Schism means a difficulty or division in a relationship or group.
It’s just about a struggling relationship really that has fallen apart yet has faith that it can be fixed.
‘Between supposed brothers, between supposed lovers’ and ‘I know the pieces fit ‘cause I watched them fall away…’
Such as it is that we can oft' dwell on an argument or a petty little fact so much so that it can wind up destroying something that never really was a problem at all.
Ego
‘The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us, so we cannot seem to reach an end, crippling our communication’
‘Lucifer’, literally means the ‘Light-bearer’.
Here is our fire: in an experiment against God; Lucifer (who couldn't separate himself from God using an internal Merkaba) created a way for Merkabas to be performed externally and without the use of love.
This in turn created an enormous sense for duality and transformed emotional understanding into calculated technologies.
‘Once duality succumbs to running on motors, it becomes more and more difficult to perceive the ‘One spirit that moves through everything’; even so, it is not difficult for us to imagine duality.
Take scientists fer example; they’ve been using the dichotomous method to determine the identity of items in the natural world for years.
But yer know what, who fucking cares?
This isn’t about ‘Good vs. evil’
At all
At least fer me it isn’t.
Indeed, let’s get to the exceptional facet this song aspires to…
Poetry + Complexity = Fookin’ Brill!
The Poetry that comes from the squaring off between the circling is well worth it.
Finding beauty in the dissonance -‘…this just screams to me how perfect our bodily proportions are’
I must reiterate, regardless if doing such puts me at risk of becoming redundant.
But then again, that's one of the perks I infer with these bein' me thinkin' thoughts 'n' all. Hehe
Therefore, again, take Di Vinci's ‘Vitruvian Man’ into account whereas I have concerning my exemplum.
‘Tis Poetry I tell yer – circles and squares.
It makes too much sense to ignore – at least to me it does.
If someone where to tell yer that our bodies are specific and mathematical; would yer believe it?
If you're not able to find the image, then try to visualize the following –
With the arms and legs extended straight out, a square/cube will form around the body.
The center of this square/cube is located at the base of the spine, where our first eight cells still exist.
Check out the ‘Egg of Life’ sometime.
With the arms and legs spread, a circle/sphere forms with the center located at the navel.
By moving this center to the base of our spine (overlapping the square) you'll notice a pi ratio, where the perimeter of the square is equal to the circumference of the circle; and this is not by coincidence, either.
Hmm…
Seems like we've been specifically synthesized.
*Gasps
Oh my…
Man I do love this fookin' song.
It also has a very intriguing time signature which frequently changes throughout the song.
I can still hear me metronome…
Yeah, I believe it to be embedded deep within the minutiae of all that has fashioned to be me.
Anyway The verses can be counted as 12/8 (12 eighth-note beats to a measure) but it is actually split up into recurring measures of 5/8 (5 eighth-note beats to a measure) and 7/8 (7 eighth-note beats to a measure).
In this way, the standard 12/8 time signature is split into two parts, a ‘Schism,’ thus the theme of the music matches the theme that the lyrics are based on.
It's also interesting to note that for the chorus, the time signature shifts and is ‘reunited’ back into standard 12/8.
The whole Lateralus album is a mathematical construct and Schism is its fundament and revelation.
You have to ‘Do the math’ to ‘bring the pieces back together’ because ‘the pieces fit’…
And they were intentionally scattered.
It's a kind of code, but if you solve it, you get one perfect over 70 minute long song.
But more about that when I try to wrap me head around Lateralus...
However, here and now - Schism
Bottom line –
Hehe, Yup, that's right - Fookin’ Brill!
