The Mars Volta - Octahedron lyrics
Tracks 01. Since We've Been Wrong
02. Teflon 03. Halo Of Nembutals 04. With Twilight As My Guide 05. Cotopaxi 06. Desperate Graves 07. Copernicus 08. Luciforms 01. Since We've Been Wrong Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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've been wrong I've been part awake Since we've been wrong You will never ever know me What took you so long I'm not sure all the way But my heart it asks just one more time Are you still a mess One day a rain will come to wash away The earth that held us was no island I have become ingrown inside this skin I'll find a way out through those eyelids And all the days become a cast away I seem to think I don't belong here Since we've been wrong I've been part awake Since we've been wrong You will never ever know me What took you so long I'm not sure all the way But my heart it asks just one more time Are you still a mess I don't belong here I shouldn't stay What falls inside me grows empty The walls between us will never break Just seals it shut it grows empty Since we've been wrong I've been part awake Since we've been wrong You will never ever know me What took you so long I'm not sure all the way But my heart it asks just one more time Are you still a mess 02. Teflon Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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 phase I'm anxious bouts of nervous What am I without the bruises this switch it won't come on What do I do to lose it beneath this distress call Let the wheels burn Let the wheels burn Stack the tires to the neck with the body inside Frames of infrared keep scrolling into focus Scarab crank the busy signal with habits that you notice The dates they change with each new phase I'm anxious bouts of nervous What am I without the bruises this switch it won't come on What do I do to lose it beneath this distress call Let the wheels burn Let the wheels burn Stack the tires to the neck with the body inside Taking all the hostages into the oval office Draw the curtains part their hair and pull the trigger softly If they have me committed then I'll just take you with me One driver in your motorcade is all it takes....is all it takes Sandmen grains in Teflon veins is all it takes....is all it takes 03. Halo Of Nembutals Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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 by all means in name 'Cuz we all crawl in quicksand the same The night I begged you to come to me The limp in your talk and the scent of your bleed And still I'm not willing to let you go You covered your wounds in a bandage of sloth The deeper the slur that rang from her laugh And something tells me to keep it together How could you turn your back on me I've summoned the stampede of infidel feet For all I ever wanted is all you ever flaunted Deviate by all means in name 'Cuz we all crawl in quicksand the same Vanished to 5th dementia Cables of ringworms have hung themselves Of this I ate... Communion shaped Serpent rays in prism tail rainbows escape They sent in the necrophiliacs Carcinogen tar turns to smoldering asp Of this I ate... Communion shaped Serpent rays in prism tail rainbows escape Read it from bottomless palindromes Hear my request to be disowned Of this I ate... Communion shaped Serpent rays in prism tail rainbows escape Deviate by all means in name 'Cuz we all crawl in quicksand the same 04. With Twilight As My Guide Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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 no other mortal dreams With a blank eye corner The only way to see him in the tunnel where he slept By the longest tusk of corridors Numb below the neck in my heart Where he keeps them in a vault of devil daughters When I bend in kicking form with twilight as my guide In every home the ghost veins gossip You can hear them if you try When my quill begins to squirm from the ashes in your urn Your deviance is anything but faithful My devil makes me dream like no other mortal dreams With a blank eye corner The only way to see him in the tunnel where he slept By the longest tusk of corridors Numb below the neck In my heart Where he keeps them in a vault of devil daughters Every body hangs like dead leaves Don't you hurt these branches waiting I've been watching you fall to me Don't desert me I'm not waiting 05. Cotopaxi Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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 hill go the last of my crumbs We'll be lucky if we eat tonight And up that hill go the last of my crumbs That's why I'll magnify a hole... When light years came And light years passed Tugging on the brink Spoils reported missing Put down in its sleep Strangled in the background Fitted for a mask The future won't believe you Past the ransom fast And up the hill go the last of my crumbs We'll be lucky if we eat tonight And up that hill go the last of my crumbs That's why I'll magnify a hole... Don't beat around the pulpit There is no lost and found Where is the devil waiting Trying to disguise... I've seen what you used to look like But down here you won't survive I've got the weight of half of the world Don't stop dragging the lake I won't come home if you can't come home Even if you make a grave with my name You better keep on looking for me 06. Desperate Graves Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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 breathe the heavens can't hold me and I can't believe anymore The light brings the highest execution Show me the wings I must cut In your landfill days these are desperate graves Give me the alter red will shine This pendulum won't wait If I slay your spirit with twin current volts that weak in your knees in the pit of my palms Dressed in the slurs of bovine engines to feast upon the carcass of your mother When I breathe the heavens can't hold me and I can't believe anymore The light brings the highest execution Show me the wings I must cut When I turn the dial and leave the gas on I'm the matchstick that you'll never lose These are the splinters made from a single blade I'm the matchstick that you'll never lose I light the key that locks you in I'm the matchstick that you'll never lose And you'll wear the burden of all my burns I'm the matchstick that you'll never lose In your landfill days these are desperate graves Give me the alter red will shine This pendulum won't wait 07. Copernicus Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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 When you cut out all the letters that make up this note I won't give up 'til I find what happened to you The solution inhaled from the rag I hold holds a maximum vacancy As I held you in crippled bandages Don't you stay up and wait for me Left dangling in the wind You're not there I poke needles in the neck of a doll She pokes back asking why can't I just let her out How come every time I walk you crawl When you cut out all the letters that make up this note I won't give up 'til I find what happened to you The solution inhaled from the rag I hold holds a maximum vacancy As I hold you in crippled bandages don't you stay up and wait for me Left dangling in the wind Don't let the days escape What I did brings more of them And we'll be waiting just for them Over my dead body Over the search they lead and they won't find them anymore Now that I collect from cells that we once shared with multi-headed union of multiple selves The solution inhaled from the rag I hold holds a maximum vacancy As I held you in crippled bandages don't you stay up and wait for me Left dangling in the wind 08. Luciforms Music by Omar Rodríguez-López Lyrics by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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 memory Harp sickle will warn me when it's over 'Cuz if heaven breathes then someone trade places with me 'Cuz I don't want to tear feathers instead of rags When do I get to see the body preserved inside this grin Sewn in the lips were her last words I'll be damned - I can still hear her laughing Your angels have tangled their brass again The comfort of doubt still it keeps you thin And still I can remember the day that they took you from me Seems like I've been running from your trenchant memory Harp sickle will warn me when it's over 'Cuz if heaven breathes then someone trade places with me 'Cuz I don't want to tear feathers instead of rags Does your temperature ache Is your glass 'bout to break Are you purple with current Will you now become the servant Gordian knots in the power lines Saucer fills to empty with pesticide Like the pharaohs of old Bury me in gold I'll make your son refuse to fight in the stalk home setting that we provide If your heart does cease to speak My fingernail choir will make your chalkboard sing |