I went to Highschool with them. They were in my art class as seniors and I was a freshman. First time I heard them at battle of the bands on our football field. I knew they would be world famous from 1 minute in!

2020 and I'm still smitten with this sound and this song.

I was lying on a stretcher with a blood vessel in my neck severed, I had already lost about a litter of blood or so and the doctors didn't know if they were going to be able to stitch it or close it somehow, so I started singing this song to myself. It was an experience that I will never forget and the fact that The Mars Volta came to me at that moment where I didn't know if I was gonna live or die is one thing that truly makes me appreciate how this band has impacted my life. Omar, Cedric and everyone involved, you are true artists, whatever the hell that means.

Cedric's voice is so amazing. His range, the power, the raw emotion. It's perfect for the story.

It's been 11 years, and this song randomly popped into my head.

For those that don't know, the trumpet in this song is performed by Flea from the RHCP.

The Mars Volta, pure classic! Music like this comes only once in a lifetime. The best way I can describe them; it is like finding wheat in a sea of chaff.

Man this brings back nostalgia of high school in 2005 . Love Mars volta

2021... I remember listening to this song as a sad lonely goth kid. Now I'm a sad lonely average adult and this song still is absolutely memorizing. 🖤🔥🖤

To the guys that wrote this and the man that sings this. THANK YOU. A freakin masterpiece. As a musician I would die happy having created something like this.

I was volunteering for an environmental agency going back 8 - 9 years now and some hippy dude played this in our van heading to a job. Such an eye opener to this band.

On of the most underrated bands in the world.

this song is absolutely beautiful

I remember hearing this for the first time at the age of 15 and couldn't get it out of my head. Such a great song and brings back so many memories of being a teenager.

This is probably one of the most glorious slow rock songs of all time

Never heard of this band until I Shazamed it while Grocery shopping at a Winn Dixie in New Orleans.

I remember seeing this music video on MTV when they were actually music television. I was a kid but the singer's amazing voice and the trippy video always stuck with me. Now i understand it more and wow im glad this song stayed in my head for all these years. MTV, go back to playing this great music damn it!

Frances The Mute & De-Loused In The Comatorium are masterpieces.

Man, the 2000's was the last decade in which rock ruled supreme.

Recuerdo haber visto este video en MTV y despues nunca mas volvi a escuchar esta cancion. Finalmente lo encontre y solo recordaba la melodia

If Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd had a drug fueled half Mexican baby and left it in el paso, that is this!

One of the most underrated bands of all time.. Their sound is so unique and ls something out of this world..

I remember watching MTV before school and I heard this song open and I stopped dead in my track to listen to the whole song and I have been a fan of The Mars Volta since then.

A drunk guy in Seattle suggested this band to me .. Thank you drunk guy :)

Amazing, breathtaking. This band deserves heaven, they are so underrated.

there's something very special about this song

this gives me chills I havent listen to this in sooo long...

I just discovered this band and now I'm addicted to this masterpiece

The band, the voice, the solo, the video… 👏👏👏👏👏👏 …just in awe of this piece ❤️

Just rediscovered this and forgot how incredible this song was! What a vibe, what a song, what a voice. Unreal. Super underrated band. This whole record is killer.

The buddy who showed me this song and band died of suicide a few months ago, love you Tanner. Rest easy buddy ❤️. Sometimes I guess I just miss my friend (s) ...

this song is a masterpiece ..

This definitely deserves an HD remaster

Lol, you silly guys! My son got me into this band years ago and im 62 and still love them! Haha!

For your Karaoke: He's got fasting black lungs Made of clove-splintered shards They're the kind that will talk Through a wheezing of coughs And I hear him every night In every pore And every time he just makes me warm Freeze without an answer Free from all the shame Must I hide 'Cause I'll never, never sleep alone Look at how they flock to him From an isle of open sores He knows that the taste is such Is such to die for And I hear him every night On every street The scales that do slither Deliver me from... Freeze without an answer Free from all the shame Then I'll hide 'Cause I'll never, never sleep alone Oh Lord Said I'm, said I'm, said I'm, Said I'm bloodshot for sure Pale runs the ghost Swollen on the shore Every night In every pore The scales that do slither Deliver me from... Freeze without an answer Free from all the shame Then I'll hide 'Cause I'll never, never sleep alone Freeze without an answer Free from all the shame Let me die 'Cause I'll never, never sleep alone Like if you use it!

They straight balled on all of us with this. Masterpiece.

I remember being a kid and I fell asleep with my TV on...and I woke up to the end of this video ..scared the crap out of me

I swear... No matter when n where i hear this it makes my entire shiver... The emotions the struggle the sadness the anger the fire..m i feel it all... Just makes me break down internally allowing me to appreciate the light n beauty

Man ...the lyrical content is from out of this world .

I’m so happy i got the chance to see them live. It’s an spiritual experience. Almost 10 years

14 años me demore en poder llegar por casualidad a este tema que solo lo pude escuchar una vez ... Y me encantó . Pero no recordé nada del nombre de la banda... Fue un milagro aunque tardo

Take me back to this time 😭😭

Will always love this song. Nobody sounds anything like them

I just woke up at 5 in the morning with this song in my head after not hearing it for like 7 years. I'm gonna have to cover this now..

Remember this from early college days. Brilliant, just brilliant. Reading their history on Wikipedia is like reading some sort of crazed adventure novel. What a time these people had.

This song is actually perfect. Wow!

I first heard this song when I was about 4. I only recently remembered who they were and this song again.

Totally forgot how much I absolutely adore this song!

I love their "commercially-conscious" and radio-friendly composition to this song! It lets me breathe in between listening to their more ferocious, break-neck tempo tunes they're well-known for! LOL

That was the first song I've heard by these guys. Weeping... I've been missing out, I believe. Gottat listed to more to be sure. So far, very nice!

The song that was short and mainstream enough to make it into Billboard, made me download it, made me search the album, which turns out to be the greatest human art in history

Discovered the band way too late, absolutely love them. I’m a younger audience, in middle school. Can’t get them out of my head, downloaded the albums onto my phone.

I remember the day I heard this song. It was watching MTV in the morning before school and it blew me away

This song is genius. Period.

When I listen to - and especially when I saw them perform - I felt like I'm hearing swirling bits of almost every band I love mixed together - I hear Led Zeppelin, Santana, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, and many more, their influences are all over the place and it's awesome

Amazing song.

Saw them open for System of a Down over 20 years ago. Just beautiful.

remember the first time I heard these guys. will forever be one of my favorite bands. reminds me of getting high in high school with my lady and friends and just enjoying each others company. nothing will ever be like that again.

in tears right now listening to this and emembering the good ol mtv days

I’ve been looking for this song/video for years!!!

I definitely remember sleeping on this band but liking this song as a guilty pleasure since I was more of harder rock listener at that time. I think I also just had something against higher register singers because of all the "whiny sounding" postpop bands that i also didnt vibe with. Well now that I've grown up a little more and I don't have anything against great music or musicians that I discriminated against in my former ignorance. So when I got the chance to see them live at Rockville in Daytona this past April I was immediately impressed and thankful that they didn't slip through my fingers forever. I was there for tool and the Deftones and anything else was a bonus but the Mars Volta was an experience that I'll never forget. Oh yeah, Coheed and Cambria was great too and I had similar feelings when I was younger and a similar change of heart.

You guys have a distinct vision on how to make music. Be wise and don't lose it.

this song so hit the spot

One of the strangest music videos of all time. And one of the best songs of all time as well. :)

Hoy después de 14 años la he vuelto a escuchar en vivo y sigo sintiendo la misma emoción... 🥺

Top 50 songs all time.

I sang this to my baby when she was fussy. I got to meet them backstage at a Perfect Circle concert 2006 (ish).

The Mars Volta cannot break up. They are the best band in the last 30 years and true artists. Francis the Mute and especially DELOUSED IN THE COMATORIUM translates perfectly into classical symphony very easily if you had an orchestra. The surrealistic lyrics, it is perfect music and everything that rock music should be. Like Pink Floyd but evolved and more sophisticated. Its sad they dont get the credit for everything they have done.

Man this brings me back to being a bad teenager doing drugs and skipping school.

Dear diary, Dec, 2021, I am 33 years into life, and this song is just as mesmerizing as it was back around 03' or 04' when I first herd it.

This music videos told real stories...truly a lost art

vivid memories of when they first got big air play with at the drive in. one armed scissor can still take me back and feel exactly like I did then (I'm old guys) and we also used it to pump ourselves up to go on convoys in Iraq 04 to 05. good stuff

this song never gets old ♥

Guys, you're flabbergasted. You move the music forward, not repeat what you've already done. Love you.

Another great song by The Mars Volta! They made some great music to bad they are no longer together

One of my favorite voices!

Holy shit, I avoided this band like the plague because I got them confused with some boring death metal. This is amazing.

This band/song was my absolute favorite in my late teens. I got through so much listening to TMV. It's hard to believe that was 13 years ago

Alguien escuchando en 2024?🖤

Omar and Cedric, they're back!

Remembered this song a few days ago. Not only did I love it, but my 90 (at the time) year old mother heard this in the car and she liked it too. This is the first time I saw the video, and yes, almost literally a trip. Wouldn't recommend it for anyone with a seizure disorder triggered by flashing lights.

I really miss these guys. Traveled different countries to see them as much as I could. Have some really great memories. I am grateful for that ❤✌

Every so often a song comes along that haunts your soul forever. This is one of those songs.

2021 still playing this and enjoying drowning in this 💜

Two years ago I had a premonition about someone's death in my dream. And this song was playing in the background of my dream. That kid died not even 6 months later. I told him about the dream too.

Saw these guys perform in San Diego with System of a Down. Best show I’ve ever been to.

Yeah when I comes up I freak out. I'm from so cal but got to see the Mars Volta in Cleveland Ohio. What a trip. It was like the dead met slayer. In reverse.

I just now noticed how much the lead singer in Mars Volta sounds like the lead singer from Led Zeppelin.

heres my expirience tripped out on TMV, in the deloused intro son et lumiere i started tapping with the rhythm and tapped through the whole intro, song changed to inertiatic esp and i lost the rhythm, couldnt catch it for life and cedric started singing now im lost.. ive shit my pants and stoped, it was too powerul at that time, couldnt handle it, crazy good band, that was in 2009 and still im listening to them, love them so much, favorite band hands down

I have a vivid memory of sitting in an Irish pub in Hachioji in Tokyo in 2006 and seeing this come up on the television in there. Funny how these things pull memories back. The smell of the beer, the vague warmth of its creeping intoxication, and the pungent garlic and truffle blanketing the otherwise earthy smell of the potatoes on my plate. Some creeping anxiety about things back home in Australia. Thinking how funny it was that a relatively obscure favourite from my then shiny new mp3 player had found its way onto a television screen in suburban Tokyo.

i love the mars volta. cedric is really talented. omar is a perfectionist. come back guys!!!

10 years later, this is still one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

It's hard to listen to this without bursting into to tears!

just saw them live and there concert was so good. this music is amazing.

I remember when this first came out I was a junior in high school and after school I would get high (weed) and go in my room and lock myself inside my head and listen to this song on repeat, this song was my guilty pleasure.... oh the journeys this song use to take my mind on

THIS IS BLUES!! \m/

This album is magic to me. Magic and muse I LOVE YOU..YOU ARE LOVE

What a bop, glad I could find something new

here in 2021 after Mars Volta announces a new Album :) Greetings from Portugal! Paredes de Coura 2008

Kanye brought me and I’m glad he did this band kicks ass !!!!