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Composed at a time when all three producers had experienced the loss of a loved one within a year and a half of each other, Billy, Danny, and Maynard struggled to make the song a monument to each of their respective losses, which lead to conflict during production.
The lyrics were inspired by a meeting attended by Keenan in which a speaker discussed the tendency of others in recovery to be unfairly self-righteous.
“He mentioned something about not letting your halo choke you to death when it slips down around your neck. So I grabbed my pencil, wrote that down, and told Billy I had an idea for a song.
“It’s really a powerful thing for a person to come back from the edge of death and work their way back to being a human again. These people are very impressive survivors, but some of them tend to wear that as some kind of a crown and forget about the atrocities they’d committed.“
- Maynard James Keenan, from the aMOTION DVD
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