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{{Infobox Single |
| Name = Goliath
| Artist = [[The Mars Volta]]
| from Album = [[The Bedlam in Goliath]]
| Released = April 7, 2008
| Format = [[Universal Serial Bus|USB]] [[Single (music)|single]]
| Recorded = 2007
| Genre = [[Progressive rock]], [[Math rock]]
| Length = 7:15
| Label = [[Universal Records]]
| Producer = [[Omar Rodríguez-López]]
| Last single = "[[Wax Simulacra]]"<br />([[2007]])
| This single = "'''Goliath'''"<br />([[2008]])
| Next single = "[[Cotopaxi (song)|Cotopaxi]]" <br />([[2009]])
}}

The song "'''Goliath'''" is from [[The Mars Volta]]'s fourth studio album ''[[The Bedlam in Goliath]]''. It was originally released as "Rapid Fire Tollbooth" on guitarist [[Omar Rodríguez-López]]'s 2007 solo album ''[[Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo]]'', but was incorporated into the Mars Volta's live set while touring in support of their album ''[[Amputechture]]''. It was then rewritten and rerecorded for [[The Bedlam in Goliath]]. "Goliath" contains a segment that originally appeared as an improvised jam during performances of "Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)."

A video for the song features the band playing toy instruments in the middle of a road at night, with Cedric dressed as The Elephant Man from [[David Lynch]]'s [[The Elephant Man (film)|film of the same name]].

The "Never heard a man speak like this man before" refrain is taken from a [[Peoples Temple]] hymn, "Never Heard a Man". The group is best known for the events of November 18, 1978 in [[Guyana]], in which 918 people died at the [[Peoples Temple Agricultural Project]] (informally, and now commonly, called "[[Jonestown]]"), a nearby airstrip at [[Port Kaituma]], and [[Georgetown, Guyana|Georgetown]].<ref>[http://www.empsfm.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26&ccID=127&xPopConfBioID=955&year=2008 empsfm.org - EDUCATION - Pop Conference<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

It was to be the first single of the album but the band decided against it and used "[[Wax Simulacra]]" instead. It was released as the second single exclusively on [[USB]].

The EL-P remix is featured on the soundtrack of ''[[Gran Turismo 5 Prologue]].

==Track listing==
# Goliath - 7:15
# Goliath (El-P Remix) – 3:57
# Tourniquet Man (Wes The Mes Remix) - 6:37
# Back Up Against The Wall – 1:34
# Wax Simulacra (Video)(downloadable links only accessible via USB)
# Goliath (Video)(downloadable links only accessible via USB)
# Ilyena (Video)(downloadable links only accessible via USB)
# Aberinkula (Video)(downloadable links only accessible via USB)
# Askepios (Video)(downloadable links only accessible via USB)
# Picture gallery
# Screensaver

==References==
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{{The Mars Volta}}


[[Category:2008 singles]]
[[Category:2008 singles]]
[[Category:Experimental rock songs]]
[[Category:The Mars Volta songs]]
[[Category:The Mars Volta songs]]
[[Category:Progressive rock songs]]
[[Category:Universal Music Group singles]]
[[Category:Universal Music Group singles]]
[[Category:2008 songs]]

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