THE RESIDENTS "COMMERCIAL ALBUM" LYRICS Easter Woman Down, down down, down down, down down... Easter woman came today And took away my wife Took her to an open doorway To the afterlife Perfect Love There's something I must tell you There's something I must say The only really perfect love Is one that gets away Picnic Boy She called my friend a picnic boy I never could stand that Oh she called my friend a picnic boy And said he was too fat I left her in the early morning Looking at the rain I found I could not take the pressure So I took the train End of Home Darkness fell upon the garden As I sadly sat alone Dreaming of the end of summer And again the end of home Our love was like a flowing river Deeper still than what it seemed It consumed my waking hours Creeping deep into my dreams Amber Life is just a situation Life is just a game Life is just a whirlpool And it's calling out my name Amber were the autumn leaves And amber was her skin Amber was the evening When the whirlpool pulled her in It was irresistible Was what she used to say Like the sound of running horses Early in the day Japanese Watercolor Instrumental Secrets Something's going on between them Something I can see Nobody seems to pay attention So it's up to me They're always touching Always looking In a secret way I thought that I might cut them deep Die in Terror She said she wished to die in terror Screaming in the night To feel the crawling flesh of panic As her hair turned white She also had a pretty little See-through negligee I often wonder where she went And if she got her way Red Rider Cellar doors were open For the storms were out that night The night reflected from the leaves The sky was still too bright I saw her passing as the wind Was rising in the air She rode upon a red bicycle And she had red hair My Second Wife Yesterday my second wife fell in the afternoon Slipped into hysteria and talked about the moon Well this was only temporary so the doctor said So I watched a football game and she went off to bed Floyd Instrumental Suburban Bathers Suburban bathers own the sea But just between you and me The sun has never fully set That's seen the bathers fully wet I see the sea, The sea sees me They seem to run to morning light And crash the boards between the night If they'd learn to love themselves They might survive the murky depths I see the sea, The sea sees me If I'd learn to love myself I might survive the murky depths Dimples and Toes She is unhappy and even unkind She would not listen but I do not mind Kissing her dimples and touching her toes She is attractive but very restrained Slightly because of worry and strain I was her father a long time ago Kissing her dimples and touching her toes The Nameless Souls She was just uncaring She was just untrue She was just indifferent What else could she do? I was just a stranger I was just subdued I was just uneasy What else could I do? We were just the nameless Souls that sit inside Wishing that we were Someone on the outside Wishing that we were The ones on the outside Wishing that we weren't The ones who were stuck Love Leaks Out Hour by hour Day by day Love leaks out And goes away Act of Being Polite I found her crying in the morning Sitting in a chair She was wrapping something up And wrapping it with care I did not mean to hurt her When I fell asleep last night I was just exhausted From the act of being polite Yes, I was just exhausted From the act of being polite Medicine Man Instrumental Tragic Bells Tragic bells are ringing for me Tragic bells are ringing in my ear again And I don't know why I'm going on Loss of Innocence Amusement parks are caked with sounds A solid hunk of meat A barker's sweat flings from his tongue His tattoo shines with heat A wary stranger stands and sways Enraptured by his stance Two-headed goats come stumbling by And give a troubled glance The barker looks into the eyes The stranger tries to bend The barker swears to more delights For all who seek within The stranger enters canvas doors And smells the fresh cut hay The barker points to Siamese twins The stranger looks away The eyes of horse faced women Watch the few who wander through They sense the tension in the air And smell the sweet taboo A heart beats fast against a chest The stranger leaves the tent The waves of people drown the sounds Of loss of innocence The Simple Song We are simple You are simple Life is simple, too Ups and Downs She was opening up an elevator On a rainy day Sitting on a little stool And looking far away I asked if she would take me To another floor She laughed and said she probably would And then she closed the door Possessions Some are into silver Some are into gold Some are into having Something nice to hold Give it to Someone Else I wanted to give it to someone else And hear what they would say I wanted to give it to someone else And watch them as they played I left it helpless all alone And waiting on the floor Squirming just a little bit And looking at the door He would take it as he wished And I would listen in Documenting as I would The sound of slapping skin Phantom Instrumental Less Not More The railings of the bridge Were moving by the glass The opportunity to leave Was coming up fast The situation passed across my Mind once more, And I decided that I needed Less not more Less not more Less not more My Work is So Behind Smoke was feeling up the house A burning yearning heat The cats were looking through the haze And licking at their feet They were licking at their feet A caller came and looked at me And asked me if I'd mind I said I would not normally My work is so behind I'm just way behind The fire it sparkled in his smile And then beneath his skin And so he jumped right in right in And so he jumped right in Birds in the Trees Birds in the trees Shook dust from their wings I thought of the heartaches That shattered our love not long ago Birds in the trees Now asleep Handful of Desire Sinews crackled in the heat Of noonday raptured thrill A moisture laden syncopated Automated thrill A handful of desirous needs That's much too soon fulfilled Moisture Someone saw a strange amount Of moisture on her lips And it was also seen upon Her arms and on her hips No one knows exactly Who she was or how she died But when they opened up her purse They found a snail inside Love is... Love is only loneliness Divided by another Love is only living for the lonely Love is only loneliness Divided by another And I know that life is lonely Troubled Man His wife had left him long ago For someone without skin, And now he faced the mirror And he saw a doubled chin He was having trouble And he'd had it for awhile, His doctor died a year ago She was his only child La La La, la-la La, la-la La, la, la La, la-la La, la-la La, la, la La, la-la La, la-la La, la, la Loneliness I came upon it in the night And left it in the rain And from that moment to today I've never been the same I knew not what the weather meant When he said goodbye I only know this loneliness Will never make me cry Make me cry Nice Old Man Something smiling sweetly Something tall and thin Something deep within my heart Reminded me of him He was not my lover He was not my friend He was just a nice old man Who played the violin The Talk of Creatures Mumbling weighs upon my mind The talk of creatures in my spine A contest fought between two souls To know which thought that each controls They argue deep into the night Displaying wrongs, inciting rights They sing their songs with unknown tones And keep the beat upon my bones Fingertips Something faintly emanating Perfume and decay Whispered lightly in the wind That she had got away Longing for the touch of something Soft upon my face I thought about her fingertips And not her lack of grace In Between Dreams Instrumental Margaret Freeman Margaret Freeman had a body Unlike any I'd seen It seemed to drip her mental thoughts Like much too warm ice cream One day while she washed the dishes In the nude I saw How her mother's sodden ways Had rubbed her rib cage raw The Coming of the Crow Instrumental When We Were Young Instrumental