The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta
[Verse 1]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
Where the children should be seen, not heard
Even if there is no way back home
[Chorus]
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
Where the children should be seen, not heard
Even if there is no way back home
[Chorus]
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
[Bridge]
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?
[Chorus]
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
I'm not running away
(Am I running away?)
I'm not running away
(Am I running away?)
I'm not running away
(Am I running away?)
I'm not running away
(I am running away)
Aegis was written by Cedric Bixler-Zavala & Omar Rodríguez-López.
Aegis was produced by Omar Rodríguez-López.
The Mars Volta released Aegis on Mon Mar 26 2012.
Cedric Bixler-Zavala spoke about the song in the official ‘Track by Track’ video uploaded to YouTube on April 27, 2012:
I had heard Omar [Rodríguez-López] play that on acoustic a bunch right when we thought we were done with the record. I kept telling him ‘Let’s do that song’, and then a bunch of o...