The Mars Volta - Palm Full Of Crux

Now that you're gone
Nothin' but waves came crashin' against us
I saw you there
Waitin' in that same corner room

As far as I could tell
It was you wavin' in that window
As far as I can tell
It's me wavin' back at you

And when that crown
It came just to get you
All those pins in your map told me I should have known

It's hard for me to tell
Was that you in the frosted window?
Can't you see my shadow on the steps below?

Please belong
I don't remember how, don't remember when
Please belong
I don't remember how, can't remember when

Is it you outside?
Holdin' depth, charge truth
In a broken way
'Til we meet again, always

Gonna leave the dead
Gonna leave the dead
Gonna leave the dead
Gonna leave the dead

When you carved out your name
On the arms of everyone asking
I can still hear your footsteps
Getting closer every day

As far as I can tell
You're still playin' in empty mansions
Up, down the windin' stairs
I call out, askin' "Is that you?"

Please belong
It happened yesterday, it's like it happened yesterday
Please be wrong
Does it have to be your name, have to be your name?

Is it you outside?
Holdin' depth, charge truth
In a broken way
'Til we meet again, 'til we meet

Always, always, always, always

The Mars Volta - The Iron Rose

You're the one that I want
The only one that I want
You're the one that I want
The only one that I want

All these forgeries perched upon my shoulders
Maybe they will go away
These wires get crossed
Holding cables that've frayed
Let 'em hang

Ten thousand phantoms rush through me
And I know I'll regret it
If you have watched me mid eclipse
Then you should know
That it's not safe inside my mind

You're the one that I want
The only one that I want
You're the one that I want
The only one that I want

Maybe I am cold and mirrorless
Maybe I am caught in the cold

Every time you let me
I can't look down the needle's eye
I never wanted to fail
But I always fail

Ten thousand fathoms underneath
Can you feel my hands?
Watching me close to endless sleep
Then you should know
That it's not safe inside my mind

You're the one that I want
The only one that I want
Mercy in the crosshairs, let me go

You're the one that I want
The only one that I want
Mercy in the crosshairs, let me go

You're the one that I want
The only one that I want
Mercy in the crosshairs, let me go

You're the one that I want
The only one that I want
Mercy in the crosshairs, let me go

Maybe I am cold and mirrorless
Maybe I am caught in the cold

The Mars Volta - Graveyard Love [Acoustic version]

There's a little house
on the outskirts of town
Tilted in a vow of dissonance
You better walk behind me
Walk behind me again

How many times have we burnt it all down
plumes of smoke call it graveyard love
Walk behind me
Walk these hallways again

THE GREATEST ILLUSION
IN THE X-RAY WIND
WILL TAKE IN MY RUIN
I KEEP CLEAR OF THE WINDOWS
I CAN'T RETURN, RETURN TO YOU
IT'S JUST THE FEAR
IS THIS JUST THE FEAR
OF NOT KNOWING IF YOU'RE THERE

I could never fathom how to wake you up
crushed by the weight of your crucible
you better walk behind me
Walk behind

and on the day that you wiped it all clean
lost in a whisper did you say
"I'll never walk behind you,
walk behind you again

THE GREATEST ILLUSION
IN THE X-RAY WIND
WILL TAKE IN MY RUIN
I KEEP CLEAR OF THE WINDOWS
I CAN'T RETURN, RETURN TO YOU
IT'S JUST THE FEAR
IS THIS JUST THE FEAR
OF NOT KNOWING THAT YOU'RE THERE

I don't want to remember

The Mars Volta - Graveyard Love

There's a little house
on the outskirts of town
Tilted in a vow of dissonance
You better walk behind me
Walk behind me again

How many times have we burnt it all down
plumes of smoke call it graveyard love
Walk behind me
Walk these hallways again

THE GREATEST ILLUSION
IN THE X-RAY WIND
WILL TAKE IN MY RUIN
I KEEP CLEAR OF THE WINDOWS
I CAN'T RETURN, RETURN TO YOU
IT'S JUST THE FEAR
IS THIS JUST THE FEAR
OF NOT KNOWING IF YOU'RE THERE

I could never fathom how to wake you up
crushed by the weight of your crucible
you better walk behind me
Walk behind

and on the day that you wiped it all clean
lost in a whisper did you say
"I'll never walk behind you,
walk behind you again

THE GREATEST ILLUSION
IN THE X-RAY WIND
WILL TAKE IN MY RUIN
I KEEP CLEAR OF THE WINDOWS
I CAN'T RETURN, RETURN TO YOU
IT'S JUST THE FEAR
IS THIS JUST THE FEAR
OF NOT KNOWING THAT YOU'RE THERE

I don't want to remember

The Mars Volta - Vigil [Acoustic version]

I know the way he makes you hide
Even when the dose is fight or flight
And the obits wait for a perfect name
Clean out all the webs he left behind
And if you want, I could bury him out
By the salt on sea, in an empty grave
The past has a way of coming clean

If I didn’t know any better
I could have sworn you said,
“There will come a day for his reckoning”

It's the want of the weight when it crushed
All the centrifugal ways our lives fall in and out of place

One day you’re going to see
That everybody who claimed that you were loved have left
Because one by one they would disappear
Claiming all your wolves were symptoms of deceit

“Don’t let your tongue slit your throat!”
That’s what they always said
This is one last chance that you’ve got to take

It's the want of the weight when it crushed
All the centrifugal ways our lives fall in and out of place

Underneath all your doubt laid a serpents egg
Hissing his way out
You were told,
Severed tongues can’t fall onto their swords
Because you’re the only voice that calls

It’s the want of the weight when it crushed
All the centrifugal ways our lives fall in and out of place

It’s the want of the weight and the rush of the centrifugal fate we all want to escape

The Mars Volta - Vigil

I know the way he makes you hide
Even when the dose is fight or flight
And the obits wait for a perfect name
Clean out all the webs he left behind
And if you want, I could bury him out
By the salt on sea, in an empty grave
The past has a way of coming clean

If I didn’t know any better
I could have sworn you said,
“There will come a day for his reckoning”

It's the want of the weight when it crushed
All the centrifugal ways our lives fall in and out of place

One day you’re going to see
That everybody who claimed that you were loved have left
Because one by one they would disappear
Claiming all your wolves were symptoms of deceit

“Don’t let your tongue slit your throat!”
That’s what they always said
This is one last chance that you’ve got to take

It's the want of the weight when it crushed
All the centrifugal ways our lives fall in and out of place

Underneath all your doubt laid a serpents egg
Hissing his way out
You were told,
Severed tongues can’t fall onto their swords
Because you’re the only voice that calls

It’s the want of the weight when it crushed
All the centrifugal ways our lives fall in and out of place

It’s the want of the weight and the rush of the centrifugal fate we all want to escape

The Mars Volta - Collapsible Shoulders [Acoustic version]

Where did you go?
A mile of scrolling faces
Plastered in the gaze of notice eviction
No one seemed to care if you were still in the trenches

And the earth splits in two
And I watch you fall deep inside

I'm living on the verge of ruin
And never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"
I'm searching for that voice I knew
But never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"

Did I do this to you?
It's your incarceration
Time released guilt to the blood moon stream
Caught me dead to rights when you said "Fuck this forever"

And a truancy of wasps begin trying' to make us their home
As we pull their wings off one by one

I'm living on the verge of ruin
And never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"
I'm searching for that voice I knew
But never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"

Never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"
Never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"

I'm living on the verge of ruin
And never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"
I'm searching for that voice I knew
But never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"

Never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"

The Mars Volta - Collapsible Shoulders

Where did you go?
A mile of scrolling faces
Plastered in the gaze of notice eviction
No one seemed to care if you were still in the trenches

And the earth splits in two
And I watch you fall deep inside

I'm living on the verge of ruin
And never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"
I'm searching for that voice I knew
But never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"

Did I do this to you?
It's your incarceration
Time released guilt to the blood moon stream
Caught me dead to rights when you said "Fuck this forever"

And a truancy of wasps begin trying' to make us their home
As we pull their wings off one by one

I'm living on the verge of ruin
And never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"
I'm searching for that voice I knew
But never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"

Never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"
Never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"

I'm living on the verge of ruin
And never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"
I'm searching for that voice I knew
But never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"

Never did I hear you say "Leave no man behind"

The Mars Volta - Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon [Acoustic version]

So many crosses she could nail you to
But I think that this one will do
Dripping initials from rotting fruit
Look in the mirror and say it three times
¿Qué dice el espejo que se cayó?
Alma vítrea
Que dios te maldiga, corazón

Slow the drip down
Una voz desde la niebla oscura
Mi cruz al revés lo escondió

Don't block the view
Silhouette of a silhouette
Time stamped
No, nothing of proof
Silhouette dice
Silhouette of his control
Has no one considered he'd run?
Stole your breath when he's got it
This is a silhouette of his control

Yes, it's loaded, that thing is loaded
He'd always leave it in the safe by her portrait
Yes, it's loaded, that thing was loaded
He'd flash it at you with a hint of a smile
Loaded, loaded
She feeds her young by remote
With children who conspire to feast on the world

The Mars Volta - Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon

So many crosses she could nail you to
But I think that this one will do
Dripping initials from rotting fruit
Look in the mirror and say it three times
¿Qué dice el espejo que se cayó?
Alma vítrea
Que dios te maldiga, corazón

Slow the drip down
Una voz desde la niebla oscura
Mi cruz al revés lo escondió

Don't block the view
Silhouette of a silhouette
Time stamped
No, nothing of proof
Silhouette dice
Silhouette of his control
Has no one considered he'd run?
Stole your breath when he's got it
This is a silhouette of his control

Yes, it's loaded, that thing is loaded
He'd always leave it in the safe by her portrait
Yes, it's loaded, that thing was loaded
He'd flash it at you with a hint of a smile
Loaded, loaded
She feeds her young by remote
With children who conspire to feast on the world

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 - The Malkin Jewel

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 in the soil

Because...

All the traps in the cellar go clickety clack

cause you know I always set them for you

Yeah, for you!

And all the rats in the cellar form a vermin of steps

yeah, you know they're gonna take me to you

Yeah, to you!

Wash it down with harlot soap

well, is this what you want?

I'll paint your steps with the lilac stains

of smelter revenant

My cutlery is rattling

in the dormant wooden drawers

from the palm of my throne I beckon you

to cut the orchid cord

Because...

All the traps in the cellar go clickety clack

cause you know I always set them for you

Yeah, for you!

And all the rats in the cellar form a vermin of steps

yeah, you know they're gonna take me to you

Yeah, to you!

I know a girl that was woven

in spindle and thread

wrapped in a bivouac of taffeta

scaffolding wed

She tosses and turns

and wakes all the children in bed

yawning with hunger

they take turns of nourishment

She says...

Somebody, somebody help me

Is there anybody that can set me free?

From the mountains of avarice this I beg to you

My ether turns flesh to gravel

And all the traps in the cellar go clickety clack

cause you know I always set them for you

Yeah, I set them for you!

And all the rats in the cellar form a vermin of steps

cause you know they're gonna take me to you

Yeah, to you!

And all the traps in the cellar go clickety clack

cause you know I always set them for you

Yeah, for you!

And all the rats in the cellar form a vermin of steps

yeah, you know they're gonna...

The Mars Volta - Asilos Magdalena

Enfermo llegue
Y para componerme ando de vago
No me des tu obediencia
Por que te enseno mi cuerpo de lodo
En donde la piel estuvo debil
Con una hambre que no me deja cantar

En mi vida,
El oscuro me mantiene
Cuando yo te vi
En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre

Yo no me quedo en mi vida
El oscuro me mantiene
Cuando yo te vi
En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre
Yo no me quedo

Y ya que caiste de este mundo
Cargo una navaja
Dios mio
Para ti
Cuantas veces me mordiste
Y cuantas veces yo me fui

Y ya no me estoy enamorado
Con tus mentiras
El infierno me duermo
Por que el infierno es la unica verdad

En mi vida,
El oscuro me mantiene
Cuando yo te vi
En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre

Yo no me quedo en mi vida
El oscuro me mantine
Cuando yo te vi
En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre
Yo no me quedo

Estrella de la manana
Samael te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Ademas me muero por ti

Estrella de la manana
Samael te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Ademas me muero por ti

Estrella de la manana
Samael te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Ademas me muero por ti

Estrella de la manana
Samael te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Ademas me muero por ti

Estrella de la manana
Samael te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Ademas me muero por ti

The Mars Volta - El Ciervo Vulnerado

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 younger I stay
An elderly child
The longer the mirror gives birth
To the death I file

If you consume me I will not let you go
If you walk right through me
My voice will taint your throat
Blessed be the wrong I've done

Someone is watching us
Someone has found
Fluorescent ligaments
On a black white tile
Why do you call them
If your kingdom won't come
The younger I stay
Forever I rot

If you consume me I will not let you go
If you walk right through me
My voice will taint your throat
Blessed be the wrong I've done

Because the flies my mouth spill
Bare the children at play

The Mars Volta - 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 wrists talk back again
In the wounded 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 nooses from boxcar cadavers
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

The Mars Volta - Cassandra Geminni: Multiple Spouse Wounds

No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there's no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches

No there's no light
No there's no time
You ain't got nothing
Your life was just a lie

The Mars Volta - Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound

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 got to get home
Won't be back someday, so let it unfold

I've abandoned the outcome in search of the rest I deserve
You can do what you will with my body but I won't ring the bell
I've omitted the chapters that bow and admit defeat

Must be on my way, I've got to get home
Won't be back someday, so let it unfold

I am a mountain
Of cavernous people
Searching for a lighthouse in the fog

Of the flowers that grew from the cracks in the ground you paved
Didn't you think he would warn me through the thorns of my waking dreams
When the riddles connected the dots of this constellation

Must be on my way, I've got to get home
Won't be back someday, so let it unfold

I am a mountain
Of cavernous people
Searching for a lighthouse in the fog

I found a reason to leave you with this load
All I can do is forgive your broken heart
Trapped in this tower made of amber for too long
All I can do is forgive your broken heart

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 - Imago

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 by drought

My torment adores you
When my strings are tied

Out of compulsion I must decimate
The sapless embryonic miles

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 by drought

My knives are burrowed voices
Glistened by the handles so they won't let go

These limbs are out of reaches
Extensions of a spirit that is not controlled

My heart is trapped inside
And I refuse to accept this throne

My night's unfolding
Reads like a page of test results

This sterile codex
Is missing all my last resolve

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 by drought

The Mars Volta - Wax Simulacra

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?

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 roots

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

Don't know