Cassandra Geminni: Sarcophagi Lyrics

Lyric discussion by THe_Atomic_Punk 

Cover art for Cassandra Geminni: Sarcophagi lyrics by Mars Volta, The

I never actually bothered to decipher the entire story on this album, so I just tried to treat it like any other song.

"All my life I've been sowing the wounds But the seeds spread a lachrymal cloud"

I think here is the Biblical allusion of "you reap what you sow". I think that the person speaking has been trying all his life to make a good living and trying to get over a bad past, but the more he tries to be successful and get over his bad past, his attempts just make things worse. Memories come back to him and it obscures his vision on the real world.