Band: The Mars Volta
Song: Inertiatic ESP

Intro: Piano
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Guitar:
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Chorus: "Now im lost..."
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Piano
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Verse:
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Chorus
Verse
Chorus
Solo (improvise in the last notes)

Bridge:
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Chorus
Carousel piano bridge (same notes as the chorus)

END

Lyrics:

Clipside of the pinkeye flight 
I'm not the percent you think survives 
I need sanctuary in the pages of this book 
Gestating with all the other rats 
Nurse said that my skin will need a graft 
I am of pockmarked shapes 
The vermin you need to loathe  
  
Now I'm lost

last night I heard lepors
flinch like birth defects
it's musk was fecal in origin
as the words dribbled off of its chin

it said I'm lost 
I'm lost 
now I'm lost 

dolls wreck the minced meat of pupils 
cast in oblong arms length 
the hooks have been picking their scabs 
where wolves hide in the company of men 

it said 
I'm lost 
I'm lost 
now I'm lost 

are you peaking in the red 
perforated at the neck 
what of this mongrel architect 
a broken arm of sewers set 
past present and future tense 
clipside of the pinkeye fountain 

now I'm lost 

it's been said 
long time ago 
you'll be the first and last to know 
you'll never know