The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini

Tarantism
I think I’ve become one of the others / I think I’ve become one of the others / I think I’ve become one of the others

There was a frail syrup dripping off / His lap danced lapel, punctuated by her / Decrepit prowl she washed down the hatching / Gizzard soft as a mane of needles / His orifice icicles hemorrhaged / By combing her torso to a pile / Perspired the trophy shelves made room for his collapse / She was a mink hand job in sarcophagus heels

Bring me to my knees / Read the sharpened lines / All my arms / Bled me blind

Faucet leaks in shadows / Spilling from morgue lancet / Caressed your fontanelle

I’ve sworn to kill / Every last one / Every last one

Panic in the shakes of the wounded / Panic in the worms / Onto the floor / And out of your mouth / Out of your eyelids

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

All your dreams / splintered off / Leech by leech / On this catafalque

Anyone will tell you / Yes anyone / Chance had me setting a trip wire alarm

Your mother flirted with disease / When she skinned that costume by it’s navel strings

Panic in the shakes of the wounded / Panic in the worms / Onto the floor / And out of your mouth / And out of your eyelids

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

Shockless shackles free you / Fools taste tongues / I better leave you again, / I won’t be owned / Not this time

Shockless shackles free you / Volt face cons / abandon you again / I won’t feel not this time

Plant a Nail in the Navel Stream
Brick by brick / the night eclipsed / Pricked by cuticle thorns / Dried the sleep / on nursery slits / Into this life I’m born

Heaven’s just a scab away / I’d like to see you after just one taste

Sink your teeth into the flesh of midnight / Night forever more / let them see it has begun / The others I’ve become

If you should see the dice / Charmed with it’s snaked choked eyes / You’ll wear the widows weeds / Because they’re just your size

Behind the snail secretion / Leaves a dry heave that absorbs / a limbless procreation / let the infant crawled deformed

A bag replace the breath / of these suffocating sheets / and now when the craving calls / I’ll scratch my itchy teeth

And soon / Come on / if you don’t know… / Come on / if you don’t know

Sink your teeth into / the flesh of midnight / Night forever more / Sink your teeth into / the flesh of midnight / Night forever more

She fell for the whispers / Sister flooded deaf tears / that night tore a river / in her baron womb mirror

And his multiple sons / with their mandible tongues / set crucified fires to petrified homes / let it burn

And the owls they were watching / and the owls didn’t care / then the owls came a knocking / placenta in their stares

They will feed on all the carnage / leftover from the flood / and in the corner of their eyes / fled sister L’Via

Now the pieces went floating / reflecting all at dusk / conceived from the stabbing / was Vismund Cygnus

25 wives in the lake tonight / raw bark in the water of the marble shrine / 25 snakes pour out your eyes / yeah the icepicks coming on the marble shrine / 25 snakes are drowning

Faminepulse
You cant bend your crooked arms / Or fold your punctured proof / The air is growing cold / And there’s nothing you can do

Soon there’ll be no gauze / Inside the confessional / Only rows of crows / Defrocking every breath

And one day you’ll remember / Behind the melting cones / I said one day you’ll remember / Behind the melting cones / You’ve already had a family / In the burial of your home

Not forevermore

And I peel back all of my skin / Peel it back let it all run

Multiple Spouse Wounds
Brick by brick / The night eclipsed / Pricked by cuticle thorns / Dried the sleep / On nursery slits / Into this life I’m born

Heaven’s just a scab away / I’d like to see you after just one taste

Sink your teeth into the flesh of midnight / Night forever more / Let them see it has begun / The others I’ve become

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

Sarcophagi
The ocean floor is hidden / From your viewing lens / A depth perception / Languished in the night / All my life, I’ve been / Sewing the wounds / But the seeds sprout / A lachrymal cloud…