An Eye on an Arm

This awesome eye tattoo comes from the arm of Em's husband. She is the ninth person to submit art to NeoPagan Ink. If it looks kinda familiar it's very similar to eyes featured on some TOOL albums and with good reason as it's based on the artwork of Alex Grey whose work has been featured on cd artwork by various other bands including the Beastie Boys and Nirvana. Just for the hell of it I thought I'd post the lyrics to one of my favorite TOOL songs, this is the song Lateralus from the album of the same name. It is one of the albums which features the eyes of Alex Grey. To learn more about TOOL visit The TOOL lyrics page. And thanks to Em and her husband for submitting their image!

Enjoy.

Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
lets me see.
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn beyond the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.

Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
lets me see there is so much more
and beckons me to look through to these infinite possibilities.
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition leaving all these opportunities behind.

Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.
Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.

I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected
enough to step aside and weep like a widow
to feel inspired, to fathom the power,
to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral
of our divinity and still be a human.

With my feet upon the ground I lose myself
between the sounds and open wide to suck it in,
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out,
I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.

Spiral out. Keep going, going...