In Absentia The Mars Volta

"There was once a boy With knives stuck in his voice All he wanted, all he wanted was a little affection Until one day he came To tempt his mother's taste All she wanted, all she wanted was to spread

Halo of Nembutals Mars Volta

When the earth let 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

With Twilight as My Guide Mars Volta

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

Desperate Graves Mars Volta

When I breathe the heavens can't hold me And I can't believe anymore The light breathes the highest execution Show me the wings I must cut In your left of days these are desperate graves Give me

Aberinkula (Album Version) Mars Volta

Have you seen the living Tired of their old shells All the non-believers Tussle in the wind Am I the one you're after?

Copernicus Mars Volta

As I held you in crippled bandages don't you stay up and wait for me Left dangling in the wind...

Metatron (Album Version) Mars Volta

Lately I might Un-connect 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

Ouroborous Mars Volta

It appears to me quoting alarms guillotine smirks in your house that smothered sight unseen sworn to harm ground to a powder and soaked through the board don't you ever, ever, ever trust my

Ouroborous (Album Version) Mars Volta

It appears to me quoting alarms guillotine smirks in your house that smothered sight unseen sworn to harm ground to a powder and soaked through the board don't you ever, ever, ever trust

Soothsayer Mars Volta

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 drought As I tighten this belt This

Soothsayer (Album Version) Mars Volta

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 drought As I tighten this belt

Cotopaxi Mars Volta

to moonn6pnece from shootingstar(papayeverte) When sanskrit brought my mother tongue Scarabs filled the pillow Comic strips to pay for them Fools from which to teach And in that pulse the future said

Tourniquet Man (Album Version) Mars Volta

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

Goliath (Album Version) Mars Volta

(this is what i get out of it. for those of you who don't know this is the new version of Rapid Fire Tollbooth featured on the new Bedlam in Goliath album. need some help on the chorus and other random

Tetragrammaton Mars Volta

to moonn6pence from shootingstar Tell me it's over rusbel awaits i've been to the surface and nothing is there eyelids sank muffled in the nerve aura sound but when she awakes will she still

Luciforms Mars Volta

How much do you make In that death factor Severance hold in the chamber of revolvers Empty jails fall from my scalp Shaped the glove and let me out Still I can remember the day That they took you

Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) Mars Volta

Transient jet lag ecto mimed bison This is the haunt of roulette dares Ruse of metacarpi Caveat Emptor to all that enter here Open wrist talks back again In the wounds of its skin They'll pinprick

Teflon Mars Volta

Just don't know the layman's terms to call the mess you bleed Crawls beneath the surface sought blood through a family tree The date's been changed with each new phase I'm anxious bouts of nervous

Cicatriz Esp Mars Volta

As it suggested beck and call This face and heel Will drag your halo through the mud Ash of Pompei Erupted in a statues dust Shrouded in veils Because these handcuffs hurt too much Still scalping

Agadez (Album Version) Mars Volta

I shoulda known you'd always scratch that itch When you asked me 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

Wax Simulacra Mars Volta

Came back to tell yourself I broke in twos, Define the puncture, when will I know to, I found something to shake by the roots, I come along to see what's in your room, The Coma's spending time

Ilyena (Album Version) Mars Volta

when the chants have cycled, how can i go wrong?

Askepios (Album Version) Mars Volta

I'll be there waiting with the hook in your neck Is the contact you've made deficient? And your hand will break if you touch this fence Pleased them to reply with cloaked threats (?)

Since We’ve Been Wrong Mars Volta

It slit my sight beneath the eyelids Do you remember what you said to me? What course has given you the right to stray?

Conjugal Burns (Album Version) Mars Volta

The horseman you have brought deserve me. Some how they've made it through the floor. The clocks you set are they reversing. Before this visit turns conjugal, ever more. Maybe tonight.

Deus In Absentia Ghost B.C.

In this here time of need, You're turning to the light. You have just begun to explore the dark, in the urban night. The world is on fire, and you are here to stay and burn with me.

Dyslexicon The Mars Volta

Nature red in tooth and claw I haven't seemed to keep my powder dry I always seem to hear it in your laughter The second that I fell in love with the handle of your revolver I always seem to hear it in

Halo of Nembutals The Mars Volta

When the earth let 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 [Repeat

With Twilight as My Guide The Mars Volta

That guilt 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 Malkin Jewel The Mars Volta

From the blossom rags in my jackal croon to the stems of the cinquefoil I'll give to you the shrapnel with which to sprinkle inner soil because All the traps in the cellar go clickety-clack cuz you know

Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt The Mars Volta

You must have been phlegmatic in stature The gates of thanos are a spread eagle wide You let the shutters make sackcloth and ashes Out of a blind mans picaresque heart You take the veil You'll take the

Concertina The Mars Volta

In denial who will come clean All the ravenous debris In disguise sideswiped by penance Cerecloth sentencing This scapegrace will pay my barking harangue...Are you listening?

Drunkship Of Lanterns The Mars Volta

At the nape of ruins rust propellers await No Nobody is heard compass wilting in the wind Nobody is heard Rowing sheep smile for the dead Tansoceanic depth in this earth No Nobody is heard compass

Aberinkula (Album Version) The Mars Volta

> 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 abberation stalking Plans that forgot me 99 times

Televators The Mars Volta

Just as he hit The ground They lowered a tow that Stuck in his neck to the gills Fragments of sobiquets Riddle me this Flinch stitcheing Aureole Stalk the ground Stalk the ground You should have seen The

Molochwalker The Mars Volta

"The world is burned, it never hurts Shanks round the bend when you're foaming at the binge On your serrated edge, you're like a snail that sticks The hiss I make is warning to the scoundrel When

Noctourniquet The Mars Volta

Make my bed in droughts of beryl I haven’t shot this thing in years Do you think I’ll fold?

Ouroborous (Album Version) The Mars Volta

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

Desperate Graves The Mars Volta

The heavens can't hold me And I can't believe anymore The light breathes The highest execution Show me the wings I must cut In your left of days These are desperate graves [Repeat: x2] Give me the alter

Eriatarka The Mars Volta

And there are those who Hadn't found the speaking so wrong Is it wrong Of pavolov lore They ran rampant through the floors Is this wrong Feels so wrong Happened on a respirator In the basements

Blank Condolences (acoustic) The Mars Volta

I heard it moving through tiny blades of grass Nursed in the bosom where they circle the drain They kept unwinding through the portraits eyes Smother the floor while they writhed [Chorus] Out here, buried

Copernicus The Mars Volta

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

Graveyard Love (acoustic) The Mars Volta

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?

Tourmaline (acoustic) The Mars Volta

to find my way back home In this floating deprivation They could never deliver me She says I'm done And bursts into wings of tourmaline, tourmaline [Verse 2] If the catatonic walls close in on the hem

Equus 3 (acoustic) The Mars Volta

Never have I held the handle of a blade The way I hold it looking at you Flip it to the dagger and put it in your hands And show me you know what to do Run it under water and make sure that you cauterize

Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound The Mars Volta

"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

Inertiatic Esp The Mars Volta

Now I'm lost Last night I heard lepers Flinch like birth defects It's musk was fecal in origin As the words dribbled off of its chin It said I'm lost I'm lost Now I'm lost Dolls wreck the minced meat

The Requisition (acoustic) The Mars Volta

Once you left tribute of carrion piled at the door Some of it dead, but the repo man knew she didn't want it Her heart survived abandoned pasture Torch the barrels and turn the eight into nine [Verse 2

Metatron (Album Version) The Mars Volta

Lately I might Un-connect 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

Vigil (acoustic) The Mars Volta

I know the way he makes you hide Even when the dose is fight or flight And the orbits wait for a perfect name Clean out the webs he left behind And if you want, I can bury him out By the Salton Sea in