Main Titles (God In Three Persons) Lyrics

The Cryptic Corporation presents

"God in Three Persons"
Written, produced and peformed by the Residents
With guest vocals by song stylist Laurie Amat
Brass and woodwinds by Richard Mariott
Package design by PornoGraphics
Cover photography by Henrik Kam

Hard And Tenderly Lyrics

They called me "Mr. X, Indeed", the special ones that saw so deep inside
The souls of those who were so lonely. I was down beneath the bottom, when
My vacant staring caught them gaily parading up and down the
Street-followed by some stinking masses, freeing fumes and giving gasses
To the brown and nearly worn out air. But they had that certain presence
Like the ether or the essence of the cleansing upper atmosphere. Laughing,
Loving, and without a doubt, they simply strode about the streets that
Other creatures left alone. I ran across, myself compulsive, with the
Feeling of a pulsing drum that pounded underneath my skin. A tingling in
My tangled brain was screaming that this was insane, but it also told me,
"Touch it," too.
"Stand aside," I told the masses, and with that I made my passage frome
Lonely to the only side. Openly they smiled to greet me, like they always
Knew they'd meet me somewhere walking up and down the road. I knew I must
Appear as someone far beyond the common come-on, so I could not say my nae
Was Ed. So I said, "I'm Mr. X who wants to come and who expects to help
And guide your efforts to succeed." They laughed a little bit at me, and
Then said, "Mr. X-Indeed," and hugged me somehow hard and tenderly.

Devotion? Lyrics
Shortly after I first met them, something that I said upset them and
Perhaps we should have parted then. I was saying how important that they
Were and what a fortune could be made if they would let me try. But I did
Not understand why they took in and had to stand by those who were so
Worthless to them both. Then they got extremely angry, shouting that the
Seedy gang behind them may not have much value in my eyes...but they were
People and were needing what we give and if you see them like you see some
Roaches on the floor, then the sad one must be you who sees himself as too
Good to do something for the weak or ones with warts. You disdain and
Criticize someone who has been compromised but really have no values of
Your own, so maybe you should leave and find some, steal or beg or maybe
Buy some from a smiling banker or a store. At first I was too shocked to
Believe they would suggest that I should levae, and what was even worse

Was that I saw that they preferrred their gutter rutting friends above my
Smugly strutting. And I admit it stunned and humbled me. So I begged and
Then beseeched them, "Let me stay and you could teach some sense into this
Tired old mind of mine." And of course we reconciled with hugging arms and
Tugging smiles that left me more secure, but still in doubt. I truly loved
And felt devotion for them both, but I was broken up and feeling powerless
Inside. I must become important to them, intertwined with roots into them,
Or else I'd loose my false and newfound pride.

The Thing About Them Lyrics

Now there ws this thing about them that caused me at times to doubt them,
Or created conflict in my mind. Usually there was a he one, and there
Also was a she one, but somehow they came out differently. And one of
Them, when she was she, would smile and burn a hole in me; a hole that was
Too hard for me to hide. Once I had a dream bout her, in a filed, alone
Outside a tiny little cottage made of sticks. It was much to small to use
It, so she bumped her head and bruised it trying to get through the tiny
Door. Afterwards, I went to tell her, but it was he I felt who nodded at
My words indifferently. And of course when this would happen, there was
Still a she to tap up on my shoulder fromhe other side. But it wasn't her
Who looked then, close perhaps, but like some bookend that had come
Misshapen from it's mate. So I told myself there must be some way I can
Make them just be who I want to be with all the time, 'cause it kept me at
A distance, but my sensees kept insisting it was much more interesting
Inside.

Their Early Years Lyrics

Once when we were on a bus between some cities we discussed the things
That happened in their early years. Their youngest time was spent alone
While living with an uncle only half remaining from a foreign war. His
Upper half was wel enough, but in the pants between his cuffs where his
Zipper stopped, his legs were gone. And so he rolled around on wheels,
Self sufficient in a peeling little house he could not paint again. But it
Was spotless to the point of two feet above the floor and warmth was in
His laugh and in his smiling face. The people that they met were few and
Might have been disturbed by two who looked so strange, but they were not
Aware. For living with their stumpy uncle, who was unconcerned and
Rumpled, made them see things differently. They thought that we were put
Together randomly, just like the weather, with no uniformity in mind. But
That vision only lasted for a while until he passed away and they were
Sent off to a home. The children there did not have parents, were all
Alike and always staring, as they sat on chairs above the ground. So they
Cried and then with drew fromhose that shouted, laughed and who were mean
Because of suffering inside. Once alone they heard some children shouting
That a car had killed one of their pets out in the road ahead. As they

Approached the fallen body, blood appeared and then they saw a leg that
Had been torn away somehow. So they kneeled upon the ground and lifted up
The leg they found and wedged it gently just below the spot where both
Their shoulders joined together. Then the sun, which had been setting,
Winked and for a moment all was dark. And when the sun returned above
Them, no one laughed and made fun of them, for the dog was licking at the
Joint, barking loud and resurrected and causing them to be respected by
Those who had avoided them before.

Loss Of A Loved One Lyrics

I told them how my wife had fallen into sickness and to calling out her
Name with questions on her tongue. We had always been so happy that at
First I wasn't sad because I thought my love could keep her strong. But I
Never thought so wrongly for the fever fought too strongly and it seemed
She never fought at all. Soon she died, and I despaired upon the love seat
We had shared so many times on pleasant afternoons. I tried and tried to
Understand why love itself could not command my true love fromhe comas of
Her mind. Now, empty, open and foreboding, stretching out like darkened
Clothing somehow stained with silence and with fear. Death had brought its
Separation, giving me an education of a dull and slowly drifting day. I
Filled my emptiness with sorrow, taking what I could not borrow fromhe
Friends I finally drove away. "Yes, my life was nearly ruined, till I saw
What you were doing. Now I strive to keep on serving you. Life is good but
I am better, for I feel at last I let her go because I finally found the
Truth. Sadly now, I see the answer. All her life she was a dancer, but no
One ever played the song she knew."

The Touch Lyrics.

as they told me other childhood stories, they knew that I stood close but
never close enough to touch the holy union of their bonding that I wished
to touch so fondly with my heart, and maybe somehow more. But they had a
way of keeping it away, while never seeming less than big and open
friendly doors. The one day it finally happened. JUst before they took a
nap, we joked around the room in which they slept. They were kidding me
about an incident when I kicked out some rowdy shouting somethng near the
door. They said that I had looked afraid and if I didn't act my age, then
they would have to hold me back next time. I laughed and said that it
would take more than just two freaks to make me stop if someone iterrupted
us again. And with that we started shoving back and forth until a sudden
move caught me completely off my guard. They reached surrounding me within
a wall of flesh-I found my only freedom left was in my had which dangled
own between their sides until I jerked and seemed to watch it flutter down
upon their joint. And suddenly a shock went through me and a moment
slipped into the room that was not in the air before. Looking up we al
connected in a triangle of eyes reflecting tension and unsaid excitement,

too. Then it passed in nervous laughter, but I sensed a change soon after
we unlocked our limbs and I withdrew.

The Service Lyrics

So I pushed and pushed and pushed them, through the towns and through the
Bushes and the word was spreading like a lie. "Come and see the holy
Two-some. They can heal and they can do some things that no one ever did
Before." And so they came for holy healing, both the belching andthe
Squealing, and the ones who maybe just were bored. Down the aisle they
Slowly paraded, while I smiled and masqueraded as the kindly keeper of the
Touch. Kneeling them along aa line, I taped a tiny piece of pine upon the
Chin of each and every one. And then from this a copper wire stretched
Across a tubeless tire and ended in a round and reddish clamp. Then at
Once the fees were taken, and the apprehension shaken for the twins would
Silently appear. Full of life and love and smiling knowing not that all
The while I too was smiling to myself inside. Silently I stood between
Them holding up the crimson gleaming circle with the ends now pried apart.
Then I lifted up the cover softly like it was my lover and I felt them
Shudder as they sighed. As I clampedthe metal on it, something like a
Liquid donut shimmered as the holy union flexed. Then the people screamed
And shouted, as the donut grew and spouted little bitty dust balls made of
Fire. And these soon enough descended down the lines and finally ended at
The screams of joy and pain and fear. For soon the cripples would be
Walking and the dummies would be talking but no one knew exactly how or
Why.

Confused (by What I Felt Inside) Lyrics

I was tanding at the fireplace thinking of my own desire which seemed to
offer me no place to go, when I heard a little giggle, sounding like some
silly piglets playing in the mud so deep and warm. So I went and looked
around and fromhe bathroom door I found some sounds that had not come
fromhere before. So I shouted, "Come on out," and soon I saw them both
look out expressing fear and innocence at once. They said that they wee
haveing fun with something that they found someone had left behind a
basket on the floor.
"Let me see," and so I took it with a snatch that left a crooked smile
across the corner of my mouth. It was a smooth and shiny object with a
purpose and a job I recognized and was familiar with. Looking up I saw one
pair of eyes that somehow now were staring straight into the secrets of my
min. I knew at once it was the she thng, to the they and the he thing
looking back at me and my desire.
Inflamed I reached and pulled her close, but then at once I had them both
off balance and we fell upon the floor into a pile of awkard bodies, with

arms and legs and elbows caught beneath, around and in between us all.
Hastily I helped them up and said that we should soon discuss and try to
understand what they had found. BUt it was too late to do it now, but if I
tell the truth, I was confused by what I felt inside.

Fine Fat Flies Lyrics

Soon I woke when I was sleeping with a restless reaching feeling but did
Not know what I was reaching for. I got up and started walking, but soon
Found I was stalking prey that I could utilize for more than just an easy
Conversation, or an evening's inspiration. Now the time was right for
Something more. As I walked I thought of flies that stuck to sticky pecan
Pies that people put upon the window sill, and how those fine fat flies
Would feed until they satisfied their greed then buzzed about in panic
Till they died. Knowing where my feet would take me if I kept on moving,
Made me see myself exactly like those flies. Drawn into a situation that
With some consideration never would fulfill it's smiling smell. But there
Was no hesiatation in my step or in my making sure the door was quiet when
It closed. And as I walked into the darkness, I could sense a wakened
Sharpness penetrating deep within the room. Then I touched her arm and
Throat, and found beneath my hand a coat of moisture though the night was
Not too warm. The other one was breathng deeply, so I thought he must be
Sleeping, but then again I wasn't really sure. "Hold me tight and be my
Master," someone whispered and I fastened fingers of my own around her
Wrists which strangely were secure behind her as I began to mount and bind
Her to myself wit force I could not hold. Then I seemed to hear a snicker
But I was so busy with her that I did not notice him until I felt him but
His hands around my throat anad squeeze as if the sounds I made should not
Escape into the air causing me to moan too loudly as I jerked on out the
Fire that I no longer could control. I was first to see the flashing
Blinding light of liquid lasing out arms, but my convulsions spread to my
Writhing young companions who were lost in unabandoned cream that soon
Would crack and fade away. Afterwards, when it was quiet and the bonds had
Been denied, I told them that we should do this again. BUt I said it would
Be wrong to play these games of weak and strong together without me around
To help them understand the dangers in it, for there were so many and they
Simply were too young to understand.
"Residents Silver Sharp And Could Not Care lyrics"
The following day I did some walking, for my mind did too much talking to
itself, and so I walked along and thought of our last episode, and that
somehow it had eroded feelings from my closely guarded core. And also then
I knew corruption leaked into this last eruption, and its oily odor stayed

around. Long ago I knew that I was sly, perhaps, and not too nice, but
underneath I thought my goals sublime. BUt now, how could I tolerate
behavior that could suffocate contentment in my friends and maybe more?
Desire conflicted in my mind with thoughts I once had found divine and
tormet twisted me between the two. Aimlessly I slowly wandered, as my
footsteps took me onward to a part of town I did not know.
Soon I saw I was distracted by a window that was acting as a display for a
barber's store. and what was underneath my stare was silver, sharp and
could not care about confusion or about despair. It only had one job to
do, and when it cut it cut so true that now I knew exactly what to do. So
I went inside and bought it from a man who never caught the tingle that it
raised along my spine, electrically a pleasant tension, like a liquid in
suspension flowed into the conflict in my head. And now my feeling was
well being, but I could not help fromeeing that my hands were shaking as I
paid. And as I left, my thoughts returned to what I told them they had
learned through our ordeal of torture and delight. Yes, it was a lie I
told them, not to help but just to hold them with me, but I really should
have said, "Lies can often give you power like a coffin filled with
flowers give life to the living, not the dead."

Kiss Of Flesh Lyrics

I returned while they were eating supper at the table seated side by side
Upon a special stool. So I said when they were finished with their whole
Wheat toast and spinach, we should go back to the secret roomhat had only
Been constructed recently to be conductive to the force that grew around
The twins. Once inside, we all admired it's silver gleaming pointed spire
That rose into the center of the room. Up and up toward the ceiling,

Gracefully it stretched not yielding to the confines of the smallish room.

For it pierced an open circle and vanished deep into the murky night that
Had it's crown somewhere above. The room had been an inspiration of the
Twins that I had taken-building it of wood and tile and chrome. and they
Would stay inside for hours, while the rain dripped down the tower,
Sitting on a bench around it's base. But this time we were not there for
Inspiration but to bare our other sides and feel the kiss of flesh.
"Take your clothes off," I commanded like a bold and common bandit basking
In a feeling of control. I was standing back behind them with a length of
Line to tie them once their nakedness had been revealed.
"Kneel," I said becoming heated for the task had been completed and I felt
My goal was drawing near.
"Hee hee hee,"
Then I heard a little snicker
"Hee hee...hee hee he."
"What was that!" I said and quickly giggles spread infection in the room.
"Stop it! Stop it! Stop!" I said but it seemed to spread and spread.
"Stop it or I won't show you any more!"
"We can't believe that you're so dumb to think we needed anyone to show us
What we've known about for years."
"What!" I screamed in disbelief so certain that I was the thief that took
Away their purity, I said, "But what about the other night when she and I
Wer locked so tight and..." Laughter drowned me out so I stopped.
"What makes you think that it was 'her'", the mocking voices said with
Words that sliced me open, fast and quick.
"But I know it must have been, because I smelled her heated skin and..."
"Don't you see, there is no 'she' now?
Don't you see, there is no 'she' now?
Don't you see, there is no 'she' now..."
So I saw there was no she but there was only them and me, and they were
Laughing in my face too loud. So I reached into my pocket and a feeling
Like a shock exuded from my fingertips and spread along my limbs annd up
My butt and focused just below my guts and made me hold my breath before
The blade could finally fall at last and free me fromhe anger and the
Screaming endlessly exploding in my head. So I slit the holy union,
Turning it into a wound that gaped apart and bled upon the the
Ground-causing me to fire my passion as I stared into the gash that
Quivered like a burned and ripped out tongue. So great upon my throbbing
Penis was the pull toward this Venus that there was no thought of it at
All. Only all consuming lust to be inflamed in base disgust and smile
About it while I came inside. So I slipped my dick into it thrusting into
Pain and spewing blood around the room-I needed more. And so I fucked it
That much harder; deep and fast I pushed apart the shoulders that were
Down below my waist.
Screams were slicing up the air as eyes rolled up and teeth were bared by
Lips that stretched too tight and tried to tear. There could be but one
Conclusion nto this sick distorted fusion, and of course it came...and so
Did I. Madly with my face contorted I convulsed and shoved apart the
Shoulders that I gripped so hard and I faintly recollect a ripping sickey

Sound of fleshysplitting as I drifted toward a big black hole. And just

Before I hit the floor I noticed one was rolling over showing a smooth
Unblemished thigh that ended in a red eruption just below her belly
Button, but maybe it was only in my mind.

Pain And Pleasure Lyrics

And so my story winds on down toward an ending that's been found to come
Whenever all is said and done. I've lived my life and taken chances and if
Some were strange by standards that were less important than my needs,
Then I guess I could be crooked, evil, bent and twisted, looking down upon
The strings I tried to pull. But I see the strings extending up and down
And never ending as we dance around our selves and jerk to all the tunes
That only we hear and the voices only we fear each inside an island all
Alone. But the contact that we do make, as we give and take abuse, stays
And it's value only multiplies. Yes I'm alone, but not forgotten, for each
Comes and sees me often, sitting on a seat beside my bed, and we laugh and
Reminisce about a life that once was bliss before an act of passion made
Us part. Of course they'll always be together, but their bond is made of
Leather not the flesh and blood it used to be. They're still full of life
And healing, but it has a different feeling and only for the few that seek
Their sort of pain and pleasure when they merge and give into insistent
Urgency that lives for seconds at a time. For pain and pleasure are the
Twins that slightly out of focus spin around us till we finally understand
That everything that gives us pleasure also gives us pain to measure it
By, and I also realize...that all our lives we love illusion, neatly
Caught between confusion and the need to know we are alive.