| The Mars Volta – Cassandra Gemini Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I know it seems a bit fetched in some parts, but the Americas' native cultures have lots of religious folklores of this type, so it makes sense that they would make a story like this. Vismund- i think son of satan. Sister L'Via- Vismund's Mother and the widow (widow is woman, widower is man) Frances- Satan (he never speaks aloud, he is only known to whisper to sister L'Via) Cassandra- makes up two other people in the story (hence the gemini) but hard to say exactly who. Ice, ice pick, ice sickle- fallice marble shrine- vagina owl- a symbol of death and destruction among aztecs, native americans, and other cultures in the region that's all i have time for. if i have any epiphanies, this site will be the first to know. |
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| The Mars Volta – Cassandra Gemini Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Note: these are only my views and interpretations of the song as given by word spelling and context clues. I see a lot of pain and torture in this entire story of Frances the Mute. But this song in particular tells the backstory of the entire album, leaving you to listen again and put it all into a whole new light. "I think I've become one of the others." This says to me that the main character is either being posessed by ghosts of these characters so they can tell their story and find peace, or multiple personality disorder. But it's not important to the story, it only creates the narrator. Onward to the story. The backstory begins with a man. "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 handjob in sarcophagus heels." He is a degenerate, and a sexual predator. He has his eyes on an older, and weathered woman as she finishes off her drink. Her skin is rough and coarse. He is turned on by thoughts of touching her breasts. He was inebriated. She was a prized sex object, and soon to be a walking victim. "Bring me to my knees Read the sharpened lines All my arms Bled me blind" God has put him on his knees and taken away everything. "Faucet leaks in shadows Spilling from morgue lancet Caressed your fontanelle" In the darkness, there is a presence of a lancet (fallic symbol) which caressed her fontanelle (female sex organ). "I've sworn to kill Every last one Every last one" He has sworn to kill every last angel. He is the devil encarnate. "Panic in the shakes of the wounded Panic in the worms Onto the floor And out of your mouth Out of your eyelids" The victim of a sexual assault, she shakes as the devil's seed is dispersed viciously about the woman. "No there’s no light In the darkest of your furthest reaches No there’s no light In the darkest of your furthest reaches" This is where the lyrics come back to narrator as he realizes who this man is. There is no light, because he has been banished from it. The music then goes back to the story. "All your dreams splintered off Leech by leech On this catafalque" Her dreams were shattered when the "leeches" (or sperm) ate away her support (divinity) "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" The devil man speaks to her. Your mother was a whore. She almost passed her sicknesses onto you at your birth. "Panic in the shakes of the wounded Panic in the worms Onto the floor And out of your mouth Out of your eyelids" "Shockless shackles free you Fools taste tongues I better leave you again, I won't be owned Not this time" He tells her that he has met her before, and that she is free from her faith and that fools believe in God. Then that he must leave her once more. "Shock lest shackles free you Volt face cons abandon you again I won’t feel not this time Brick by brick the night eclipsed Pricked by cuticle thorns Dried the sleep on nursery slits Into this life I’m born" A shadow fell over the earth, blocking the night sky. This night was the birth of someone integral to the story. "Heaven's just a scab away I'd like to see you after just one taste" The proding feeling to pick the scab is likened to the temptation of Adam and Eve. "Sink your teeth into the flesh of midnight Night forever more let them see it has begun The others I’ve become" Impregnate a mortal woman, and the child will create night forever more. "f you should see the dice Charmed with it’s snaked choked eyes You’ll wear the widows weeds Because they’re just your size" If you could see your future, you would know that you will become the widow. "behind the snail secretion Leaves a dry heave that absorbs a limbless procreation let the infant crawled deformed" The seed of the devil becomes a scourge. Let him live. "She fell for the whispers Sister flooded deaf tears that night tore a river in her baron womb mirror" She believed his lies. That night she gave birth. "And his multiple sons with their mandible tongues set crucified fires to petrified homes let it burn" His deformed children of Hell set fires to the homes of the petrified people. "And the owls they were watching and the owls did't care then the owls came a knocking placenta in their stares" Owls were often thought of as symbols of death and destruction among the Aztecs and surrounding cultures. "They will feed on all the carnage leftover from the flood and in the corner of their eyes fled sister L'Via" But as they devoured the remains, Sister L'Via fled. "Now the pieces went floating reflecting all at dusk conceived from the stabbing was Vismund Cygnus" The village lay desolate. The child born this night was Vismund Cygnus. (The stabbing is the conception) "25 wives in the lake tonight raw bark in the water of the marble shrine 25 snakes pour out your eyes yeah the icepicks cuming on the marble shrine 25 snakes are drowning" 25 wives = 25 nuns of the convent (wives of God) Icepicks are male sexual organs... marble shrine is the female sexual organ. "You cant bend your crooked arms or fold your punctured proof the air is growing cold and there's nothing you can do" Now sister L'Via has realised her error. She has given up her faith, her dreams, and the life she wanted. She has been tempted by the great deceiver, and she gave in. "Soon there'll be no gauze inside the confessional only rows of crows defrocking every breath" There's no going back now. You can not atone for this. There's only pain to come. 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 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 25 wives in the lake tonight raw bark in the water of the marble shrine 25 snakes pour out your eyes yeah the icepicks comming on the marble shrine 25 snakes are drowning |
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