'The song itself is called 'Judith,' which is my mother's name,' he said. While Keenan has rarely cited his mother as the song's direct inspiration, he did mention her in the 'Judith' music video commentary from A Perfect Circle's 2004 CD-DVD set, aMOTION. On the chorus, he intones, 'It was you who prayed for me/So what have I done to be a son to an angel?' 'A passionate spirit/Uncompromised/Boundless and open/A light in your eyes, then immobilized,' he sings over a psychedelic guitar drone. On the the two-part epic 'Wings for Marie,' the frontman seems to reference his mother, a devout Christian, and the pain of watching her suffer. 2)Ī more pervasive - and poignant - theory is that '10,000 Days' nods to the length of time between Maynard James Keenan's mother being paralyzed from an aneurysm and stroke and her death three years before the album's release. For me, starting to recognize those patterns, it was very important to start constructing songs that chronicled that process, hoping that my gift back would be to share that path and hope that I could help somebody get past that spot.' Kurt Cobain didn't quite make it past his Saturn Return. Hendrix didn't, Janis Joplin didn't, John Bonham. 'It's kind of the story of Noah, and the belly of the whale. 'That's the time in your 28th, 29th year when you are presented the opportunity to transform from whatever your hang-ups were before to let the light of knowledge and experience lighten your load, so to speak, and let go of old patterns and embrace a new life,' he said. In an interview with writer Jon Wiederhorn, Keenan pegged the title to the astrological and philosophical notion of the 'Saturn return,' a reference to the planet's orbit around the sun.

But multiple theories persist as to the real meaning. No, the album title isn't some kind of future-snark prediction about how long it would take Tool to follow up their upcoming fifth LP.

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