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Rosetta Stoned Lyrics
All righty then... picture this if you will...
10 to 2 am, X, yogi DMT, and a box of krispy kreme's in my "need to know" pose just outside of area 51, contemplating the whole chosen people thingy when just then a flaming stealth banana split the sky like one would hope but never really expect to see in a place like this. Cutting right angle donuts on a dime and stopping right at my birkinstocks, and me yelping "holy fuckin' shit!" then the X file being, looking like some kinda blue green Jackie chan, with Isabella Rossellini lips, and breath that reeked of vanilla chig champa, did a slow mo matrix decent outta the butt end of the banana vessel, and hovered above my bug eyes, my gaping jaw, and my sweaty L. Ron Hubbard upper lip and all I could think was, "I hope uncle martin here doesn't notice that I pissed my fuckin pants!!" so light in his way, like an apparition, that he had me crying out... "fuck me! It's gotta be the dead head chemistry. (the) blotter got right on top o' me. Got me seeing E mutha fuckin T! and after calming me down with some orange slices and some fetal spooning, E.T. revealed to me his singular purpose. He said. "you are the chosen one. The one who will deliver the message. A message of hope for those who choose to hear it, and a warning for those who do not." Me! The chosen one. They chose me!!!! And I didn't even graduate from fuckin' high school!! Then he looked right through me with somniferous almond eyes. Don't even know what that means. Must remember to write it down. This is so real. Like the time Dave floated away. See, my heart is pounding. cuz this shit never happens to me. Can't breathe right now. It was so real. Like I woke up in wonderland. all sorta terrifying. I don't wanna be alone while I tell this story. And can anyone tell me why y'all sound like peanuts parents? Will I ever be coming down? This is so real. Finally it's my lucky day See, my heart is racing cuz this shit never happens to me. Can't breathe right now. You believe me don't you? Please believe what I've just said. See, the dead ain't touring and this wasn't all in my head. see they took me by the hand and invited me right in. then they showed me something. I don't even know where to begin. Strapped down to my bed, feet cold and eyes red. I'm out of my head am I alive? Am I dead. Can't remember what they said. God damn. Shit the bed. Overwhelmed as one would be placed in my position... Such a heavy burden now to be the one Born to bear and bring to all the details of our ending. to write it down for all the world to see. But I forgot my pen. Shit the bed again. Typical. Strapped down to my bed, feet cold and eyes red. I'm out of my head am I alive? Am I dead. Sun kissed and Sudafed Gyro scopes and infrared won't help. I'm brain dead. Can't remember what they said. God damn. Shit the bed. Can't remember what they said to me. Can't remember what they said to make me out to be the hero. Can't remember what they said. Bob help me. Can't remember what they said. We don't know and we won't know. God damn shit the bed.
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05-28-2006
I love educated opinions here.
It's how you progress in life....................
I still don't agree with you though.
AHaa
Albert Hoffman is the guy who created LSD
Albe Hoffman is the guy rumored to create it, but didn't, he just is the only man in history to offer it to a Judge in Court!!!!!!
Now if you can excuse me I have some Kristy Kremes to eat.
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05-28-2006
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05-29-2006
It's a shame this song will never get radio time.
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05-30-2006
First, the patient is in a hospital. He was a walk in. The nurse obviously does not know if he is on drugs or not so she asks a doctor for help. They may be assuming he is, hence Blame Hofmann, but they probably would have figured that he was on drugs so they yearn for more information, hence the questioning.
The patient gives in and tells his story of abduction(Rosetta Stoned). The fact that I think it is an abduction is because the doctor and nurse would have known that the patient is on LSD.
Then again, maybe the LSD is laced with something else. Is that possible? Then, maybe at that point they cannot identify his status.
Also, maybe it is called Rosetta Stoned based on the actual Rosetta Stone created around 200 B.C. The Rosetta Stone is a stone written in two languages using three scripts. It is obviously hard to decipher. Relating to the song, the patient is difficult to decipher. He may be actually talking really fast or mumbling from his experience. Therefore, the song is named Rosetta Stoned because of his incoherence.
Stoned, because after hearing the story the nurse and doctor probably think he is crazy.
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05-30-2006
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05-30-2006
Someone mentioned earlier that the real Rosetta Stone consited of three narratives or something, and that the song Rosetta Stoned consists of only two. Maybe Lost Keys is the first narritive, then Rosetta Stoned is the other two.
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05-30-2006
Anyways
I never looked at it from Whodini's view, a cop!
Ha, kind of make sense in a few actually.
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05-31-2006
The song is describing a trip on some kind of drug, where he meets aliens who tell him he is the "chosen one to deliver a message", so he tells the local authorities:
"You believe me, dont you?, please believe what I just said, seeing them telling children, and this wasnt all in my head."
"See they took be right by the hand.
And invted me right in
Then they showed me something.
I don't even know where to begin."
^^ He's talking to the police about how the aliens abducted him.
Now, they know hes stoned or just insane, they commit him to an asylum:
"Strapped down on my bed.
Feet cold and eyes red.
I'm out my head.
Am I alive? Am I dead?
Can't remember what they said.
God damn, I shit the bed."
Hes strapped down in the asylum, eyes red from lack of sleep, cold, confused, cant remember what the aliens told him, and he "shits the bed" (screws up his meaning in life:to be the chosen one).
The title of the song is refering to him (the subject of the song), and how he was the Rosetta Stone to decypher the meaning of life to the world...or atleast thought he was because he was trippin out. Therefor, making him "Rosetta StoneD"
This is just a story that Tool made up for fun, showing what paranoid delusional drug addicts think and feel like during a bad trip...such as hallucinations with aliens that end up in [him] being committed to an insane asylum.
I highly doubt this is the actual meaning, but its the best I could come up with.
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06-01-2006
"ten to 2 am and actually eating a peanut box and Krispy Kremes at my need-to-know post just outside Area 51" - Everyone knows the stereotype that cops eat donuts..and who else would be sitting around doing that at 2 in the morning?..so close to a top secret military base...
theres another line that says something about Birkenstocks..which leads people to question why a cop would be wearing Birkenstocks?....but i believe its actually Birkenstock..not the shoe..the last name...i think thats his partner..his last name is Birkenstock..the cop then goes onto say either: "then he yelled at me" or "threw me a weapon"...both things Birkenstock did...maybe...i dunno
and the line "I hope my partner here doesnt noticed that i pissed my fuckin pants" is so obvious...he's in law enforcement of some kind....
the only lyrics that really need certain parts deciphered are the first two verses...the rest is audibly clear
p.s. i only think he says "peanut box" because it sounds like he does..and later in the song he asks "and can anyone tell me why, all of a sudden the peanuts danced?"......some people heard something else that sounds way off tho...*shrug*
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06-01-2006
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06-01-2006
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06-02-2006
You take too much DMT, you see things that look like those gray alien things. Don't take as much and you may still see them, but the beings still talk and stuff.
Actually some doctors don't think this is a hallucinogen if you know what i mean...
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06-04-2006
that being said... i'm sick of arguing this point... but let me make this absolutely, positively clear... ANYONE WHO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THESE KINDS OF DRUGS COULD TELL YOU FULL WELL THAT THIS SONG COULD NOT BE ABOUT DMT...
not to mention the fact that there's not a single reference to suggest that it is dmt... there are many references to lsd, but not a single one to dmt...
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06-04-2006
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06-05-2006
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06-05-2006
i've smoked dmt in several of it's natural forms... i've smoked pure crystaline dmt... and i've drinken ayahuasca...
and i won't even bother going into my experience with mescaline, salvia, psilocybin mushrooms, amanita mushrooms... etc...
now, let me explain... if this song were to be about dmt it would have to be with ayahuasca because with smoking dmt, one would be coming down in a matter of 15 minutes after smoking ('will i EVER be coming down')... so if it's a dmt experience, it would have to be ayahuasca, being as ayahuasca last more like 3 or 4 hours...
do hear even the most thickly veiled reference to ayahuasca in the course of this song? i don't... i hear several references to lsd though. not to mention that the first line in the song makes reference to the character eating a 'box of krispy kremes'... this would not even be possible on ayahuasca as it causes the most intense stomach cramps, vomiting, etc...
so, without any references to ayahuasca it seems silly to jump to the conclusion that dmt is being referenced in this song.
especially when you consider that the effects of dmt and lsd are so similar that if one were to spend 5 minutes in the head of someone peaking on acid, and 5 minutes in the head of someone peaking on dmt, you would be virtually unable to distinguish the difference, even as an experienced tripper.
they affect the same receptors and cause the same kinds of hallucinations... so saying that the song has 'more of a dmt feel' is just kind of a niave statement...
i'm not saying that this song is definately about drugs... cause it's vague enough to go either way... but there ARE drug references, and lsd IS the drug being referenced...
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06-06-2006
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06-06-2006
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06-07-2006
The "Lost Keys" are piano keys (August Hoffman)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4557619.stm
A wealth of names and nationalities have been suggested to try to identify a man found wandering in Kent who communicates only through piano music.
Health workers caring for the "Piano Man" could not confirm reports he had been identified as French street musician Steven Villa Masson.
The National Missing Persons Helpline has had hundreds of calls and e-mails.
Information has also been passed to West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust which is following up all leads.
The mystery man was unable to communicate with police or carers after he was found in a street in Sheerness in a rain-soaked suit.
Piano drawing
When staff at the Medway Maritime Hospital gave him a pen and paper in the hope he would write his name, he drew a grand piano.
His carers then put him in front of an instrument in the hospital chapel and he stunned them with a virtuoso classical performance.
He has also composed music since he was found.
Social worker Michael Camp said the man, who is in his 20s or 30s, is usually very anxious but "comes alive" when he plays.
On Tuesday, a Polish street mime artist approached police in Rome saying he had worked with the man in Nice.
Social workers are working through a list of at least 300 other names.
The National Missing Persons Helpline has received more than 520 calls and more than 100 e-mails.
Musical experts sought
The trust has been approached by people from Australia, Canada, Sweden, Holland, Italy and France.
"(He) continues to be cared for by the trust, and there has been no change in his condition," a spokesman said.
The man has not said a word since police found him on 7 April. All the labels had been removed from every item of his clothing.
The case has drawn comparisons with the 1996 film Shine which depicts the story of acclaimed pianist David Helfgott who suffered a nervous breakdown.
Anyone who has information about The Piano Man is urged to call the helpline on 0500 700700.
People calling from outside the UK can reach the Missing Persons Helpline on +44 20 8392 4545. People calling from the Irish Republic should dial 00 800 7000 7001.
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06-07-2006
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06-07-2006
I think
ToolMusik or something on page 1 is right. >>; sounds good for me.
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06-08-2006
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06-08-2006
Began at 2 AM, and
[actually eating up / after eating an entire]
box of Krispy Kremes,
at my need-to-know post
just outside Area 51 contemplating
[the whole "chosen people" thing / the multitudes of people, thinking]
when a flaming, stealth banana split the sky, like, wide open.
I never expected to see it in a place like this.
I do believe I spilled a
[diamond sundae / diet soda]
or something
right on my Birkenstocks.
[Then he yelled at me / Then yelping / ??]
Holy fucking shit!
Then the X-Files beings,
[who were in some kind of blue-green jet ship
/ who was like some kind of blue-green jackie chan]
with Isabella Rossellini lips with breath that reeked,
did a wicked jump there
also while making the sound a-banana-da-banana
that's when I opened up my bug-eyes,
my gaping jaw,
and my sweaty [lower and / L. Ron Hubbard] upper lip,
and all I could think was,
"I hope Uncle [Martin / Quark] here doesn't notice
that I pissed my fuckin' pants."
So alive in this way
Like an apparition,
He had me crying out,
"Fuck me
It's gotta be
Deadhead
Chemistry
The bottom got on top of me
Got me seein' E-motherfuckin'-T!"
And after calming me down
with some orange slices
and some fetal spooning,
E.T. revealed to me his singular purpose.
He said, "You are the Chosen One,
the One who will deliver the message.
A message of hope to those who choose to hear it
and a warning to those who do not."
Me. The Chosen One?
They chose me, and I didn't graduate from fuckin' high school.
You'd better...
You'd better...
You'd better...
You'd better listen.
Then he looked right through me
With somniferous almond eyes
Don't even know what that means
Must remember to write it down
This is [surreal / so real]
Like the time they floated away
See, my heart is pounding
'Cause this shit never happens to me
I can't breathe right now!
It was so real,
Like I woke up in Wonderland.
Also a bit terrifying
I don't wanna be all alone
When I tell this story.
And can anyone tell me why
[It was a repeat experience / ??]
Will I ever be coming down?
This is so real
Finally, it's my lucky day
See, my heart is racing
'Cause this shit never happens to me
I can't breathe right now!
You believe me, don't you?
Please believe what I just said!
See [them / they're] telling children
And this wasn't all in my head.
See, they took me by the hand
And invited me right in.
Then they showed me something
I don't even know where to begin.
Strapped down on my bed
Feet cold, eyes red
I'm out of my head
Am I alive? Am I dead?
Can't remember what they said
God damn, shit the bed
[High / hey] ...
Overwhelmed as one would be, placed in my position.
Such a heavy burden now to be the One
Born to bear and read you all the details of our ending,
To write it down for all the world to see.
But I forgot my pen
Shit the bed again ...
Typical.
Strapped down on my bed
Feet cold and eyes red
I'm out of my head
Am I alive? Am I dead?
Sunkist and Sudafed
Gyroscopes and [Nicorette / infrared]
Won't help, brain dead
Can't remember what they said
God damn, shit the bed
I can't remember what they said to me
Can't remember what they said to make me out to be a hero
Can't remember what [they / he / it] said
[Oh / God] help me!
Can't remember what [they / he / it] said
Don't know, won't know (x12)
God damn, shit the bed!
Those are the lyrics according to MJK
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06-09-2006
no actually, anti social, if you would have read more carefully you would have noticed that these are what the members of Toolshed's forums generally agree upon... it is from Toolshed, isn't it... don't lie...
these are not the confirmed lyrics from MJK... i would think he actually knows for sure what he said in certain parts of the song...
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06-11-2006
However, if you're not resigned to believe that this song is just one of his awesome jokes, then i have a bit of information. egb, you're theory about this song being on a par with Third eye is (in my opinion) a good one, since they seem to be opening concerts with Lost Keys and Rosetta Stoned now instead of Third Eye. With the song being some sort of decoder, all that i've noticed is that it's 11:11 in lenth and there are 11 songs on the album.
Good luck to those who keep trying to find meaning n this song, I admire your perseverence.
Danny Carey is God
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