Tetragrammaton Lyrics
Rusbel awaits
I've been to the surface and nothing is there
Eyelids sank muffled in the nerve aura sound
But when she awakes will she still be with us?
Leap year is late
How did you get here, ask all but the bait
From a Christ that went hissing, constricting his cells
We summon by candle by book and by bell
Glycerin and turbulence
Stuffed the voice inside of God
Mirrors to the animals
Pricking it's hail
Slothful the child that preys on the seed
Shall behead the drought wound under sleeves
I hope you have room in a thicket of vines
To clean what you've stole
The streets will hang high, stretch ribs and let taste
We'll cover the smell with silver nitrate
Mending the cuts of your prosthetic faith
Glycerin and turbulence
Stuffed the voice inside of God
Mirrors to the animals
Dear mnemonic
Assume the form
You've given me and I'll spill
Just hold my hand
Say that they made you
But you brought your own leash
Tell me no more no
Say I'm the last one
By the drift
You read my will
Of thread and itch
Failure to comply
As failure to decease
And still you won't know everything
I've built the fall
Swarming by your steps
Licking the ankles of blasphemer guilts
It only meant to drape a plastic
Over the stuck pig scalp of head
To cover the sock where the flatline had spread
The kiosk in my temporal lobe
Is shaped like Rosalyn Carter
She says my map is home again
But torn face down
I have only but a million blemishes
To tell you about
To make him come out
Of your five legged snare
Toothpicks the eye
But not things there
Down drags your waltz
Cross the alter top
From a sleep that
Depravation knew
Trespass your form
I'm void of dusk
I'd ask to look
But the mask stays on
Teutonic Print
Cruelty is the wrath
Of my instrument
To make him come out
Arsenic erupts
Will you drink the shadow
Of my red hair
Witness to god
You've one in the chamber
But your finger got stuck
Of a cry for help
But all was lost
On the night you walked
Serve your memory lost
I contaminate with insignias
To make him come out
Glycerin and turbulence
Stuffed the voice inside of god
Mirrors to the animals
I won't forget a face that lift me
Just you wait
Till I get my hands on you
I can't
You won't remember
And let it thaw
In the eye of the needle
I can't get out
I'll faint a pulse
I'm not the human
You thought I was
Six pentacle dice
If you roll the seven
St. Michael dies
Don't shut my mouth
I scald the answer
You're afraid of
What was in-praise-of-folly talking about, I feel that De-losued is incredible(roulette dares, drunkship,televators)some of their best work even, TMV more than most bands it seems, isn't afraid to move in a new direction as is evident across their discography and that makes a good band great. If you expect a band to maintain the sound created on their first album you're an idiot. Matter of fact inpraise is crazy, the music is impecable on ammpu. But I digress, from a musical standpoint it sounds as if this song sounds like a backwards song, in terms of its structure, its hard to explain, but when you listen to it, it sounds like omar purposefully composed this song by flipping another song around. Like the beginning of tetra is the end of another(or two meshed together) and the band is playing in the song forward from the end to the beginning note for note. If that is the truth Omar has achieved his place in the greats for sure(in my opin. at least) And omar could be making a statement concurring with the theme of the album(open to interpretation) in a very subliminal manner.
What a cool observation. When you were noticing this did you have a particular song in mind or were you just listening to the song thinking that Omar had that technique in mind? I've always thought the first section of this song held a lot of classical similarities to the opening of Close To The Edge by Yes; or at least a similar melodic structure.
What a cool observation. When you were noticing this did you have a particular song in mind or were you just listening to the song thinking that Omar had that technique in mind? I've always thought the first section of this song held a lot of classical similarities to the opening of Close To The Edge by Yes; or at least a similar melodic structure.
Although I have never seen The Mars Volta live, all the videos and recordings I've heard hold testament to what inpraiseoffolly says Cedric's singing. Most of the time he seems to over-extend his voice and...
Although I have never seen The Mars Volta live, all the videos and recordings I've heard hold testament to what inpraiseoffolly says Cedric's singing. Most of the time he seems to over-extend his voice and try to sing more than he actually can. Sometimes it really works for an effect that matches the music (e.g., 8:30 into Tetragrammaton, 6:00 into Goliath) but for the most part I find him to be a very poor singer and often wish TMV had another singer. On the other hand his lyrical capabilities are unrivaled to anything I've ever seen before and could never conceive of TMV having another lyricist. In fact the lyrics are what attract me most to the music.
How's this:
The beginning of the song is about the priest trying to exorcize the demon ("when she awakes will she still be with us?"). When she is in her exorcism-induced trance, the preist asks the demon how he came to possess the woman. The demon explains that the nun created him herself, by believing in the "Christ summoned through candle and bell." Basically, it says that she created him because she believed in demons so strongly, and that all religious and supernatural characters are figments of the imagination. They have "stuffed a voice" inside God, making their own dieties and demons that they now have to deal with.
Dissatisfied with this answer, the priest crucifies her and leaves her to die. The rest of the song is about her gnashing her teeth and spasing out in the dungeon (the vocal sounds remind me of an epileptic seizure) and then, finally, she dies. The last couple verses are about her body being taken out.
you cant blame anyone, this is really hard to decipher. i've seen many different versions.
glossolalia is in a song off the tremulant EP i believe.
and not criticizing your deciphering, but i think it's mirrors to the animals, as you had menace to the animals
And i also i think it's "in the end they just gag me to make you come out"
"And there were things I saw on the news, like the story about a woman who was killed by this priest because supposedly she was possessed. That woman was a 23-year-old Romanian nun named Maricica Irina Cornici, who, according to news reports, believed she heard the devil talking to her. A monk bound Cornici to a cross, gagged her with a towel and left her in a dank room for three days without food. She died of suffocation and dehydration more than a year ago.
"That was sort of an inspiration to write about the Western phenomenon of incarcerating somebody if you think they're crazy, whereas in some parts of the world, like in South America, people like this woman would be considered a shaman,"
-Zavala
(source) http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1537073/20060725/mars_volta.jhtml?headlines=true
(Glossiona is a synonym for speaking in toungues)
and i quote...
'glossolalia is in a song off the tremulant EP i believe.'
erm nope not like anywhere near tha album, dnt know where u got tha idea from...really tho not at all ever...nope nadda uhuh noooo! ;)
then it's on L'via L'viaquez
bible and the breathalyzer
To a thinning cowlick's fat his crippled limp, dragging along the hump of the floor. Sobbing from the smacking mouth of the demagogue wells, making wisecracks, spilling from the corners with their pink flinches, second glancing their every move. It ate pickled nose cartilage that fell from the ceilings, a pork skin drizzle unnerving the humans, while it read aloud from it's favorite books, in GLOSSYLALIA slang and haruspex truths, following a slow and patient wait, a mocking their hair as it was glued to their upper lip comb-over.
I knew i heard it off of Missing Chromosome, i just wasnt sure what album it was off of originally. Sorry I was speaking when knowing absolutely nothing of what I was talking about.
Glossolalia = speaking in tongues Tetragrammaton = YHWH, the name of God
i've seen a different set of lyrics to this song, and i agree im sure there are many, but so far on the new album i've only heard Vicarious Atonement and Tetragammaton and this song is amazing.
yeah these lyrics are incorrect I've took the time to take them out of the booklet that came with the cd and posted them