Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt

I'll try to sum everything up for all the perplexed

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

Take the Veil- Cerpin Taxt enters the afterlife. The gates of Thanos refer to Thanatos who is the personification of death in Greek mythology. Also, it speaks of the ossuary(place for bones of the dead) spilling by the day.

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?