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==Track Listing==

# ''"The Grudge''"- (8:36)

# ''"Eon Blue Apocalypse''" - (1:04)

# ''"The Patient''" - (7:13)

# ''"Mantra''" - (1:12)

# ''"[[Schism_(song)|Schism]]''" - (6:47)

# ''"Parabol''" - (3:04)

# ''"Parabola''" - (6:03)

# ''"Ticks & Leeches''" - (8:10)

# ''"Lateralus''" - (9:24)

# ''"Disposition''" - (4:46)

# ''"Reflection''" - (11:07)

# ''"Triad''" - (8:46)

# ''"Faaip De Oiad''" - (2:39)

Some time after ''Lateralus'' was released a minor flurry of interpretive activity arose around the album. In particular, Carey told an interviewer about Keenan's remark that the time signatures of the main riff in "Lateralus" (9-8-7) also represented a step in the [[Fibonacci_number|Fibonacci sequence]] (the sixteenth step, as it turns out). This led some Tool fans to suggest that the tracks on ''Lateralus'' can be listened to in spiral-like orders: 6,7,5,8,4,9,3,10,2,11,1,12,13 ("The Lateralus Prophecy") or 6,7,5,8,4,9,13,1,12,2,11,3,10 ("The Holy Gift"). Both arrangements produce different story-lines for the album.

On the ninth track of the album, ''"Lateralus''", Keenan's vocals during the verses coincide with the [[Fibonacci_number|Fibonacci sequence]] by syllable.

The cover is translucent and flips open to reveal
the different layers of the human body, including a spiritual layer representing vrajna, the transcendental wisdom of enlightenment or union with the divine. Partially obscured in the brain matter on the final layer is the word "[[God]]".

The vocal on ''"Faaip de Oiad''" is of a [[1997]] caller to [[Art Bell]]'s radio program, who claimed to have been employed at [[Area 51]].

''"Eon Blue Apocalypse''" is said to be about Adam Jones' [[Great Dane]] named Eon, that had [[Cancer|cancer]] and died, according to an interview with [[Danny Carey]].

==Personnel==