The Mars Volta – Cicatriz Esp (Guitar)
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Interviewer: What is your attraction to pedals and manipulating the sound of a guitar?
Omar Rodriguez: It stems from my lack of sophistication on the instrument. It was a way to hide that. And it
also comes from my own rejection of the instrument, because I didn't choose the guitar. I wanted to be a piano
player, but I couldn’t get my ideas out fast enough on a piano. But when I grabbed the guitar, the ideas came
out, so that was the vehicle. It was the immediate thing that helped me get to the point I was trying to make
as quickly as possible. So I felt like I got stuck with it, and then it just turned into a thing where I was
really moved by all the possibilities of the instrument once I stopped thinking about it in traditional
terms. Not to mention the fact that, I mean, how old is the guitar? And there are only 12 notes you can play
on it! When you think of it that way, it’s like, in terms of the guitar as a device, what else does technology
offer? So you go into the gear, the pedals, the plug-ins and anything else that has been invented.
[Verse 1]
Em Do you recall it's name Em As it suggested beck and call Am This face and heel Am Will drag your halo through the mud Em Ash of Pompeii Em Erupting in a statues dust Am Shrouded in veils Am Because these handcuffs hurt to much
[Bridge]
C D Em Still scalpeing these ticketless applause C D Em And when they drag the lake there is nothing left at all
[Verse 2]
Em sutured contusion Am beyond the anthills of the dawning of this plague Em said I've lost my way Em even if this cul de sac would pay
[Bridge]
C D Em to reach inside a vault whatever be the cost C sterling clear D Ebm Em Fm G blackend ice C D when they drag the lake there's nothing left at all
[Chorus]
C D Em I've de--fected [x4]
[Verse 2]
Em sutured contusion Am beyond the anthills of the dawning of this plague Em said I've lost my way Em even if this cul de sac would pay
[Bridge]
C D Em to reach inside a vault whatever be the cost C sterling clear D Ebm Em Fm G blackend ice C D Em when they drag the lake there's nothing left at all
[Chorus]
C D Em I've de--fected [x4]
[Verse 2]
Am beyond the anthills of the dawning of this plague Em said I've lost my way Em even if this cul de sac did pay Am beyond the anthills of, beyond the anthills oooof Em said I've lost my way yeeaah Am even if you, even if you, even if you
[Bridge]
Am reach inside a vault whatever be the cost C sterling clear D Ebm Em Fm G blackend ice C D Em when they drag the lake there's nothing left at all
[Chorus]
C D Em I've de--fected [x4]