The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath lyrics
Tracks 01. Aberinkula
02. Metatron 03. Ilyena 04. Wax Simulacra 05. Goliath 06. Tourniquet Man 07. Cavalettas 08. Agadez 09. Askepios 10. Ouroborous 11. Soothsayer 12. Conjugal Burns 01. Aberinkula Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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 cramps to fit the fillings of my teeth Have you seen the living Tired of their own shells All the non-believers Torso in the well And don't you try and ask me Your expiration date That plans that forgot me 99 times You'll be the one who opens the gate Carry water in a basket Where the hole was dug the first time The head that carries the body A blood that flows through veins Have you seen the living Tired of their own shells All the non-believers Torso in the well When it calls I'll answer Do you need to repent The plans that forgot me 99 times I'll stick around for 99 times That fault lines you prepare Have darkened black rings instead of sight Goliath, are you receiving? Dismembered you've arrived Have you seen the living Tired of their own shells All the non-believers Torso in the well 02. Metatron Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
Maybe I'll breakdown
Maybe I'll try Circumvent innoculation And I just want a cut When will I breakdown? Lately I might Unconnect the fascination And I just want to touch This is a list They're my demands Forget the question Come on, bring your nervous hands You read it in my letter "Patience worth is dead" Suffocate the inkwell "I am legion," said the pen Her seraph snout And cruciform limp I blame the shrouding Of a lesser man My sigil contraptions They work with no crutches Don't show me the hinges I am absent Maybe I'll breakdown Maybe I'll try Circumvent innoculation And I just want a cut When will I breakdown? Lately I might Unconnect the fascination And I just want to touch She came to me When she was pouring out of drool Under sedation Under vulgar multitudes If you stay and try To fix what you did The sheets were wet from All those messages A million petitions Her lock with no key You forfeit the right To be believed Full implant Shapeless as a jewel And I am stranded By eternal solitude Maybe I'll breakdown Maybe I'll try Circumvent innoculation And I just want a cut When will I breakdown? Lately I might Unconnect the fascination And I just want to touch The vault that I call home It falls beneath your palms Before I crawl my way out She calls You're standing right outside my window Water thirsting You're standing right outside my window Water thirsting When will I drown? I'll never get a distance shot Heard vessper pure I never want to see your face Until the word is made flesh You'd better ask Metatron Those flowers that withered away In the pages of your book For one day They won't block your route In the dead plot you dream in Ten go away Ten born of pray Ten go away Folding wormholes My time is riding in the alphabet Folding wormholes My time is writing on the wall In the dead plot you dream in Ten go away Ten born of pray Ten go away Folding wormholes My time is riding in the alphabet Folding wormholes My time is writing on the wall Debase by your sentence I fell in the trap What door slid behind me? I can't see it anymore When she sleeps as a witness Got no better hands Tied a single stutter Do you speak my dialect? Accidents will happen Keep your earnings to yourself One sip under the table Until it moves all by itself In the eye of Fatima I've kept all your dreams In a waking solution Of indictment Maybe I'll breakdown Maybe I'll try Circumvent innoculation And I just want a cut When will I breakdown? Lately I might Unconnect the fascination And I just want to touch. 03. Ilyena Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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 touch the hand that's touching sin Entity ingredient A mass of blackened scapes begins Cypher is filled Blanket of clots Taking everything I've got Please let me in, in, in, in 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 touch the hand that's touching sin Entity ingredient A mass of blackened scapes begin Follow me tonight Follow me into oblivion Follow me tonight Follow me into oblivion If you could see where I've been You'd touch the hand that's touching sin Entity ingredient A mass of blackened scapes begin I seem to hide in metal plates Held together, alone, don't wait Hide with me, identity Until we've past due date Can't spot through the lens Bleeding through your sanctuary Intention, accident Bleeding through your sanctuary... 04. Wax Simulacra Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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 waiting now? Does my waiting howl? Am I waiting now? Does my waiting howl? Am I waiting now? Does my waiting howl? Am I waiting now? Does my waiting howl? I bring an avalanche of Toltec bones Contaminated cravings if you choose To play something that aches for a spill Leave out the meat for that contact high Inhale the vapors and let the hangman smile For that something to shake by the roots Am I waiting now? Does my waiting howl? Am I waiting now? Does my waiting howl? Am I waiting now? Does my waiting howl? Am I waiting now? Does my waiting howl? Bring me the tame Witness germinates in the child That word of mouth stutters Blink at the lonely dice Bring me the tame Witness germinates in the child That word of mouth stutters Blink at the lonely dice (Don't know...) Am I waiting now? Does my waiting howl? Am I waiting now? Does my waiting howl? Am I waiting now? Does my waiting howl? Am I waiting now? Does my waiting howl? 05. Goliath Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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 it blinks three times Or once just to seal you in? In your drunken breath, did it stain like us? In place of poison heat I gotta rid this world of your intention Swap the corpse in the casket Give me that corpse please The one that tore nightly I really want it now Fold the arms slowly Don't want you to hold me It fits just like a glove Does he make you feel alive? When I seep inside your truth Through suspicious little coughs You sank your nails inside a key While the door you shut closed up The black stockings you kept, smell of wet cigarette Torn of lust that you could not keep I have slept inside your fault To have you keep me here on this leash For the rest of your pets, I will feed to the theft As we consummate the vows of defeat And when you pray for an end to this I do believe this is eternity Give me that corpse please The one that tore nightly I really want it now Fold the arms slowly Don't want you to hold me It fits just like a glove Your closet is bulging White marrow withholding Does it make you feel alive? Give me that corpse please The one that tore nightly I really want it now Fold the arms slowly Don't want you to hold me It fits just like a glove Your closet is bulging White marrow withholding Does it make you feel alive? Ahhh... Never heard a man speak like this man before Never heard a man speak like this man before All the days of my life, ever since I've been born Never heard a man speak like this man before Watch me now Say it, say it, say it loud Say it, say it, say it loud Hold your heavy burden In a pocket full of drink that I've drunk Spit the remnants in your direction This is the closest to any kingdom that you will come I'm starting to feel a miscarriage coming on It's numbing a stump clearing in my throat And I just can't lose grip of it She fumigated my mental hygiene I'm all out of pulse But I know you can resuscitate me Never heard a man speak like this man before Never heard a man speak like this man before All the days of my life, ever since I've been born Never heard a man speak like this man before Ahh... Never heard a man speak like this man before Never heard a man speak like this man before All the days of my life, ever since I've been born Never heard a man speak like this man before Watch me now. 06. Tourniquet Man Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
I've seen the only living traces
Flicker in the sulphur The ones who do believe me Place your favor Before you lay your question down There's a matter of the payment To you, I slipped on crooked sores In conclaves that you bothered Let me be your tourniquet man Let me keep you as a favor Let me be your tourniquet man Let me keep you as a favor When I hear your fingers They will spell my name As I trade the faces of the holders Let me be your tourniquet man Let me keep you as a favor Let me be your tourniquet man Let me keep you as a favor I can't diminish anymore If I choose to dissolve in you There's so much we can lose... 07. Cavalettas Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
A salty ring of night fatigue
When I get, get, get the sweats from your listening Primordial cymatics Giving birth into reverse Serated mare ephemera Undo her mother's curse So if you Break me a mirror Hang the broken pieces Of a place that isn't here So if you Don't hide that guilty smile Condolences won't go away The coins you bring left footprints Blind thirst and Braille liquor My bed is stained with fractures Year after vitiated year Four corners you are touching They will liberate my need Bite marks in the menagerie With infidelic teeth So if you Break me a mirror Hang the broken pieces Of a place that isn't here So if you Don't hide that guilty smile Condolences won't go away Is there something out there Waiting to take hold? When that whore won't answer Who is in control? And the names you planted Drop the seed into a hole If you force me often I might jump off the board And the names you planted Drop the seed into a hole If you force me often I might jump off the board I am a deaf con of angora goats Warning you all who pass this mote It's only a matter of folding time and space Before I become your epidemic Is this your first time at my conventicle? You better not talk if you came here for semantics It's only a matter of folding time and space Before I become your epidemic Don't ignore my presence Hidden reads the scrolls By the time I asked her The earth fell off the tongue What once was laughter Corrosive I became Where a scarlet bruise grows Sprout the fault we own What once was laughter Corrosive I became Where a scarlet bruise grows Sprout the fault we own I am a deaf con of angora goats Warning you all who pass this mote It's only a matter of folding time and space Before I become your epidemic Is this your first time at my conventicle? You better not talk if you came here for semantics It's only a matter of folding time and space Before I become your epidemic (Is the safety that you feel From the witness Who was kept quiet in the wings?...) Don't hide your guilty freight Condolences won't go away You've got that guilty smile That culminates in bedlam Don't hide your guilty freight Condolences won't go away You've got that guilty smile That culminates in bedlam Don't hide your guilty freight Condolences won't go away You've got that guilty smile That culminates in bedlam Don't hide your guilty freight Condolences won't go away You've got that guilty smile That culminates in bedlam I am a deaf con of angora goats Warning you all who pass this mote It's only a matter of folding time and space Before I become your epidemic Is this your first time at my conventicle? You better not talk if you came here for semantics It's only a matter of folding time and space Before I become your epidemic. 08. Agadez Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
I should have known
You'd always scratch that itch When you asked 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 close Gotta let me know You just gotta let me know Because Forget which way is out now Gotta let me know You just gotta let me know I'm nowhere near This place you wear It's unforgivable It knows that I am visible I'm broken mirrors And useless prayer This lock is healing me You know you came so willingly Waiting is a vessel That will take me to Love, it knows no order When you taste the truth Because I'm trapped in this cement husk Gotta let me go You just gotta let me go Because I paid with my own touch now I brought a little cut There is blood for every month In the way you used to Call her wicked answers Time is a plague There's no time for this place If you don't If you don't let me go Heaven's made a cesspool of us all I'm nowhere near This place you wear It's unforgivable It knows that I am visible I'm broken mirrors And useless prayer This lock is healing me I know you came so willingly There burns a kiss With serpent scales There is no miracle I lost your miracle I'm nowhere near This place you wear It's unforgivable It knows that I am visible And I wrap myself around your buried question Through the blisters of confinement And I seek to drain this broken shelter To refill the pigment case that I have left Don't stay long For teeth nurse the first wound Coats revolve Hope to gain What if we find What tongue ties Double-Windsor? Invoke to no reply Those that lie Have froze at the border No implies Close the frame What if we find The sunlight draws a curtain? Invoke to no reply There's a place where this depth charge ignites In this place where a soul has no purpose I can't believe you when your ghost won't let me go I am the moment you were always speaking of Because there's... No fence will hold the sentient Culprit fall about it Say where I can enter them Culprit fell about it One fell, the other taste won't lie Make no doubt about it How many blame? How many cave into the pressure I apply? How many blame? How many cave into the pressure I apply? (If you take this breath of mine)... 09. Askepios Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
I'll be there waiting
With the hook in your neck as 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? I'll never perish With the albino horns of a thousand young born Will you drink from the depths of my sea? And your hand will break If you touch this fence Please them till they're blind with cleft lens What have you brought for my appetite? What have you brought for my appetite? I might not make it back again The vervain is on the rise Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe Got to open wide Got to open wide Might of a serpent swallowing tail Cycle recycled and I'm next to nothing I said Help me come alive... Place your ring finger on this debt Am I living or am I dead? Do what thou wilt, tell them what I've found The steps of a ladder from a diamondback's mouth I said Help me come alive... I ain't gonna hold my breath I ain't gonna hold my breath. 10. Ouroborous Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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 with all that's burning? Keep the safe and by your side Of all that's left A lucid home Anecdote settles In the smear of this corpse If the larvae speaks Ask where to go They mount the maker With a sulphur in fume Don't you ever, ever, ever trust my mercy? Don't you ever, ever, ever trust my mercy? When will you flirt with all that's burning? Keep the safe and by your side Of all the warnings that you gave me With all components in the fault Have you ever heard me scraping? It'll be hard to hold Don't you ever, ever, ever trust my mercy? Don't you ever, ever, ever trust my mercy? When will you flirt with all that's burning? Keep the safe and by your side Of all the warnings that you gave me With all components in the fault Have you ever heard me scraping? It'll be hard to hold All I hear Mending the gap Fall in here Might not make it back Call that someone May they hear you Take me with you It's not safe in here And all you ask is "Why, why, why?" And all you ask is why I'm certain you're holding on Mirror floats to the surface Holding on Of all the warnings that you gave me With all components in the fault Have you ever heard me scraping? It'll be hard to hold Of all the warnings that you gave me With all components in the fault Have you ever heard me scraping? It'll be hard to hold They lost the presence they were holding Looks like the tenants flickered off If the cell that owns me breaks me It'll be hard to hold. 11. Soothsayer Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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 my belt This deceit has no arms Bended will, take what's yours This deceit has no arms Bended will, take what's yours Calling me, she's calling me This it may have come to falter We have become these pleads In a field of balding marble Where the medicine awaits The hourglass pokes at The ribs of my cage At half rations I'm finished At half rations the minutes All that happens was given Coil and embrace This deceit has no arms Bended will, take what's yours This deceit has no arms Bended will, take what's yours Calling me, she's calling me This it may have come to falter We have become these pleads This deceit has no arms Bended will, take what's yours This deceit has no arms Bended will, take what's yours Calling me, she's calling me This it may have come to falter We have become these pleads. 12. Conjugal Burns Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
The horseman you have brought deserve me
Somehow they've made it through the floor The clocks you set, are they reversing? Before this visit turns conjugal evermore Maybe tonight Ohh... So my half is waiting, filed to a pulp Used insomnia's been cleansing with floods I got a pain inside that'll rip through the very fabric of time Cause I've been with you before God gave me sin I've got to get born Just so you know There's too many reasons Too many reasons... You set the silver down to guard me from the weak You check the spelling for nothing, nothing You set the silver down to guard me from the weak You check the spelling for nothing, nothing You sent yourself the flood All of this time Bedsore containment Where am I now That the music has faded? All of this time Bedsore containment Where am I now That the music has faded? And I'm nowhere near the place You sent me here to breathe But I'm drawing closer to the present And I'll find a space with no memories I've got a second chance to inhabit the living If Goliath won't speak I'm blinded by heaven When will your Eden come die? If the liars that blink Are bound by the sender Trinkets you gave have all rusted down All of this time Bedsore containment Where am I now That the music has faded? All of this time Bedsore containment Where am I now That the music has faded? You better steal this chance to give birth to more You'll wear those healing damns down to the plug All of this time Bedsore containment Where am I now That the music has faded? All of this time Bedsore containment Where am I now That the music has faded? You better steal this chance to give birth to more You'll wear those healing damns down to the plug. |