"Askepios" lyrics - THE MARS VOLTA

I'll be there waiting
With the hook in your neck as the contact you've made
Deficient

[Refrain 1]
And your hand will break
If you touch this fence
Please them 'til they're blind with cleft lens

[Interlude:]
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?

[Refrain 1]
And your hand will break
If you touch this fence
Please them till they're blind with cleft lens

[Interlude:]
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

[Refrain 2]
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

[Refrain 2]
Help me come alive
Help me come alive
Help me come alive
Help me come alive
Help me come alive
Help me come alive

[Outro:]
I ain't gonna hold my breath
I ain't gonna hold my breath