@ALBUM: Freak Show by the Residents everyone comes to the freak show (3:59) harry the head (2:54) herman the human mole (3:57) wanda the worm woman (4:34) jack the boneless boy (5:53) benny the bouncing bump (6:07) mickey the mumbling midget (4:26) lillie ? (6:56) nobody laughs when they leave (5:50) @SONG: Everyone Comes to the Freak Show Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Step right up and you will see on display a collection of some of the strangest specimens ever gathered together - both LIVE and preserved. You will see the incredible JELLO JACK - the boneless boy and HERMAN - The Human Mole. You'll see WANDA - The Worm Woman and MICKEY - The Mumbling Midget with his secret from far beyond the realm of human understanding. There's also Benny - Bouncing Benny The Bump who can't wait to show you the eerie and shapeless mass which he hides beneath his shirt and shows only when he does his famous dance - THE BOUNCING BUMP! So - step this way, folks come on in, you know you can't resist. Come in and make your mundane lives look like the kiss of bliss. Everyone comes to the Freak Show To laugh at the Freaks and the Geeks Everyone comes to the Freak Show But nobody laughs when they leave. Once a man exploded just before he went to sleep When his wife awoke she found some fragments of his feet She wondered what had happened but there was no mouth to say Or lips to kiss or even any tears to wipe away. She went to see a priest and asked if death could be much worse Than knowing what was left of love would fit inside her purse. Someone said that nothing hurts you Like a vice without a virtue; That may be but is it worse than Life when it becomes so certain That your eyes cannot be open To the twisted and the broken? @SONG: Harry The Head The Head was hardly human The head is finally dead "I can live forever In formaldehyde", he said. Once he made me so mad I knocked him on the floor; He rolled around and found a little paint brush by the door; As he held it in his teeth he painted angels On the skirt I wore. Harry Harry Harry Harry - The Head is dead. Harry - The Head is dead. Harry - The Head is dead. Herman - The Human Mole Herman Herman Herman isn't happy Herman isn't well Herman is an albino Not that you could tell. Herman Herman Herman is dirty Herman is cold Herman is thirty and Wishes he was old But he isn't. Herman has a trailer On top of it is grass He filled the inside up with dirt And made the sides of glass He lets you climb the steps Up to the top for free And look down through a little hole Above his old TV. But if you want some more You pay to go inside The tent that goes around the trailer In which Herman hides. Herman plays piano When no one is around He has an upright baby Steinway Underneath the ground. @SONG: Wanda - The Worm Woman Sneering at a leering lady as she stares and squirms At Wanda with her saintly smile and living wig of worms I like to watch their faces fall as we disgust and shame them Seeking suckers is my game - no longer lion taming. Like a pink and pregnant pumpkin perched upon her neck Wanda Wadkins head was hurting it was bitten by insects I watched the awkward way she waddled walking to the pail She always used to wash her worms and clean beneath her nails I love the soul I see inside her but I just can't love her Folding fat that rolls around like bowling balls in butter. @SONG: Wanda Wanda Wanda... Watch me watch me watch me Won't you watch me for a while Watch me pick my worms up And put them in a pile Watch me sit upon it with My Mona Lisa smile. Why Wanda why, do I always watch you cry? @SONG: Jello Jack - The Boneless Boy Jello Jello Jello Jello Jello Jello... Ho ho ho I'm Jello Jack the jolly boneless boy. I live inside a jar beside the rooster boy named Roy. They pour me out upon a platform and the people stare At eyeballs in a pool of flesh surrounded by some hair. I wish I was a cowboy or maybe just a bird Singing simple melodies that no one ever heard Soaring with the winter winds and bringing in the spring Sharing air with orioles and bumblebees that sting And making babies proud of all the bugs that I would bring. I'd sit up high above the ground and laugh as I looked down at all the silly humans as they slowly trudged around. But as I see the end of evening turn into the night The bird inside my brain becomes a light that is too bright. In his dreams at night he hears a white hot light And he knows that God is singing in his dreams at night. Hot heat smolders smoking embers Vibrate deep, vibrate deep Cause teeth clinch, cause vibrate deep Inside the sucking sound of suction, Suction, sucking sections of my soul, Sucking sections of the only thoughts My mind will salivate and drool And press against itself and press Against itself and feel the cursing Flow of fever, driven, biting, grinding, clinging, Ream the center of the Sun With shafts of Solid Steel Know that there is nothing like the feeling Of those steel fingers up inside Of something sticky, sweet and wet Feel the lips of licking licky wet liquid; feel the tongue that touches the tips of sharp pointed things. @SONG: Bouncing Benny Seeing that his eyes were empty under half closed lids, Made it all the more disturbing knowing Benny hid A bump that looked like clods of dirt inside some sickly lung That barely peeked beneath his shirt and twitched like Toto's tongue. For fifty cents inside a tent adjacent to the rest, The weaker soul could hide their eyes while Benny bared his chest; He rubbed the bump with oleo and little bits of meat And stroked the shape as it extended down towards his feet. Bounce Benny bounce Bouncing Benny He would put a record on then go into a trance Until he heard his mother's favorite polka then he danced; The record player went too fast but Benny didn't care, He simply bounced around the room while people stood and stared. Benny really only cared about one single thing - He collected magazines called "Women in the Ring"; He kept them all in plastic bags and everybody said That Benny talked to them at night before he went to bed. Bounce Benny bounce Bouncing Benny I need someone to wrestle with she'd have to wear a hood, And hold me in a hammerlock if she was feeling good. She'd probably have a ponytail that stuck out from the back And I bet her eyes would shine - right when she attacked; She might be kind of mean some times and act like we weren't friends, But when the match was over we'd be buddies till the end; I've got to go! I've got to go! I know that she is there - Waiting in a ring for me to hug her like a bear. Follow that dream Benny follow that dream... @SONG: Mickey - the Mumbling Midget Mickey the mumbling midget was ten years old today Mickey the mumbling midget somehow ran away Mickey the mumbling midget was not in his cage Mickey the mumbling midget soon would need a shave Lassie looked at something shapeless lying on the lawn Scratchy at some scabby sores and stretching as it yawned It seemed to be uneasy as it looked up at the moon She sensed the tension in the air and smelled a sweet baboon. Pungent was the warm aroma drifting in the air She hoped he would smell her heat and lick her silken hair. Run Mickey run Run Lassie @SONG: Lillie I saw a woman chewing with nothing in her mouth; Her teeth were in her hands and her tongue was hanging out; The she started drooling and caught it in a cup, The cup was full of pennies; it spilled when she got up. Some guy is in the shadows grabbing empty air; He could be catching butterflies if there were any there. All the freaks are not inside the tents Some pay to come and be in the audience. I saw a great big guy who had a little gun; He pulled it out and smiled and then he sucked his thumb His wife was standing by with a leather leash Fastened to a child who cried beside their feet. The scary one is back with clothes so white and clean; And her face that's coated with a quarter inch of cream-cold cream She's the one who freaks the freaks out Lillie little Lillie, Lillie little Lillie, Lillie chilling Lillie Lillie with her white face. Delicate Lillie is stainlessly lonely and She is too white Like a face in a flashlight with teeth that might bite She is too white Like dice rolling snakeeyes in headlights at night She is too white Like a corpse in the sunshine or eyes in a fight There's a spot a spot on my glove on my glove I know, no no maybe it was make em runny make em runny honey... doilies doilies where have all the doilies gone... Roses will whither and die Along with the lace and the lies Nothing is nicer than death At matching the bad and the best Heh heh... he hated me he hated me and hate is white and hate is hot but I'll not even have disdain for him not even a stain on a memory looked up to, lacking all respect for him I'm blacking out the specks of decent thoughts that linger in me and leave only white white peaceful white calm white swans silently flying in the snow look down and see the bleached bones of a noble knight who died trying to save his lady his lovely white lady who brought her man milk in the moonlight but it was too late too late too late he said Scratch out all the pin holes Open up the sores Don't look out the window White hatred's at the door. And he tried to make me dirty make me dirty make me dirty. Touch her someone Touch her someone Reach out to her Touch her soiled soul. @SONG: Nobody Laughs when they Leave Everyone comes to the Freak Show To laugh at the Freaks and the Geeks Everyone comes to the Freak Show But nobody laughs when they leave. We are only equal in the grave and in the dark Said a man whose head was halfway eaten by a shark Now if you ask me why I would continue on like this I doubt that I would know so I could only make a guess Half a mouth may not be much but it's still half a kiss. Everyone comes to the Freak Show To laugh at the Freaks and the Geeks Life is a lot like the Freak Show Nobody laughs when they leave.