'The Grudge' is an awesome song by 'Tool.' It's simply amazing. The lyrics again proves that Maynard James Keenan is a true genius. They say music is the highest level of enlightenment and Maynard surely comes very close in this regard. I see an utterly charming and charismatic philosopher in Maynard James Keenan.
The Grudge is a simple and straightforward song. But the depth of the song is enormous. You can extract so much out of it. The song is about the grudges that we all hold within us. It's about the grudges that we deliberately hold inside, and it's also about the latent grudges that we are unaware of.
At the start of the song Maynard asks us to embrace our grudges. The song tells us to carefully calculate the things that we should tolerate and the things that we must not tolerate. Maynard basically ignites the instinctive urge amongst us to control everything. It's an urge that we all carry within ourselves consciously or subconsciously. He actually tells us to use our grudges as a weapon. He tells us to control everything by using our grudge as an effective instrument. It's Maynard's way of preaching that you have to embrace your negative side in order to bring out the positives. But the fun part is, Maynard actually composed this whole start in the wrapper of reverse psychology. He reveals it in the ending half of the song.
Maynard makes reference to Saturn in this song. In fact, he puts quite a lot of emphasis in his referral of Saturn. In Greek mythology, Saturn was the god of all the gods. But Saturn was so egoistic and so insecure that he ate all his children because he was afraid that he could have been overthrown by them. Saturn did a grave mistake though. He did not take Zeus into account. And ultimately, it was none but Zeus who rose up against Saturn, dethroned and killed him in the process. The relation of the story to this song is that, Saturn held and embraced the grudge inside him and applied it almost aptly enough. But what Saturn was unaware of was the damage that had been done to him intrinsically. He only realized it when Zeus brought him to death, but it was already too late. And there goes the message of the song.
After proving his point of the scathe of the grudge, Maynard asks us to let it go in the end. He urges us to transmute our leaden grudges into gold.
I'll interpret it as an alternate way of telling us to turn our greatest weakness into our greatest strength.
The Grudge is a simple and straightforward song. But the depth of the song is enormous. You can extract so much out of it. The song is about the grudges that we all hold within us. It's about the grudges that we deliberately hold inside, and it's also about the latent grudges that we are unaware of.
At the start of the song Maynard asks us to embrace our grudges. The song tells us to carefully calculate the things that we should tolerate and the things that we must not tolerate. Maynard basically ignites the instinctive urge amongst us to control everything. It's an urge that we all carry within ourselves consciously or subconsciously. He actually tells us to use our grudges as a weapon. He tells us to control everything by using our grudge as an effective instrument. It's Maynard's way of preaching that you have to embrace your negative side in order to bring out the positives. But the fun part is, Maynard actually composed this whole start in the wrapper of reverse psychology. He reveals it in the ending half of the song.
Maynard makes reference to Saturn in this song. In fact, he puts quite a lot of emphasis in his referral of Saturn. In Greek mythology, Saturn was the god of all the gods. But Saturn was so egoistic and so insecure that he ate all his children because he was afraid that he could have been overthrown by them. Saturn did a grave mistake though. He did not take Zeus into account. And ultimately, it was none but Zeus who rose up against Saturn, dethroned and killed him in the process. The relation of the story to this song is that, Saturn held and embraced the grudge inside him and applied it almost aptly enough. But what Saturn was unaware of was the damage that had been done to him intrinsically. He only realized it when Zeus brought him to death, but it was already too late. And there goes the message of the song.
After proving his point of the scathe of the grudge, Maynard asks us to let it go in the end. He urges us to transmute our leaden grudges into gold.
I'll interpret it as an alternate way of telling us to turn our greatest weakness into our greatest strength.
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