The Bedlam in Goliath

The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath Lyrics
1.Aberinkula

Lyricist:Cedric Bixler, Omar Rodriguez

Have you seen the living
Tired of their own shells
All the non-believers
Torso in the well

Am I the one you're after
The novice made to find
Stray abhorations stalking
Plans that forgot me ninety-nine times

The only thing to alter
Stands in the way of you
I want your cramps
To fit the fillings of my teeth

Have you seen the living
Tired of their own shells
All the non-believers
Torso in the well

And don't you try and ask me
Your expiration date
Plans that forgot me ninety-nine times
You'll be the one who opens the gate

Carry water in a basket
Where the hole was dug the first time
The head that carries the body
A blood that flows through veins

Have you seen the living
Tired of their own shells
All the non-believers
Torso in the well

When it calls I'll answer
Do you need to repent?
Plans that forgot me ninety-nine times
I'll stick around for ninety-nine times

The fault lines you prepare have darkened
Blank rings instead of sight
Goliath, are you receiving?
Dismembered you've arrived

Have you seen the living
Tired of their own shells
All the non-believers
Torso in the well


2.Metatron

Lyricist:Cedric Bixler, Omar L Rodriguez

Maybe I'll breakdown
Maybe I'll try
Circumvent inoculation
And I just want a cut

When will I breakdown
Lately I might
Unconnect the fascination
And I just want to touch

This is a list
They're my demands
Forget the question
Come on, bring your nervous hands

You read it in my letter
'Patience worth is dead'
Suffocate the inkwell
I am legion said the pen

Her seraph snout
And cruciform limp
I blame the shrouding
Of a lesser man

My sigil contraptions
They work with no crutches
Don't show me the hinges
I am absent

Maybe I'll breakdown
Maybe I'll try
Circumvent inoculation
And I just want a cut

When will I breakdown
Lately I might
Unconnect the fascination
And I just want to touch

She came to me when she was
Pouring out of drool
Under sedation
Under vulgar multitudes

If you stay and try
To fix what you did
The sheets were wet from
All those messages

A million petitions, her lock with no key
You forfeit the right to be believed
Full implant, shapeless as a jewel
And I am stranded by eternal solitude

Maybe I'll breakdown
Maybe I'll try
Circumvent inoculation
And I just want a cut

When will I breakdown
Lately I might
Unconnect the fascination
And I just want to touch

The vault that I call home
It falls beneath your palms
Before I crawl my way out
She calls

You're standing right outside my window
Water thirsting
You're standing right outside my window
Water thirsting, will I drown

I'll never get a distance shot
Heard vesper pure
I never wanna see your face
'Til the word is made flesh

You'd better ask Metatron
Those flowers that withered away
In the pages of your book
For one day they won't block your route

In the dead plot you dream in
Ten go away
Ten born of pray
Ten go away

Folding wormholes
My time is riding in the alphabet
Folding wormholes
My time is writing on the wall

In the dead plot you dream in
Ten go away
Ten born of pray
Ten go away

Folding wormholes
My time is riding in the alphabet
Folding wormholes
My time is writing on the wall

Debase by your sentence
I fell in the trap
What door slid behind me
I can't see it anymore

When she sleeps as a witness
Got no better hands
Tied a single stutter
Do you speak my dialect?

Accidents will happen
Keep your earnings to yourself
One sip under the table
Until it moves all by itself

In the eye of Fatima
I kept all your dreams
In a waking solution
Of indictment

Maybe I'll breakdown
Maybe I'll try
Circumvent inoculation
And I just want a cut

When will I breakdown
Lately I might
Unconnect the fascination
And I just want to touch


3.Ilyena

When (?)
How can I go wrong?
There will be no before Adam
If the apples have gone
Gone, gone, gone

I need
A brand new skin
Incarnated debts
Incarcerated when
The deeds are left to purchase

If you could see
Where I've been
You touch the hand
That's touching sin
Entity
In radians
A massive blackened
Sketch begins

(?)
Blanket of (?)
Taking everything I've got
Please let me in
In, in, in

I need... (above)

If you could see... (above)

Follow me tonight
Follow me to (?)

{solo}

If you could see.. (above)

I seem to hide
In metal plates
Held together
Along the way
Hide with me
Like entity
Until we pass through fate

Can't spot
Through the lens
Will lead him to your sanctuary
Intentional
Accidents
Will lead him to your sanctuary


4.Wax Simulacra

Came back to tell yourself I broke in twos,
Define the puncture, when will I know to,
I found something to shake by the roots,
I come along to see what's in your room,
The Coma's spending time to answer you,
I need something laid out for him,

Am I waiting now,
Does my waiting howl,
Am I waiting now?
Does my waiting howl.

I bring an avalanche of taunted bones,
Contaminate your cravings if you choose,

To pray something then extra will spill
Whom after me form out a content high,
Inhale the vapors that will heal your smile,
Hope for something to shake by the roots.

Am I waiting now,
Does my waiting howl,
Am I waiting now,
Does my waiting howl.

Bring me the tame,
Witness germinating the child,
The word of mouth stutters,
Blink at the lonely guise


5.Goliath

That night I remember what you slipped in my glass.
We came to wind within. ??
I foamed at the mouth,
While the lights winked at me,
And now my shape is kept.

The rain it canât hide,
Watch the paper this hexâs,
Itâs so permanent.
Did she catch a left eye
When it blinks three times
Or once just to seal you in.

In your bloody bed
And your stained like ours ?
In place of poisoned heat.

I gotta rid this world of your intentions
stuff the corpse in casket ?

Give me that corpse please,
The one that donât like me
I really want it now

Fold me up slowly
The one that canât hold me
It fit just like a glove.

Your closet is bulging
Whatever weâre holding
Does it make you feel???

When I seep inside your truth, through suspicious little coughs
You sink your nails inside a key,
While the door you shut closed up

The black stockingâs you kept,
Smell of wet cigarettes,
Torn of lust that you could not keep.

I have slept inside your fault,
I had you keep me here on this leash
For the rest of your past
I will feed them ????
Cause this in the bowels of defeat ???

And when you pray for an end to this,
I do believe this is eternity.

Give me that corpse please,
The one that donât like me ?
I really want it now

Fold me up slowly
The one that canât hold me
It fit just like a glove.

Your closet is bulging
Whatever weâre holding
Does it make you feel???

Never heard a man speak like this man before.
Never heard a man speak like this man before.
All these days of my life, ever since Iâve been born
Never heard a man speak like this man before.


Never heard a man speak like this man before.
Never heard a man speak like this man before.
All these days of my life, ever since Iâve been born
Never heard a man speak like this man before.
Watch me now.

Say it Say it Say it Loud
Say it Say it Say it Loud

Hold your heavyâ¦.. burden
In a pocket full of trinkets I have drunk
Spit the remnants in your direction
This is the closest to any kingdom that you will come.

Iâve decided feel miscarriage coming on,
its numb and stuck clear in my throat
And I just canât lose grip of it.
She fumigated my mental hygiene
Iâm all out of pulse, but I know you can resuscitate me.

Never heard a man speak like this man before.
Never heard a man speak like this man before.
All these days of my life, ever since Iâve been born
Never heard a man speak like this man before.

Never heard a man speak like this man before.
Never heard a man speak like this man before.
All these days of my life, ever since Iâve been born
Never heard a man speak like this man before.
Watch me now!


6.Tourniquet Man

I've seen the only living traces
Flicker in the sulfur
The ones who do believe me
Place your favor
Before you lay your question down
There's a matter of the payment to you
I slipped on crooked sores
In conclaves that you bothered

Let me be your tourniquet man
Let me keep you as a favor(x2)

When I hear your fingers
They will spell my name
As I trade the faces of the holders

Let me be your tourniquet man
Let me keep you as a favor(x2)

I can't diminish anymore
If I choose to dissolve in you
There's so much we can lose(x3)


7.Cavalettas

Lyricist:Cedric Bixler, Omar L Rodriguez

A salty ring of night fatigue
When I get, get, get the sweats from you listening
Primordial cymatics giving birth into reverse
Serated mare ephemera undo her mother's curse

So if you break me a mirror
Hang the broken pieces of a place that isn't here
So if you don't hide that guilty smile
Condolences won't go away

The coins you bring left footprints, blind thirst and Braille
liquor
My bed is stained with fractures year after vitiated year
Four corners you are touching, they will liberate my need
Bite marks in the menagerie with infidel teeth

So please break me a mirror
Hang the broken pieces of a place that isn't here
So if you don't hide that guilty smile
Condolences won't go away

Is there something out there waiting to take hold
When that whore won't answer, who is in control?
And the names you planted, drop the seed into a hole

And the names you planted, drop the seed into a hole
If you force me often, I might jump off the board

I am a deaf con of angora goats
Warning you all who pass this note
It's only a matter of folding time and space
Before I become your epidemic

Is this your first time at my conventicle?
You better not talk if you came here for semantics
It's only a matter of folding time and space
Before I become your epidemic

Don't ignore my presence, hidden reads the scroll
By the time I asked her, the earth fell off the tongue
What once was laughter, corrosive I became

What once was laughter, corrosive I became
Where a scarlet bruise grows, sprout the fault we own

I am a deaf con of angora goats
Warning you all who pass this note
It's only a matter of folding time and space
Before I become your epidemic

Is this your first time at my conventicle?
You better not talk if you came here for semantics
It's only a matter of folding time and space
Before I become your epidemic

Don't hide your guilty fright
Condolences won't go away
You've got that guilty smile
That culminated in bedlam

Don't hide your guilty fright
Condolences won't go away
You've got that guilty smile
That culminated in bedlam

Don't hide your guilty fright
Condolences won't go away
You've got that guilty smile
That culminated in bedlam

Don't hide your guilty fright
Condolences won't go away
You've got that guilty smile
That culminated in bedlam

I am a deaf con of angora goats
Warning you all who pass this note
It's only a matter of folding time and space
Before I become your epidemic

Is this your first time at this conventicle?
You better not talk if you came here for semantics
It's only a matter of folding time and space
Before I become your epidemic


8.Agadez

Lyricist:Cedric Bixler, Omar L Rodriguez

I should have known you'd always scratch that itch
When you asked me for 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 got to let me know
Because, forget which way is out now
Gotta let me know, you just got to let me know

I'm nowhere near this place you wear
It's unforgivable, it knows that I am visible
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 got to let me go
Because I paid with own touch now
I brought 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 in this place
If you don't, 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
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

Nowhere near this place you wear
It's unforgivable, it knows that I am visible

I wrap myself around your buried question
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 revive with 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 a soul has no purpose
I can't believe you when your thirst 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 fall 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?
How many blame?
How many cave into the pressure I apply?

How many blame?
How many cave into the pressure I apply?
How many blame?
How many cave into the pressure I apply?

How many blame?
How many cave into the pressure I apply?


9.Askepios

I'll be there waiting with the hook in your neck is the contact
you've made.
Deficient.
And your arms will break if you touch this fence,
Pleads them to lead blind with conflict.

What have you brought for my appetite?
What have you brought for my appetite?

I'll never perish with the albino horns of a thousand young
born.
will you drink to the depths of my seed?
and your arms will break
if you touch this fence
Praise them to this life comes to end.

What have you brought for my appetite?
What have you brought for my appetite?

I might not make it back again,
the burbane is on the rise
maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe they've got to open
wide, got to open wide.
the night of a serpent swallow ringtail
psycho recycled and I'm next to nothing

I said help me come alive
help me come alive
help me come alive
help me come alive

place your ring finger on this debt
am I living or am I dead?
do what thou will tell them what I found
the steps of a ladder from a diamonbacks mouth

I said help me come alive
help me come alive
help me come alive
help me come alive
help me come alive
help me come alive

Ain't gonna hold my breath
Ain't gonna hold my breath


10.Ouroboros

It appears to me
Quoting alarms
The guillotine smirks
In your house I smothered
Sight unseen
Sworn to harm
Ground to a powder
And soaked through the board

Don't you ever, ever, ever trust my mercy
Don't you ever, ever, ever trust my mercy
When will you flirt with all that's burning?
Keep them safe and by your side

Of all that's left
A lucid home
Anecdote settles in the smear of this corpse
If the larvae speaks ask where to go
They mount the maker with a sulphur in fume


Of all the warnings that you gave me
With all components in the fault
Have you ever heard me scraping?
It will be hard to hold


All I hear
Mending the gap
Fall in here
Might not make it back
Call that someone
May they hear you
Take me with you
It's not safe in here

And all you ask is why, why, why
And all you ask is why I'm certain you're holding on
Mirror floats to the surface
Holding on


They lost the presence they were holding
Looks like the tenants flickered off
If the cell that holds me breaks me
It will be hard to hold


11.Soothsayer

My love becomes a mange dyeing autumn in its leaves
When it broke me in the branch where my antlers come to feed
And I swam a hundred days in the bosom of this filth
Carry on this drought as I tighten my belt

This deceit has no arms
Bended will take what's yours
This deceit has no arms
Bended will take what's yours
Calling me
She's calling me
This it may have come to falter
We have become these pleads

In a field of balding marble where the medicine awaits
The hourglass pokes at the ribs of my cage
At half rations I'm finished
At half rations the minutes
All that happens was given
Coil and embrace


12.Conjugal Burns

the horseman you have brought deserve me
some how they've made it through the floor
the clocks you set are they reversing
before this visit turns conjugal ever more
maybe tonight

so my half is waiting filed to a pulp
used insomnia's been cleansing with floods
i got a pain inside that'll rip through the very fabric of time
cause i've been with you before god gave me sin
i've got to get born
just so you know there's too many reasons

you set the silver down to guard me from the weak
you check the spelling for nothing
you sent yourself the flood

all of this time
bedsore containment
where am i now

that the music has faded

and i'm nowhere near the place
you sent me here to breathe
but i'm drawing closer to the present
and i'll find a space with no memories
i've got a second chance to inhabit the living

if goliath wont speak
i'm blinded by heaven
when will your eden come die
if the liars that blink are bound by the sender
trinkets you gave have all rusted down

all of this time
bedsore containment
where am i now
that the music has faded
you better steal this chance to give birth to more
you'll wear those healing damns down to the plug