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The Mars Volta – With Twilight As My Guide Lyrics 16 years ago
"I'm bolted from within
from long conniving heights
the hail, it makes a special sound
that always stays into the night"

Sounds like a first person account of someone who has committed evil deeds and is now locked in a "prison" where his lies won't be given any merit. The storm of events in the aftermath of the evil deeds creates "hail" in the mind of the prisoner that pounds away until he falls asleep. Seems like its soothing though.

"She tells me I'm not capable
of what they accuse me
with no remorse I stand and say
that guilt is what I plead"

Pretty self explanatory...

"My devil makes me dream
like no other mortal dreams
with a blank eye corner"

The evil deeds he's done are "his devil" and he gets such a rush from doing those things that he feels no remorse and the blank eye corner is an eye without tears being shed.

"The only way to see him
in the tunnel where he slept
by the longest tusk of corridors
numb below the neck"

I'm not positive about this one but it seems like the message is that if you dance with the devil the only way you'll continue to do so is to sacrifice all freedom. A tusk of corridors just sounds like a jail hallway to me...could be totally wrong. You sacrifice your body to the evil and it controls it, leaving you with a "numb" body.


This is just my interpratation and I could be completely off. I'll add more when I've analyzed the lyrics longer.

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311 – India Ink Lyrics 16 years ago
I don't know this for sure but I don't have much of a doubt as to the meaning of this song.

India Ink is a reference to Henna, or the Indian art of creating flower-like designs out of temporary ink.

The song is about being with someone that makes you feel so sure that you know that they're the one that you're willing to "carve" your body, but when you suggest to them the idea of permanence they're repulsed.

Basically every lyric in the song is about someone who can't commit when you're ready to commit and "India Ink" is the symbol for that lack of commitment.

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