At The Drive-In - Governed By Contagions Lyrics
Portrait of a family force fed through tunnel straws
Singing cannibal hymns of the bourgeoisie
There's a narc on every corner
Knock, knock, knock on every door
With a home made remedy to loosen every tongue
How many bites do you think it takes to get to the cyanide tooth?
Brace yourself, my darling
Brace yourself, my love
Smuggled in their faith like an orbit in decay
Drools the cloying adulation of the piss ants
One shot for every snitch leads the needle to the stitch
It's a homemade remedy to loosen every tongue
How many bites do you think it takes to get to the cyanide tooth?
Brace yourself, my love
How many cries will the owners fake to save pathological truths?
Brace yourself, my darling
Brace yourself, my love
That's the way the guillotine claps
She's the one who's governed by contagions
That's the way the guillotine claps
She's the one who's governed by contagions
Life! Is not the answer
Cry! Will you assimilate love in the time of gilded crumbs?
Crawl! Until you weep with blood
Life! Is not the answer
Canaries in the coal mine dropping like flies
How many bites do you think it takes to get to the cyanide tooth?
Brace yourself, my darling
Brace your poleaxed love
That's the way the guillotine claps
She's the one who's governed by contagions
That's the way the guillotine claps
She's the one who's governed by contagions
Too many bodies shriveled up in their tributes
Too many bodies flayed with a grin
Brace yourself, my darling
Brace yourself for a flood
He's the man behind the dresser giving zodiac advice
He says there will come a day to delete everything
Brace yourself, my darling
Brace yourself for a flood
There's a woman eating her newborn under a tractor's frame
She says barren are the fields from the nephilim rain
Brace yourself, my darling
Brace yourself for a flood
That's the way the guillotine claps
He's the one who's governed by contagions
That's the way the guillotine claps
He's the one who's governed by contagions
Governed by contagions
Governed by contagions
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At The Drive-In Governed By Contagions Comments
Love that bridge
You know what they say about waiting 17 years ... “PACEMAKER PACE YOURSELF!!!”
This shit is literally enlightenment.
Very good lyrics
I love the intro. So simple but idk it gets me every time.
i like when they go "that's the way the guillotine clamps"
I love at the drive in, but this sucks
At the drive in is not a thing. Again... Well, hope the Volta will come back
love from Italy LOVssssss!
they'd be better off without cedric.... its sounds like he doen't hear the music because he's too busy yelling nonsense.
OMG I need this record.
QUEDA POCO PARA QUE VENGAN A CHILE CTM!!!!
Um...hello?!! Sideshow "Trigger"!!
https://youtu.be/r3GHL0yVMec
The subtitles look like the lyrics display on those Korean karaoke machines that come with like 10,000 songs which mostly all sound like MIDI files.
Mars Volta is much better 101%
It’s really pretty crazy to hear how dynamic they are. Early mars volta and atdi sound like angst and uncertain mess, but then after all this time they can still specify atdi and it sounds so totally different from mars volta. They say they have no formula, but they do to some extent
This video looks better in 240p lol
These guys are too old to be trying,.....unfortunately it's embarrassing I have been a fan for a long time but this pop bubblegum punk shit sucks
nope i'll just listen to the existing discography
What a relevant song, with the death grip that heroin has on our nation. Fentanyl is murder in drug form.
alright i have to get this off my chest as a card carrying fan as a kid who just missed out on this on this band right after i found out who they were. there was no high speed internet ad i had no earthly idea what cool was but i knew these little fuckers had it, i didn't, AND they KNEW it. it all grew into a lovely relationship with the mars volta which in retrospect made more sense for me in every conceivable way, and we got a couple of decent sparta records out of the whole deal, too. I'm half kidding of course, and is a lovely man, he looks pretty attractive and healthy for an older guy and he really has his head on straight for a musician and i have so much non-sarcastic respect for that... but let's face it when ATDI broke up and it was time to go home with someone, you wanted the guy that mercilessly shit talk his former band mates for no reason, smoke crack behind a cabinet and dedicate a song to The Fall then tell the whole audience if they don't know who The Fall is they are basically Limp Bizkit fans, while some tiny genius prototype of a hipster wit biochemical mescaline analogs in his brain that his own body created and dances like he is definitely having a seizure. ... i know this is long winded- that's my flaw to bare-but this is all to say i don't blame me or anyone else for being so inspired and enriched by the mara volta even if we thought sparta didn't measure up at the time.
all that being said, i remember being floored by jim's voice layered ontop of itself when sparta come out. i don't know what exact records and capacities that keeley provided back up vocals other than he joined in 2005. there is no telling what their relationhip was before that and if jim was even looking for someone who sounded like him vocally. what i DO know is keeled is doing all of that jim-like singing on this new reunion record (that i like) that really should be JIM singing the jim-like parts. don't make a big bad ass sandwich and then throw some fuckin' miracle whip on it. i'm sorry ward's loss on this record, even if it was his choice, was very painfully noticed and even though i cant say i wouldn't do the same them getting a jimposter just rubs me wrong. at least don't make the poor thing SING. have a HEART. this isn't TMV. jim ward is every secret ingredient you didn't know was in your favorite meal.
finally, you know what, at the end of the day J. ward made music , stayed out of drama, kept integrity, aged well and as it's all said and done cedric and omar are the one's who came off like assholes for talking such hateful shit about him in interviews, and they don't look all that great in this situation either truth be told.
had to say my piece on jim.
Wow so glad they did a lil something, this rips
Ruspurgivesthepawsup
;~)
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Well,at least the Triangles and negative message entertains.
his voice hasnt changed whatsoever in 20 years. that my friends, is unbelievable considering he screams.
here kitty kitty..
Outlast 2 in a nutshell
y + white girl brought me here
Lyrics are fuckin mental
sad to be an el pasoen
Makes me miss Mars Volta.
Ryan Smith same here man. I got into ATDI back in 1999 but when they formed The Mars Volta i was blown away and then i was crushed when they broke up. I love everything Cedric and Omar do, wether it's ATDI, The Mars Volta, Antemasque or whatever. I love Cedric on the Anywhere album too. I hope those two never stop making music. I hope one day they resurrect The Mars Volta though.
This is an atheist poem
please somebody know which software was used to create this video?
TODAY IS THE FUCKEN DAY I'VE WAITED FOR! AT THE DRIVE-IN AT EL PASO FUCKEN TEXAS!!!
just the right amount of manic. seeing them here in their hometown to start off the u.s. tour and album release. big fan of jim ward and I know he'll be there. who knows what'll happen. the new album is great. just the right amount of manic. something atdi always delivers.
jock rock
Page & Plant of the new millennium
Fuckin thank you
Huh, leopards and hyenas.
"Brace my poleaxed love" really took me by surprise
Goddamn, these guys are good
Drums, man.
Soooooo bad ass.
Antemasque feat ATDI drummer and bassist
Now how do you suppose an elephant got on top of a high-rise apartment complex? There's no elevator capable of safely sustaining a weight load like that, and elephants aren't good with stairs! Lol. Even still, I can't wait for this album to release. Major props, ATDI!
Seriously man! This is Post-Hardcore at its finest! I love the squealing guitars at the end. Makes up feel how chaotic human nature is. Glad your back At the Drive In.
i just found out about ATDI like three months ago and have been obsessed since! i'm so lucky to have heard them at the same time as their comeback after 16 years. i can't imagine how all of you OG fans did it for so long
Loving this song! So glad these guys are back!
"BARREN ARE THE FIELDS FROM THE NEPHILIM RAIN"
andale wey
andale wey
hijo de tu pinche madre
ni mergas kon esto
esta shingon el desastre
Yeah!
im i fucking dreaming or sleepwalking
Best out of the three new ones yeyyyyy
not trying to see her again just looking to not get robbed.
so what I'm supposed be be "you make a good point duhhhh." You ain't gonna be able to rationalizations ain't going to do you a bit of good.
Sometimes I feel like Cedric's lyrics are too cryptic for their own good. Lines like, "He says 'there will come a day to delete everything'", and "love in the time of gilded crumbs", might be cool to me if I knew what they meant (might), but because I don't, they sound kind of cringey, not least of all because of the vocal delivery. Knowing what those parts mean could potentially change how I perceive them for them better.
Anyone going to Mexico City and want to meet up? https://www.facebook.com/ATDIMXCITY/
Just over a month until the rapture boys
positive squad +
What happened to them?!? This sucks!!!
what a fucking eargasm to know atdi is reformated!!!! thanks a lot , from France!
Nice song. Y'know what would make it better. Jim Ward....
Loving the El Gran Orgo era shouts at 2:49
We have waited YEARS for this. Music today needs this.
Should have just left it alone and ended it with one armed scissors
Not one of their best, but this song rules!! Glad they're back, and can't wait for the album!!
I don't miss Jim Ward.
Someone get me a time machine.
THERE ARE NO NEW SLOW BALLADS NOW BECAUSE NOW BANDS MAKE THERE MONEY FROM TOURING
i dont know man. at the drive in has always been my hands down favorite band. but so far all these new songs dont have the intensiveness that made them great
It's as if they never left.
Piss Ants? It's pissants
How the fuck did i miss this!?
His voice is back!
Has anyone else noticed how similar the riff at the beginning is to the riff in Fugazis song Public Witness Program?
You see, this is where things get complicated and you have to then dig out Minutemen albums to see if Fugazi "borrowed ideas" from them etc etc
Could not agree more man, just realized it by coincidence anyway:-)
very relationship of command era. and I thought that was some of Omars and Cedric's best music together
Does anyone hear Fugazi in the main guitar riff. I think a live performance, possibly Small pox champion live as an excerpt from Instrument. Someone back me up here.
new at the drive in? or same old at the drive in? i think its the latter.
915 stand the fuck up!!!!!
Oh my dear sweet nipple fuck!! I had no idea this even existed. Time to binge the whole album now.
Fucking amazing
nothin special imo
Is there absolutely nothing else interesting going on in rock except for whatever omar rodriguez lopez is involved in nowadays?
QOTSA may release a new album this year... besides that I can't think of any other widely known band with new music. The only option now is to search and support underground bands.
Thanks God!!!!!!!!! I prayed so much for this!!!!!
That's the way the guillotine claps!!! Holy fuck this song is AMAZING
sounds a lot like soad
this is garbage
CHUCO TOWN HEROES
I just found about this song fucking love atdi!!!
FUCK YES, CEDRIC! <3
yes come back son
It sounds like Antemasque, and there is nothing bad about that. I loved that Antemasque album.
Yall should give Anywhere a listen, Cedric did drums on all three releases.
Who can dislike this?
That is a riff!
Volvieron
I am young again.
Holy shit this is awesome!
At The Drive-In Da House Again Mutherfuckerrrss ! hahahahahhaha Really I feel emocionate with this ! Real Hardcore Sound ! I feel proud of these guys :)