I think I’ve become like one of the others
I think I’ve become like one of the others
I think I’ve become like one of the others

There was a frail syrup dripping off
His lap danced lapel, punctuated by her
Decrepit prowl she washed down the hatching
Gizzard soft as a mane of needles
His orifice icicles hemorrhaged
By combing her torso to a pile
Perspired the trophy shelves made room for his collapse
She was a mink handjob in sarcophagus heels

Bring me to my knees
Read the sharpened lines
All my arms
Bled me blind

Faucet leaks in shadows
Spilling from morgue lancet
Caressed your fontanelle

I've sworn to kill
Every last one
Every last one

Panic in the shakes of the wounded
Panic in the worms
Onto the floor
And out of your mouth
Out of your eyelids

No there’s no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there’s no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches

All your dreams
splintered off
Leech by leech
On this catafalque

Anyone will tell you
Yes anyone
Chance had me setting a trip wire alarm

Your mother flirted with disease
When she skinned that costume by it’s navel strings

Panic in the shakes of the wounded
Panic in the worms
Onto the floor
And out of your mouth
Out of your eyelids

No there’s no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there’s no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there’s no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there’s no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches

Shockless shackles free you
Fools taste tongues
I better leave you again,
I won't be owned
Not this time

Shock lest shackles free you
Volt face cons
abandon you again
I won’t feel not this time

Brick by brick
the night eclipsed
Pricked by cuticle thorns
Dried the sleep
on nursery slits
Into this life I’m born

Heaven's just a scab away
I'd like to see you after just one taste

Sink your teeth into the flesh of midnight
Night forever more
let them see it has begun
The others I’ve become

If you should see the dice
Charmed with it’s snaked choked eyes
You’ll wear the widows weeds
Because they’re just your size

Behind the snail secretion
Leaves a dry heave that absorbs
a limbless procreation
let the infant crawled deformed

A bag replace the breath
of these suffocating sheets
and now when the craving calls
I'll scratch my itchy teeth

And soon
Come on
if you don't know...
Come on
if you dont know

Sink your teeth into
the flesh of midnight
Night forever more
Sink your teeth into
the flesh of midnight
Night forever more

She fell for the whispers
Sister flooded deaf tears
that night tore a river
in her baron womb mirror

And his multiple sons
with their mandible tongues
set crucified fires to petrified homes
let it burn

And the owls they were watching
and the owls did't care
then the owls came a knocking
placenta in their stares

They will feed on all the carnage
leftover from the flood
and in the corner of their eyes
fled sister L'Via

Now the pieces went floating
reflecting all at dusk
conceived from the stabbing
was Vismund Cygnus

25 wives in the lake tonight
raw bark in the water of the marble shrine
25 snakes pour out your eyes
yeah the icepicks comming on the marble shrine
25 snakes are drowning

You cant bend your crooked arms
or fold your punctured proof
the air is growing cold
and there's nothing you can do

Soon there'll be no gauze
inside the confessional
only rows of crows
defrocking every breath

And one day you'll remember
behind the melting cones
I said one day you'll remember
behind the melting cones
you've already had a family
in the burial of your home

Not forevermore

And I peel back all of my skin
peel it back let it all run


Brick by brick
the night eclipsed
Pricked by cuticle thorns
Dried the sleep
on nursery slits
Into this life I’m born

Heaven's just a scab away
I'd like to see you after just one taste

Sink your teeth into the flesh of midnight
Night forever more
let them see it has begun
The others I’ve become

No there’s no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there’s no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there’s no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches
No there’s no light
In the darkest of your furthest reaches

No there's no light
No there's no time
You Ain't Got Nothing
Your life was just a lie



Lyrics submitted by RyanMurphy

Track duration: 32:32


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    General Comment:Cassandra Gemmini is a psychic. Cygnus went to a psychic you know, to find the where about of his mother. Then he finds out........
    Flag das9582on April 23, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:OH MY GOD GUYS! Listen to PANINS pt. 1&2 at the same time, the sync is INCREDIBLE!
    Flag halflife213on December 14, 2011   Link
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    My Interpretation:In My Opinion, this is the point in the album where you/Cygnus realize Cygnus never lived, he was in purgatory the whole time, his subconscious knowledge of his mother being sleazy made his spirit grow to be a promiscuous person.
    The person who finally tells him is his spiritual guide: "Cassandra Gemini"
    Frances was raped and abandoned by her sister, conceived from the rape were twins: Cygnus and Cassandra, when she aborted the children Cygnus survived, but was severely deformed, this deformed child was abandoned in a gutter, it died silently while the owls fed on it's corpse, they didn't care, it was food...
    "I think I've become one of the others..."
    Cygnus is starting to realize that he never lived, and just like his mother, his aunt, the widow, his grandmother and his grandmother before him, he was killed.
    Cygnus and Cassandra come together and begin their journey to the afterlife, which is described in a very sexual manner.
    Cassandra saying "No there's no time" makes me think there was a time limit to finish.
    They hit the end of their journey which is symbolized in a climax and plays same thing heard at the beginning as a question as to what really happened at the end, was it him going back, or was it foreshadowing, or was he waking from a dream?
    The 25 wives are L'via and her 'sisters' being killed to be silenced, the confessional was L'Via telling the other nuns what happened.
    Flag halflife213on December 14, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:i love TMV, this album should be made into a musical rock opera.
    Flag reality02on December 29, 2010   Link
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    My Interpretation:I don't remember the names, but a few of you have incredible interpretations. One that started with an M, and had a few numbers. "Marcus 031" or something like that. That one's my favorite. The fact that it does sound like Mexican folklore makes me think you're onto something. ("Frances was a good nun, until the devil raped her. Then her son fled into the woods.")

    One idea is that she IS a nun, but she wasn't a good one. She didn't get raped, she was a prostitute. As well were most of the nuns, or at least they knew she was a prostitute. Then the Owls could be her fellow nuns (or prostitutes).
    Then the owls would be watching, but not really care as she gave birth. Then they asked her if she needed help with an abortion, the placenta in their stares. Now, if you will excuse me; schoolwork.
    Flag Vixintrexon May 06, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I always thought Cassandra Geminni was Cygnus' second personality. Because of the drugs and whatnot. I think it makes sense. Because he thinks he killed Miranda and L' Via(I think).
    Flag DanStranger51on March 22, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I always thought Cassandra Geminni was Cygnus' second personality. Because of the drugs and whatnot. I think it makes sense. Because he thinks he killed Miranda and L' Via(I think).
    Flag DanStranger51on March 22, 2010   Link
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    My Opinion:Not certain, but I've always seen similarities between this song and Cassandra from Greek mythology. Check out her story and then compare with the lyrics. It definately makes a lot of sense to me.
    Flag CassandraGemini16on October 06, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:ok i am honestley not trying to be rude but from what ive read it seems that everyone on here are hardcore mars volta fans yet do not even come close to fathoming the depth of there lyrics. my appreciation for music surpasses the the instrumental aspect and i especially love it for the lyrics which is why this band is so intriguing. one of the songs that really got me though is cassandra gemini. in order to even began to comprehend this song you need to honeslty sit and read the lyrics while you listen to the song only then can you even start to try to analyze what they are trying to say. so here is my interpretation of the song.hes telling of how he feels that hes become sucked into the other world just like so many other people. its clear that he feels trapped and surpressed by whatever decission hes made its irrevocable something that he could take only once. hes telling you that what bounds you but doesnt hurt is what frees you into the darkest dark. and that only someone foolish would listen to something as dark as what he was told. in a line he says "heavens a scab away id like to see you after just one taste" hes describing to you that he now relaizes there might be a heaven and tells you hed like to see how someone else reacts to what he was given by something so nefarious. and to answer the persons question that asked what does he mean by the sons hes talking about the devil. the devil has prophetes of his won and in other words his sons which he uses on this earth to attract the weak and in return give them there one hearts desire.
    Flag sarenon July 02, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME!
    Flag RadioNorrison March 28, 2009   Link

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