Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
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 dive
You take the veil
It's not over till the tremulant sings
These ides of march
Are they so make believe
How tempts the revenant
Slice up and not across
You take the veil
You'll take the dive
You take the veil
A mass of gallon sloth
As flys have walls for feet
A rapturous verbatim-someone said but who is to know
And when you find the fringe
The one last hit that spent you
You'll find the ossuary spilling by the day
The iconoclastic had it coming for years
They know the prisons that you have yet to fear
Where thumbs hide inside of sleeping bag mouths
Adlib your memoirs by casting a drought
You take the veil
You'll take the dive
You take the veil
A mass of gallon sloth
As flys have walls for feet
A rapturous verbatim-someone said but who is to know
And when you find the fringe
The one last hit that spent you
You'll find the ossuary spilling by the day
Knife me in hobbling
Talking in its sleep again
Knife me in hobbling
Talking in its sleep again
Knife me in hobbling
Talking in it's sleep again
Knife me in hobbling
Talking in 'it's' sleep again
Virulent hives-of bedpost piles
Virulent hives
Who brought me here?
Forsaken, deprived and wrought with fear
Who turned it off
The last thing I remember now
Who brought me here?
Forsaken, deprived and wrought with fear
Who turned it off
The last thing I remember now
Who brought me here?
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 dive
You take the veil
It's not over till the tremulant sings
These ides of march
Are they so make believe
How tempts the revenant
Slice up and not across
You take the veil
You'll take the dive
You take the veil
A mass of gallon sloth
As flys have walls for feet
A rapturous verbatim-someone said but who is to know
And when you find the fringe
The one last hit that spent you
You'll find the ossuary spilling by the day
The iconoclastic had it coming for years
They know the prisons that you have yet to fear
Where thumbs hide inside of sleeping bag mouths
Adlib your memoirs by casting a drought
You take the veil
You'll take the dive
You take the veil
A mass of gallon sloth
As flys have walls for feet
A rapturous verbatim-someone said but who is to know
And when you find the fringe
The one last hit that spent you
You'll find the ossuary spilling by the day
Knife me in hobbling
Talking in its sleep again
Knife me in hobbling
Talking in its sleep again
Knife me in hobbling
Talking in it's sleep again
Knife me in hobbling
Talking in 'it's' sleep again
Virulent hives-of bedpost piles
Virulent hives
Who brought me here?
Forsaken, deprived and wrought with fear
Who turned it off
The last thing I remember now
Who brought me here?
Forsaken, deprived and wrought with fear
Who turned it off
The last thing I remember now
Who brought me here?
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Son et Lumiere- Cerpin Taxt injects rat poison in a suicide attempt
Intertiatic ESP- Cerpin Taxt falls into a coma
Roulette Dares- Denial of death occures (Exoskeletal junction at the railroad delayed)
Drunkship- Cerpin thought he had made it to afterlife in the previous but realizes that he is not dead
Eriatarka- Cerpin Taxt meets in a doctor in his dream who invites him to his basement. This could be the brain realizing the body is on life support in the hospital
Cicatriz- Cerpin finds himself in a desert after the leader of the peoples (Ojeno) falls, and the Phixias celebrate his demise. Cerpin leaves the people of the desert and gets lost during his journey
Apparatus- Cerpin becomes the hero of the people, but he is threatened by Moatilliatta (possibly the man who pushed Julio Venegras to suicide). He is defeated in his dream and returns to reality
Televators- Cerpin Taxt regains consciousness and commits suicide by jumping from the window of the hospital into the traffic below
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It is really useless trying to decode Cedrics pedantic lyrics because most of the time they are nonsensical
This song is about Cerpin Taxt taking the veil. . .
this song is the best on the album. it's about julio finally taking his life after much halucination and depression which is portrayed in the rest of the album.
i've heard what review said about this album being based on one guy. what's the story behind that
this is an awesome song to the end the album
the entire album, start to finish, is about julio venegas. an artist and close friend who committed suicide right before at the drive-in came out with thier first record. th ATDI song embroligo is about him as well. the entire mars volta record is about is constant drug use, halucination, and dreppression. as the album goes on he drowns deeper and deeper into addiction and maddness until he finally kills himeself in the last two songs.
wrong - he kills himself in televators, this song is actually set before sone et lumiere, but from thenceforth the album is in order
umm i think the line "the last thing I remember now" definately gives it away that this is were julio/cerpin taxt commits suicide. I could be wrong, it just makes since to me that way. The album ends when julio's life dies, that just seems logical to me. The last cuplet of lyrics seems to me like Cerpin Taxt is talking, saying this to himself as he commits suicide.
this song means AFTER julio dies in Televators, his soul takes the Veil to wear and he proceeds into the another form of existence in the afterlife.
It really depends whose storyline you go by. Lyrically, it sounds as if he dies around "Apparatus", as he is calling out to Montallatio (typo, I know), but storybook wise (the little packet of papers you can order for about the price of a bag of doritoes), he dies somewhere near the end of "Take the Veil". Then again, if "Take the Veil" takes place at the begining, then both ideas are screwed.
i agree with trembleweeds because it seems to me that the lyrics show that cerpin is confused and nervous because he doesnt know where he is.
And how could this song be at the beginning of the storyline?