All songs written by

Omar A Rodriguez-
Lopez except * by
Rodriguez-
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Inspired by the life and times of Julio Venegas.
sound and light- anonymous
On this record the Mars Volta is:
Omar A Rodriguez-Lopez,
Cedric Bixler Zavala,
Jon Theodore, Jeremy Michael Ward,
Flea, Ikey Isaiah Owens
All songs written by
Omar A Rodriguez-Lopez
except * by
Rodriguez-Lopez/Bixler Zavala
empieso en la sala de tiburones, un pais
escrito con el noche. from the prickpatch of
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deaf night of crossed eyes...donde me perdi.
my first attempt
will cripple at the door of atrophy, estos son
las viajes antes que me fuera...
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tira me a las araas!
rompeme el hocico!
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vete ala chingada
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All Songs Published by Dystopia(SESAC) & Lopsided(SESAC)
Additional Musicians:
Percussion: Lenny Castro
Stand up Bass on Televators: Justin Meldel Johnson
Additional Guitar and A100 treatment on Cicatriz: John Frusciante
Flea and John Frusciante appear courtesy of Warner Brothers Records.
A&R: Gary Gersh
Management: SAM
Cover design for MV by STand PC
Photography RT Illustrations DA graphics PC art direction ST
will you take my dying for granted,
now that im awake. they keep calling
through the crawling
underneath my skin
my chalk outline will stalk these grounds.....
just as they have stalked me
- cerpin taxt
ill reign blood on this
city... bathe you in
unsuspected floods....atop
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of used skin....
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fractures, camped on the
hands of the poor. -
moatilliatta
if you paddle away, you know well
find and put you back in this vesicle
colony of mute vernacular. no
dramatic means of fencing against
this solitary sickness. as it
precipitates flare gun shots. coughing
into the armpit of a mecharest home-
because when it rains, you know it
pours- the mongrel tarants
ive lost my way
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For information on how to order lyrics
and the full story of de-loused
in the comatorium please visit
www.goldstandardlabs.com
Produced by Rick Rubinwith Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Mixed by Rich Costey
Recorded by Dave Schiffman
Additional Recording by Andrew Scheps
Assistant Engineers Phillip Broussard& Darren Mora
Album Production Coordination by Lindsay Chase
Recorded at the Mansionin Laurel Canyon aka
Damie Mathematique of Philosophical Sound Research
- Los Angeles, California
Mixed at Cello Studios- Los Angeles, California
Mastered by Vlado Mellerat Sony Mastering Studios
- New York City, New York
Assisted by Steve Kadison
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