This song (wings 1 & 2 make 1 single song for me) is the most powerful thing I’ve ever heard. Of any band.
I can’t help but cry every time I hear it.
This is no joke, this is no plan to make a popular song, this is so freaking real you feel your heart break while experiencing this masterpiece.
And I’m an atheist.
Peace on everyone who feel like me while listening to Wings.
Yo Taylor - change the YouTube title to Wings For Marie…not Wings of Marie. TOOL fans be crazy smart and detail-oriented 
He also has a song called Judith on one of his perfect circle albums
Greatest song of all time. By any band. I’ll die on that hill.
If I’m at home or in the car alone, I cry like a damn baby every single time I hear part 2… I’ve seen TOOL 10x in concert. I’m OG since '92 from the first EP. AENIMA saved my life in '96, I call it the Immaculate album. The first time I heard Lateralus, it’s hard to explain, I think I went out of body. We calmly sat down and put the CD in after buying it on May 15th, 2001, our lives were altered after that. I’ll never forget that day. I’m not religious, but the closest thing to church for me is a TOOL concert & the closest thing to praying would be to listen in silence, just me and the headphones. I’m not sure if anybody understands any of this, but they’re more than a band.
I couldn’t get through this without balling like a child. My heart goes out to you. 
My mom just passed away in March. This hits so much harder after she passed. You can feel the love for his mom and the hate he had for the situation she was put in. And trying to understand her faith and wrestling with his own or lack of faith.
An interesting thing to remember is that all Tool songs start with the rest of the band writing all the music, and then giving it to Maynard to add the vocals. So this was entirely it’s own song and Maynard finds the only way to do justice to it vocally and lyrically and the only opportunity to give himself this catharsis. Last I knew they only performed these two songs live once.
Love this! Seeing comments mentioning Judith from A Perfect Circle as an example of his progression through grief. I’d like to add that Horizons from Puscifer is such a beautifully powerful example of the continuation of that journey. If you haven’t heard it do yourself a favor and check it out.
My grandma recently passed away after a long battle with dementia and diabetes. Wasn’t ready for this, to say the least. Thank you for having a place I didn’t know I needed until now.
He did ‘Judith’ with a perfect circle in 2001(if I’m not wrong, I don’t follow that band), that song was all anger and cussing… this duo came after Judith’s death(may she rest in peace) and it’s so obvious he accepted everything she stood for just because she did… that’s not 5 years of maturity, that is just emotions aligning with probably the only thing that matters, nothing is bigger than your mom
I get it. We honor those deserving and let those extra emotions out by reflection, psychoanalysis, etc. This music is therapy like a Mf. You have chosen the Lament configuration! 
My granda died 8 years ago. I was lucky enough to not have experienced loss like that until I turned 30. He spent the last able years before the dementia caught up with him maintaining his local church, and for a while when dementia ripped through him like a housefire, he still did his best to keep up the maintenance. When he died, he was 1/4 of the man he was, disease getting the best of him. During his funeral service, in the same church he had loved and maintained for so long, the reverend couldn’t wait to push us out for the next group to use the church. Not even a funeral, just some booking like a function room. It was then i decided that my faith would lie in the goodness of people, than the people who represented faith. I cry at this song when I hear it. I cried with you when I watched this. This was more than just content, it was a shared love to all that suffered grief. I think of your gran and I hope she is well, you too. Big love, and thanks for being real 
Part two always get to me
Why is YouTube all the sudden flooded with new people listening to tool for the first time and this song selection?
next
please listen the tempo do not move your body like that … im talking about the music im really appreciate your analysis!!!
4:54 this is the story of JOB in the bible
Perfect circle: Judith…
Please do the song Pushit from Ænima. That is a very deep song, and I’d love to hear your breakdown of it.