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 - 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