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Lyrics with metaphorical meanings about'
    #7444198 - 09/23/07 01:54 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

about doing the type of things we all do without the goal of recognition?

or trippy proverbs or philosophical sayings in them?


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"Ten thousand flowers in spring
the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer,
snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life."
            -wumen


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Re: Lyrics with metaphorical meanings about' [Re: navyseals101]
    #7444318 - 09/23/07 02:43 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Alan Watts has this great lecture where he talks about a guy who inhaled nitrous and comprehended the meaning of the universe,
he then struggled to remember to write it down, and when he awoke he looked at what he had wrote: "Everything is the smell of burnt almonds"

In the song "Rosetta Stoned" on Tool's 10,000 Days, is the lyric:

"Then he looked right through me
With somniferous almond eyes
Don't even know what that means
I must remember to write it down"

Which I think is a direct reference to Watts' philosophical story about the impossibility of translating the ecstatic experience.

Here's the whole song:

Tool - Rosetta Stoned

Alrighty, then ... picture this if you will.

10 to 2 AM, X, Yogi DMT, and a box of Krispy Kremes,
in my "need to know" pose, just outside of Area 51
Contemplating the whole "chosen people" thingy
when 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 Birkenstocks,
and me yelping...

Holy fucking shit!

Then the X-Files being,
Looking like some kind of blue-green Jackie Chan
with Isabella Rossellini lips, and breath that reeked of
vanilla Chig Champa
Did a slow-mo Matrix descent
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 Deadhead Chemistry
The blotter got [right] 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 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.

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 so real
Like the time Dave 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.
All sorta terrifying
I don't wanna be all 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
'Cause this shit never happens to me

I 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.

Hey ...

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?
Sunkist and Sudafed *
Gyroscopes and infrared
Won't help, I'm 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 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 (x12)

God damn, shit the bed!




another one? sure.

Robert Anton Wilson talks about "Time Binding" and "Strange Loops" too heady to explain here...
but on the song "Algorithm" by Forest For The Trees is the lyric "Sometimes riding a very strange loop, back in time I bind..." which is an obvious reference to R.A.W.

Here's the whole song:

Forest For The Trees - Algorithm

Everything that ever was
is a song that is sung to existence
I keep stepping over the boundary
and I see the essence of my being
Spiraling, panoramic emotion
Sentimental, eternal vision
Melodies of intrinsic meaning
riding so very high

Algorithm of happiness
Algorithm of perfect bliss
Algorithm of consciousness
Algorithm of Satori

Undulating pattern, caressing,
Flowing perspective shift
Pulling in a wave of thought
from ... the infinite
Sensing a chaotic touch of love
That the ebbs in this beautiful cycle
Sometimes riding a very strange loop
back in time I find/bind...


^^^ AWESOME song whilst Tripping...


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