Tool - Intension Lyrics Meaning

anonymous

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Mar 22nd 2011!⃝

Take a look at the title, "Intension"
From my personal memory(which may be wrong)it means;
"The reason why actions are done."

My interpretation is about how the human race came into this world, and messed up, multiple times.(Why there are two verses of them using what they made for evil.)

They made something with pure "intension", but soon after someone used it for their greed and made an evil action with the same item.

And then in the end, a new sentient race evolves and humanity has "left" or in other words DIED.

Then the last couple lines are the story starts over again, with the new race inventing something with pure intension.

In "Right In Two(Intension pt.2)" the people observing are not neccesarily christian angels, but the angels of whatever is right,(nobody really knows)but they wonder why they are free, why they don't share resources, why they choose to fight, and why they need to kill eachother. And why they have to fight about everything.

Intension is in the first person, Right in Two is in third person and it appears to me Vignit Tres is in the second person of the many races who destroyed themselves in Intension and Right in Two, finding out what they were fighting for was wrong, after death, of course.

The whole album is a concept album about human nature if you think about it...

Thank you for reading.

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