The Mars Volta - Desperate Graves

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 altar, red will shine

The pendulum won't wait

In your landfill days, these are desperate graves

Give me the altar, red will shine

The 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

In your landfill days, these are desperate graves

Give me the altar, red will shine

The pendulum won't wait

In your landfill days, these are desperate graves

Give me the altar, red will shine

The pendulum won't wait

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 altar, red will shine

The pendulum won't wait

In your landfill days, these are desperate graves

Give me the altar, red will shine

The pendulum won't wait

In your landfill days, these are desperate graves

Give me the altar, red will shine

The pendulum won't wait

In your landfill days, these are desperate graves

Give me the altar, red will shine

The pendulum won't wait

The Mars Volta - Copernicus

Close the doors...
if you want to seen 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 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 lie

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 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
They won't find them anymore

Over my dead body
over the search they lead
They won't find them anymore

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

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...

The Mars Volta - Since We've Been Wrong

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 seal 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

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?

The Mars Volta - With Twilight as My Guide

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

Everybody 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