All songs written byOmar A Rodriguez-Lopez except * byRodriguez-Lopez/Bixler-Zavala

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

poppyfields exhumed under the tremble

of lock and key. On this

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...”

-cerpin taxt

“tira me a las arañas! rompeme el hocico!

dime...dime...

vete ala chingada” - anonymous

“stumbled upon a slipstream of stubble and rash urine stains, where the warming of m

arrowdrew

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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 bySTand PCPhotography RT IllustrationsDA graphics PC art direction ST

“ will you take my dying for granted, now that i’m 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

“ i’ll reign blood on thiscity... bathe you inunsuspected floods....atoppyramids vestedtriplicates, amongst bailsof used skin....

..this rash severing verminfractures, camped on thehands of the poor.” -moatilliatta

“if you paddle away, you know we’ll

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

“i’ve lost my way”- tecla illuminosa

whenw

illyo

u come convulsing to my basement?”- dr. wolfr

amta

rant

For information on how to order lyricsand the full story of de-lousedin the comatorium please visit

www.goldstandardlabs.com

Produced by Rick Rubinwith Omar Rodriguez-LopezMixed by Rich CosteyRecorded by Dave SchiffmanAdditional Recording by Andrew SchepsAssistant Engineers Phillip Broussard& Darren MoraAlbum Production Coordination by Lindsay Chase

Recorded at the Mansion in Laurel Canyon akaDamie 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 YorkAssisted by Steve Kadison

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