The Mars Volta

Sawing at the pavement Repented theyre past lives might not be the only major left to be left behind a pair of the insults it involves rays upon the entrails and the novel a missing chromosome walks and now we wait for the fate of the others mass call of th...

Have you seen the living Tired of their own shells All the non-believers Torso in the well Am I the one you're after The novice made to find Stray abhoration stalking Plans that forgot me 99 times The only thing to alter Stands in the way of you I want your c...

The days are catching up to me my unconscious fear unbound Is it time to tailor fit the notion that come Sunday I'll lay in the ground? The obelisk fumes they've occupied emphatically are strong a smelter pile made by the debt collector where the child...

I shoulda known you'd always scratch that itch When you asked me for safe passage on my shoulders where we slid And just before you laid dead weight upon its shores I stung you in the face for that's the nature of my core Because I got distance, don't let it c...

Oh lord, Oh lord, You've made it.... You wanna drag your vessel you wanna hush your voices you better drag your... you better hush your... I'll remember that I'll need to carry on I'll pretend you're not around, I'll forget you just like everyone else, I'll...

Enfermo llegué y para componerme ando de vago No me des tu obediencia por que te enseño mi cuerpo de lobo de donde la piel estuvo debil con una hambre que no me deje cantar En mi vida, el oscuro me mantiene cuando yo te vi en la lluvia me prometiste tu sangre...

I'll be there waiting with a hook in your neck Is the contact you've made deficient? And your hand will break if you touch this fence Please them 'til they're blind with cleft lens What have you brought for my appetite? What have you brought for my appetite?...

Oh my, girl sitting in the sun. Go buy candy and a currant bun. I'm high, don't try to spoil the fun. Don't cry, I'll roll another one. Ooh, don't touch me, child. Please, you know you drive me wild. Please, you know I'm feeling frail. It's true, sun'...

I think I’ve become like one of the others I think I’ve become like one of the others I think I’ve become like one of the others There was a frail syrup dripping off His lap danced lapel, punctuated by her Decrepit prowl she washed down the hatching Gizzard s...

I am coming this way Caught in this world Caught in this world Caught in this world You remember differing Who will save you? In your odd Who will be the first? And I feel sorry for all the anglophiles Who's a member of the sevenage of our club Let me see wha...

A salty ring of night fatigue When I get get get the sweats from you listening Primordial cymatics giving birth into reverse Serated mure ephemera undo her mother's curse So if you break Break me a mirror Hang the broken pieces of a place that isn't here Don'...

Do you recall it's 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 to much Scalpeing these ticketless applause And when they drag...

In denial Who will come clean all the ravenous debris In disguise Sideswiped by penance cerecloth sentencing This scapegrace will pay my barking harangue... are you listening? On the 14th you stole What hasn't grown old In denial File this under a bridge th...

The horsemen you have brought deserve me Some how they've made it through the floor The clocks you set are they reversing Before this visit turns conjugal Ever more maybe tonight So my half is waiting Filed to a pulp Used insomnia's been cleansing with floods...

Close the doors If you want to see her breathing again Blur the days Sleeping is just not an option How come every time I walk, you crawl? Then you cut out all the letters that make up this note I won't, I won't give up until I find out Until I find wh...

When sanskrit was my mother tongue Scarabs filled my pillow Tarmac strips to pave for them And thrones from which to teach And in that pulse the future said The story had been spun You wet your bed so sleep in it Cards can't make a house And up that h...

Neonecropopulace has no reflection Neocaeczaristic phallic ruins Just east of the River denial the techs are Breathing Welcome to this neotokyo Gridlocks will warn the romlech alarms Bouquet of cuticles Landscape tantrums Tramontane torching the tramontane I'v...

The ocean floor is hidden From your viewing lens A depth perception Languished in the night All my life, I’ve been Sewing the wounds But the seeds sprout A lachrymal cloud Nino preparate Que vas sufrir Nino preparate Salte veneno Nino preparate Salte d...

Sawing off the pavement Repenting their past lives Might I be the only payment left To be left behind Clay and pigment footsteps Rust it boiling clean Our bull let in linguistics That only we can breathe I gotta prayer that'll make you theirs...

The swarms that I speak are the wrists I have cut by flooding the tubs Where the warmth held her up The lockets believe that the secret of love has caught its own tail and it just won't give up When I breath the heavens can't hold me and I can't bel...

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 h...

Nature red in tooth and claw I haven't seemed to keep my powder dry I always seem to hear it in your laughter The second that I fell in love with the handle of your revolver I always seem to hear it in your laughter I begged to you a second chance wit...

I've been drinking black mirror again the closer we part i needed to touch your lips with the nail in my heart the night that you caught me my coffin did walk i fell at your mercy i fell in your grave meccamputechture that stands in my way the younge...

if I trust in the wind she will pave me a different road I will try and start over but I think I must choose someone else I am pulled from the pages where the letters lack the pigment of trust must be on my way, I’ve gotta get home won’t be back someday...

And there are those who Hadn't found the speaking so wrong Is it wrong Of Pavlov 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 Ratio...

the al sirat hides behind a wardrobe of eunuchs seconds collide till the padisha scandal the cauldrons have eyes by way of racket and vice a brothel's bedpan filled with demimonde lice dethroned by the comatorium de-loused in the comatorium the al...

It’s been thirteen seconds Since you all last said I’ve become the apparition You predicted for my death You said that flirting brings you Closer to the end You can bait into the water But you’ll never get the hint And like a stain of bricks go...

That night I remember what you slipped in my glass We came rewinding when I foamed at the mouth while the lights winked at me And now my shape is kept The rain it can't hide, wash the pain from this hex Is it so permanent? Did she catch a left eye when i...

When the earth lets you go When the verdict is vermin By the fork in my tongue When you run out of sermon When sooner or later is still not enough What a foul little temptress your daughter's become Deviate all by means in name 'Cuz we all crawl in quicksand...

When the chants have cycled How can I go wrong? There will be no Eve for Adam If your apples have gone, gone, gone, gone I need a brand new skin Incarnated debts Incarcerated when the deeds are left to purchase If you could see where I've been You'd t...

My anguish told you A persistent lie The parasitic psychics that you push by wheel Were spoken to me everytime And like a charlatan You counterfeit the vessels through flesh and time These pacts we keep in secret Drinking from a well that was cured b...

there was once a boy with knives stuck in his voice all he wanted all he wanted was a little affection until one day he caved into his mother’s taste all she wanted all she wanted was to spread her infection he spins her spindle weaving fuse burning fu...

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 pockmarked shapes The vermin you need to loathe Now I'm lost la...

Now I'm lost Now I'm lost Now I'm lost Now I'm lost. Last night I heard lepers, 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 Now I'm lost Now I'm lost. Now I'm lost Now I'm lost...

L’ Via Hija de Miranda Tu Apellido se cambió L’ Via Sin Ojos me quieres dar Una historia sin mi madre Solo tengo que decirte El dolor de noche dice Solo se quedo el vestido Le lave la sangre L’ Via No dejes de descansar En la calle caminas Quien...

How long must I wait How long must I wait Til the mountains of avarice turn blue? How long must I wait How long must I wait Til the moleskin I pick becomes fused? The avulsion whims its spurs in the pinches of my earth The dust I kick of animus shatte...

How much do you make in that death factory Severance owed in the chamber of revolvers Empty jails fall from my scalp Shake the globe and let me out If still I can remember the day That they took you from me Seems like I've been running from your trenchant memo...

I must have crawled through your bedroom door in a fit of jealous breath perched upon the Bacchus foot of your unsuspecting bed From the blossom rags in my jackal croon to the stems of this cinquefoil I give to you the shrapnel with which to sprinkle i...

[a. VADE MECUM] I've always wanted To eat glass with you again But I never knew how How to talk without Walls dropping on the eve The nest they made couldn't break you Along the fallen Scowled a fence of beaks But the temple is scathing Thr...

for all this burn it never hurt shanks around the bend when you’re foaming at the binge on your serrated edge like a snail that steps the hiss I make is warning to the scoundrels when you walk the plank tell me what you see moloch in the time of mut...

Make my bed in droughts of beryl I haven't shot this thing in years Do you think I'll fold? Calloused hands of detriment From a crossbow flinch of gasping air Do you think I'll... So long, don't fall apart The words have made a perfect burden Sewn a...

It appears to me quoting alarms The guillotine smirks In your house I smothered Sight unseen Sworn to harm Ground to a powder And soaked through the board Don’t you ever, ever, ever trust my mercy Don’t you ever, ever, ever trust my mercy When will you flirt...

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 as...

Do you remember how you wore that dress? It slit my sight beneath the eyelids Do you remember what you said to me? What course has given you the right to stray? And in your living tomb I'm stuck but safe The clocks are ticking fast with every breath Since we...

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 pockmarked shapes The vermin you need to loathe 

My love becomes a mange dyeing autumn in its leaves When it broke me in the branch where my antlers come to feed And I swam a hundred days in the bosom of this filth Carry on this drought as I tighten this belt This deceit has no arms Bended will take wh...

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...

I just don't know the layman's terms to call the mess you breed What thaws beneath this surface soils blood to your family tree The dates they change with each new phrase i'm anxious bouts of nervous What am I without the bruises this switch it won't come on...

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 corneas who hit the aureole Stalk the ground Stalk the ground You should have seen The curse that flew right by you Page of...

Tell me it’s over rusbel awaits i’ve been to the surface and nothing is there eyelids sank muffled in the nerve aura sound but when she awakes will she still be with us my heart is darkclots leap year is late how did you get here ask all but the bait from a c...

He’s got fasting black lungs Made of clove splintered shardes They’re the kind that will talk Through a weezing of coughs And I hear him every night in every pore And every time he just makes me warm Freeze without an answer Free from all the sha...

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 just hope that it's not to late I've seen you at night Biting the frost...

By the landfill I lust I burn the clothing before I dig into the ground I am Janus-faced denial with vines you'll gonna wish you hadn't run And clarity is calling me I hear the hearts of tiny beating drums I feigned umbrage at my bruising fist you'll g...

I’ve always wanted To eat glass with you again But I never knew how How to talk without Walls dropping on the eve The nest they made couldn’t break you Along the fallen Scowled a fence of beaks But the temple is scathing Through your veins...

Here it comes again Mesh of arms travels up my neck Morning dawn declares itself And mirrors stare back at my reflection When I'm alone, I'm alone at night I want winter to fall on me And I'm alone, I'm alone in flight I am free of equity Where did...

There with them is error we are sacrosanct a taunting of ravens to you my swarms have fit the holster my faith burnt every house like no other manger i am emptier with doubt bare them sevens three to a pall marks the venom lush and terminal when i became you...

Don’t you pretend that i’m not alive my bones never ache unless she’s nearby where is your face in a safe of dead tongues i can see your reflection in your totem first born i suspect you’ve been carrying a pack of wolves i regret not killing you while i had th...

Por cuando te vi enfermo con mentiras Este ladron cuenta se dio Trapa mal hecho de trampas te lo juro Que yo si te mato Y con cada dia que se pase recuerdate Quien era el mas poderoso Don’t let me Don’t let me go There is a venom in numerical eyes Your conva...

Came back to doubt yourself but broke in two They find it punctual with idle tooth I'll find something to shake by the roots I crawl along the ceilings in your room The cold is spinning thread to answer you I need something made of freewill Am I waiti...

when you leave the night on contagions bind your double speak malice tends to choke my father’s grip but his hands are always clean walk towards the light convalesce your fetish in me you make me older swatting flies in the vaseline I’m not getting an...

I'm bolted from within from long conniving heights The hail it makes a special sound that always stays into the night She tells me I'm not capable of what they accuse me with no remorse I stand and say that guilty is what I plead My devil makes me dream like...

I'm not breathing any better Mallets crack with every grin I hear the scraping plea of branches Against my broken window I won't let you in The silhouette holds me under Can't poke me with these pins Flotsam drip of nectar Nexus bean sprouting Wh...