Source Tags & Codes is the third full-length album and major-label debut of ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead on Interscope Records. It was released to wide critical acclaim in early 2002 and is generally considered their finest work. The album reached #73 on the UK Album Chart.

Music videos were produced for "Another Morning Stoner" and "Relative Ways", which saw airplay on MTV2.

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How Near, How Far

Looking back in time
Through verses set in nursery rhyme
At oil painted eyes
Of muses left behind
I swear I know not why
Those eyes have always left me dry

She stands with arms stretched out
Towards the mountains & the clouds
Oil painted eyes
Blind yet hypnotized
I swear I know not why
Those eyes have always left me dry

How near, how far, how lost they are

I've rendered every line
Every contour of a muse's eye
Painted in my eye's mind
On canvases of time
I swear I know not why
Those eyes have always left me dry

--song written by ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

The Muse in Her multifarious form demands obedience from her acolytes. If you are one of those who are you can try avoiding your destiny...but in most cases you cannot change it.  You're either an artist addicted to transgressive transformative  inspiration or else you aren't. That's just the way it is. I know what I'm talking about...

I do...?