Tool - 10000 days (Wings for Marie)


Tool - 10000 Days (Wings for Marie Pt. 2)

We listen to the tales and romanticize

How we'd follow the path of the hero

Boast about the day when the rivers overrun

How we'd rise to the height of our halo


Listen to the tales as we all rationalize

Our way into the arms of the savior

Feigning all the trials and the tribulations

None of us have actually been there

Not like you


Ignorant siblings at the congregation

Gather around spewing sympathy

Spare me

None of them can even hold a candle up to you

Blinded by choice, these hypocrites won't see


But enough about the collective Judas

Who could deny you were the one who illuminated

Your little piece of the divine

And this little light of mine

A gift you passed onto me

I'm gonna let it shine

To guide you safely on your way

Your way home


Oh, what are they gonna do when the lights go down?

Without you to guide them all to Zion?

What are they gonna do when the rivers overrun?

Other than tremble incessantly?

High is the way, but all eyes are upon the ground

You are the light and the way that they'll only read about

I only pray Heaven knows when to lift you out

Ten thousand days in the fire is long enough

You're going home


You're the only one who can hold your head up high

Shake your fist at the gates saying

"I have come home now

Fetch me the Spirit, the Son, and the Father

Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended

It's time now

My time now

Give me my

Give me my wings"

Give me my

Give me my

Give me my

Give me my

Give me my

Give me my wings


You are the light, the way

That they will only read about

Set as I am in my ways and my arrogance

Burden of proof tossed upon non-believers


You were my witness

My eyes, my evidence

Judith Marie, unconditional one

Daylight dims leaving cold fluorescence


Difficult to see you in this light

Please forgive this bold suggestion

Should you see your maker's face tonight

Look him in the eye

Look him in the eye, and tell him

"I never lived a lie, never took a life

But surely saved one

Hallelujah, it's time for you to bring me home"


From 10000 Days (2006)

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