Tetragrammaton Songtext
von The Mars Volta

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 be with us

My heart is darkclots
Leap year is late
How did you get here
Ask all but the bait
From a Christ that went hissing
Constricting his cells

We summon by candle by book and by bell

Glossolalia coats my skin
Glycerin and turbulence


Stuffed the voice inside of God
Mirrors to the animals
Glossolalia coats my skin
Glycerin and turbulence

The sermon goes mourning
Pricking its hail
Slothful the child

That preys on the seed
Shall behead the drought
Wound under sleeves
I hope you have room
In a thicket of vines
Give me a moment

To claim what you′ve stole
The streets will hang high
Stretched ribs and let taste
We'll cover the smell with silver nitrate

Mending the cuts of your prosthetic faith

Glossolalia coats my skin
Glycerin and turbulence


Stuffed the voice inside of God
Mirrors to the animals
Glossolalia coats my skin
Glycerin and turbulence
Stuffed the voice inside of God
Mirrors to the animals

Then so long
Dear mnemonic
Assume the form
You've given me and I′ll spill
Now hold on
Just hold my hand
Say that they made you
But you brought your own leash

Tell me no more, no,
Say I′m the last one

Outside
By the drift
You read my will
Of thread and itch
Failure to comply
As failure to decease
And still you won't know everything
I′ve built the fall

Sulking drained the fall of my pale will
Swarming by your steps

Licking the ankles of blasphemer guilts
It only meant to drape a plastic
Over the stuck pig scalp of head
To cover the sock where the flatline had spread
The kiosk in my temporal lobe
Is shaped like Rosalyn Carter
She says my map is home again
But torn face down
I have only but a million blemishes
To tell you all about
In the end they just gagged me
To make him come out

Gas me the hind
Of your five legged snare
Tooth picks the eye

But nothing is there
Down drags your waltz

Cross the altar top
From a sleep that
Deprivation knew
Trespass your form
I'm void of dusk
I′d ask to look
But the mask stays on
You'll levitate
Teutonic print
Cruelty is the wrath
Of my instrument
In the end they just gagged me
To make him come out

You locked the cuffs

Arsenic erupts
Will you drink the shadow

Of my red hair
You and your false
Witness to God
You′ve one in the chamber

But your finger got stuck
Let slip the sound

Of a cry for help
But all was lost
On the night you walked
Palms speak through eyes
Serve your memory lost
I contaminate with insignias
In the end they just gagged me
To make him come out

Glossolalia coats my skin
Glycerin and turbulence
Stuffed the voice inside of God
Mirrors to the animals

Wait till I get my hands on you
I won't forgive a face that lift me
Just you wait
Till I get my hands on you
I can't
You won′t remember

(...)

Unwrap my corpse
And let it thaw
In the eye of the needle
I can′t get out
They'll check my wrist
I′ll fake a pulse
I'm not the human
You thought I was
If you pet the night
Sixth pentacle dice
If you role the seven
St. Michael dies
They′ll be no ransom
Don't shut my mouth
I scald the answer
You′re afraid of