Tool: Rosetta Stoned Meaning

Rosetta Stoned Lyrics

ROSETTA STONED

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...

1. anonymous

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   Jul 31st 2006 !⃝

   This is definatly my favourite song on the album, creating a feeling of atmosphric craziness, I beleive that in listening to this song it makes you think of what you would do if you were "the chosen one." we need to always be reassured by others and their views. How would you feel? I'd shit the bed.
   The pressures of the simple-minded superficial thinking way of the people that think today has no relevance on real issues, the real things. This song makes so much sense in a way that
   "He revealed to me a
   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 graduate from fucking high school."
   
   is saying the utter confusion that our own mind brings us to believe and interpret.
   I strongly beleieve that this song is life changing and so good.
   Listen to it by yourself. Leave your mind blank and go crazy.
   
   By selina
2. Thelowend5stringer

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   Jul 27th 2006 !⃝

   I don't know where... But I heard this song was about someone taking lsd at area 51... But yeah... Anyone's guess on a metaphorical meaning.

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3. anonymous

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   Jul 24th 2006 !⃝

   This is definetly about one serious acid trip. While the dude in the song was tripping out, he thought he was given some apocalyptic message to deliver to the world. Unfortunately, he doesn't remember it, because he was tripping out.
   
   As for the 'shit the bed' line, it has absolutely nothing to do with deucing in the sheets. It must be a more regionalized saying than I realize, but when somebody says 'shit the bed,' it's like saying 'goddamnit' or 'fuck it all.' it's just a phrase used to express unhappiness or dispair.

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4. anonymous

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   Jul 21st 2006 !⃝

   This song is about Maynard or someone having an enlightenment. he realizes what he's supposed to realize, its a message from himself to himself, but he soon forgets and it doesn't seem to mater anymore

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5. anonymous

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   Jul 16th 2006 !⃝

   If you are a real Maynard fan, this has got to be one of the best songs on 10,000. Actually, to get the whole effect you have to listen to tracks 7 and 8 together. I don't think Maynard is hiding anything here, just a cool story about some effd up guy who got a message and forgot his pen and keeps shitting the bed. Totally original and one of the heaviest on the album.

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6. anonymous

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   Jul 13th 2006 !⃝

   This has fast become one of my favourite songs off 10'000 days for a few reasons. One being it is so intensely psychotic and scizophrenic, two that it has a distinct originality to anything else Tool has come up with... Well I guess every Tool song is distinct (yes, I'm happily biased) but this song is multi-layered in a number of ways that really intrigue and tantalise at the same time. I love the whole "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" tint to it all. I feel though, directly speaking, this song is a real pull and tug with the whole Hubology thing (Fallout 2 anyone?) while including the own twisted fascination it seems Tool has with Aliens and Unidentified Flying things. I remember seeing a filmclip of AEnima when I was a lot younger, and being captivated by the strange character dropped into that even stranger fate. I had alien thing all over it. Anyway, this tangent can wait. I think this song is a great acid-tripped oddysee of human incomprehension. An average guy, with no sense of real self-worth is overcome by being placed in a position of universal importance, so drops his bundle. Without anyone to prove externally what is being digested in his skull, he becomes lost in the shadow of responsibility. Finally, with no real means of communicating this apocalyptic message, he drowns in his own failure.
   
   Ha, who knows?
7. voldo_the_great

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   Jul 12th 2006 !⃝

   Alright Then, Picture This If You Will.......
   
   I think this song seems to have a very direct meaning, the difficulty being in hearing the lyrics properly. The protagonist turns to drug abuse (sunkist sudafed) after an experience where he was taken by aliens and given a message to humanity (but I forgot my pen) which he then forgets, and without a message to deliver nobody believes him about the aliens either (you believe me, don't you?) hilarity ensues. or maybe not.
   
   However, given the inherent nature of Tool songs, it seems likely that this rather obvious meaning is merely a metaphor for some deeper meaning, maybe (and here's some irony for you) the message is the meaning of a Tool song that nobody seems to have figured out, a message to humanity that's been forever lost in a sea of prescription drugs and soiled beds.... Maybe I'm rambling a bit, but I think this song is a bit of a gem, and it seems wasteful not to discuss it.
   
   voldo_the_great@hotmail.com
8. nirvanarules

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   Jul 12th 2006 !⃝

   uh I think it might be about scientology and how crazy it is

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