live always gave me the chills. Felt like Maynard's mother spirit was in the same building as well.

My mother was sick for 20 years. Cancer twice. Both breasts removed. Heart failure. Lupus. She developed a dependency on pain pills because of all that. She overdosed 2 years ago. In a way I do t blame her. This song makes me think of her more than any other

You can hear a pin drop at 9:40. What an amazing tribute to his mother. People are just in shock at the strength of Maynard, the amazing rifs from Adam, the pounding drums throughout from Danny and heart and soul of the bass from Justin. This is one of the greatest live songs I've ever witnessed... so grateful for the person who captured this that we can experience a morsel of the emotion from this live version of 10,000. I see why they rarely ever play it live... It has become one of my all-time favorites from TOOL. Just wow! Coach Chris at Critical Bench

So much respect for this song. My mother is on hospice now and I did the math it's almost at 14,000 days of suffering she has survived 2 brain tumors and is paralyzed now watching her suffer is absolutely killing me,yet Tool is the best reprieve I can find. Knowing that pain I can't imagine how he manages to perform this absolutely Beautiful Song♥️🖤

Highh is the wayyy, but our eyes are upon the ground. You are the light and the way. They'll only read about. I only pray heaven knows, when to lift you out.

Insane how at 4:33 when he says "you're going home" the screens make it look like his soul is leaving his body... can't imagine what it must be seeing them live

I feel like I shouldn’t be watching this. It’s just too personal

At 6:33, he possibly could be wiping back a few tears(or maybe just has an itch). Also, the audience is showing a lot of respect during this song. Very powerful and one of my favorites!

I'm 17 years old and my mom is in an assisted living facility. I've cried myself to sleep in regards to her mental state and I found this song and truly looked into this band this year. Now they're helping me to heal myself.

"you are the light the way that they will only read about" ---you can hear the pain in his voice during theae lyrics.

"Never lived a lie Never took a life But surely saved one." I cannot express what i feel. Masterpiece. That's all i can say

What a performance and what a crowd. Love the togetherness of the fans and the band.

this song hits a spot i never get hit on with any other song. play this at my funeral

I was at this concert , it was just epic it was my 4 th time seeing them .jesus a tool concert is just a journey. From start to finish you are taken with them to a far off place

Exactly what I expected different from the studio album, this is so much more heartbreaking. You can hear his emotion instead of a grunting low singing. Love it, and hope I will be lucky enough to see it live one day.

My dad died of pancreatic cancer that spread through his whole body on May 30th 2022. I wasn’t a Tool fan yet but he FOR SURE was. His birthday is June 25th, as a birthday gift we were all gonna see see Maynard’s other band, Puscifer, which I also never listened to. But I’m pissed off, he was so close to his birthday, he was so close to the concert, it was on June 11th. He didn’t even get to see one of his favorite singers once, it was his dream to see Maynard live, and it never happened. After the concert, i was willing to check out more of the band, but before I dove deeper into Puscifer, i knew i had to try Tool. I listened to the album “Undertow” and it blew me away. I had it on repeat constantly, then in like august, i decided to listen to Ænima, Lateralus, and 10,000 days all in one sitting on the same day. And that night I went to my local store and purchased a Lateralus cd, then i checked out Fear Inoculum, then opiate, then bought undertow on vinyl , then bought 10,000 days, then bought the fear Inoculum expanded book edition, and lastly traveled to Jerome Az with my grandpa to Puscifer, the store, and got the classic opiate cd. I’ve been listening to Tool nearly every day for almost a year along with Perfect Circle and Puscifer. Now as a genuine tool fan, I’m gonna make it my life goal to see Tool live for my dad.

Never ever listened to this song without crying my eyes out.

Step 1: Try not to cry Step 2: Cry alot.

I'm not crying... you're crying...

If I died right after this show, I would’ve said “This was a great life”

This song truely is a gift. But the writer noted, it's a mistake that he'll never make again. Blessed.

i thought this was a recording over a live video but then i realized the audience was being silent

Every mother should crave to have a son like maynard.

I managed to catch them on this tour in Glasgow and this song was unbelievable. It was my favourite song on the album and I had no idea they were going to play it. Can't quite put words on the feeling being there experiencing it.

putting aside the fact that this song as a whole is an absolute masterpiece, i think it has one of the best guitar solos ever made.

Christ I'm a hairy arsed construction worker & this is that emotional & powerful the tears are rolling down my cheeks.

the emotion in his voice is viscerally touching

This song helped get me through my mother's last year, and the year after her passing. I didn't eat much. Not much sleep. Taking care of a 4 year old daughter who has no recollection of the stories my mother told her. Except what I remind her of. Wrecked my heart physically and emotionally. But the music helped. I was not so alone. So grateful

I was fortunate to see them perform this song live 4 different times, and all 4 make it in to my top 10 Tool songs performed live that I've seen.

When it comes to Danny's drumming people keep talking about Rossetta Stoned, Pnuema or Lateralus and rightly so, but how come nobody ever mention this song? His drumming is so delicate, elegant, creative here. How he creates atmosphere with different rhythms on the cymbals, Then the unique pattern he plays from 3:13 onwards. Masterful. Just masterful.

my mother passed away in 2022 with covid, she had been in pain for a very long time with other medical issues and she had been living with me for the past 3 and a half years. she was a christian and i'm an atheist and we had many discussions on the topic of faith and religion. this song breaks my fucking heart every time i hear it. this is the MOST heartfelt tribute ever penned and i'm so grateful to Maynard for writing it.

I was lucky to see them twice in 2006, Lisbon and Madrid, but sadly they didn´t play this song on either show... Holy God, it is so beautiful.... Amazing

I’m so glad I got to see them perform this live three times. The fourth time I took my wife and they didn’t do it. I was disappointed because I know they will never do it live again.

When I first started listening to these songs (i.e before i knew the story) I thought they were really great songs by themselves. Then, I read up on them out of curiosity and afterwards everytime Maynard shouted "Unconditional one!" I always shed a few tears from the sheer power combined with the story behind the two songs. And now, with my grandma being dead only a month; give or take, these are very hard songs to listen to and every time Maynard utters the three words "bring me home" at the end of the song I start crying because I'm positive that my grandma is in heaven now and that she will serve god as a pillar of light along with Ms. Judith Marie.

When I discovered this song (with its twin, Wings for Marie, of course), I realized only a few seconds after it started that I should get out to a solitary peaceful place (which was extremely hard because I was in school), close my eyes and just surrender to the experience. About halfway into the song, a great inspiration struck me and I couldn't let it just fade away, so I (trying to stay as peaceful and calm as before), went to my class, took a notebook and a pen, and went back out. Then I sat down on the grass and just started writing whatever was in my head. No matter how weird or irrational those ideas were, I pulled them out of the spiritual experience I was willingly trapped in, and wrote them down on the notebook in front of me. As I started writing, a story took shape in my head, a story that I have worked on a bit with my former band members for a concept album. It was the story of a man who have arrived on another planet, and didn't manage to return home. He was completely alone, and he started to go mad. He started to hallucinate and come up with highly intelligent and abstract ideas, and eventually, he realized that if he would die alone on that planet, all of those ideas would go to waste. At the same time though, he came to the conclusion that life has no purpose, and his isolation drove him crazy to the point where he didn't see any reason to live. But if he would kill himself, all of those highly intelligent ideas would disappear from existence and probably would never be thought of again. Suddenly, a friend of mine came and shook me back to the real world, and said that we have to go back to class because recess was over. In the few following hours, I was just peaceful and happy. It made me appreciate life more and see things differently. For that, I forever thank TOOL.

Absolutely one of the best songs and instrumental period!!

This song is so so powerful, enough to move me to tears when I really give it my full attention. And I rarely cry. Must have taken a lot of strength to get up in front of hundreds of strangers to sing such a personal song and nail it at the same time.

legit tears :( so beautiful

Phenomenal. This is music and art at its purest form. A moment in time forever captured but in the best way imaginable.

The best live version

😢 I know we may never see this live again but I can only hope some day it makes it back on a set list. Maynard’s voice here is magic

Maynard said in an interview once that this is the most difficult song of their's to play live. I don't doubt it...what a masterpiece. They have mastered the art of crescendo. I just wish the camera man spent more time on danny and justin playing their instruments instead of watching maynard's silhouette just standing there

I have no idea how they managed to play this song live like this... utmost respect...

The universe brought Tool together, it was destiny. How else do you explain the greatest vocalist of all time moving in next door to the greatest drummer of all time and this century’s most talented and visionary artistic genius? Coincidence?!

Lord Jesus. I am a New fan and this is one of the best songs I have ever heard. They are the best band i have ever known in my life. This song has a Puscifer mood, he sings in a Lower range, so Gothic, he seems another person. I deeply love him. The song is something not of this earth.

best video i came across where i could see maynard's shadowy figured self...

Dude wrong the best progressive metal song about a tribute to his passing mother of suffering 10,000 days. What a badass.

Amazing beauty this song has. It was played maybe a handful of times. Such a personal song from Maynard about his mother's struggle being crippled after having a stroke and still having so much faith in god. I know what it's like to watch your mother slowly wither and die. Different circumstances, I was 29 but it stays with you forever. I always get a tear from the depth of Manard's lyrics in this song. The music is phenomenal. These guys are legends that have stood the test of time. I've seen TOOL maybe seven times since 97' and in my opinion, the 10,000 Days Tour is still my favorite.

The bass sounds so sick. Such a good song!

Arrrrrgh when he growls “give me my wings” u can feel the pain 🥺

When you sing that passionately it does tear you up, some physical reaction gets the emotions flowing. This is why we love Tool........

We listen to the tales and romanticize, How we'd follow the path of the hero. Boast about the day when the rivers overrun, How we rise to the height of our halo. Listen to the tales as we all rationalize, Our way into the arms of the savior. Feigning all the trials and the tribulations. None of us have actually been there, Not like you... Ignorant siblings in the congregation. Gather around spewing sympathy, Spare me... None of them can even hold a candle up to you. Blinded by choice, these hypocrites won't see. But enough about the collective Judas. Who could deny you were the one who illuminated Your little piece of the divine? And this little light of mine, a gift you passed on to me I'm gonna let it shine To guide you safely on your way. Your way home... Oh, what are they gonna do when the lights go down? Without you to guide them all to Zion? What are they gonna do when the rivers overrun Other than tremble incessantly? High is the way, But our eyes are upon the ground. You are the light and the way. They'll only read about. I only pray heaven knows, When to lift you out. 10,000 days in the fire is long enough. You're going home... You're the only one who can hold your head up high. Shake your fist at the gates saying, "I've come home now! Fetch me the spirit, the son and the father. Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended. It's time now! My time now! Give me my Give me my wings!" Give me my [5x] Give me my wings You are the light, the way, That they will only read about. Set as I am in my ways and my arrogance. Burden of proof tossed upon the believers. You were my witness, my eyes, my evidence, Judith Marie, unconditional one. Daylight dims leaving cold fluorescence. Difficult to see you in this light. Please forgive this bold suggestion. Should you see your maker's face tonight, Look him in the eye. Look him in the eye and tell him, "I never lived a lie, never took a life, But surely saved one. Hallelujah It's time for you to bring me home."

Most touching song that's ever been written, cry every time.

The quality of this live performance is mind blowing. I get emotional every time I play it. Maynard’s vocals are so Raw. And the reason why Tool is in league all their own.

That bass is nasty 🤯🔥🔥🔥

On the end of the song you can perfectly hear only the sound of silence and pure emotion... my eternal respect .

I bawl when I listen to this song....it always moves me to such an emotional state. Their music is so transcending. I can't even describe how much it affects me.

One of the best songs by the greatest band of all time. There will never be another TOOL. They will never be surpassed.

greatest band ever of all time history WAS made.

One of the greatest songs ever written. Fact. It's so emotional and meandering ride and is so, so underrated. I am a drum-freak and I think the drumming interlude is incredible. Obviously this combined with the precursor WFM makes it haunting and encompassing of all the emotions one can experience. Thanks for the clip. :)

I absolutely love how the crowd respect Maynard and the band enough to stay silent through this emotional, powerful song

All the goosebumps 😭😭😭 This song has a whole new meaning now that i know the meaning behind it 💗

I know it’s been said a lot, but I just feel the need to point it out…from 9:40 until the end of the song, the silence of the crowd says it all.... there’s not a scream, whistle, clap or anything. When have you ever been at a live show and thousands of people are totally hushed during a super quiet part of a song? Only Tool fans are on this level. I Hope Maynard noticed.

Was never one of those super fanatic tool fans but I don’t care who you are this song hits something. The atmosphere, build up, the way Maynard starts reserved and slowly lets out more and more. Everyone I’ve showed this song to has liked it, even people who don’t like rock.

HIGH IS THE WAY, BUT ALL EYES ARE UPON THE GROUND, YOU WERE THE LIGHT AND THE WAY THEY ONLY READ ABOUT!!! FUCK thats powerful!!!

High is the way, but all eyes are upon the ground You were the light and the way they'll only read about I only pray Heaven knows when to lift you out Ten thousand days in the fire is long enough You're going home

This is a masterpiece. I never listened to it until recently and I can't stop listening to it. Amazing song and band.

Tool is the very best band that has and ever will exist.Just listen to this song for proof.They are the only band that I have never heard a single weak song from.

If that's not the greatest musical expression of love then show me what is

Straight goosebumps

Tool channels the unsayable so profoundly and effortlessly. Massive respect and admiration.

This is exactly what got me hooked.♥️✌️ Glad I lived to see them live again

Something special happened on this stage that night .

Thank you for this video! Might be the best thing on the entire f***ing internet.

An absolute masterpiece, I tear up everytime I hear it.

I just witnessed a very very deep definition of pain. The pain of loosing someone you care and love..

Just by the immense power and meaning in this song, there’s no doubt Judith heard this before getting her wings.