Cavalettas - The Mars Volta

A salty ring of night fatigue

When I get get get the sweats from you listening

Primordial cymatics giving birth into reverse

Serated mure ephemera undo her mother’s curse

So if you break

Break me a mirror

Hang the broken pieces of a place that isn’t here

Don’t hide that guilty smile

Condolences won’t go away

The coins you bring left footprints

Blind thirst and braille liquor

My bed is stained with fractures year after vitiated year

Four corners you are touching

They will liberate my need

Bite marks in the menagerie with infidelic teeth

So if you break

Break me a mirror

Hang the broken pieces of a place that isn’t here

Don’t hide that guilty smile

Condolences won’t go away

Is there something out there

Waiting to take hold?

When that whore won’t answer

Who is in control?

And the names you planted

Drop the seed into a hole

And the names you planted

Drop the seed into a hole

If you force me often

I might jump off the board

I am a deaf con angora goats

Warning you all who pass this mote

It’s only a matter of folding time and space

Before I become your epidemic

Is this your first time at my conventicle?

You better not talk if you came here for semantics

It’s only a matter of folding time and space

Before I become your epidemic

Don’t ignore my presence

Hidden reads the scroll

By the time I asked her

The earth fell off the tongue

What once was laughter

Corrosive I became

What once was laughter

Corrosive I became

Where a scarlet bruise grows

Sprout the fault we own

Don’t hide your guilty fright

Condolences won’t go away

You’ve got that guilty smile that culminates in Bedlam