Blank Condolences (acoustic) - The Mars Volta

I'm staying up late again Something about the darkness that feels like a friend 'There'sm sleeping in once again Cause I don't understand the song birds when they sing I don't feel it Anymore I don't feel it Anymore Black out the sun Drag my sorry ass back to bed It's safer in the darkness I can't see inside my own head The doc gave me prescriptions I found my own bottle of meds Don't bother with the curtains I'll just black myself instead Cause I don't feel it Anymore I don't feel it Anymore Late to the party You lost your yellow handbag Long conversation In the car on the way back Foggy cracked windshield Feet up on the dashboard You hate the smell of cigarettes I just need one to clear my head Leaving the party it's more of the same We're talking in circles while you shift the blame It's clear in the rearview That I don't feel Anything Anymore So why am I so desperate to think that I am better than other people When we come from the same nothingness we unwillingly all retreat to I just wanna be I'm tired of the same old rinse and repeat And sleeping through scenes I should be living So when the curtain calls I can take a bow And be proud of the person I am now I got used to nothing and being a bore Now to do almost anything feels like a chore But tomorrow I'll wake up And come back for more Brush my teeth Wash my hair Drag myself out the door Cause I wanna feel it again

Shattered like the glass That casts a rainbow Across the back of your holy man What's the plan I don't have one I have no one Smoothest of glass Reflecting my past It doesn't seem far away Time passed so fast I knew it wouldn't last But it felt just like yesterday Isn't it obvious that I haven't been myself I'm nothing but a shell My bones My teeth My skeleton How did I think you could ever notice Notice that I've been trying harder than I ever have before I'm trying to understand why I do the things I do Why I say the things I say but I can't Nothing coming out of my mouth makes sense I know that I'm wishy-washy, insecure and totally confusing But so are you You push me away time and time again And I persist But we're not talking about you now and I understand that We're not talking about how selfish you can be We're not talking about everything wrong We're talking about everything wrong with me I get it I know you said not to say sorry so much and I promise I'm not Lord help me I'm alone again

Wake up till I die Wake it rough suicide I've been counting real days Pushing sides all my pride Tell me if I'm gonna live Will my parents be my guide Been alone for so long There's no joy in my ride Full stop. I'll be kicking Take the drugs from my shelf I'll be tripping To those who I loved, you'll be tricked No bounds with the love to get stricten My fallacy no prophecies I hanging out with protégé What's good in life, can't see a thing If I'm back I'll ring the bell To my momma Wish to avoid all of these irritating drama To my father Wish I could be a son with no fucking stupid problems To my brother One day I wish you smoke with me a marijuana To my ex not a text Just delete everything so there's no after effects My thoughts are going loud in the brain it gonna stays Wanna burst it all out bet you cannot catch a phrase Shit will happen anyways so time is just a waste, a waste One side or two side, I don't give a damn fuck both side Inside and outside, nil nil score tied I'm just vibin' and imma vibe Hop on my truck come have a ride I'm just gliding and imma glide Fuck all my past bro I knew I tried Fuck all my past, fuck all my ex Fuck on everybody who tear me to shreds Fuck on this beat, leave with no greet Fuck from the start she belongs to the street Apocalypse mind, yea I'm suffer in pain Apocalypse mind, man I'm going insane Apocalypse mind, shit was never the same Apocalypse mind, now I'm digging my grave To my momma Wish to avoid all of these irritating drama To my father Wish I could be a son with no fucking stupid problems To my brother One day I wish you smoke with me a marijuana To my ex not a text Just delete everything so there's no after effects

I've been staring at this blank piece of paper for an hour Trying to write this love song about you But all the pretty words that come to mind don't rhyme Plus, they make me sound like a fool You are on the plane flying in While I'm struggling with this song Trying not to say what I want to say Which is, I love you I'll say you make my day And I'll say I can't wait to get in bed with you Dom-dom-du Every situation's different from the one before Now it's me who's waiting by the door You are in a cab driving back home Oh, I rearranged the furniture around again I thought I'd mention that too I'll say you make my day And I'll say I can't wait to be with you again I'll say you make me shake And I'll say I can't wait to get in bed with you You Dom-dom-du

I know the way he makes you hide Even when the dose is fight or flight And the orbits wait for a perfect name Clean out the webs he left behind And if you want, I can bury him out By the salt of sea, in an empty grave The past has a way of comin' clean If I didn't know any better I could have sworn you said "There will come a day for his reckoning" It's the want of the weight, when it crushed All the centrifugal ways our lives fall in and out of place One day, you're gonna see That everybody who claimed that you were loved have left Because one by one, they would disappear Claimin' all your wolves were symptoms of deceit "Don't let your tongue slit your throat" That's what they always said This one last chance that you've gotta take It's the want of the weight when it crushed All the centrifugal ways our lives fall in and out of place No-oh, it's the want and the weight when it crushed All the centrifugal ways our lives fall in and out of place Underneath your doubt laid a serpent's egg Hissing his way out You were told (you were told) Severed tongues (severed tongues) Can't fall onto their swords, because You're the only voice that calls It's the want and the weight when it crushed All the centrifugal ways our lives fall in and out of place Oh-oh, it's the want and the weight when it crushed All the centrifugal ways our lives fall in and out of place I'll be with you Say you will, say you will, say you will I'll be with you, I'll be with you Say you will, say you will

Tell me it's over 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 My heart is darkclots 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 Glossolalia coats my skin Glycerin and turbulence Stuffed the voice inside of God Mirrors to the animals Glossolalia coats my skin Glycerin and turbulence The sermon goes mourning Pricking its 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 Give me a moment To claim what you've stole The streets will hang high Stretched ribs and let taste We'll cover the smell with silver nitrate Mending the cuts of your prosthetic faith Glossolalia coats my skin Glycerin and turbulence Stuffed the voice inside of God Mirrors to the animals Glossolalia coats my skin Glycerin and turbulence Stuffed the voice inside of God Mirrors to the animals Then so long Dear mnemonic Assume the form You've given me and I'll spill Now hold on 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 Outside 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 Sulking drained the fall of my pale will 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 all about In the end they just gagged me To make him come out Gas me the hind Of your five legged snare Tooth picks the eye But nothing is there Down drags your waltz Cross the altar top From a sleep that Deprivation knew Trespass your form I'm void of dusk I'd ask to look But the mask stays on You'll levitate Teutonic print Cruelty is the wrath Of my instrument In the end they just gagged me To make him come out You locked the cuffs Arsenic erupts Will you drink the shadow Of my red hair You and your false Witness to God You've one in the chamber But your finger got stuck Let slip the sound Of a cry for help But all was lost On the night you walked Palms speak through eyes Serve your memory lost I contaminate with insignias In the end they just gagged me To make him come out Glossolalia coats my skin Glycerin and turbulence Stuffed the voice inside of God Mirrors to the animals Wait till I get my hands on you I won't forgive a face that lift me Just you wait Till I get my hands on you I can't You won't remember (...) Unwrap my corpse And let it thaw In the eye of the needle I can't get out They'll check my wrist I'll fake a pulse I'm not the human You thought I was If you pet the night Sixth pentacle dice If you role the seven St. Michael dies They'll be no ransom Don't shut my mouth I scald the answer You're afraid of

Save me from myself I hope you found a way (Hope you found a way) Hope you found a way to make it all better Maybe tonight What's it gonna take for you to heal? Hold on Pincushion doubt, let the fields burn away If the walls you build come tumbling, tumbling down And the love you fail to comfort comes back round At last, I've found my moment to fall apart I can take a little loss But you've held it inside you For too long I'll never let you go Let's make your incision And brave the lightning If the walls they build come tumbling, tumbling down And the love you fail to comfort comes back 'round At last, I've found my moment to fall apart To fall apart (I'm falling apart) Stuck inside the loop Was he the only window? (Falling apart) Tell me when you left Did he follow outside? (I'm falling apart) Could he buy the world Just to sleep them from your truth Take your incision, make it believe The stapling of five hundred tremblin' lips Burn it all down, down to the heel Level it all 'til it's gone If the walls they build come tumbling, tumbling down And the love you fail to comfort comes back 'round At last, I've found my moment to fall apart If the walls you build come tumbling, tumbling down And the love surrenders to us all At last, I'll find my moment to fall apart To fall apart

Enfermo llegué Y para componerme Ando de vago No me des tu obediencia Porque te enseño mi cuerpo de lodo De donde la piel estuvo débil Con un hambre que no me deje cantar En mi vida El oscuro me mantiene Cuando yo te vi en la lluvia, me prometistéis tu sangre Yo no me quedo en mi vida El oscuro me mantiene Cuando yo te vi en la lluvia, me prometistéis tu sangre Yo no me quedo Ya que caíste de este mundo Cargo un navaja, Dios mío para ti ¿Cuántas veces me mordiste y cuántas veces yo me fui? Ya no estoy enamorado Con tus mentiras al infierno me duermo Porque el infierno es la única verdad En mi vida El oscuro me mantiene Cuando yo te vi en la lluvia, me prometistéis tu sangre Yo no me quedo En mi vida El oscuro me mantiene Cuando yo te vi en la lluvia, me prometistéis tu sangre Yo no me quedo Estrella de la mañana Samael, te persigo a ti Y si me quemo sin alas Además, me muero por ti Estrella de la mañana Samael, te persigo a ti Y si me quemo sin alas Además, me muero por ti Estrella de la mañana Samael, te persigo a ti Y si me quemo sin alas Además, me muero por ti Estrella de la mañana Samael, te persigo a ti Y si me quemo sin alas Además, me muero por ti Estrella de la mañana Samael, te persigo a ti Y si me quemo sin alas Además, me muero por ti Estrella de la mañana Samael, te persigo a ti Y si me quemo sin alas Además, me muero por ti