The Malkin Jewel

The Malkin Jewel - The Mars Volta

I must have crawled through your

Bedroom door in a fit of jealous breathPerched

Upon the Bacchus foot of your

Unsuspecting bed From the blossom rags in my jackal

Croon to the stems of this cinquefoil

I give to you the shrapnel with which to sprinkle

In her soil because

All the traps in the cellar go clickety clack

Cause you know I always set them for you

Yeah

All the rats in the cellar form a vermin of steps

You know they're going to take me to you

Yeah

You wash it down with harlot soap

Well is this what you want

I'll paint your steps with the lilac stains of

Smelter revenant

My cutlery is rattling in the dormant wooden drawers

From the palm of my throne

I'm begging you to cut the orchid cord because

And I all traps in the cellar go clickety clack

Cause you know I always set them for you

Yeah

All the rats in the cellar form a vermin of steps

You know they're going to take me to you

Yeah

I know a girl that was woven in spindle and thread

Trapped in a bivouac of taffeta scaffolding wed

She tosses and turns and wakes all the children in nest

Yawning with hunger they take turns of nourishment

And she says aah

Somebody somebody help me

Aah

Is there anybody that can set me free

Aah

From the mountains of avarice this I beg to you

My ether turns flesh to gravel

All the traps in the cellar go clickety clack

Cause you know I always set them for you

Yeah for you

All the rats in the cellar form a vermin of steps

You know they're going to take me to you

Yeah to you

All the traps in the cellar go clickety clack

Cause you know I always set them for you

Yeah for you

All the rats in the cellar form a vermin of steps

You know they're going to