| P.O.S. – Been Afraid Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is amazing. Its about getting out of abusive and isolating domestic situations. The Notorious BIG lines just help reinforce this, first with abuse and then with resolution. Quick out the door no note no forlorn Cause all they heard was Papa dont hit me no more -POS Kick in the door, wavin the four-four All you heard was Poppa don't hit me no more -BIG (Kick in the Door) But things are getting better now, cozy sweater now -POS Livin' better now, Gucci sweater now -BIG (Big Poppa) This whole album tickles my insides! |
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| P.O.S. – Let It Rattle Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Mitch Hedberg and The Big Lebowski in the same song! I love it! |
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| The Mars Volta – Miranda, That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore: B. Pour Another Icepick Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"There was a frail syrup dripping off..." This sounds like a little tip o' the hat to Tom Waits. Does anyone else hear that, or is it just me? This album is fantastic! |
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| Tool – Intension Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Intension refers to the set of all possible things a word could describe, even things that may not exist, but could exist and would fall under that set of things (check the wikipedia link from 0ni). We get surface level examples of this through spark-flame-fire, and stone-home making the connection through intension, not hard lines to follow. Then we get some very abstract examples of intension. “Pure as we begin…pure as light, return to one.” This type of imagery seems to suggest that our purity is based on the fact that we are all apart of a universal cycle of particles similar to pure white light. And similar to light put through a prism (moved by will alone) we split into factions (the many colors of light that make up pure white light), but really we are all still part of the same whole. It is our will that separates us, keeps us from realizing our potential as a whole, our purity. I think this fits in nicely SoakedinMercury’s interpretation of civilization moving forward with progress. By our will we keep putting our collective energy (light) through prisms and refining and refining until we get what once was a spark to a fire. But through this refining we have driven ourselves further and further away from purity, exemplified by what we do with our refinements (make weapons and such). Despite our obsession with progress (and its power to separate us) when we die we just “leave as we come in…return to one” and recycle our particles to the earth. This is a fantastic segue for “Right in Two” which is a continuation of what humans choose to do with our will. | |
| Tool – Rosetta Stoned Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is what I get from it, it may not be what you get, and that’s totally fine. Keeping in mind the three languages on the Rosetta Stone and the above quotation. There are three narratives that need to be deciphered in this song. At the beginning we have the narrative of events told by the guy who is still suffering the effects of LSD to the doctors. The garbled sound of the lyrics seems to accentuate the nonsensical lyrics themselves. Then we get the second narrative, his inner thoughts. This helps us understand the first narrative, he cant explain himself because he is still really stoned, but what he has to say does make some sense. We are missing a third narrative, which is that of the aliens. So then what is the Rosetta Stone, his key to unlocking the cryptic message? The title suggests it’s the LSD. It is what allowed for the alien experience and makes the first nonsensical narrative possible, then the second more rational narrative. The reason we are missing the alien narrative is because we have an unprepared individual with no frame of reference, he forgot his pen. So he ends up missing the point. You get what you can from the Rosetta Stone (LSD or the actual stone used to decrypt the hieroglyphs) but once you decrypt, you don’t need the Rosetta Stone anymore. Once you figure out how to read Hieroglyphs you don’t need to translate through the stone again, you do it because you understand it. Much like once you reach a bit of spiritual enlightenment you can “get there again” because you understand it. The story teller was not prepared and therefore did not have the frame of reference to understand the new perspectives he encountered. It becomes a sort of response to “Third Eye.” What makes this song cool to me is the humor used to poke fun at the stereotypical high school drop out that trips out just to trip out. Tool makes some great stuff. |
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| Tool – Rosetta Stoned Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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“I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.” -MJK |
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| Tool – Lipan Conjuring Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think this solidifies the "black kettle" reference in the previous track, "the pot." Black kettle was a Cheyenne Native Amarican, and while the chant isn't a Cheyenne Native American chant it still makes you look at the Black Kettle lyrics in a different light...But thats just how I saw it. | |
| Tool – The Pot Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Trexor. I still think we are misunderstanding each other. You are the only person calling this track "deep." All i was doing was pointing out that its subject matter was more than "LIKE. omfg! calling the kettle black and marijuana!" This album, and this song, are throwbacks to older TooL, stuff others of us have grown up on. The band specifically stated that it would be more angry and less enlightened, not a Lateralus 2. So just get over it and enjoy the music. That "pretentious asshole" and "dipshit" stuff cut me deep trexor.... deep...like "omfg! calling the kettle black and marijuana" deep. |
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| Tool – The Pot Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Trexor, If you go back and read my post, you might get some insight as to what we are talking about here. The song is about hypocrisy, not marijuana. Marijuana was just a vehicle or literary device for Maynard to talk about people committing atrocities and hiding behind laws or positions of power. Diverting our attention from their wrong doings by waving fingers and keeping the looking glass pointed the other way, and policing us. Do yourself a favor and read up Kangaroo courts and what is happening in Guantanamo Bay, or find out who Black Kettle is and what happened to him. Why was he killed? Think about how that might relate to what is happening right now in the world. How that might relate to the US war in Iraq. I know this stuff is tough for a 19 year old such as yourself to digest, and may include a sort of textual analysis you are not familiar with, but please stop spamming the TooL boards. Maynard has been writing theses types of songs long before you were aware TooL existed. |
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| Tool – The Pot Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Rock Hawk has it right. The pot calling the Kettle black. Its all about hypocrisy. specifics: Black Kettle = Chief of the Southern Cheyenne (also listen to the following song) Kangaroo = the kangaroo court in Gitmo Muddy waters = Oil (raising the dead)? / Katrina (actual muddy waters)? "Who are you to wave your finger? So full of it." |
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