Tool - Jambi Lyrics Meaning

"Here from a kings mountain view,
Here from the wild dream come true"

He is introducing the song by speaking from the perspective of someone who "has it all" in a material sense.

"Feast like a sultan, I do
On treasures and flesh never few"

This person is only concerned about piling up materialistic idols and putting themselves over others.

"But I would wish it all, away
If I thought I'd lose you just one day"

Although he has everything worldly, he would throw it all away if it meant getting rid of "you." (He is about to define "you")

"The devil and his had me down
In love with the dark side I'd found"

He is relating this materialistic mentality of the world to the "dark side" or work of the devil.

"Dabblin' all the way down
Up to my neck, soon to drown."

He uses the word Dabblin' to describe someone that is digging into this materialistic lifestyle almost as if he is searching for something but the lifestyle is taking over him too much and he is about to 'drown'.

"But you changed that all for me
Lifted me up, turned me round
So I, I would wish this all away"

But "you" changed that all for me. Here is that reference to "you" again and it is positive. It is the reason he would wish away the fleshy outlook of the world.

"Prayed like a martyr dusk to dawn
Begged like a hooker all night long"

Half of the time this person acts very christ-like or pious but the other half of the time this person begs for this "dark side".

"Tempted the devil with my song
And got what I wanted all along"

Although this person acts as if they are a noble and good person he is actually getting all of the materialistic and evil lifestyle he craved.

"But I
I would
If I could
I would
Wish it away
Wish it away
Wish it all away
Wanna wish it all away

No prize that could hold sway
Or justify my giving away my center"

This is a key lyric of the song, Maynard defines the "you" that "lifted me up, turned me round." It is his center. Tool is a very spiritual band and I can assure that the center referred to here is not a God, it is the center of himself. It his balance within Nature and this experience, his connection to "oneness" or the divine.

"So if I could I'd wish it all away
If I thought tomorrow would take you away."

He would wish anything away that swayed him away from his center. He holds his center to a higher respect than his entire external experience.

"You, my piece of mind, my all, my center,
just trying to hold on one more day."

Here he clearly defines "you." He's trying to hold onto his center and not be caught up in "treasures and flesh."

"Damn my eyes!
Damn my eyes!
If they should compromise the fulcrum"

If his eyes should take him away from his fulcrum (a reference to balance), then Damn them. Take away his ability to see in order to restore balance within himself.

"(If) wants and needs divide me
Then I might as well be gone..."

He defines what could take him off balance and that is his own "wants and needs." If this does take off his balance, he might as well be dead (gone).

"Shine on forever
Shine on benevolent sun"

This reference to "you" and "center" is related to the sun. Like a sun, shine on forever (beyond space and time). Let balance be larger than your current experience.

"Shine down upon the broken"

Some people have lost their way. In order to fix the broken from their dark side, let their center awaken in them and fix the problem. Remember, the sun is a reference to the center. He's not actually saying let the sun shine light on us and somehow be fixed. The sun is within.

"Shine until the two become one"

"Two become one" can mean many things, but the short version is to say that the sunlight is the answer and will fix the broken. "Two become one" is also a trinity (father, son, holy spirit). Son (you), holy spirit (the light within), father (god state - oneness).
"Two become one" can also be seen as duality and oneness. Everything in this world is either a 1 or a 0 just like in the Matrix movie, it's duality (day-night, up-down, good-bad,) without it we would not have this experience. In the Matrix Neo gives up fighting his enemy and instead, lets his body merge with his enemy's. He gives up trying to make duality fight its other part, and instead lets the "two become one."

"Shine on forever
Shine on benevolent sun"

Ironic that Maynard references your balance to the sun again because right after the scene I just described in the Matrix where Neo becomes his enemy, Neo appears as a sun in the final scene.

"Shine down upon the severed
Shine until the two become one
Divided, I'll wither away
Shine down upon the many.
Light our way, benevolent sun.

Breathe in union
So, as one, survive
Another day and season"

Breathe is a key word here. Breath is the whole focus of meditation and yoga which are two great techniques to finding your center and balance within duality. If everyone is following their center, we all act as one, and we survive to move forward.

"Silence, legion. Save your poison.
Silence, legion. Stay out of my way."

Legion is a reference to the group of people still dabbling in the materialistic dark side. The people who seem to be holding onto everything but still can't find what they are looking for. Their poison won't effect the speaker.