Askepios - The Mars Volta

I’ll be there waiting

With the hook in your neck as the contact you’ve made

Deficient

And your hand will break

If you touch this fence

Please them 'til they’re blind with cleft lens

What have you brought for my appetite?

What have you brought for my appetite?

I’ll never perish

With the albino horns of a thousand young born

Will you drink from the depths of my sea?

And your hand will break

If you touch this fence

Please them till they’re blind with cleft lens

What have you brought for my appetite?

What have you brought for my appetite?

I might not make it back again

The vervain is on the rise

Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe

Got to open wide

Got to open wide

Might of a serpent swallowing tail

Cycle recycled and I’m next to nothing

I said

Help me come alive

Help me come alive

Help me come alive

Help me come alive

Place your ring finger on this debt

Am I living or am I dead?

Do what thou wilt, tell them what I’ve found

The steps of a ladder from a diamondback’s mouth

I said

Help me come alive

Help me come alive

Help me come alive

Help me come alive

Help me come alive

Help me come alive

I ain’t gonna hold my breath

I ain’t gonna hold my breath