The Mars Volta : De-Loused in the Comatorium

Experimental Rock / USA
(2003 - Universal Music Group)
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1. SON ET LUMIERE

Clipside of the pinkeye flight
I'm not the percent you think survives
I need sanctuary in the pages of this book

Gestating with all the other rats
Nurse said that my skin will need a graft
I am of pock-marked shapes
The vermin you need to loathe


2. INERTIATIC ESP

Now I'm lost

Last night I heard lepors
Flinch like birth defects
It's musk was fecal in origin
As the words dribbled off of its chin
it said I'm lost
I'm lost

I'm lost
Now I'm lost

Dolls wreck the minced meat of pupils
Cast in oblong arms length
The hooks have been picking their scabs
Where wolves hide in the company of men
It said I'm lost
I'm lost

Now I'm lost

Are you peaking in the red ?
Perforated at the neck

What of this mongrel architect
A broken arm of sewers set
Past present and future tense
Clipside of the pinkeye fountain

What of this mongrel architect
A broken arm of sewers set
Past present and future tense
Clipside of the pinkeye fountain

Now I'm lost

It's been said
Long time ago
You'll be the first and last to know
You'll never know...


3. ROULETTE DARES (THE HAUNT OF)

Transient jet lag ecto mimed bison
This is the haunt of roulette dares
Ruse of metacarpi
Caveat emptor....to all that enter here

Open wrist talks back again
In the wounds of its skin
They'll pinprick the witness
In ritual contrition
The am trinity fell upon asphyxia-derailed
In the rattles of...

Made its way through the tracks
Of a snail slouching whisper
A half mass comute through umbilical blisters
Spector will lurk
Radar has gathered
Midnight neuces from boxcar cadavears

Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed
Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed
It's because this is

Cranial bleeding
Leaches train the living
Cursed are they who speak its name
Ruse of metacarpi
Caveat emptor ... to all that enter here

Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed
Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed
It's because this is

Ratteling the laughter
Hinges splintering inside
Bludgeoned to a saddle
Rang the cloister bell inside
Inside
Inside

Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed
Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed
It's because this is


4. TIRA ME A LAS ARANAS

(Instrumental)


5. DRUNKSHIP OF LANTERNS

You've got the lot to burn
A shelve of pig smotherd cries
Is there a spirit that spits
Upon the exit of signs

Is anybody there ?
These steps keep on growing long
Bayonet trials rust propellers await
No, nobody is heard
Rowing sheep smiles for the dead
Nobody is heard

An antiquated home
Afloat with engines on mute
Sui generis ship spined around the yard

Is anybody there ?
These craft only multiply
At the nape of ruins rust propellers await
No, nobody is heard compass wilting in the wind
Nobody is heard
Rowing sheep smile for the dead

Tansoceanic depth in this earth
In this cenotaph

Lash of one thousand eye brows clicking
Counting the toll
Counting the toll

You've got the lot to burn
A shelve of pig smothered cries
Is there a spirit that spits upon the exit of signs

Is anybody there ?
These steps keep on growing long
Bayonet trials rust propellers await
No, nobody is heard
Compass wilting in the wind
Nobody is heard
Rowing sheep smile for the dead

Transoceanic depth in this earth
In this cenotaph

Carpel jets
Hit the ground (X4)

Lash of one thousand eyebrows clicking
Counting the toll
Counting the toll
Lash of one thousand eyebrows clicking
Counting the toll
Counting the toll


6. ERIATARKA

And there are those who
Hadn't found the speaking so wrong
Is it wrong ?
Of pavolov lore
They ran rampant through the floors
Is this wrong ?
Feels so wrong
Happened on a respirator
In the basements
Are they gone ?
are they gone ?

Stung the slang of a gallows bird
Rationed a dead letter pure

Trackmarked amoeba lands craft
Cartwheel of scratches
Dress the tapeworm as pet
Tenticles smirk please
Flinched the cocooned meat
Infra-recon forgets

Now there are those who find
Comfort in the breathing
Wrong
Is it wrong ?
It houses the watchful eyes
They're panting in a pattern in droves
Are they gone ?
Happened on a respirator bet
In the basements
Is it gone ?
Now they're gone

Stung the slang of a gallows bird
Sanctioned a dead letter pure

Trackmarked amoeba lands craft
Cartwheel of scratches
Dress the tape worm as pets
Tentacles smirk please
Flinch the cacooned meat
Infra-recon forgets

Evaporated the fur
Because it covers them
If you only knew the plans they had for us
Evaporated the fur
Because it covers them
If you only knew the plans they had for us

They used to have pulses in them
But impulse has made the strong
They used to have pulses in them
But impulse has made them strong

Evaporated the fur
Because it covers them
If you only knew the plans they had for us

Trackmarked amoeba lands craft
Cartwheel of scratches
Dress the tapeworm as pets
Tentacles smirk please
Flinch the cacooned meat
Infra-reco forgets

Gotta be a way
Of getting out
Are you just growing old ?

Trackmarked amoeba lands craft
Cartwheel of scratches
Dress the tapeworm as pets


7. CICATRIZ ESP

Do you recall its name ?
As it suggested beck and call
This face and heel
Will drag your halo through the mud

Ash of Pompei
Erupting in a statues dust
Shrouded in veils
Because these handcuffs hurt too much

Still scalping this ticketless applause
And when they drag the lake there's nothing left at all

Sutured, contusion
Beyond the anthills of the dawning of this plague
I've lost my way
Even if this cul de sac would pay
To reach inside a vault
Whatever be the cost

Sterling clear blackened ice
And when they drag the lake there's nothing left at all

I've defected I've defected I've defected

This is my last incision
The stitches have defected
Beyond the anthills of the dawning of this plague
I've lost my way
Even if this cul de sac did pay
Beyond the anthills of I've lost my way
Even if you reach inside a vault
Whatever be the cost

Sterling clear blackened ice
And when they drag they lake there's nothing left at all

I've defected I've defected


8. THIS APPARATUS MUST BE UNEARTHED

I've been waiting for so long
For someone to
Mend all the blame
I've been searching for so long
For something to
Anonymous … avenge my name
Anonymous … avenge my name

You came here on time
I hope that it's not to late
I've seen you at night
Biting the frost of silence
Can you cure us of this fate
Mock the litany in its face
Is that you, Moatilliatta ?

I've been waiting for so long
For someone to
Mend all the blame
I've been searching for so long
For something to
Anonymous … avenge my name
Anonymous … avenge my name

Hex zero rouge
He'll hybernate no more
The altars run dry
Prefect dictate your final words
Does it sting of augur truth ?
Was your temple left in ruins ?
Is that you, Moatilliatta ??

I've been waiting for so long
For someone to mend all the blame
I've been searching for so long
For something to
Anonymous … avenge my name
Anonymous … avenge my name

This is the altar
The one that you let me die in
On your knees
How you wept

Much like omertta
Quiet has shielded all intent
On the ground it appears
Like wrath

Avenging the lamb as bait
In a bed of nails you made
Who made this effigy ?
Is there straw dressed in these fields ?

And now it won't be long

I've been waiting for so long
For someone to
Mend all the blame
I've been searching for so long
For something to
Anonymous … avenge my name


9. TELEVATORS

Just as he hit the ground
They lowered a tow that
Stuck in his neck to the gills
Fragments of sobriquets
Riddle me this
Three half eaten cornias
Who hit the aureole

Stalk the ground
Stalk the ground

You should have seen
The curse that flew right by you
Page of concrete
Stained walks crutch in hobbled sway
Autodafe
A capulary hint of red
Only this manupod crescent in shape has escaped

The house half the way
Fell empty with teeth that
Split both his lips, mark these words
One day this chalk outline
Will circle this city
Was he robbed of the asphalt
That cushioned his face ?
A room colored charlatan
Hid in a safe

Stalk the ground
Stalk the ground

You should have seen
The curse that flew right by you
Page of concrete
Stain walks crutch in hobbled sway
Autodafe
A capulary hint of red
Only this manupod crescent in shape has escaped

Pull the pins
Save your grace
Mark these words
On his grave
Pull the pins
Save your grace
Mark these words
On his grave

You should have seen
The curse that flew right by you
Page of concrete
Stain walks crutch in hobbled sway
Autodafe
A capulary hint of red
Everyone knows the last toes are always the coldest to go


10. TAKE THE VEIL CERPIN TAXT

You must have been phlegmatic in stature
The gates of thanos are a spread eagle wide
You let the shutters make sackcloth and ashes
Out of a blind mans picaresque heart

You take the veil
You'll take the dive
You take the veil

It's not over till the tremulant sings
These ideas of march are they so make believe ?
How tempts the revenant
Slice up and not across

You take the veil
You'll take the dive
You take the veil

A mass of gallon sloth
As flys have walls for feet
A rapturous verbatim
Someone said but who is to know
And when you find the fringe
The one last hit that spent you
Tou'll find the ossuary spilling by the day

Iconoclastic had it coming for years
They know the prisons that you have yet to fear
Where thumbs hide inside of sleepingbag mouths
Adlib your memoires by casting a drought

You take the veil
You'll take the dive
You take the veil

A mass of gallon sloth
As flys have walls for feet
A rapturous verbatim
Someone said but who is to know
And when you find the fringe
The one last hit that spent you
You'll find the ossuary spilling by the day

Knife me in Hobbling
Talking in it's sleep again

Knife me in Hobbling
Talking in it's sleep again

Virulent hives
Of bedpost piles
Virulent hives

Who brought me here
Forsaken, depraved and
Wrought with fear? who turned it off ?
The last thing I remember now

Who brought me here ?
Forsaken, depraved and
Wrought with fear
Who turned it off ?
The last thing I remember now

Who brought me here ?

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