Techno Ted may be a person who caused Chris incredible emotional pain & trepidation as well as moments of peace & happiness but now is removed and awaiting his fate. Darling may be a different person who is also free of him and can live her life free of Ted's tyranny. "In between all the laughing, and daydreams ... lies: a desert of truth" Lies are like a desert or the omission of Truth: Where there were Lies then Truth was absent. The song, "Techno Ted", may be a cathartic celebration of the downfall of this person.
What was it like to see
The face of your own stability
Suddenly look away
Leaving you with the dead and hopeless?
Eleven and she was gone
Eleven is when we waved good-bye
Eleven is standing still (waiting for me)
Waiting for me to free him
By coming home
Moving me with a sound
Opening me within a gesture
Drawing me down and in (showing me where it all began)
Showing me where it all began
Eleven
He was too scarred to realize
You were the voice that's been calling me back home
Under a dead Ohio sky
Eleven has been and will be waiting
Defending his light and wondering
Where the hell have I been?
Sleeping, lost and numb, I'm
So glad that I have found you
I am wide awake and heading home
I wish that I could see you
Turn and run to play
Dreams are fading
Carry my ancient soul, carry me into the light
Aim your body heavenly
Enduring a memory
I'll come to your light
Hold your light
Hold your light where I can see it
High
Hold your light, eleven
Lead me through each gentle step by step
By inch by loaded memory
I'll move to heal
As soon as pain allows so we can
Reunite and both move on together
Hold your light, eleven
Lead me through each gentle step by step
By inch by loaded memory until
One and one are one, eleven
So glow, child, glow
I'm heading back home
The face of your own stability
Suddenly look away
Leaving you with the dead and hopeless?
Eleven and she was gone
Eleven is when we waved good-bye
Eleven is standing still (waiting for me)
Waiting for me to free him
By coming home
Moving me with a sound
Opening me within a gesture
Drawing me down and in (showing me where it all began)
Showing me where it all began
Eleven
He was too scarred to realize
You were the voice that's been calling me back home
Under a dead Ohio sky
Eleven has been and will be waiting
Defending his light and wondering
Where the hell have I been?
Sleeping, lost and numb, I'm
So glad that I have found you
I am wide awake and heading home
I wish that I could see you
Turn and run to play
Dreams are fading
Carry my ancient soul, carry me into the light
Aim your body heavenly
Enduring a memory
I'll come to your light
Hold your light
Hold your light where I can see it
High
Hold your light, eleven
Lead me through each gentle step by step
By inch by loaded memory
I'll move to heal
As soon as pain allows so we can
Reunite and both move on together
Hold your light, eleven
Lead me through each gentle step by step
By inch by loaded memory until
One and one are one, eleven
So glow, child, glow
I'm heading back home
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Ok, first off I wanna say that I never sign into sites like this.... but just reading all the bullshit on here was just pissing me off. Honestly are you people really that dumb? Obviously 90% of you aren't actual tool fans or maybe bought one CD and consider yourself Maynard experts. Yes Maynard has said that his songs are purposely written in a way that could have several meanings and leaves it open for the listener to interpret it the way they want (that's why he never discusses what his songs are about). But come on...... Sept 11th.....guess he sees into the future, Horoscopes, Numerology, The 11 11 time clock crap, and the list goes on and on. I mean some of you morons are talking about his sister (which P.S. doesn't exist since he's an only child), his mom Peggy, Susie, Kathy. Just stop embarrassing yourselves if you don't know the facts about his family, at least the basics like his moms name. Oh yeah I almost forgot besides getting his moms name wrong lots of you got HIS name wrong. HOW THE HELL COULD YOU BE ON THIS SITE AND NOT AT LEAST KNOW THAT HIS BIRTH NAME WASN'T MAYNARD. The songs name is jimmy.........his name is James......hmmmmmm I wonder who the songs about........maybe his dog. Anyway long story short the song has a pretty simple meaning people......just put the pipe down cause it's not doing all of you any good. It's about him as a boy jimmy......his mom became paralyzed when he was 11...he was sent off to his dads when he was 11..........his whole world changed because of what happened to his mom when he was 11............1+1.......11...the end.
Senior "Tool Expert". You said yourself that most of Tool's songs are open to interpretation, but yet, you assume that YOUR interpretation is the right one. How can you type your harsh words of criticism on how everyone has terrible interpretations as you impose your own?
These songs may be open to interpretation, but this is the closest to the CORRECT interpretation I've yet seen here. It's all well and good that as many people as possible relate with an artist's songs in whatever way(s) they see fit, but trust me; the artists do have something specific in mind when they write these songs.
I also never sign in to sites like these but you comment made me laugh so hard I had to sign in to upvote it. 1+1 :D
@bakerbaker90 his mom is named judith
@bakerbaker90 omfg I had to make an account just to reply to you! I laughed so hard
@bakerbaker90 All coincidental interpretations are valid. Tools lyrics are filled with what they call magic, so that it inevitably let´s the listener project its own reality.<br /> <br /> I myself had great insights about myself through the meditation of the lyrics, especially the number 11.
@bakerbaker90 <br /> Yes and THANK YOU for the asinine ,no correlation in the slightest to the lyrics in order to fit the meaning they propose. <br /> If you have PTSD this song puts words to a path that you are placed within and on I had been unable to find a way to even begin to formulate an association/connection for those in my life that did not have PTSD to relate too for a truer understanding of the depth you are forever changed. (At least for me and my interpertation regarding myself and by using the lyrics / words to associate a meaning in my life.) Some of the “meanings” on this site make you wonder if someone is trolling or maybe is poor sarcasm
@bakerbaker90 Considering how angry you are I'm willing to bet most of Tool's lyrics go over your head! The band is heavily into things like sacred geometry, synchronicity, Timothy Leary, questioning everything, etc it strikes me as very ignorant that you think there's no possible way 11 in this song has a double meaning and just write it off as "time clock crap". It's called synchronicity and it's not a coincedence that Rosetta Stoned is 11:11 long.<br /> <br /> Your interpretation isn't wrong but it's a shame you feel the need to get angry at people who see more meaning in the song than simply "he's singing about being 11". Do you think the world would be a better place if everyone treated you like garbage because you don't believe in synchronicity?<br /> <br /> I'll end with a Bill Hicks quote that feels appropriate. <br /> Bill Hicks, "Shut up and smoke that"<br /> Angry guy smokes weed and chills out, "Oh sorry I was taking life seriously."<br /> *A
@bakerbaker90 Hahaha right on, epic rant dude.
@bakerbaker90 that stuff is correct except Jimmy left for Michigan when he was 13. He lived in Ohio for a while after Judy's paralysis. But I think the age of 11 is the traumatic moment he is singing about.
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Actually everyone here is basically correct and on the right track. It does have to do with 9/11, numerology, his mother, 1+1, all of it actually.<br /> <br /> 11 represents duality. We're missing the mother aspect of our souls because we are separated from nature which is why everything is going to reset. So we're just 1 missing the other 1, 11. You have to heal the trauma from not having the mother aspect. This is both spiritual and literal for Maynard obviously.<br /> <br /> 1 & 1 is 1, 11<br /> <br /> "The 2 shall become one."<br /> <br /> 9/11 had to do with destroying the 2 pillars that hold up the world. It was a symbolic representation of that. It's Masonic. They are tearing down this world so they can build a new one. Creating chaos so they can make order out of chaos. A new world order.<br /> <br /> i.redd.it/7lq2y95k21h11.jpg<br /> <br /> i.redd.it/8fzr6chmz0g11.png<br /> <br /> i.redd.it/f4hyili511h11.jpg<br /> <br /> i.redd.it/yn0q4hmtq0g11.png
@bakerbaker90 <br /> <br /> Just wanted to say. THIS.<br /> <br /> I signed in w/o reading the comments below. Only because of your post. You have saved me a lot of time.<br /> <br /> Amazing song. I'd put the maynard/judith story songs like this.<br /> <br /> Prison Sex, Jimmy, Judith, Wings Suite<br /> <br /> I could even argue the Jambi may be a part. Could be.<br /> <br /> Anyway. Nice work provoking my morning bullshitting. <br /> <br /> -B
@bakerbaker90 <br /> Chill out And take jimmy pipe out ur mouth this song is About how baker took james Maynard's and justin chanchelorts cook totaling 11.1" dick in his mouth back stage in 2007 in his home town ,so angry and accusing while providing no facts other than why wasn't ur skull I crushed in the pit@a pantera concert until I realized u were not there but at a new kids concert and didn't listen to tool or grow a set until the tribal tat dball rage and fohawk listen buddy before u point that finger u should know im the fucking man n put that finger up ur fagot tanning bed wifebeater wearing n Definitely woman beating ass carry on everyone n if u were in the pit's u know who this clown is come see me baker baker either represents ur stutter or ur own families inability to remember
@bakerbaker90 i see youre right but jesus this is just a fun little site where people talk about song meanings<br />