Solution to Tool’s 10,000 Days Puzzle
So maybe you’ve seen it, and maybe you haven’t. Tool’s new CD, 10,000 Days came out this year, and it’s pretty damn good. There’s been talk around the internet about how you can combine three tracks - Wings for Marie, 10,000 Days, and Vigniti Tres - and make a whole new song. Some people think it was deliberate, and others say it’s just a coincidence. You decide.
In a May 5 post on the band’s official website, it is hinted that “the four individual photos [of the band members] can be used as the pieces of a kind of puzzle”, but the puzzle and its meaning “will just be another nut to crack.”
After an hour of looking and researching, I think I’ve solved the puzzle. Here we go…
Beneath the picture of Danny Carry (the one with the long hair and all the plants), there are four mandalas, each with 16 points. Add the points together and we get 64.
The Beatles wrote a song called, “When I’m Sixy-Four” on their album with lots of hidden imagery, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band.
From the lyrics of the song:
When I get older losing my hair
many years from now
will you still be sending me a valentine
birthday greeting, bottle of wine
If I’d been out till quarter to three
would you lock the door
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I’m sixty-fourYou’ll be older too
And if you say the word
I could stay with you
Look at the picture of Maynard. He’s sitting in front of a mirror, and in the mirror he has no hair. He is holding a glass of wine and has a wine bottle on the table with him. The woman behind him is coveting the phallic tower, and behind him in the mirror a ghost of a woman holds him. There is also a note and a clock on the table.
Next verse:
I could be handy mending a fuse
when your light have gone
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings, go for a ride
Doing the garden, digging the weeds
Who could ask for more
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I’m sixty-four
Look at the picture of Danny Carry. He’s sitting surrounded by plants, with a picture of the tree of life in the background. He’s lifting a cup of some sort and a light is flying out of it.
Next verse:
Every summer we can rent a cottage on the
Isle of Wight, if it’s not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck, and Dave
Look at the picture of Adam Jones. He’s surrounded by tiny nick nacks and containers. He’s got three biological somethings in containers in front of him. One looks like a skull and the other two, maybe fetuses. They’re over his knee.
Final verse:
Send me a postcard, drop me a line
stating point of view
indicate precisely what you mean to say
yours sincerely wasting away
Give me your answer fill in a form
mine forever more
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I’m sixty-four
Look at the picture of Justin Chancellor. He’s got that massive bird on his arm, and although I have no idea what type it is, I’m pretty sure it’s used to send messages. The candles are all slowly burning away.
So that’s it! The secret’s been solved to the Tool puzzle. A whole lot easier than it should have been…
samech daled…
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November 8th, 2006 11:43
maybe a bit too simple
December 27th, 2006 15:58
mmmm??
tool? beatles? puzzle?
ok
March 13th, 2007 20:07
What a fucking douce bag!
“So that’s it! The secret’s been solved to the Tool puzzle. A whole lot easier than it should have been…”
What a fucktard!
Are you for real? I actually think you are. Jesus, that’s got to be one of the most ignorant ideas for the “solution” to the puzzle that anybody could come up with. You think you’re so fucking deep, but actually you’re drowning in a kiddie pool. Just another troglodyte treading water. You are part of the scourge running rampant to ruin great bands and great music.
Oh, and btw FUCK THE BEATLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 1st, 2007 23:32
Seriously, this is the biggest crock of bull shit I’ve ever even conceived of. Get off the internet. I’m sure the beatles wish they could be involved in anything tool does, but they’re not. God damn shit the bed.
April 27th, 2007 14:58
I read an old interview with tool and they hate the beatles…
June 7th, 2007 18:46
I think he might be right on this one. Anyone who’s talking shit to this guy should remember that they have no idea what the solution is. If you have one then you can say something, but if you have no solution or brain then you shouldn’t put down other peoples ideas. It makes a lot of sense, but who knows, there could be more than one solution to the puzzle.
December 21st, 2007 08:38
Interesting. Very Interesting. It deserves some looking into although I do admit, it doesn’t seem to fit. I too have spent hours upon hours pondering the significance of the riddle. And although I do not know the answer and do not claim to know the answer I cannot help but express that this explanation does not feel right. I highly doubt that this is the kind of thing that the band just through together and I VERY HIGHLY DOUBT that one hour of looking through the album art and you have solved what has puzzled and is currently puzzling thousands. It seems to me that you kind of stumbled upon the song with the art and tried (desperately) to make it work. To be honest your last three arguments supported by beatles verses made very very weak connections to the pictures. It just seems like you are desperately reaching for anything to tie your theory down. I am sorry to say so but I do not believe you have solved the puzzle. And I highly encourage you not to discourage others in the seeking of said puzzles answer.
February 11th, 2008 13:49
OMG!!! YOUR SO RITE! IM GONNA TELL ALL MY FRENDS. TOOL RULZ MFKERS!!!!!!!