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Agadez Lyrics
I should have known
You'd always scratched that itch
When you asked for false safe passage
On my shoulders where we slid
And just before you laid
Dead weight upon its shores
I stung you in the face
For that's the nature of my core
Because
I got distance
Don't let it close
Gotta let me know
You just gotta let me know
Because
Forget which way
Is out now
Gotta let me know
You just gotta let me know
I'm nowhere near
This place you wear
It's unforgivable
It knows that I am visible
I'm broken mirrors
And useless prayer
This lock is healing me
You know you came so willingly
Waiting is a vessel
That will take me to
Love, it knows no order
When you taste the truth
Because
I'm trapped in this cement husk
Gotta let me go
You just gotta let me go
Because
I paid with own touch now
I bought a little cut
There is blood for every month
In the way you used to
Call her wicked answers
Time is a plague
There's no time for this place
If you don't let me go
Heaven's made a cesspool of us all
I'm nowhere near
This place you wear
It's unforgivable
It knows that I am visible
I'm broken mirrors
And useless prayer
This lock is healing me
You know you came so willingly
There burns a kiss with serpent scales
There is no miracle
I lost your miracle
I wrap myself around
Your buried questions
Through the blisters of confinement
I seek to drain
This broken shelter
To refill the pigment case
That I have left
Don't stay long
For teeth nurse
The first wound
Coats revolve
Hope to gain
What if we find
What tongue ties double Windsor
Invoke to no reply
Those that lie
Have froze
At the border
No implies
Close the frame
What if we find
The sunlight draws a curtain
Invoke to no reply
There's a place
Where this
Depth charge ignites
In this place
Where the soul has no purpose
I can't believe you
When your ghost won't let me go
I am the moment you were always speaking of
Because there's no fence will hold
The sentient culprit fall about it
Say where I can enter them
Culprit fell about it
One fell, the other taste won't lie
Make no doubt about it
How many blame
How many cave into the pressure I apply
If you take this breath of mine
You'd always scratched that itch
When you asked for false safe passage
On my shoulders where we slid
And just before you laid
Dead weight upon its shores
I stung you in the face
For that's the nature of my core
I got distance
Don't let it close
Gotta let me know
You just gotta let me know
Forget which way
Is out now
Gotta let me know
You just gotta let me know
I'm nowhere near
This place you wear
It's unforgivable
It knows that I am visible
I'm broken mirrors
And useless prayer
This lock is healing me
You know you came so willingly
Waiting is a vessel
That will take me to
Love, it knows no order
When you taste the truth
Because
I'm trapped in this cement husk
Gotta let me go
You just gotta let me go
I paid with own touch now
I bought a little cut
There is blood for every month
In the way you used to
Call her wicked answers
Time is a plague
There's no time for this place
If you don't let me go
Heaven's made a cesspool of us all
This place you wear
It's unforgivable
It knows that I am visible
I'm broken mirrors
And useless prayer
This lock is healing me
You know you came so willingly
There burns a kiss with serpent scales
There is no miracle
I lost your miracle
Your buried questions
Through the blisters of confinement
I seek to drain
This broken shelter
To refill the pigment case
That I have left
For teeth nurse
The first wound
Coats revolve
Hope to gain
What if we find
What tongue ties double Windsor
Invoke to no reply
Those that lie
Have froze
At the border
No implies
Close the frame
What if we find
The sunlight draws a curtain
Invoke to no reply
There's a place
Where this
Depth charge ignites
In this place
Where the soul has no purpose
I can't believe you
When your ghost won't let me go
I am the moment you were always speaking of
Because there's no fence will hold
The sentient culprit fall about it
Say where I can enter them
Culprit fell about it
One fell, the other taste won't lie
Make no doubt about it
How many blame
How many cave into the pressure I apply
If you take this breath of mine
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"I should have known You'd always scratch that itch When you asked for that safe passage On my shoulders where we slid And just before you laid Dead weight upon its shores I stung you in the face For that's the nature of my core"
This verse is a reference to the fable of the scorpion and the frog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
Incredible song. Once the tempo changes at around 3:15, the song goes into overdrive. Probably the best 3 or so minutes I've ever heard.
"I skeet to drain This broken shelter"
guhhhh, pretty sure he SEEKS to drain that broken shelter. just saying.
The funkiest thing The Mars Volta have ever done
hell yes it's a great song! 'mui caliente'
This song seems like its trying to illustrate some scandalous part of the love triangle. like one of the women (presumably) realizes that what she did was a bad idea and is now trying to distance herself away from Goliath.
and yes, it is quite funky.
i looked up agadez on wikipedia. there has been a rebellion going on there for a while, bad enough to where the US isn't letting people go there anymore because it's too dangerous. I think this song has to do with the events that are taking place right now. These lyrics suggest that someone is trying to leave but doesn't sound like they can.
good lord i love the last 2 minutes of this song. so f-ing sweat in concert..
good lord i love the last 2 minutes of this song. so f-ing sweat in concert..
"There is blood for every month"
Another connection to women that surrounds the album. But the rest of the song leads me to see a bigger picture, one of God... something common in TMV songs. "Heaven’s made a cesspool of us all."
So in the end, I think of the story of Adam and Eve, where they eat from the tree and God curses humanity to mortality... the curse of blood and reproduction.
Of course, that's definitely not the entire song. I enjoy that so many different things can come from a single song.
And I've also noted that this song cleans up from Cavaletta on the notion of "time". Later to close in Ouroboros.