Imago - The Mars Volta

My anguish told you

A persistent lie

The parasitic psychics that you push by wheel

Were spoken to me everytime

And like a charlatan

You counterfeit the vessels through flesh and time

These pacts we keep in secret

Drinking from a well that was cured by drought

My torment adores you

When my strings are tied

Out of compulsion I must decimate

The sapless embryonic miles

And like a charlatan

You counterfeit the vessels through flesh and time

These pacts we keep in secret

Drinking from a well that was cured by drought

My knives are burrowed voices

Glistened by the handles so they won’t let go

These limbs are out of reaches

Extensions of a spirit that is not controlled

My heart is trapped inside

And I refuse to accept this throne

My night’s unfolding

Reads like a page of test results

This sterile codex

Is missing all my last resolve

And like a charlatan

You counterfeit the vessels through flesh and time

These pacts we keep in secret

Drinking from a well that was cured by drought