Lateralus

I'm surprised that I haven't featured this song. I think maybe because friends, some of them anyway, are annoyed by Tool in general, and songs like this in particular, I've been known to use it to torment them. Tool doesn't usually play in 4/4 time. And this song is really not in 4/4 time. Time signatures in the chorus move through the progression of 9/8 to 8/8 to 7/8. Danny Carey, the drummer, said somewhere that the song was originally titled 9-8-7 (or something like that) while they were working on it.

Also part of the song is based on the Fibonacci Sequence. 1-1-2-3-5-8 etc. (Each number is the sum of the prior 2 numbers in the sequence.) 987 is the 16th number in the sequence. People have gone on at length about the song, and the math. But I think the music is more important.

Revolver published an article on the album Lateralus at the time of release. Unfortunately they did not provide a mechanism for me to link to specific parts of the article. The bit on today's song is the 5th item in the list.

5. A badass factoid that many Tool fans regard with Biblical importance, some of the lyrics from "Lateralus," if charted syllabically, follow the numeric pattern of Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa's famed Fibonacci Sequence

It goes on from there.

Here is a link to the lyrics. You might want them, though Maynard has very good diction for the most part.

This song is "Lateralus" by Tool. It is the title song to their 2001 album. It was released as the 3rd single ahead of the album's release. It is 9 and a half minutes, more or less, so grab a beverage of your choice.