Televators

For the Televators single released in Australia, see Live EP.

"Televators"
Single by The Mars Volta
from the album De-Loused in the Comatorium
Released	April 6, 2004
Format	CD, vinyl
Genre	Progressive rock
Label	MCA
Producer	Rick Rubin
The Mars Volta singles chronology
"Inertiatic ESP" (2003) "Televators" (2003) "The Widow" (2005)

"Televators" is a single from the album De-Loused in the Comatorium by the band The Mars Volta. The cryptic lyrics represent the moment at which the character "Cerpin Taxt" (based on a real life friend of the band, Julio Venegas) decides to take his own life. It is very much a ballad, and its overall quiet nature stands in stark contrast to the hard rock of the rest of the album (especially that of the immediately following closing track "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt."),

"Riddle me this / three half eaten corneas / who hit the areole" - Cedric Bixler-Zavala, "Televators"

This is mainly because it is one of only three songs on the album that takes place in reality, outside the "Comatorium", Cerpin Taxt's dream world.

Music video

The song's music video takes place in a tropical rainforest and features extensive computer animation, showing various animals interacting in their environments. Keeping with the theme of the song itself, the video culminates in a scene where a tarsier commits suicide by leaping from a tree branch (tarsiers are known to kill themselves while in captivity due to stress). It also parallels to Cerpin Taxt jumping off a bridge to his death. [1]).

Track listing

CD single

1. "Televators" (edit)
2. "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" (Live XFM Session) – 12:19
3. "Televators" (video)

10" single

1. "Televators" (edit)
2. "Eriatarka" (Live at the Electric Ballroom, London) – 7:38