About this song
- After the short opener “Son et Lumière”, this is the first full-length song on De-Loused In The Comatorium, one of the most powerful and adventurous rock albums of its era. There is no break or transition between “Son et Lumière” and “Inertiatic ESP”, and the two songs have often been performed live as a single item. Based on a short story written by vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala and sound manipulation artist Jeremy Ward, the album tells the story of a man named Cerpin Taxt, lying in a comatose state and hallucinating from an overdose of morphine and rat poison. The lyrics are opaque and filled with symbolism and drug-induced verbosity. Cedric has admitted that some of his lyrics simply come out in the moment; emotions he tried to capture in words in the recordings. . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. — lastfm
