Televators

Single infobox
Name = Televators


Artist = The Mars Volta
from Album = De-Loused in the Comatorium
Released = April 6, 2004
Format = CD, Vinyl
Recorded =
Genre = Progressive rock
Length =
Label = MCA
Producer = Rick Rubin
Last single = "Inertiatic ESP" (2003)
This single = "Televators" (2003)
Next single = "The Widow" (2005)

"Televators" is a single from the album "De-Loused in the Comatorium" by the band The Mars Volta. The cryptic lyrics most likely 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.")

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. [http://web.archive.org/web/20041015083950/http://www.szgdocent.org/pp/p-tarsir.htm] ).

Track listing

# "Televators" (Edit)
# "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt" [Live XFM Session]
# "Televators" (Video)