A Plague Upon Your Hissing Lyrics
I think these are kind of wrong, may I?
"Might I be the only MAJOR LEFT, to be left behind" or something like that.... "A pair of BALLISTAS, aiming a bomb" I think the "raise the dock" part is wrong, but I can't make it out either "Mass CALL off this plague" pretty certain about that one
"No one's getting out Of the fetal CAMPS ALIVE The trenches have been flemming To take THEIR PROPER HEIGHTS Might it be the talons Sculpting a lantern jackal TOO LONG Let us nurse the vipers In the bosom of their sewers
The debts follows They will swallow now"
I don't know if these are right either, but I thought I'd give my input.
This song is definitly about abortion. Just read the lyrics.
'Fondling with pitchforks In a cattle prodding team signaling the sedatives to emmaciate their queen'
The cattle proding team are doctors with their 'pitchfork' or sergical tools.
Emmaciate means to make thin so having an abortion will make you thinner.
'No one's getting out Of the fetal camps alive'
fetal camp = womb No-one = fetus'
oooh; now where would one find this song?
crimp, you were closer but still a little off on the lyrics. whoever posted this first was WAY off.
fifi: generally, people don't write songs about abortion. what was the last song you heard about, say, gay marriage? I didn't think so.
think about this song in the context of De-Loused, of which it was originally a part but cut from the released version. abortion is a theme Omar and Cedric try to parallel in their lyrics about Cerpin Taxt's world. "fetal camps" likely refers to Cerpin's "real world," which was viewed by the Metacarpi as a breeding ground, a sort of stasis for the unneeded souls. "No one's getting out of the fetal camps alive" foreshadows Cerpin's suicide.
Your main passage supporting abortion clearly refers to the phixia army fighting clavietika. the storybook devotes nearly a page to the functions of the phixia army, and they functioned very much as a team. they ultimately destroyed clavietika via some sort of chemical grenage [i believe] turning her back into Cerpin Taxt, who was smaller than clavietika, thus the phixias emaciated their queen.
CORRECT lyrics to this song can be found at TMV's quasi-official fan site, as well as lyrics for all TMV songs. Also you should read the stunning 23-page storybook relating the story of Cerpin Taxt, the story behind the album.
The Comatorium: http://www.thecomatorium.com/?page=lyrics/plague
you've gotta be kidding me, i thought that this song was suppose to be apart of Frances the Mute since most of that CD is about birth and fetus-related things....plus, i think its on Scabdates...
yeah, seigabata, no...
A Missing Chromosome Walks....
this is my favorite line in the song...
I would say it denotes a sense of loss and isolation, as in not being as evolved/complete as everyone else.... Needless to say, Cerpin would feel this way.
See I always thought this was released on a seperate compilation cd, never thought of it as being part of DitC in any way, but that adds a very interesting dynamic to it...
ps no, its not on scab dates
I am the missing chromosome!!!!!! My favorite mars volta song!
this song is not about abortion. it is a retaliation song to sparta's "Hiss the Villian"
Doesn't the guitar at the end sound just so amazing? It's literally the most happiest tune they've ever come up with I think. What could it's significance mean, at the end of this relatively harsh sounding song?