Aegis Lyrics - Noctourniquet - Mars Volta

The days are catching up to me 

My unconscious fear unbound 

Is it time to tailor fit the notion 

That come Sunday I'm in the ground? 

The obelisk fumes have occupied 

Emphatically austere 

A smelter pile made by the debt collector 

Where the children should be seen, not heard 

Even if there is no way back home 

I'm not running away 

I'm not running away 

I'm not running away 

I'm not running away 

Can you hear him saber rattling 

With bones I've left behind? 

Obloquy is the bulwark of his implants 

Am I your son or just a clone? 

Dasehra, you were sworn to be 

A window to my night 

My subterfuge, just branches to the mandrake 

Where the children should be seen, not heard 

Even if there is no way back home 

I'm not running away 

I'm not running away 

I'm not running away 

I'm not running away 

Under the aegis of cognition 

I am dead, I will escape 

Engrammic marks of ligature 

I am dead, I will escape 

Under the aegis of cognition 

I am dead, I will escape 

Engrammic marks of ligature 

Am I dead, will I escape? 

I'm not running away 

I'm not running away 

I'm not running away 

I'm not running away