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Tool - Rosetta Stoned Song MeaningsLyrics: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" p... (See the rest of these lyrics) Submitted by: nirvanarules Added: 2006-07-12 00:21:57 Rating:  uh I think it might be about scientology and how crazy it is
Submitted by: voldo_the_great Alright Then, Picture This If You Will.......
Submitted by: anonymous 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.
Submitted by: anonymous 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.
Submitted by: anonymous Ok, so this is my first go at this. For a start "lost keys(blame hoffman)" and "rosetta stoned" are one and the same. The obvious meaning we can draw from "lost keys" is the name hoffman (albert), ie the father of lysergic acid diethylamide or in laymans terms lsd-25. This would explain the strange goings on we encounter in "rosetta stoned". Maynard (the protagonist) explains he is at his 'need-to-know post' just outside Area 51. Readers of toolband.com will know that Tool, along with Blair, have made numerous trips to the secret US base camping at the border, in the hope of seeing alien life or technology.
Submitted by: anonymous 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
Submitted by: anonymous 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.
Submitted by: Thelowend5stringer 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.
Submitted by: anonymous 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.
Submitted by: anonymous The lyrics in this song make no sense to us at all....And I believe that is exactly what Maynard was trying to do...Make no sense....In 1799 a stone plaque was found by french soldiers...This stone was called the "rosetta stone" ...Carved on this stone was writing in 3 different scripts...Hieroglyphs,demotic and greek.... Many people worked on deciphering the hieroglyphs over several hundred years. However, the structure of the script was very difficult to work out.
Submitted by: anonymous About an acid trip plain and simple
Submitted by: anonymous This song is really a story put to music. Maynard is writing a story of one of his "trips" there is no serious meaning to this particular song it merely shows Maynards story telling skills which are so descriptive I want to shit the bed. In the first line he tells the drugs he's on "-10 to 2 am, x, yogi dmt" x is e yogi is probably lsd but is used as a nickname for a few other drugs and dmt is a powerful powdered hallucinagen you also cook. If there was a meaning to the song it would be Maynards main point in all of his lyrics- "think for yourself, question authority", what better way is there to question authority than by taking mind expanding drugs?
Submitted by: Zaq Ok, so far all we've gotten pretty much is "its about a guy on acid at area 51..." yup, it is. But, that's not all, folks...
Submitted by: craigkelleigh Long time reader - first time submitter here........
Submitted by: anonymous Usually a song isn't laid out so easily for us but the meaning to this song sorta appears clear. In the beggining of this song Maynard says he is sitting outside of area 51 with his yogi D.M.T. Dmt is a powerful psychadelic that that last for only an hour or so, but has a intense peak that though short seems like an eternity. Another line says "the dead head chemistry got me seeing e mutherfuckin t. Dmt users often talk of close encounter with alien life forms while in the phycadelic state. So anyway that's my take
Submitted by: Toolio You guys should really give a visit to the Tool website. I hadn't read it until recently... So I thought it was pretty cool. Www.Toolband.Com under 'news'...Click on 'newsletter' read the august 2006 newsletter...
Submitted by: anonymous Well its definitely partly about acid:
Submitted by: anonymous Everyone has to stop assuming that Tool will always hold some "deep, hidden meaning" within their songs. It's the same concept as the pre-release dates of 10,000 days, when the title and songs of the cd were released to the public. Most people thought it was bullshit since they have done it before, and indeed have a reputation for playing with the public view, encouraging the constant questioning of authority and progress. This song is clearly a distinct message, a tale told to excite. Do not read too much into it, just because it's something they've done before. The entire album is far more poignant than their other stuff. All of the songs on 10,000 Days are excellently written with far less ambiguous meanings than their other work. It's called evolution. Even bands do it.
Submitted by: anonymous Given the intro,(lost keys), which clearly is a doctor being introduced to a John Doe patient, and then the beginning of "Rosetta Stoned" which is obviously the patient asking the doctor to "picture this if you will" as he starts to tell his tale. I would have to say that the song is about some guy who was tripping outside of area 51 and he lost his cool when ET showed up to nominate him the chosen one, and tell him that he must deliver a message to humanity. Whether or not ET was real or imagined is probably unimportant. The important part is now the guy is strapped down to a bed in a hospital, drinking sunkist and eating sudafed, and he can't remember what the damn alien told him. Which sounds quite like a lot of acid trips I've "heard" about, where you can't seem to find the words to describe something ("they showed me something, I don't even know where to begin"), and then subsequently you forget what the hell it was you were trying to say all together. The phrase "shit the bed" is just an expression that means you "really fucked up." so to sum it up, guy takes LSD, meets ET, gets a message, winds up in hospital trying to re-tell events, and can't remember what he was supposed to say because he forgot his pen. No more meaning, no more point, just a cool song that tells a pretty interesting story. That's my humble opinion, anyway.
Submitted by: anonymous Have any of you ever heard of dmt? If it were any drug trip he would be writing about it wasn't acid. Acid is not a very spiritual drug. I could be wrong but all facts and lyrics of this song point towards dmt. The only time your body creates the chemical that partly consists of dmt (serotonin) is when you are dreaming. The only time you ever experience a dmt like trip is when you are born or dying. A dmt trip is very spiritual. Accounts have revealed an enlightenment in people, a turn on faith, connections with higher beings, and even alien encounters. I have dabbled in small amounts of dmt numerous times and I have one time, felt a strong sense of attachment to spirituality and actually have had a conversation with a being that I realized later did not exsist. As for the whole "forgot my pen again" thing, it most likely is about the narrarator always wanting to write down what happens during his trip but he always forgets a pen. As for the whole dementia thing, it is said to ingest large quantities of dmt it can alter your perception of reality. When you come down from a trip you might be confused as to what is real or not. Are you dreaming are you awake? All the lyrics point towards dmt. But that's just me combining lyrics with what I know. I could be wrong for all I know, maybe Maynard told this story to his nephew on x-mas or something..
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