I heard about this frog
It's a very tiny frog
But it's also very special
You can only find it in the jungle
So far away from me
But if you find it and if you touch it
Your world can change forever

If you touch its skin
You can feel your body changing
And your vision also
And blue becomes red and red becomes blue
And your mommy suddenly becomes your daddy
And everything looks like a giant cupcake

And you keep laughing and laughing and laughing
Nothing is ever quite the same really
And after you finish laughing
It's time to turn into a frog yourself
It's very funny to be a frog
You can dive into the water
And cross the rivers and the oceans
And you can jump all the time and everywhere
Do you want to play with me?

We can be a whole group of friends
A whole group of frogs
Jumping into the streets
Jumping into the planet
Climbing up the buildings
Swimming in the lakes and in the bathtubs
We would be hundreds, thousands, millions
The biggest group of friends the world has ever seen
Jumping and laughing forever
It would be great, right?



Lyrics submitted by sethbrown, edited by LucidLark

Track duration: 04:04

"Raconte-Moi Une Histoire" as written by Yann Gonzalez, Anthony Gonzalez, Justin Meldal-johnsen

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING

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    General Comment:This song makes me feel froggy! :)
    Flag Frangipanion May 18, 2013   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:This song makes me feel absolutely incredible. Happiness overload. It makes me want to be with my friends and makes me feel good about being alive. I can't even explain it.
    Flagged ShoKillon October 04, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:The lines that always hit me the hardest during the song was;

    "We would be hundreds, thousands, millions
    The biggest group of friends the world has ever seen
    Jumping and laughing forever
    It would be great, right?"

    To me the entire song seems to throw drug like experiences at you, and I've done a decent amount of the them to really feel a good connection towards the feel of the song. But as LifeIsCinema pointed out drugs are the only really good way for adults to "cleanse the doors of perception...". So when you have a cleansed, and innocent mind, the ending of the kids story is a very moving concept that I'm sure everyone in the world wants deep down inside. Why can't we all just be friends?
    Flag Icarus00on July 25, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:This song is pure genius. The way the melody and the beat build up, with an amazing intro where the story is told. Pure genius.
    Flag Quauhtlion June 09, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:those of you who say this song is about drugs, you are perceptive at least, but you are wrong. well that is a bit of an exaggeration. you are not wrong. you are simply not dealing with the lyrics on a substantive enough level. in my opinion, and i could be wrong, though i do not feel i am, the song is about how seeing the world as would a child is the true key to happiness and understanding. yes, you can throw some Alduous Huxley at me and try and bring it back around to drugs. "If the Doors of Perception were cleansed, man would see the world as it truly is: infinite." And despite the truth in that famous quote drugs are only one (and a very worldly and banal one at that) of the many ways mankind can "cleanse the doors of perception. The truest existence for any man or woman is innocence in perception and genius in thought...
    Flagged LifeIsCinemaon April 15, 2012   Link
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    My Opinion:This song is about taking psychedelics and becoming childlike again. Specifically about a particular substance DMT: The Spirit molecule that is on the back colorado river toad. The river toad also has 5-meo-DMT, Bufotenine and n-n-DMT. When you play with the frog it excretes these juices from its back. It is definitely not about LSD. These things do not happen on LSD. Believe me. This is a classic case of a DMT trip. DMT is the chemical released when you are born, go into REM sleep, and die. It is released through your pineal gland. When you take it you see beings from other dimensions of existence. You are no longer an atheist if you have done DMT. Please research DMT or watch the documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule to understand M83. It is the only way you will understand what is really going on right now...Please do it. rickstrassman.com/… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… thespiritmolecule.com/
    -Terrence Mckenna
    Flagged robwes1on January 19, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:it's a bedtime story

    acid or not
    Flagged ireallylikebagelson January 05, 2012   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:The song is specifically about bufotenin, a physocoactive found in a species of frog in the South American rainforest.
    Flag kalexton December 11, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:iin regards to the frog: it's a fairly obvious reference to the bufo toad, which contains 5-meo dmt in some of its secretions. it is not as simple as touching the toad, howevever- the glands of the toad have to be squeezed. so the song is either making a play on this by changing toad to frog and assuming direct touch is all that is necessary.. or there's some other frog out there they're referencing. ...and no, you don't get poisoned. if you're going to claim to be debunking urband legends, at least know what you're talking about.
    Flag nasir676on November 28, 2011   Link
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    Song Meaning:It's a play on the name of a French magazine for kids that the artist most likely grew up with as he's from there. Safe bet he's using it as a backdrop for explaining an acid trip. If not, as I know this story is part of the series, the author was having a good time while writing the story!
    Flag db10017on November 16, 2011   Link

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